Alex Paterson: Sphere And Now

As driven and restless as ever, and with a new, career-spanning “director’s cut” compilation in the shops, The Orb’s Alex Paterson reflects on his eventful 30-year journey – with good tales, to boot

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The Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra: The Style Council

byBob Fischer

Take legendary producer Tony Visconti, Bowie-obsessed academic Dr Leah Kardos, and a car boot stuffed full of Stylophones. The result? The Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra and an album bursting with buzzy delights

LLong Reads

7 minute read

Der Plan: Shouting Schlager, Schlager, Schlager

byDavid Stubbs

After a mere quarter of a century hiatus, Düsseldorf’s avant-garde electro-schlager outfit Der Plan are back with a brand new album. We caught up with Kurt Dahlke and Moritz Reichelt for a trip back to the future

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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

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12 minute read

Thomas Leer and Robert Rental: Bedroom Bedlam

byMat Smith

They pooled their gear to record their first singles, which they then released on their own labels. Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, old friends from the town of port Glasgow on the Clyde, were the original bedroom producers and key players in the nascent diy electronic scene of the late 1970s. And they didn’t own a single synth between them

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7 minute read

130701 Records: Living By Numbers

byNeil Mason

Home to a bunch of upcoming young gun composers working to blur the lines between electronic and classical music, 130701 Records celebrates itS 15th anniversary this month. Whatever happened to Max Richter, Hauskcha and Jóhann Jóhannsson, eh? Dave Howell, the man at the controls, tells the label’s tale

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7 minute read

Woo: A Room With A Woo

byBob Fischer

Since the early 1970s, brothers Mark and Clive Ives have been recording as Woo – arguably the UK’s most prolific DIY outfit. Two new albums, ‘Robot X’ and ‘Xylophonics’, raid their vast archive. And it all began with Uncle Fred’s musical saw