Betty Boo
Marking her first single in three decades with the ‘Love Action’-sampling ‘Get Me To The Weekend’, Betty Boo reveals her formative influences
Pirate Radio Ads
We travel back to the good old days of pirate radio and meet Luke Owen, the man behind a new collection of quirky between-song adverts that used to fill our illegal airwaves
Spacemen 3 ‘Big City’
Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember talks us through the making of Spacemen 3’s 1991 showstopper ‘Big City’
Jimi Tenor ‘Take Me Baby’
Experimental Finn Jimi Tenor reveals how a VHS recorder, a Brooklyn Mafia den and Alan Vega combined to create accidental hit, ‘Take Me Baby’
Paul Draper
Former Mansun frontman and now a solo artist in his own right, Paul Draper reels off some of his favourite formative influences
SP-1200 Sampler
When his iconic SP-1200 sampler received a 30th anniversary reissue, designer Dave Rossum took us through the moment he first tested its predecessor and realised he had changed music creation forever with an infinite pee
Newcleus ‘Jam On Revenge’
Ben Cenac talks us through Newcleus’ 1984 electro classic ‘Jam On Revenge’
Wolfgang Flür: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Seven years on from his last outing, the inimitable and irrepressible Wolfgang Flür has a new album in the racks. Recorded with the help of an army of fascinating guests, it’s called ‘Magazine 1’ and it’s an opportunity for us to talk robots, romance, pacifism, money, sheep, rubbery legs and, inevitably, Kraftwerk
Tangerine Dream: Dream Factory
When Edgar Froese changed cosmic address in 2015, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Tangerine Dream would follow suit. But working from his extensive archive of recordings, a new school of composers is keeping his flame very much alive
Keith Seatman: Trip Advisor
There’s no one quite like Keith Seatman. His new album, ‘Sad Old Tatty Bunting’, is a psychedelic joyride through a parallel universe, a dreamlike England full of alchemists and scarecrows and gated communities guarded by gnomes