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The Minimoog

We’re spinning back to 1967, to the birth of Dr Bob’s Amazing Contraption, aka The Minimoog, arguably the most famous synth of all time
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When Jacno Met Kraftwerk

His band Stinky Toys were forward-thinking French punk pioneers, but Jacno was so much more. A brush with Kraftwerk in 1977, a story you just couldn’t make up, changed his life
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The Nurse With Wound List

In 1978, Nurse With Wound lynchpins Steve Stapleton and John Fothergill were unknown noise merchants. Then they made a list that would accidentally become the guiding light for experimental music creators 
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Suicide, Brussels, 1978

You join us in Brussels, it’s 1978 and Elvis Costello is in town. His hand-picked support act? Alan Vega and Martin Rev’s Suicide. What could possibly go wrong?
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Ride on Time

labels said the vocals were “very aggressive” and it barely shifted a copy of its first pressing, so how the heck did Black Box’s ‘Ride on time’ become a global hit?
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Croc’s Glamour Club

The Essex-based antidote to exclusivity of London’s futurist club scene, Rayleigh nightclub Croc’s is best remembered as the birthplace of Depeche Mode.
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Del Shannon

We set the dial to 1961 where the unmistakable sound of Del Shannon’s Number One smash hit ‘Runaway’ rules the airwaves… but what is that flute-like sound that drives it along? Prepare yourself for a lesson in electronic music instrument history.