Long Reads

Dr Peter Zinovieff is responsible for the first British synthesiser, the VCS3. Now in his 80s, he remains as interested in the future as ever. And he’s invited us to lunch, to discuss Kraftwerk, Robert Moog, Delia Derbyshire, a couple of Beatles, hard drives costing £4,000 and a computer powered by a windmill

“That style of beats is something I’ve been into my entire career,” says Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, when I suggest to him that the output of his Liquid Amber label, including his own self-titled Nite School Klik EP, represents a quantum leap from his recorded history thus far.

Alan Vega and Martin Rev talk through the earliest days of Suicide and offer hints of what we can expect from the pioneering synthpunk duo’s “Punk Mass” show at the Barbican in London

Electronic artists sometimes struggle to make their music work in a live setting. But not much-lauded electro-popster Karin Park, as our behind-the-scenes peek at the London show on her recent UK tour proves

Bringing the Walls trilogy to a conclusion with ‘Urals’, is this the end of the road or just the beginning of a new journey for the Anglo-Italian duo?

Despite his new solo album being entirely instrumental, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore isn’t a man lost for words

Electronic psychonauts Gnod operate out of Islington Mill, a Grade II listed Victorian cotton mill in Salford that has somehow escaped the gentrification tidal wave and now houses a vibrant community of musicians, labels, artists, designers, photographers and printers. Gnod’s charismatic lynchpin Paddy Shine takes us on a tour of the unique building at the epicentre of a creative revolution

Taking time out from Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power has unleashed another Blanck Mass album. It’s called ‘Dumb Flesh’ and unleash is the operative word…

Hard as it is to fathom, the gold lamé and grand orchestral pop of Sheffield’s ABC developed out of post-punk experimentalist outfit Vice Versa. What were they putting in the water up there in South Yorkshire?

Marking 25 years at the coalface, ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ is The Prodigy’s first album since 2009’s ‘Invaders Must Die’ and finds them at their raging best. In this exclusive piece for Electronic Sound, the band’s official biographer takes us inside the camp with a personal account of his unfolding friendship with Liam Howlett and talks to the producer about the fury that remains at the heart of his sound