Long Reads – Electronic Sound

8 minute read

Elizabeth Parker: Singing In The Wires

byBob Fischer

Elizabeth Parker was a BBC Radiophonic Workshop mainstay and one of Britain’s most in-demand composers of TV and film soundtracks. A new compilation, ‘Future Perfect’, gathers together previously unheard pieces from her own private archive. Expect ghostly nuns and clunky scaffolding

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22 minute read

Soft Cell: Cell Shock

byNeil Kulkarni

With ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’, their hugely influential 1981 debut album, Soft Cell brought sleazy lyrics and shady but infectious synth anthems to the mainstream. Marc Almond and Dave Ball reflect on art-school aesthetics, punk electronics, and the controversies that fuelled their speedy rise

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8 minute read

Shackleton: Most Haunted

byJeremy Allen

Shackleton’s stock has never been higher. In a rare interview, the sound designer and arch-collaborator opens up on his gloriously hypnotic new album, a disorientating miasma of woozy hauntology and “cracked-mirror oddness”

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8 minute read

John Carpenter: Feel The Fear

byStephen Dalton

With a new John Carpenter anthology featuring reworked versions of his most iconic and haunting themes, the celebrated horror director and composer reflects on his creepy “synth-noir” sound and a life well-lived

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5 minute read

Hinako Omori: The Soft Bulletin

byMat Smith

Somewhere in the mid-point between electronic, ambient and classical, composer Hinako Omori creates potent “therapeutic frequencies”. Deploying analogue synths and binaural sound, her second long-player is an experimental and deeply enchanting patchwork

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4 minute read

Aho Ssan: Root Cause

byClaire Francis

French producer Aho Ssan makes stunning experimental music, drawing a host of zeitgeisty contributors into his orbit. No wonder his new work ‘Rhizomes’ reads like a who’s who of contemporary underground electronica

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8 minute read

OMD: Stepping Up

byMat Smith

Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are still coming up with the goods 45 years in. Their new album, ‘Bauhaus Staircase’, a glorious collision of hook-laden electropop and artistic sentiment, finds the synth pioneers in perfect sync

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4 minute read

Teeth Of The Sea: Cosmic Thing

byStevie Chick

Steeped in sci-fi dystopia, avant-garde sensibilities and a multi-genre assault, Teeth Of The Sea exist in an “alchemical headspace” where sonically, almost anything goes

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9 minute read

Andrew Weatherall: “I’m a sponge, I want to soak up everything”

byPush

The first interview with Andrew Weatherall outside of his role in the band Bocca Juniors, which was originally published in the UK weekly music paper Melody Maker on 17 August 1991

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10 minute read

Andrew Weatherall: “A mind full of strange and interesting stuff”

byNeil Mason

Bocca Juniors vocalist Anna Haigh, Jagz Kooner from The Sabres Of Paradise, and acclaimed Faber author Michael Smith share their memories of working with Andrew Weatherall