The Utopia Strong: Lucky Break
Respected prog/electronic music DJ Steve Davis is upping the ante again, this time as a recording artist with The Utopia Strong
Little Boots
Lancashire electropopper Victoria Hesketh explains how grit, glamour and Joe Goddard helped her to take control of her multi-faceted creation, Little Boots
Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)
Few music discovery anecdotes start with “I was rugby tackled by a man in a cinema because he liked my T-shirt”, but discovering Lancashire oddballs Element starts like that for me.
Acid Revival: Long Live The Squelch
Of late, it’s not just Paranoid London who are reviving the squirming electronic funk of the acid sound. The underground is teeming with producers, DJs and events powered by the 303…
Acid: In The Theatre Of Madness
In the hands of a small group of Chicago musicians and producers a little silver box created the squelch for Acid House and sparked the revolutionary illegal rave scene that followed soon after
808 State: State of the Nation
Graham Massey and Andrew Barker talk Rolands, Manchester, Tony Wilson, Pete Waterman, Cash Generator, and selling pop records by mistake
One Dove ‘Morning Dove White’ (Boys Own Productions, 1993)
The trio of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven released a solitary album. There was apparently a second, but it never saw the light.
Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval talks us through her formative influences, taking in 90s dance, death metal, John Carpenter and flying synth sounds along the way
Stephen Mallinder: Mal Content
As a member of Wrangler and Creep Show as well as holding down a university lecturing post, former Cabs man Stephen Mallinder has somehow found time for a solo album
M83: Back To The Future
Best known for his stadium-filling synthpop as M83, Anthony Gonzalez is returning to his early adventures in sound for the inspiration behind the album ‘DSVII’