Saxon Studio International ‘Coughing Up Fire!!!’

Our resident archivist looks at ‘Trios’, the exceedingly rare and important double album and performance tool from British composer Tristram Cary

Resident archivist Jack Dangers looks at two avant-garde electronic music albums from Sweden by Knut Wiggen and Kåre Kolberg

Back in the 70s, in the search for alternative interfaces to control sound, the likes of Pierre Henry, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros and David Rosenboom all tried to tap into brain power. The resulting brainwave music albums were noisy, weird and fascinating…

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

The four-lp boxset ‘Electronic Music’ by Phillip Werren was originally released in an edition of just 100, and made the news recently when a copy sold for over £2,000

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