Long Reads

Alan Oldham’s new Black Warhols project finds the detroit techno don veering sharply into dubby trip hop, spectral shoegaze and industrial- grade electro-punk. Compelling stuff

After a decade as keyboard maestro with The Comet Is Coming, Danalogue is keen to embrace his destiny… as A cape-wearing “Synth Lord” finding salvation at the end of the universe

Mercurial producer Loraine James embraces fractured IDM, lustrous pop and a sharp cast of collaborators for her latest solo venture – arguably her most assured and absorbing work to date

Returning with his first new material in 12 years, Midge Ure reflects on his punk adventures, synth epiphanies and five decades of highs and lows

Instrumental trio Haiku Salut and pianist Meg Morley have ReimagineD the soundtrack to a 1930 German silent film with typically cinematic verve

All ghostly ambience, noir-ish drone and propulsive electronics, J Zunz conjures UP slow-burn soundscapes that shimmer with a creeping, otherworldly unease

Eschewing their usual avant-garde provocations, Laibach are back with their most pop-facing record yet – a gloriously hook-laden set packed with undeniable bangers. Didn’t see that one coming…

Best known as one half of The Knife, Olof Dreijer’s inaugural solo work is a rush of vivid yet unconventional dance music – joyful, exuberant and gloriously unbound by customary clubland expectations

Jim Noir is dead. For 20 years, the enigmatic alter ego of Alan Peter Roberts has been the purveyor of perfectly wonky retro-pop. Fear not, though – the man beneath the bowler hat is about to relaunch himself as electronic maestro The Dook