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!
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
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…
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…
Barry Adamson
From Magazine to the Bad Seeds to soundtrack maestro, Barry Adamson reflects on the nuggets that nourish his soul
‘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…
Bauhaus ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’
Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash takes us back to the dying days of 1978 and the genesis of ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, a cornerstone track that launched an entire genre and subculture
The Devils ‘Dark Circles’ (Tape Modern, 2002)
Somewhere, out there in the infinite multiverse, is a parallel reality version of Duran Duran.
Savath and Savalas ‘Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey’ (Warp, 2000)
An album can be revelatory in any number of ways. Perhaps it arrives at the right time in your life to be particularly resonant, or it might reveal a whole area of music you didn’t realise existed.
Thomas Leer and Robert Rental: Bedroom Bedlam
They pooled their gear to record their first singles, which they then released on their own labels. Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, old friends from the town of port Glasgow on the Clyde, were the original bedroom producers and key players in the nascent diy electronic scene of the late 1970s. And they didn’t own a single synth between them