A Certain Ratio ‘Shack Up’
Martin Moscrop talks us through A Certain Ratio’s cover version of Banbarra’s 1975 funk barnstormer, ‘Shack Up’
Sparks: Tap Dancing
With the album ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’, Sparks sound as essential as ever. What keeps them going after all these years? We talk Adam and Eve, Stravinsky, The Gettysburg Address and lawnmowers…
Nikmis
A life-changing conversation with Virginia’s hippest teenager, thwarted Hammond organ entrepreneurship, and 18 albums of classical synth suites… written on a ukulele. Enter the magical realm of Nikmis
Edgar Froese ‘Kamikaze 1989’ (Virgin Schallplatten, 1982)
Tangerine Dream have released a lot of albums. The German electronic pioneers were so prolific that nobody quite knows how many LPs there are, though it’s thought to be around 160, all told.
John Foxx And The Maths: The Collaborators
Benge, Hannah Peel and Robin Simon talk about their collaborations with John Foxx on the album 'Howl'.
Richard Russell
Producer and XL Recordings big chief Richard Russell shares a few of the influences that have shaped his life
The Minimoog
We’re spinning back to 1967, to the birth of Dr Bob’s Amazing Contraption, aka The Minimoog, arguably the most famous synth of all time
Berlin ‘The Metro’
Berlin’s Terri Nunn talks us through the making of 1981’s underground marker in the sand, ‘The Metro’
Roger Eno and Brian Eno: Band Of Brothers
As you might expect from an afternoon with Roger Eno and Brian Eno, whose ’Mixing Colours’ album sees them working together as a duo for the first time, there’s plenty of talk of algorithms and double pendulums and sound worlds. And jokes.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius: The Path of True Love
German electronic colossus Hans-Joachim Roedelius reflects on the latest volume of his four-decade ‘Selbstportrait’ series of albums, his turbulent early life, and the love of a good woman