ESG ‘UFO’

byRob Harris
June 10, 2021

Renee Scroggins of South Bronx avant-funkers ESG on how they created ‘UFO’, their much-sampled track of 1980, as “something fun to dance to”

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Bauhaus ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’

byJools Stone

Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash takes us back to the dying days of 1978 and the genesis of ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, a cornerstone track that launched an entire genre and subculture

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4 minute read

Strafe ‘Set It Off’

byJoe Silva

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

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4 minute read

Way Out West ‘The Gift’

byFat Roland

Way Out West’s Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren talk through the making of their 1996 attention-grabbing single, ‘The Gift’

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3 minute read

Alan Rankine ‘Party Fears Two’

byStephen Dalton

The Associates’ Alan Rankine talks us through the making of ‘Party Fears Two’, one of the greatest pop songs ever written

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5 minute read

Richard Barratt ‘Testone’

byRob Harris

Sweet Exorcist’s Richard Barratt – aka DJ Parrot/Crooked Man – recalls the making of 1990’s essential bleep techno cut, ‘Testone’, with Richard H Kirk

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5 minute read

With the release of their new album, ‘Touch’, Tortoise man John McEntire deconstructs the production of ‘Djed’, the Chicago band’s otherworldly defining track and blueprint for the mid-1990s post-rock scene