Curtain Twitcher: Peep Show
Meet the Appealingly analogue and quirkily kosmische female duo Curtain Twitcher – the new synth-toting sound of Sheffield
Futurama: Ten Days In A Black Hole
Futurama was the ultimate gathering of the clans. The brainchild of leeds live promoter John Keenan, the legendary post-punk festival ran over two days every year from 1979 to 1983, with punks, goths, futurists and more...
Clock DVA: Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick… Boom!
They’re often mentioned alongside Cabaret Voltaire and the Human League, but their story isn’t as well known as those of their Sheffield contemporaries...welcome to the weird and wild world of Clock DVA
Alan Vega: The Final Flourish
While Alan Vega’s early solo albums lit the fuse, his later works reflect a lifetime of sonic risk-taking, ferocious invention and urban dread
Roger Powell ‘Air Pocket’ (Bearsville, 1980)
"The window is about 20 years, more or less. That’s the point where that obscure band you loved is mostly forgotten about..."
Daft Punk, Coachella, 2006
Two decades after the fact, we explore Daft Punk’s totemic pyramid show which changed the face of electronic music forever
Jimi Tenor
Hot on the heels of his recent ‘Selenites, Selenites!’ album, Finnish composer and musician Jimi Tenor traces the key inspirations behind his very singular sonic universe
Tortoise ‘Djed’
With the release of their new album, ‘Touch’, Tortoise man John McEntire deconstructs the production of ‘Djed’, the Chicago band’s otherworldly defining track and blueprint for the mid-1990s post-rock scene
Mike Paradinas
In the wake of his recent release, ‘Manzana’, Planet Mu label founder and IDM veteran Mike Paradinas – aka µ-Ziq – reflects on the influences that shape how he makes music
Rupert Hine ‘The Shout’
In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story