Bob Stanley
Saint Etienne man Bob Stanley’s recent compilation ‘Fantastic Voyage’ documents the “echo chamber” effect that David Bowie’s Berlin recordings had on European music. No surprise then that Bowie is one of his key influences…
Fingerprintz ‘Beat Noir’ (Virgin, 1981)
There wasn’t much room on the dancefloor for the version of Fingerprintz that released their ‘Distinguishing Marks’ LP in 1980...
I Monster: Bugged Out
With a deluxe reissue of their gloriously quirky ‘Neveroddoreven’ album, their first live dates in nearly two decades and fresh material in the offing, I Monster – Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling – are back with a vengeance
Electribe 101: On Reflection
Influenced by Chicago deep house but with a discernible European and electro-soul twist, Electribe 101’s 1990 debut album wowed critics far and wide. With a definitive reissue just out, singer Billie Ray Martin looks back at how it all fell into place
Dualist Inquiry: Double Vision
Incorporating house, dub, ambient and synthwave hues, Indian producer Sahej Bakshi – aka Dualist Inquiry – creates scintillating and gorgeously wonky sonic sketches
Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords
On his latest album, ‘Bolted’, the distinctive “sonic vocabulary” of producer Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords – feels more expansive than ever. Given his wide-ranging influences, it’s no surprise
Blitz Club: Frills And Spills
Our oral history of the fabled nightspot taps into the memories and wild stories – subversiveness, fisticuffs, the night David Bowie turned up – of the Blitz Kids who were there
Kim Gordon: Only Connect
Kim Gordon made her name with US rock giants Sonic Youth, but her second solo album ‘The Collective’ continues her intriguing exploration of fractured hip hop beats and “abstract poetry fucked-up shit”
Lost Souls Of Saturn: Alternate Realities
As “multidimensional creative dissidents” Lost Souls Of Saturn, Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa fuse elements of techno, dub, house, jazz, psych and ambient into vivid and expansive new shapes. Enhanced by augmented reality, it’s quite the trip
Paranoid London: Punk Attitude
On their prog house-inspired new album ‘Arseholes, Liars And Electronic Pioneers’, provocative electronic duo Paranoid London are as anarchic, unfiltered and gloriously engaging as ever