Wooolheads: Spinning Yarns
Stroud electro-art duo Wooolheads put the quirk in quirky, stitching surreal spoken word and pulsing synths into wonderfully offbeat patchworks
The Mood: Synths and Sensibility
Early 1980s synthpop outfit The Mood should have been contenders, but misfortune and mismanagement got in the way.
Jeff Mills: Astronaut of Sound
Detroit techno pioneer, visionary DJ, science fiction obsessive and interstellar adventurer – Jeff Mills is a restless futurist
The Young Gods ‘Longue Route’
Franz Treichler talks us through The Young Gods’ 1989 single ‘Longue Route’, the Swiss group’s wired-up stormageddon of heavy metal samples. D’accoooord!
Boccaccio Life, Ghent
A new compilation celebrating Ghent’s Boccaccio Life club provides the perfect opportunity to look back on the makings of this unlikely electronic institution
Gwenno
Returning with her fourth album ‘Utopia’, Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno shares the influences that have helped to forge her work
The The ‘This Is The Day’
The The frontman Matt Johnson tells the tale of how the unforgettable ‘This Is The Day’ came to be
O Yuki Conjugate
O Yuki Conjugate have just released a superb vault of “early works of charming insignificance”. So it’s about time we returned to the roots of Nottingham’s “dirty ambient” pioneers
Max Cooper
From the power of aesthetics to techno epiphanies, producer and multidisciplinary artist Max Cooper reveals his formative influences
Icebreaker International ‘Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors’ (IT, 2000)
"...two fellows who, using portable equipment, had recorded an album on a container ship they had boarded in Japan..."