Features – Page 61 – Electronic Sound

9 minute read

Electribe 101: Soul Survivor

byBen Murphy

The second album by Electribe 101 is the stuff of legend. Dismissed as “crap” when they were dropped by their major label in 1992, ‘Electribal Soul’ is nothing of the kind. When it finally saw the light of day, singer Billie Ray Martin proudly showed off this lost classic

BBuried Treasure

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Rational Youth ‘Cold War Night Life’ (YUL, 1982)

byMat Smith

The accepted history of electronic pop music that I was spoon-fed, via compilation cassettes and CDs, ran a well-worn patch cable back to 1981.

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Metronomy: World View

byJeremy Allen

Good things come in little parcels. And the new Metronomy album, ‘Small World’, is certainly a welcome delivery. Joseph Mount, the band’s de facto leader, gives us the lowdown on their finest outing since ‘The English Riviera’

UUnder The Influence

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Natasha Barrett

byJo Hutton

Oslo-based electroacoustic musician Natasha Barrett reveals her influences – from owls and raspberries to Soundfield microphones

TTime Machine

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Pascal Gabriel

byJeremy Allen

Producer Pascal Gabriel revisits his innovative work on a brace of 1988 megahits, ‘Beat Dis’ and ‘Theme From S-Express’

FFeatures

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Library of the Occult

byFinlay Milligan

If you thought 2021 was a busy year for Library Of The Occult, 2022 is going to be a different beast entirely. We caught up with founder Tom McDowell to hear how he’s combining electronic music and literature to scare us even more…

LLong Reads

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Pneumatic Tubes: Son Of His Father

byBob Fischer

Infused with the spirit of Woodstock and resolutely “bound to the mountains”, Midlake and Mercury Rev’s Jesse Chandler pays tribute to his late father on a second album as Pneumatic Tubes

LLandmarks

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Jah Wobble ‘Bomba’

byRob Harris

Jah Wobble talks us through his 1990 Invaders Of The Heart epic ‘Bomba’

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)

byNeil Mason

‘Quiet Is The New Loud’, the debut album from Norway’s Kings Of Convenience – Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe – is the gentlest strum and pluck of a record, and the Bergen duo were cast very much from an old school folk tradition.

LLong Reads

15 minute read

Soft Cell: Cell Mates

byDave Simpson

Splitting up, getting back together (twice), a farewell gig that wasn’t quite goodbye… and now Soft Cell are making another welcome return. Marc Almond and Dave Ball remain as thick as thieves and ‘Happiness Not Included’, their first album for 20 years, shows why the duo are still the undisputed kings of twisted synthpop