Sudan Archives: Feel The Power
Chicago and Detroit club sounds, global rhythms and experimental beats – Sudan Archives’ latest offering is perhaps her most revealing and playful to date
John Maus: The Maus That Roared
Synth-toting American firebrand John Maus is predicting a global apocalypse, as he returns to do battle armed with a new album
Gary Numan: Telekonesis
Released in 1980, Gary Numan’s ‘Telekon’ album wasn’t just a stark, futuristic landmark of electronic music – it was the sound of a young man grappling with sudden, overwhelming fame
Various Artists ‘Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive – Emotions Electric’ (Network, 1991)
The North in the late 1980s and early 90s was not a bad place to be if you were into left-field music and dancing...
Adrian Sherwood: All Fall Down
Thirteen years since his last solo outing, Adrian Sherwood’s new work finds the dub visionary pushing his indomitable, low-end sound into exhilarating new territory
Studio Electrophonique
The fascinating story of Studio Electrophonique and its owner Ken Patten, an unassuming Sheffield car mechanic who provided an essential launchpad for Martyn Ware, Jarvis Cocker and countless others
Budgie
Former Siouxsie And The Banshees drummer Budgie has just published his memoirs. He opens up on his primary influences – from the delights of birdsong to the Radiophonic Workshop
Kid606 ‘The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams’ (Violent Turd, 2002)
"...a hyper-paced stream of pinched music that Miguel Trost De Pedro reassembled into his glitched-out vision of the dancefloor."
‘Monza (Rauf Und Runter)’
Michael Rother dissects ‘Monza (Rauf Und Runter)’, an ethereal cut made with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius for Harmonia’s second album, 1975’s ‘Deluxe’
Automatic: Automatic For The People
Californian trio Automatic channel 21st century angst into brilliantly effervescent synth/post-punk nuggets – and somehow still find time……