Robert Logan ‘Cognessence’ (Slowfoot, 2007)
"Music journalism is not an exact science. Just ask the total wazzock who dismissed one of Hot Chip’s first singles..."
The Sabres Of Paradise ‘Smokebelch II’
Jagz Kooner, who together with Andrew Weatherall and Gary Burns made up The Sabres Of Paradise, tells the story of the inimitable ‘Smokebelch II’
Love Parade Music Festival
In 1989, Danielle De Picciotto dreamed of witnessing Carnival in Brazil. Instead, she brought the carnival to a still-partitioned Berlin by co-creating the dance music festival, Love Parade
Adam Wiltzie
Adam Wiltzie, co-founder of Stars Of The Lid and A Winged Victory For The Sullen, shares the forces that have shaped his creative life, from football to John Peel
Andrzej Zuławski: On Another Planet
Polish director Andrzej Z˙uławski’s surrealist sci-fi epic ‘Na Srebrnym Globie’ – ‘On The Silver Globe’ – was shut down by the Communist regime and partially destroyed, then finished in secret and never formally released...
Baxter Dury: Dury Service
With its clubby swagger and “scuffed vignettes”, Baxter Dury’s new album, ‘Allbarone’, is a joyous tour de force of bangers and typically sardonic lyrical swipes.
Black Sites: Danger Danger, High Voltage!
Hamburg’s formidable Black Sites – Helena Hauff and Kris Jakob – finally unleash their first full-length offering, an electrifying collision of machine precision and pulsating EBM
Guedra Guedra: Beats Across Borders
Rooted in Pan-African tradition, Moroccan artist Guedra Guedra deploys a broad palette of sounds and vital rhythms from across his home continent
Holden & Zimpel: Cosmic Custodians
An immersive fusion of psychedelic sonics and experimentation, the debut long-player from master synthesist James Holden and intrepid jazz/electronic polymath Wacław Zimpel is a beguiling odyssey of exalted, hypnotic bliss
Scaler: Hammer Time
Mashing up trip hop, drum ’n’ bass, techno, metal and drill, Bristol’s Scaler unleash a pounding sonic brew