Time Machine

Two decades after the fact, we explore Daft Punk’s totemic pyramid show which changed the face of electronic music forever

In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story 

Featuring Einstürzende Neubauten, Genesis P-Orridge, William Burroughs, Dave Ball and Matt Johnson, the epic soundtrack to sci-fi dystopia flick ‘Decoder’ is unlike any other

In the weeks before his recent untimely death, Keith McIvor, aka JD Twitch, revisited the birth of Optimo Espacio, the celebrated Glasgow club night he helmed with Jonnie Wilkes, from 1997 to 2010 and beyond 

In 1994, Yaw Atta-Owusu released a stone-cold classic under the alias of Ata Kak, but fewer than 50 people ever heard it. Or so he thought

The fascinating story of Studio Electrophonique and its owner Ken Patten, an unassuming Sheffield car mechanic who provided an essential launchpad for Martyn Ware, Jarvis Cocker and countless others 

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 

A new compilation celebrating Ghent’s Boccaccio Life club provides the perfect opportunity to look back on the makings of this unlikely electronic institution

O Yuki Conjugate have just released a superb vault of “early works of charming insignificance”. So it’s about time we returned to the roots of Nottingham’s “dirty ambient” pioneers

Mixmaster Morris and Pete Namlook’s Dreamfish project and much-loved 1993 album of the same name were born of a rare mix of unhinged acid parties and monk-like studio discipline