Long Reads

Suzanne Ciani is now one of the world’s most respected electronic music composers. It’s been one hell of a battle to get there, though 

Former Spacemen 3 big wheel Pete Kemper discusses his collaborations with everyone from Delia Derbyshire to Silver Apples and explains why he’s resurrected his Sonic Boom alias after a gap of 30 years

While it hardly seems possible, Nightmares On Wax’s ‘Smokers Delight’ is 25 years old. As the album gets a welcome reissue, we talk to big chief George Evelyn about his labour of love, and where it all came from…

The development of new sound technology like Sony’s 360 Reality Audio is changing and redefining our sonic experience. Welcome to the world of Immersive Listening

With the album ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’, Sparks sound as essential as ever. What keeps them going after all these years? We talk Adam and Eve, Stravinsky, The Gettysburg Address and lawnmowers…

A life-changing conversation with Virginia’s hippest teenager, thwarted Hammond organ entrepreneurship, and 18 albums of classical synth suites… written on a ukulele. Enter the magical realm of Nikmis

Benge, Hannah Peel and Robin Simon talk about their collaborations with John Foxx on the album 'Howl'.

As you might expect from an afternoon with Roger Eno and Brian Eno, whose ’Mixing Colours’ album sees them working together as a duo for the first time, there’s plenty of talk of algorithms and double pendulums and sound worlds. And jokes.

German electronic colossus Hans-Joachim Roedelius reflects on the latest volume of his four-decade ‘Selbstportrait’ series of albums, his turbulent early life, and the love of a good woman