Brian Griffin: Trip The Light Fantastic

You will know the iconic work of photographer Brian Griffin from a raft of classic 1980s album sleeves, including the cover of Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’, the inspiration for which lay in the pages of business magazines

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Mat Smith

Planet Mu: Music Sounds Better With Mμ

byMat Smith

Start blowing up the birthday party balloons. Planet Mu is 20 years old. That’s 20 years as one of the most consistently innovative and interesting electronic music labels in the world. And Mike Paradinas, full-time company boss and sometime μ-ZIQ man, is celebrating in style. Well, he would be if he had the time

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3 minute read

Barry Gray: Scoring Position

byMat Smith

With their promise of exhilarating retro-futuristic adventures, Barry Gray’s defining soundtracks for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson fizz with bombastic brass, sweeping strings and daring electronic innovation

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9 minute read

ACR: 24-Hour Party People

byClaire Francis

Still going strong after four decades, A Certain Ratio modestly put their longevity down to lack of fame. Their new album, ‘ACR Loco’, which fuses many of their influences throughout those years, says otherwise

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7 minute read

Ultramarine: Mirror, signal, manoeuvre

byBen Willmott

Even on their 1990 debut, Essex’s Ultramarine were ahead of the game. their new ‘Signals In space’ album is yet another evolution, drawing on their love of field recordings, post-rock and house music…

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7 minute read

The Best of Bergen (Via Tromsø)

byJeremy Allen

The Norwegian press came up with the name Bergen Wave to describe the large number of bands and producers – of all shapes and genres – that developed in the west coast city of Bergen in the late 1990s. We’ve picked out 10 of the best electronic albums associated with the movement, although we’re starting the story in another place at another time…

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