Features – Page 34 – Electronic Sound

9 minute read

Andrew Weatherall: “I’m a sponge, I want to soak up everything”

byPush

The first interview with Andrew Weatherall outside of his role in the band Bocca Juniors, which was originally published in the UK weekly music paper Melody Maker on 17 August 1991

LLong Reads

24 minute read

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Adventures In Time And Space

byBob Fischer

The 60th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’ is a diamond opportunity to celebrate the work of an equally eccentric British institution — one with inextricable links to the cosmos’ favourite Time Lord. In a new interview, Brian Hodgson, Dick Mills, Roger Limb, Peter Howell, Paddy Kingsland and Mark Ayres take a journey back through the strange and compelling history of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Fantastic Twins: Dual Purpose

byNeil Kulkarni

Equal parts euphoria, beauty and tragedy, Fantastic Twins’ ‘Two Is Not A Number’ is an astonishing and ambitious concept album that explores the lives and trajectories of imaginary twins. Eerie, uneasy and swirling with atmospheric darkwave/synthpop hues, prepare to step into its enticingly dreamlike world

LLong Reads

5 minute read

‘Inventions For Radio’: The Mother Of Inventions

byBob Fischer

In the mid-1960s, Delia Derbyshire collaborated with playwright Barry Bermange on ‘Inventions For Radio’, a series of groundbreaking sound collages. Dr David Butler, curator of the Delia Derbyshire Archive, looks ahead to a forthcoming boxset of these pivotal radiophonic recordings

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Jlin: In Good Shape

byStephen Dalton

Blurring the lines between future-facing electronics and “organic” percussion, American producer Jlin returns with her third long-player, ‘Perspective’ – a beguilingly tactile post-footwork gem

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Maria Uzor: Deep Cuts

byOli Warwick

Eclectic and esoteric, pinging from Aphex-esque techno to Zapp-style funk, the debut solo record from former Sink Ya Teeth vocalist Maria Uzor is an irrepressible statement of intent

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Sextile: Riot Squad

byNeil Kulkarni

A rousing mid-point between punk and rave, the sound of LA underground trio Sextile is couched in exhilarating squall, dirty electro and Prodigy-shaped breaks

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Charlie Tate ‘Alta Plana’ (OM, 2005)

byRichard Skinner

Without any announcement at all, Alta Plana appeared in 2005 as a digital-only release and promptly disappeared.

LLandmarks

5 minute read

James Holden ‘Bania’

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

James Holden, DJ, producer and Border Community boss, describes the making of ‘Bania’, a modular synth mashup with traditional Moroccan singers that changed the course of his life

TTime Machine

4 minute read

‘Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies’ Gavin Lloyd Wilson

byBob Fischer

In 1977, Gavin Lloyd Wilson was a Pembrokeshire schoolboy fascinated by a spate of strange local UFO incidents. His 2021 album, ‘Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies’, took its inspiration from this now-infamous “Welsh Triangle” of sightings