Air: Shoot For The Moon

Retro-futuristic, gorgeously languid, utterly irresistible – Air changed the sonic landscape almost overnight with the release of ‘Moon Safari’ in 1998. Taking a break from performing the album in full on a mammoth world tour, Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin reflect on their robo-romantic masterpiece

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Bluedot 2022

byStephen Dalton

Under the shadow of Jodrell Bank’s gigantic Lovell telescope, Bluedot returns for a scintillating weekend of live music, science and culture

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9 minute read

Decius: It’s A Family Affair

byJeremy Allen

What do you get when you cross Fat White Family, Paranoid London and Warmduscher? That’ll be London collective Decius, whose debut album buzzes with seedy acid house, wayward disco grooves and alluring hedonistic fervour

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5 minute read

Jeremy Dutcher: Mind Your Language

byMat Smith

Taking it upon himself to preserve the almost lost language of his Canadian ancestors, Jeremy Dutcher has created a singularly important record in the award-winning ‘Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa’

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7 minute read

Wendy Carlos, Stanley Kubrick, and A Clockwork Orange

byMark Roland

Wendy Carlos’ pioneering soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ was just as subversive as the film, debasing classical masterpieces and putting electronic music on the map. We delve into the work of the maverick musician, the singular director, and their turbulent working relationship…

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6 minute read

Factory Records: The Durutti Column

byMax Bell

First published in New Musical Express on 2 February 1980 under the title ‘The Emaciated Line Between Art And Ambience’, we’re heading into the eye of the Factory Records storm… or in Tony Wilson’s car on our way to meet The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly.

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9 minute read

Field Music: Cafe Society

byBob Fischer

The new Field Music offering, ‘Limits Of Language’, finds brothers Peter and David Brewis in a nostalgic mood. Overdosing on Marmite in their favourite Wearside cafe, they look back on the vanished eateries and melancholy early Septembers of their youth