Chris and Cosey ‘October (Love Song)’
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti look back on ‘October (Love Song)’, a track they made in 1983 to document the dawn of their love affair
Howard Jones
It’s 40 years since Howard Jones first crashed into the Top 10 with ‘New Song’. To mark the occasion, Cherry Red have issued a superb career retrospective, ‘Celebrate It Together’. And it all started with the coolest teacher in High Wycombe
John Cage and Marcel Duchamp
In 1968, John Cage and Marcel Duchamp played a game of chess involving pieces that generated electronic sounds and a very expensive bottle of wine. The details of what actually happened that night were pored over by historians for years after
Aho Ssan: Root Cause
French producer Aho Ssan makes stunning experimental music, drawing a host of zeitgeisty contributors into his orbit. No wonder his new work ‘Rhizomes’ reads like a who’s who of contemporary underground electronica
Elizabeth Parker: Singing In The Wires
Elizabeth Parker was a BBC Radiophonic Workshop mainstay and one of Britain’s most in-demand composers of TV and film soundtracks. A new compilation, ‘Future Perfect’, gathers together previously unheard pieces from her own private archive. Expect ghostly nuns and clunky scaffolding
Soft Cell: Cell Shock
With ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’, their hugely influential 1981 debut album, Soft Cell brought sleazy lyrics and shady but infectious synth anthems to the mainstream. Marc Almond and Dave Ball reflect on art-school aesthetics, punk electronics, and the controversies that fuelled their speedy rise
Shackleton: Most Haunted
Shackleton’s stock has never been higher. In a rare interview, the sound designer and arch-collaborator opens up on his gloriously hypnotic new album, a disorientating miasma of woozy hauntology and “cracked-mirror oddness”
John Carpenter: Feel The Fear
With a new John Carpenter anthology featuring reworked versions of his most iconic and haunting themes, the celebrated horror director and composer reflects on his creepy “synth-noir” sound and a life well-lived
Hinako Omori: The Soft Bulletin
Somewhere in the mid-point between electronic, ambient and classical, composer Hinako Omori creates potent “therapeutic frequencies”. Deploying analogue synths and binaural sound, her second long-player is an experimental and deeply enchanting patchwork
Luc Van Acker ‘Taking Snapshots’ (Self-Released, 1982)
“These track names were created by the people who bought the album in 1982”