Bonobo: Bits and Pieces
When lockdown drudgery stalled Bonobo’s creative process, inspiration for his new album ‘Fragments’ came in the shape of modular synths, sweeping strings, vocals galore and, well, a bagpipe choir
Pepe Deluxé: Cabinet of Curiosities
A spectrogram-powered Russian synth, Tibetan drums made of human skulls, and the world’s largest cowbell are just some of the weird instruments that feature on the new album from Helsinki’s Pepe Deluxé. We lift the lid on their box of delights
The Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra: The Style Council
Take legendary producer Tony Visconti, Bowie-obsessed academic Dr Leah Kardos, and a car boot stuffed full of Stylophones. The result? The Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra and an album bursting with buzzy delights
Crammed Discs: Measure of the Man
Crammed Discs’ avant-garde ‘Made To Measure’ series has recently reactivated to serve up reissued classics as well as new releases. We meet Crammed boss Marc Hollander and some of the Belgian label’s always idiosyncratic artists
Thomas Leer
Late-night films, surrealist art and “scraping across the wave shapes”, Thomas Leer revisits his past ahead of the re-release of ‘The Bridge’, his 1979 classic with the late Robert Rental
The Haçienda
Ben Kelly, the designer of The Haçienda, talks us through the club’s iconic design aesthetic
Anna Domino ‘Lake’
Anna Domino talks us through the making of ‘Lake’ from her 1987 Les Disques Du Crépuscule-released album, ‘This Time’
Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)
If, like me, you were a teenager in Australia in the early 2000s, the album everyone was listening to at house parties, on the radio, and on swapped burned CDs was the debut record by The Avalanches.
Tim Hecker: Ice Breaker
His score for the TV series ‘The North Water’ is a high point in an already impressive career. Canadian ambient maestro Tim Hecker extols the joys of the cello, outlines the perils of the soundtrack composer, and explains why he prefers to make music in the winter
Telefis: Town to Town
First meeting in Dublin during the 1980s, Microdisney’s Cathal Coughlan and uber-producer Jacknife Lee have recently reconnected. Working via a musical trans-Atlantic hook-up their new album as Telefís is a real cracker