Kelly Lee Owens: On The Inside
Reaching for fresh heights with ’Inner Song’, Kelly Lee Owens mixes skilfully crafted lyricism and techno-tinged synthpop on one of the best albums you’ll hear this year
Chris Frantz: Love Comes To Town
In his autobiography, ‘Remain In Love’, Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club founder Chris Frantz recounts a life of being propelled around the world by art and rock ’n’ roll and insists “it wasn’t all conflict”
Beatriz Ferreyra
Electroacoustic musician Beatriz Ferreyra, who has been composing since the 1960s and still works every day in her home studio in France, talks about walking out on Stockhausen, recording in stairwells, and her fascinating new album ‘Huellas Entreveradas’
Bill Nelson ‘The Love That Whirls (Diary Of A Thinking Heart)’ (Mercury, 1982)
The love affair started with ‘Flaming Desire’. The single got played on the radio at least once, possibly more, and had me swooning with its propulsive rhythms, swirling synths and croonerish vocal – a weirder version of Blancmange, Yazoo on speed.
Luke Vibert: Amen Corner
Luke Vibert has reanimated his Amen Andrews jungle alias for one of a trio of essential future-retro releases this summer. Join us for stories galore, including the one about how Aphex Twin helped him pay his tax bill
Jarvis Cocker: Say You Want An Evolution
He grew up in Sheffield with Cabaret Voltaire and The Human League ringing in his ears. He started out signed to a Warp offshoot label. He made videos for Aphex Twin and Nightmares On Wax. And now, with a brilliant debut album from his new band JARV IS…, the electronic evolution of Jarvis Cocker is complete
Stephen Mallinder
The pioneering former Cabaret Voltaire frontman and Creep Show and Wrangler maverick, Stephen Mallinder ponders a few of his influences, past and present
The Haçienda Hair Salon
There were lots of strange things going on in the dark corners of The Haçienda in the 1980s, but the strangest thing of all was Swing, the hairdressing salon in the basement
The Grid ‘Floatation’
Richard Norris tells the story behind The Grid’s 1990 stone-cold ambient house classic ‘Flotation’
Robert Palmer ‘Pride’ (Island, 1983)
Robert Palmer passed away in 2003 at the shockingly young age of 54. A massively underrated artist who wrote and produced so many great songs, the fact that he died without much comment or celebration of his life was a crying shame.