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African Head Charge: True Dub Ways

byAnton Spice

For more than four decades, African Head Charge have pushed the outer limits of dub, concocting an intoxicating brew of electronic exploration and live percussion. Their latest long-player continues to confound expectations – from Accra to Ramsgate and back again

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19 minute read

Laibach: Ruffling Feathers

byMat Smith

A band? An art project? A secret cabal of political provocateurs? Going about their subversive business for more than four decades, everything that this unique Slovenian collective does comes as a surprise. Absolutely everything. Brace yourselves as we are granted an audience with the entity that is Laibach

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10 minute read

Anni Hogan: Hogan’s Run

byStephen Dalton

From flat-sharing with Soft Cell during their Leeds university days to DJing at London’s legendary Batcave and collaborating with the great and good of art rock and electropop, Anni Hogan has been on one heck of a ride

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20 minute read

Tangerine Dream: Paradigm Drift

byDavid Stubbs

Epic and mesmeric, sensual and influential, ‘Phaedra’ is Tangerine Dream’s definitive masterpiece. It was recorded under trying circumstances, but the album’s sequenced, otherworldly sounds – built on Mellotron and Moog synths – arguably resonate even more today than they did in 1974. To mark its 50th anniversary this month, we tell the story of an enduring cornerstone of progressive electronic music

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9 minute read

Mark Jenkin: The Analogue Auteur

byBob Fischer

Filmmaker Mark Jenkin takes a handmade approach to his features, shooting on clockwork cameras and creating his own electronic scores with a tape loop designed by Brian Eno

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8 minute read

Wolfgang Flür: Robotman

byFat Roland

Featuring Juan Atkins, Boris Blank, ex-Daft Punk man Thomas Vangarde, Peter Hook and Kraftwerk associate Emil Schult, Wolfgang Flür’s latest project is a big-name collaboration merging the past and the future to scintillating effect