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Jean-Michel Jarre: Man Of The Future

Jean-Michel Jarre is forever looking to move inexorably forward. His latest album, ‘Oxymore’, is a musique concrète record created with 21st century technology, pushing 3D binaural sound to incredible new levels and keeping the French maestro several steps ahead of the curve. Headphones on…
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Plaid: Interstellar Overdrive

Andy Turner and Ed Handley return with Plaid’s euphoric ‘Feorm Falorx’, an intriguing concept album about performing at an intergalactic festival on a distant planet. As you do. Stand by for stories about their time in The Black Dog and working with Björk
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Ron Geesin: Da Doo Ron Ron

Brass knuckledusters, adjustable spanners, Pink Floyd collaborations and a surprising surplus of Bramley apples. In a secluded nook of East Sussex lies the unusual world of Ron Geesin
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TVAM: Art Of The Matter

Following 2018’s acclaimed ‘Psychic Data’, TVAM’s Joe Oxley has reappeared with a second long-player, ‘High Art Lite’, all cranked-up synth distortion, shoegazey euphoria and white-hot noise. Get ready for a vertiginous wall of sound
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The Oram Awards 2022

This year’s Oram Awards, the annual event celebrating female and gender minority artists who are pushing the limits of electronic sound, has come to a conclusion. And the 2022 winners are…
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Joe Meek: No Ordinary Joe

Hidden away for decades, Joe Meek’s near-mythical “tea chest tapes” have finally seen the light of day, revealing much about the working practices of the legendary producer responsible for The Tornados’ pioneering, electronically hued 1962 single, ‘Telstar’
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Lucrecia Dalt: Space Invader

Lucrecia Dalt’s latest album is a sumptuous and radiant sci-fi meditation in which the bolero, salsa, mambo and merengue influences she absorbed throughout her childhood are refracted through “machinic distortions”. But an alien presence is lurking…
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Simple Minds: Natural High

Simple Minds have just put out a new album… and it’s their best since the band’s heyday in the 1980s. From the striking cover to the upbeat tunes and sometimes dark lyrics, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill explain how ‘Direction Of The Heart’ came together, as well as reflecting on their enduring friendship and the 40th anniversary of their 1982 classic, ‘New Gold Dream’
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The Umlauts: Umming and Ahhing

A self-proclaimed “uber-group/circus troupe”, London quartet The Umlauts dabble in wonky minimal synths, art-punk and industrial vibes. Thrillingly visceral it all is too, as their ‘Another Fact’ EP vividly attests