Long Reads – Page 6 – Electronic Sound

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Cold War Electronica: Wired For War

byDavid Stubbs

The birth of electronic music carried the tensions of its age – Cold War anxiety, nuclear dread and divided ideologies. From Stockhausen’s post-war Germany to musique concrète, radio labs and tape experiments, an avant-garde soundtrack emerged, documenting decades of division, secrecy and a world permanently wired for fear

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Cold War Electronica: The Jingle At The End Of The World

byBob Fischer

In 1975, the Central Office of Information secretly produced the chilling ‘Protect And Survive’ series of public information films, to be broadcast on British TV in the event of an imminent nuclear war. And the composer of its jingle, potentially the final piece of music the country would ever hear? The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Roger Limb

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Cold War Electronica: Atomic Anthems

byMat Smith

Five synth-driven gems from the 1980s that captured the paranoia and effervescent pop of the nuclear age – tales of tension, technology, hope and fear, as told by the artists themselves

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Sudan Archives: Feel The Power

byJeremy Allen

Chicago and Detroit club sounds, global rhythms and experimental beats – Sudan Archives’ latest offering is perhaps her most revealing and playful to date

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John Maus: The Maus That Roared

byBen Gilbert

Synth-toting American firebrand John Maus is predicting a global apocalypse, as he returns to do battle armed with a new album

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Gary Numan: Telekonesis

byRob Fitzpatrick

Released in 1980, Gary Numan’s ‘Telekon’ album wasn’t just a stark, futuristic landmark of electronic music – it was the sound of a young man grappling with sudden, overwhelming fame

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Adrian Sherwood: All Fall Down

byKris Needs

Thirteen years since his last solo outing, Adrian Sherwood’s new work finds the dub visionary pushing his indomitable, low-end sound into exhilarating new territory

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Bruise Blood: Cuts Deep

byFat Roland

The debut solo project from Teeth Of The Sea’s Mike Bourne, Bruise Blood deals in heaving electronics and dirty beats. Dancey yet abyssal, disorienting yet immersive, resistance is futile – prepare to be pulled under

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Carlos Alomar & George Murray: Boys Keep Swinging

byStephen Dalton

Two-Thirds of David Bowie’s essential DAM Trio, guitarist Carlos Alomar and bassist George Murray reflect on the daring reinvention, chemistry and sonic innovation that powered Bowie’s hugely influential Berlin-era work

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Fini Tribe: From Start To Fini

byMark Roland

With a new retrospective anthology charting the rise and fall of Scotland’s restless industrial creatives Fini Tribe, Chris Connelly, Davie Miller and Andy McGregor discuss the art of exploding paint balloons, being skint and the influence of bottle-smashing pensioners