Features – Page 4 – Electronic Sound

9 minute read

Carlos Alomar & George Murray: Boys Keep Swinging

byStephen Dalton

Two-Thirds of David Bowie’s essential DAM Trio, guitarist Carlos Alomar and bassist George Murray reflect on the daring reinvention, chemistry and sonic innovation that powered Bowie’s hugely influential Berlin-era work

LLong Reads

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Fini Tribe: From Start To Fini

byMark Roland

With a new retrospective anthology charting the rise and fall of Scotland’s restless industrial creatives Fini Tribe, Chris Connelly, Davie Miller and Andy McGregor discuss the art of exploding paint balloons, being skint and the influence of bottle-smashing pensioners

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Sudan Archives: Feel The Power

byJeremy Allen

Chicago and Detroit club sounds, global rhythms and experimental beats – Sudan Archives’ latest offering is perhaps her most revealing and playful to date

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8 minute read

John Maus: The Maus That Roared

byBen Gilbert

Synth-toting American firebrand John Maus is predicting a global apocalypse, as he returns to do battle armed with a new album

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21 minute read

Gary Numan: Telekonesis

byRob Fitzpatrick

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

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Studio Electrophonique

byJeremy Allen

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

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Budgie

byJeremy Allen

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

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Kid606 ‘The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams’ (Violent Turd, 2002)

byJoe Silva

"...a hyper-paced stream of pinched music that Miguel Trost De Pedro reassembled into his glitched-out vision of the dancefloor."

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Wevie Stonder: Stuck On Stupid

byBen Murphy

After a 16-year hiatus, glorious oddballs Wevie Stonder are back. Deploying a familiar melange of multi-hued electronics, eccentric humour, cartoonish sound effects and patently skewed storytelling, they’re still delightfully bonkers

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19 minute read

Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Catch Our Drift

byMark Roland

Brian Eno joins forces with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe for a breathtaking trilogy of albums that float tantalisingly through opulent, ambient atmospherics and hushed Americana...Get ready for total immersion