Spacemen 3 ‘Big City’

byWill Stokes
April 14, 2022

Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember talks us through the making of Spacemen 3’s 1991 showstopper ‘Big City’

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Jimi Tenor ‘Take Me Baby’

byMatt Parker

Experimental Finn Jimi Tenor reveals how a VHS recorder, a Brooklyn Mafia den and Alan Vega combined to create accidental hit, ‘Take Me Baby’

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Thomas Leer ‘Private Plane’

byMat Smith

Thomas Leer remembers Port Glasgow, friend and collaborator Robert Rental, and what led him to create ‘Private Plane’ and his “homemade” electronic sound

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Michael Rother ‘Hallogallo’

byES Staff

Michael Rother explains how the 10-minute NEU! landmark track and krautrock blueprint ‘Hallogallo’ came together in the studio

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It’s 35 years since ‘Gala’ became Lush’s de facto debut album. Now available again as a deluxe reissue, songwriter and guitarist Emma Anderson looks back at the breakthrough track ‘Sweetness And Light’

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