Jon Hopkins: Beats Surrender
Don’t be fooled, ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ isn’t Jon Hopkins going all wallpaper ambient on us. It’s a weighty album he says needs to be listened to loud. We turn up the volume
Delia Derbyshire Day 2021
For the 2021 Delia Derbyshire Day, the charity responsible for the annual event commissioned two fascinating new pieces that evoke the spirit of the electronic music legend
Coldcut: Turn Off Tune Out Chill
With new tracks from a who’s who of composers, a few family favourites thrown in for good measure and a continuous Mixmaster Morris set, Coldcut’s ambient ‘@0’ collection is a balm for our times
Boom Boom Satellites ‘7 Ignitions’ (R&S, 1998)
In 1997, R&S Records’ UK head honcho, Bob Fisher, persuaded me to check out a new band from Japan at a small venue in Camden.
Tom Middleton
Tom Middleton of Global Communication and GCOM reveals the influences that inform his music making
Fat Roland’s Xmas 2021 Time Machine
Getting in the office time machine for the traditional festive trip, our very own loose canon isn’t messing around… Jesus! he exclaimed. Jesus, we sighed
Blue Pearl ‘Naked In The Rain’
Youth talks us through the making of Blue Pearl’s 1990 floorfiller, ‘Naked In The Rain’
Françoise Cactus
Anti-diva and all-round creative polymath, Stereo Total’s late Françoise Cactus caused something of a rumpus when, in 2004, she exhibited a life-size woollen sex doll… yup, you read that right
Richard Fearless
Acid house, kosmische and the sounds of the city… Death In Vegas orchestrator Richard Fearless explains how all this and more have fed the creation of his latest album, ‘Future Rave Memory’
Humanoid ‘Stakker Humanoid’
The Future Sound Of London’s Brian Dougans talks us through the making of his breakthrough track, Humanoid’s 1988 acid classic ‘Stakker Humanoid’