Landmarks

Dubstar’s Steve Hillier explains how a breaks album, dub reggae and a nightclub closure fed into their 1995 hit ‘Stars’

Swamp Children were a ragtag bunch of electro-jazz punksters from Manchester, featuring a fresh-faced Martin Moscrop and Ann Quigley. The two talk about the making of ‘You’ve Got Me Beat’, their groove-laden 1982 cut

K-Klass’ Paul Roberts and Russ Morgan recall the making of their 1991 Number Three hit, ‘Rhythm Is A Mystery’

Andy McCluskey tells the fortuitous story behind Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s 1979 debut single ‘Electricity’, which Factory boss Tony Wilson so nearly chucked in the bin

Frank Chickens founder Kazuko Hohki tells the story behind 1984’s ‘We Are Ninja’, a theatrical subversion of racial and gender stereotypes through karaoke synth rap

Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt of Utah Saints give the lowdown on their much-loved, sample-heavy 1991 hit, ‘What Can You Do For Me’

The Go! Team’s Ian Parton looks back on his complex relationship with ‘Ladyflash’, the breakthrough single from their debut album, ‘Thunder, Lightening, Strike’

Dave Clarke talks about ‘Wisdom To The Wise’, one of the finest, hard-hitting cuts from his ‘Red’ series, and indeed from techno history

Steve Standard recalls the making of his haunting electro classic ‘Set It Off’, released under the name Strafe, which took 1980s New York by storm

Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen of This Heat talk about ‘24 Track Loop’, an astonishing cut which anticipated jungle through sheer post-punk audacity