Heavenly Sunday Social Club: Chemical Reaction

In a sticky-floored pub basement in London’s West End, the Heavenly Sunday Social club night gave birth to an entire genre. The author of a new book on the label talks us through the chaos

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Fran & Flora: Take a Bow

byJeremy Allen

Inspired by Yiddish songs and klezmer, experimental/contemporary folk duo Fran & Flora fuse virtuoso strings, drones and loops to hugely beguiling effect

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7 minute read

Walls: Get Your Mortar Running

byCarl Griffin

Bringing the Walls trilogy to a conclusion with ‘Urals’, is this the end of the road or just the beginning of a new journey for the Anglo-Italian duo?

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10 minute read

Hauschka and Max Richter: “Music is a beautiful thing to spend your time doing”

byPush

When two of the world’s finest contemporary composers get together for a chat, best leave them to it

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17 minute read

The Prodigy: The Sound And The Fury

byMartin James

Marking 25 years at the coalface, ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ is The Prodigy’s first album since 2009’s ‘Invaders Must Die’ and finds them at their raging best. In this exclusive piece for Electronic Sound, the band’s official biographer takes us inside the camp with a personal account of his unfolding friendship with Liam Howlett and talks to the producer about the fury that remains at the heart of his sound

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13 minute read

Bernie Krause: King of The Wild Frontier

byDavid Stubbs

As if being one half of Beaver & Krause wasn’t enough. Since his days as pioneering recording artist/Moog salesman extraordinaire Bernie Krause has carved out a further groundbreaking career as a respected sound archivist. We catch up on his recent exploits and then, in an extract from the recently republished ‘Becoming Elektra’ book, discover how the future-facing duo got their first break

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