Eduardo Polonio ‘Cuenca’

This month records featuring the unmistakable and somewhat wobbly tones of the Mellotron come under the gaze of our resident archivist

Is it music? Or just a sound effect? The question that has dogged electronic music from its inception gets short shrift from our in-house wax obsessive

Resident archivist Jack Dangers gets his fingers into the circuits of 1970s DIY electronic instrument maker and improviser Michel Waisvisz

How our resident archivist became the owner of Henry Jacobs’ stash of early electronic music reel-to-reel tapes, among them a piece by the German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel, is one of the strangest stories you’ll ever hear

Our resident archivist Jack Dangers turns his attention to electronic composer Paul Pignon and his role in the development of the EMS Synthi 100