Features – Page 23 – Electronic Sound

9 minute read

Krautrock: Bowie’s Krautrock Connection

byMark Roland

First, there was Cluster, Kraftwerk, Neu! and Harmonia, then there was David Bowie’s ‘Low’. Next came the British post-punk and electronic music explosion. This is not a coincidence. Michael Rother helps join the dots

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Krautrock: Golden Years

byDavid Stubbs

Having released a plethora of krautrock reissues and a stack of experimental/contemporary German music over the last two decades, Bureau B founder Gunther Buskies looks back at some of the key labels from krautrock’s formative era

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Krautrock: In Good Hans

byDavid Stubbs

Cluster and Harmonia co-founder Hans-Joachim Roedelius reflects on his early life experiences and momentous 1970s work, which featured the input of a certain Brian Eno

LLong Reads

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Krautrock: In Full Flow

byDavid Stubbs

Musician and author Wolfgang Seidel was a fly-on-the-wall observer during krautrock’s peak. In his new book, ‘Krautrock Eruption’, he argues that the genre was rooted in the German working class, before Berlin’s countercultural scene of psych, jazz and electronics elevated it to stratospheric realms

LLandmarks

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K-Klass ‘Rhythm Is A Mystery’

byIan Berriman

K-Klass’ Paul Roberts and Russ Morgan recall the making of their 1991 Number Three hit, ‘Rhythm Is A Mystery’

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Ernest Berk

bySimon Matthews

We dig into the fascinating story behind a long-lost film soundtrack by Ernest Berk, one of the most influential yet mysterious electronic composers of the 20th century

UUnder The Influence

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Loula Yorke

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

With her new ‘Live Compendium’ album recently released, modular tinkerer Loula Yorke ponders how voracious reading, free parties and living in squats have shaped who she is

BBuried Treasure

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Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)

byClaire Francis

"Where I grew up, in rural Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, the radio served up a fairly standard menu of meat-and-potatoes rock ’n’ roll..."

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Adwaith: Cymru Out In Force

byJeremy Allen

With nods to The Cure, Can, Björk and even Turkish rock, the latest offering from Welsh trio Adwaith fuses electronics, post-punk and psych to resounding effect

LLong Reads

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Benefits: Friends With Benefits

byBob Fischer

Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major are north-east duo Benefits. Combining poetic spoken word with slick retro beats, their second album seeks out beauty amid the “incessant barking” of the modern media landscape