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  • 14 minute read

Cabaret Voltaire: Call Me A Cab

He’s been known by many aliases throughout his long solo career, but Richard H Kirk is now once again Cabaret Voltaire. After a hiatus of more than 25 years, the Cabs’ ‘Shadow Of Fear’ album is both a reflection of the current madness and a nod to the possibility of happier times ahead
BBuried Treasure
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The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

The first time I saw the Magnificents live, in the small, sweaty Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh College of Art almost two decades ago, it was an initiation in both electronic music, and the power of discovering a group that felt like they were truly your own – or at least, shared only with the 50 or so fiercely devoted fellow travellers in the room.
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland: A Singular Life

At the age of 77, after 50 years of making a huge array of music, ranging from jazz-inflected folk to ambient soundscapes to operatic trip hop, the unique talent of Beverly Glenn-Copeland is finally being recognised
TTime Machine
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Malcolm McLaren

Picture the scene. It’s 1979 and in a French library, Malcolm McLaren has unearthed a record that will shape the 1980s pop charts… or has he? We lift the lid on the origins of the Burundi beat sound
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Jane In Palma: Phoenix Days

Julian Smith began his Jane In Palma project after a cataclysmic event turned his life upside down in an instant. Six years and two albums on, he’s producing some of the most inventive electronica around
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ACR: 24-Hour Party People

Still going strong after four decades, A Certain Ratio modestly put their longevity down to lack of fame. Their new album, ‘ACR Loco’, which fuses many of their influences throughout those years, says otherwise