Eyeless In Gaza ‘Photographs As Memories’ (Cherry Red, 1981)
Eyeless In Gaza were formed in Nuneaton in 1980 by hospital worker Martyn Bates and lab assistant Pete Becker.
Jeremy Greenspan
Aquascapes, best mates and horror films of a certain age – Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan reveals his foremost influences
Fred Deakin ‘The Staunton Lick’
Fred Deakin remembers the making of the infectious and influential Lemon Jelly cut ‘The Staunton Lick’, from 1999’s ‘The Yellow EP’
David Bowie
For a few years during the 1990s, David Bowie was the Jeremy Paxman of art critics, compelling the rich and famous to justify their exhibition catalogue waffle
Alexander Tucker: Rebel With A Cause
Alexander Tucker’s latest work is a posthumous collaboration with Keith Collins, Derek Jarman’s former partner. The result is a touching homage to the iconic filmmaker and the inspiring landscape around Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent, where Jarman famously lived during the final years of his life
Andy Votel: A Tribe Called Votel
Co-founder of the Finders Keepers label, Andy Votel has spent three decades downplaying his obsession with hip hop. Reuniting with his original crew, the clandestine MC, beat-maker and sample head talks about the fear and friendship that made it all possible
Ben Frost: Nature’s Requiem
Drawing on the ultrasonic sounds of the Amazon rainforest, the new album by Australian-Icelandic producer Ben Frost sees him collaging environmental recordings and complex electronics to stunning cinematic effect
Clock DVA: Back To The Future
The first new Clock DVA studio album in 30 years explores a dystopian world where “machines of intimidation” rule. Founder Adi Newton muses on technology overload, the importance and influence of artistic experimentation, and how a 1970s Sheffield theatre workshop first turned him onto electronic music
Sleaford Mods: Grim Tales
“In England, no one can hear you scream…” So say Sleaford Mods on their latest album, ‘UK Grim’. Maybe their angriest record to date, it depicts the gritty reality of the here and now with typically acerbic rage and stinging wit. Rooted in barbed electronics and driving, clubby beats, it finds the Nottingham duo on blistering form
AFRORACK London: Machine Learning
Afrorack is an initiative using modular synthesis to improve access to technology among disadvantaged groups. We caught up with founder Aaron Guice.