Features – Page 75 – Electronic Sound

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Parliament-Funkadelic. Underground Resistance. Wu-Tang. When you’re thinking about the great musical collectives of the past 50 years, your mind may not jump to the Japanese outfit Geinoh Yamashirogumi.

LLong Reads

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Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers

byJeremy Allen

Four months later than originally planned, the Design Museum in London hosted ‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers’, a remarkable retrospective of electronic music

LLong Reads

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Belbury Poly: Where The Wild Things Are

byBob Fischer

Ghost Box Records founder Jim Jupp is returning to his otherworldly roots with ‘The Gone Away’, his first solo album as Belbury Poly in four years. It’s not about ghosts this time, though. It’s about fairies

UUnder The Influence

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Barry Ashworth

byJeremy Allen

Dub Pistols’ Barry Ashworth reflects on the formative influences that have shaped his life and career

TTime Machine

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Hawkwind: Space Ritual Tour, 1972

byJoe Banks

We’re setting the dials for 1972 and the futuristic multimedia explosion of Hawkwind’s Space Ritual tour

LLandmarks

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Inner City ‘Good Life’

byDavid Pollock

Kevin Saunderson tells us why Inner City’s 1988 chart monster ‘Good Life’ was the right song for the right time

BBuried Treasure

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Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

byJeremy Allen

When Pete Shelley died in December 2018, a universal acknowledgement of just how much we’d lost soon followed.

LLong Reads

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Yello: Holy Banana

byBen Murphy

Dieter Meier and Boris Blank are back with a new Yello album. Four years in the making, it’s a collection of typically sassy and surreal electronic pop songs, including one with a mysterious fruit reference…

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Ultravox: Ooohhh Vienna

byJeremy Allen

Ultravox’s seminal album ‘Vienna’ took the band from the edge of oblivion to pop stardom. Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann remember the turbulent times and twists of fate that set them on the path to glory

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Max Richter: The Rights Stuff

byBen Willmott

Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1948 United Nations document, Max Richter’s ‘Voices’ album reflects his alarm at the state of our world as the 21st century unfolds