Time Machine

The 14 hour Technicolor Dream event at London’s Alexandra Palace 50 years ago heralded the arrival of counterculture and sowed the seeds of the modern multimedia music experience

When a mysterious album of nine experimental electronic trance mixes of the same tune was released in 1993, no one could quite believe who was responsible…

The UK debut of Madonna wasn’t exactly the triumph you might expect. We jump back to a cold January night in 1984 and a live broadcast from Manchester’s HaÇienda for the full tale

Back when things weren’t how they are now. We’re heading back to the sizzling summer of 1976, where one-time Roxy Music colleagues Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno are heading up the intense but brief experiment they called 801

Have you heard the one about Soma Recordings, the Glasgow indie dance imprint who signed Daft Punk and unleashed ‘Da Funk’ on an unexpecting world?

At the back end of 1969, a new music making machine has its debut on British TV. The show, unsurprisingly, is ‘Tomorrow’s World’, the machine is the Moog Modular…

It’s 1967, the Summer of love, and San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose are raising the roof in a makeshift venue with an equally makeshift box of tricks…

David M Allen, who was just Dave Allen when he was the engineer on The Human’s League’s ‘Dare’ album, recalls the birth of Martin Rushent’s legendary Genetic Studios

It’s June 1973 and Tristram Cary is about to debut ‘Divertimento’, a work that was commissioned by Olivetti and composed on a collection of their electronic typewriters and photocopiers

We’re rewinding to Summer 1984 and a live New Order session on BBC TV… on a Saturday teatime… What could possibly go wrong?