100 TRACKS OF TOMORROW

Musicians have been writing and recording tracks about the future since pretty much forever, and we’re marking our 100th issue with 100 of our favourite examples. They’re mostly electronic, of course, but you might find some surprises along the way…

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Summer 1978, New York’s New Wave Heatwave: Suicide

byKris Needs

“Lester Bangs told us that when Kraftwerk were in New York, they were in his apartment and he said, ‘This has just come out, now hear this!’. They were so blown away they took Lester’s copy… they just took his record!” – Martin Rev

LLong Reads

11 minute read

Marc Houle: Techno Outsider

byPush

He started his career buying vintage synths from Detroit pawn shops and became a key member of Richie Hawtin’s Minus family. But as his latest album proves, Marc Houle is every bit the techno maverick

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Justin Robertson: Magik Moments

byBen Murphy

Esteemed DJ/producer Justin Robertson returns with the second instalment of his Five Green Moons project – an esoteric whirl of “pastoral dub”, post-punk and hauntology...

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Scanner: Bop Til You Eavesdrop

byBen Murphy

His voyeuristic 1995 ‘Mass Observation’ album broke all the rules and put Scanner on electronica’s top table. Some two decades down the line he’s still pushing at the edges. Robin Rimbaud talks life, the universe and almost everything…

LLong Reads

15 minute read

1975: Kernkraftwerk The Nuclear Powerplant

byMark Roland

Forty years since the release of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radio-Activity’, we take a close look the dark horse of the five-album masterwork the band produced between 1974 and 1981

LLong Reads

20 minute read

Ladytron: ’Tron and On and On

byStephen Dalton

Almost a quarter of a century after they formed, Ladytron are still reaching new audiences. With their 2002 hit ‘Seventeen’ having gone viral on TikTok, the electropop futurists are back with their first album in five years, the swaggering ‘Time’s Arrow’. Quite the journey it’s been, too. Prepare for a bumpy but exhilarating ride