Philippe Doray / Asociaux Associés ‘Nouveaux Modes Industriels’ (Invisible / Scopa, 1980)

The Twins were a synthpop group formed in Berlin in 1980, and unlike the twins of the Thompson variety, there were just two of them. Rather disappointingly though, they weren’t actually twins. 

When searching for pioneers of electronic futurism, how many of us would consider the golden age of Ethiopian jazz-funk to be an obvious port of call?

The North in the late 1980s and early 90s was not a bad place to be if you were into left-field music and dancing...

“Long, long ago, far into the distant future and after the seventh war, there is a civilisation called System 605. Where the diseases of love and emotion no longer exist to complicate our busy lives…”