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Secession: The one that got away

Cool band, good-looking singer, major label deal, infectious tunes. the Top 40 beckoned for 1980s Glasgow outfit Secession… some 18 years after the death of frontman Peter Thomson, we tell the story of a group who shouldn’t have fallen by the wayside
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Matt Berry: Turn On, Tune In, Sit Down

TV themes from our formative years are as much a part of our lives as the pop we cherish. With A new album of theme tune covers, Matt Berry is doing more than looking back, he’s preserving them for future generations
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Graeme Park

Superstar DJ, producer, broadcaster, tutor, HaÇienda Classical lynchpin and, erm, racing car driver, Graeme Park takes us for a spin through what makes his heart sing. Buckle up!
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PAN SONIC

It’s 1994, in a Brixton backstreet club, a bunch of Finnish musicians are making their London debut with a live set that will lay the foundations for PAN SONIC, one of electronica’s most revered acts
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Wendy Carlos: Keeping Your Composer

The reclusive synth sorceress Wendy Carlos has granted very few interviews over the last 20 years. This one from 1998, to mark the release of her ‘Tales Of Heaven And Hell’ album and published here for the first time, offers a candid glimpse at her musical philosophy, her working relationship with Stanley Kubrick, what she thinks of her fellow soundtrack composers and much more…
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Wendy Carlos, Stanley Kubrick, and A Clockwork Orange

Wendy Carlos’ pioneering soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ was just as subversive as the film, debasing classical masterpieces and putting electronic music on the map. We delve into the work of the maverick musician, the singular director, and their turbulent working relationship…
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‘Two Virgins’

It was 50 years ago today, give or take a week or two, that the world encountered ‘Revolution 9’ and John Lennon and Yoko Ono in full frontal avant garde nudity. It was quite a month…