Craig Armstrong
Revered Scottish composer Craig Armstrong recalls the excitement of working with Massive Attack on their influential second album, ‘Protection’, and releasing his own work on their Melankolic label
David Bowie
For a few years during the 1990s, David Bowie was the Jeremy Paxman of art critics, compelling the rich and famous to justify their exhibition catalogue waffle
2ManyDJs
Marking the 20th anniversary of 2ManyDJs’ influential ‘As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 2’ album, brothers Stephen and David Dewaele look back at how they helped to define and popularise mashup culture
Kurt Dahlke
DAF and Der Plan legend Kurt Dahlke – aka Pyrolator – reflects on how he ended up performing at an Argentinian “future discotheque”
Thomas Fehlmann
Thomas Fehlmann recounts how The Orb managed a surprise return to the top of the UK charts… by way of a rejection from Jean-Michel Jarre
Showaddywaddy
A muggy night at London’s Kilburn National Ballroom in September 1987, and German industrial-meisters Einstürzende Neubauten are headlining. The support act? 1970s glam rock entertainers Showaddywaddy. As one press report aptly put it, “Say WADD?”
Tron
Decades on from a time when you couldn’t simply produce a film soundtrack on a laptop, sound design supervisor Michael Fremer reflects on what it was like to work with composer Wendy Carlos for Disney’s 1982 sci-fi action-adventure, ‘Tron’
Mark Hollis
Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis famously retreated from the limelight long before his untimely passing in 2019. But a recently unearthed mixtape given to producer Gareth Jones reveals the early musical influences behind this most reclusive of artists
Jimi Tenor
It’s been a busy year so far for Finnish techno/jazz polymath Jimi Tenor, releasing a photo biography, ‘Omniverse’, and an album, ‘Multiversum’. Hold on tight for a wild ride through his eclectic existence
Touch
Jon Wozencroft, founder of pioneering label and publisher Touch, reflects on 40 years of experimental electronics and audiovisual adventures