Long Reads

Respected prog/electronic music DJ Steve Davis is upping the ante again, this time as a recording artist with The Utopia Strong

Of late, it’s not just Paranoid London who are reviving the squirming electronic funk of the acid sound. The underground is teeming with producers, DJs and events powered by the 303…

In the hands of a small group of Chicago musicians and producers a little silver box created the squelch for Acid House and sparked the revolutionary illegal rave scene that followed soon after 

Graham Massey and Andrew Barker talk Rolands, Manchester, Tony Wilson, Pete Waterman, Cash Generator, and selling pop records by mistake 

As a member of Wrangler and Creep Show as well as holding down a university lecturing post, former Cabs man Stephen Mallinder has somehow found time for a solo album

Best known for his stadium-filling synthpop as M83, Anthony Gonzalez is returning to his early adventures in sound for the inspiration behind the album ‘DSVII’

Mixing real instruments with the sounds of household objects, the mesmeric creations of Berlin’s Floating Spectrum come via self-made software synths and  a generative system that turns visual data into sound…

From classical licks and pop tricks to anything goes rave anthems, Anna Meredith’s new album shows just why she is one of the finest exponents of the electronic arts

The ever-inventive YACHT used AI to deconstruct their entire back catalogue and then painstakingly put the whole lot back together to create ‘Chain Tripping’, an album of the year contender that has to be heard to be believed

Ignored and derided during their early years, Section 25 have rightfully been favourably reassessed over the intervening years. With the release of a new boxset, the band’s Vin Cassidy traces their tumultuous history…