Features – Page 21 – Electronic Sound

8 minute read

Miki Yui: Deep Listening

byClaire Francis

Miki Yui has produced a beguiling body of work rooted in elemental electronics and field recordings. She describes being shaped by the art and music of Düsseldorf, the influence of her late husband Klaus Dinger, and her recent conversion to modular synths

LLong Reads

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Molchat Doma: This Is Not My Beautiful House

byMike Barnes

Having moved from their native Minsk to LA, the fourth album from Belarusian post-punk/synthpop outfit Molchat Doma also marks an expansive and propulsive “technicolour reinvention” of their sound. Taut, moody, imposing and typically brutalist, it’s one heck of a gut punch

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5 minute read

Unicorn Ship Explosion: Horn Of Plenty

byWill Stokes

A detuned mass of driving electronics, oblique kosmische vibes and out-there transmissions, the first album by Stroud duo Unicorn Ship Explosion is an almighty statement of left-field intent

LLong Reads

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Propaganda: Wishful Thinking

byBob Fischer

German synth supremo Ralf Dörper invited classical percussionist Michael Mertens to join Propaganda in 1983. Their debut album, ‘A Secret Wish’, is still a dark-hearted classic, but the reunited pair are now looking to the future with a fresh incarnation of the outfit that made their names

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19 minute read

Suzanne Ciani: Every Trick In The Buchla

byMark Roland

With a recording from a live performance in New York surfacing 50 years after she made it, Suzanne Ciani reflects on playing with Beck, getting tear-gassed, parking karma and, of course, quadraphonic sound

OOpening Shot

3 minute read

Alex Paterson’s Record Collection

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Norwood, London, September 2022

LLandmarks

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Strafe ‘Set It Off’

byJoe Silva

Steve Standard recalls the making of his haunting electro classic ‘Set It Off’, released under the name Strafe, which took 1980s New York by storm

TTime Machine

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Noël ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’

byJeremy Allen

Written and produced by Ron and Russell Mael, but kiboshed by Richard Branson and the war on disco, Noël tells the story of her incredible lost classic, ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’

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Ron Geesin

byJo Kendall

Eccentric composer, sound architect and Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin charts the origins of his eclectic life and career

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Cowboys International ‘The Original Sin ‘ (Virgin, 1979)

byJoe Silva

1979 saw the Shah of Iran on the run, the beginning of digital recording and the end of Sid Vicious...