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.
Polly Scattergood: Right Here, Right Now
From Fuerteventura to the Kent coast, from having a baby to her new album ‘In This Moment’, Polly Scattergood hasn’t exactly been sitting on her hands in the seven years since her last solo release
Soulwax: Come In Number 30
Created entirely on an ultra-rare EMS Synthi 100, Soulwax have made the mythical instrument sound like you’ve never heard it before. But then you’d expect nothing less from the ever-inventive Stephen and David Dewaele
LA Priest: Mapping The Gene Ohms
Sam Eastgate reveals how paranoid lizards and an addiction to moss, as well as a homemade “human drum machine” called GENE, have all fed into his latest LA Priest record
Florian Schneider 7 April 1947 – 21 April 2020
Following his death in April at the age of 73, we look at the remarkable contribution Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider made to electronic music
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Horse whispering, mbira music, Buchla and electricity, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith reveals her formative influences
Test Dept Miners’ Benefit Concert
It’s September 1984 and UK industrial pioneers Test Dept are flexing their political muscles as they throw their musical weight behind the increasingly bitter miners’ strike, beginning with a now legendary benefit concert in south London
The Beloved ‘The Sun Rising’
The Beloved’s Steve Waddington talks us through their club crossover classic, ‘The Sun Rising’
Suzanne Ciani: Riding The Waves
Suzanne Ciani is now one of the world’s most respected electronic music composers. It’s been one hell of a battle to get there, though