Cold War Electronica: A For Armageddon

By the mid-1980s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was dominating British culture. Actor Reece Dinsdale and film editor John Cary look back at their contributions to two keystones of the Cold War aesthetic – ‘Threads’ and ‘When The Wind Blows’

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Bob Fischer

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

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8 minute read

Summer 1978, New York’s New Wave Heatwave: Suicide

byKris Needs

“Lester Bangs told us that when Kraftwerk were in New York, they were in his apartment and he said, ‘This has just come out, now hear this!’. They were so blown away they took Lester’s copy… they just took his record!” – Martin Rev

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5 minute read

Arushi Jain: Raga Time

byBen Murphy

Deploying contemporary electronics that riff on Indian classical idioms, modular synthesist Arushi Jain crafts potent and beguiling otherworldly sounds

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8 minute read

Whatever The Weather: Gale Force

byStephen Dalton

From upfront electropop and reflective spoken-word sonics, drawing on everything from jazz to dancefloor bangers, to her latest detour into mellow abstract moods as Whatever The Weather, we dare you to pigeonhole the musical whirlwind that is Loraine James

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15 minute read

Whatever Happened To Delia Derbyshire?

byDr David Butler

Dr David Butler at The University of Manchester has been researching the life and work of Delia Derbyshire with access to her personal archive. Here he delves into her pioneering work with visual art, and dismantles the myth of her post-BBC activity

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9 minute read

Adrian Sherwood: All Fall Down

byKris Needs

Thirteen years since his last solo outing, Adrian Sherwood’s new work finds the dub visionary pushing his indomitable, low-end sound into exhilarating new territory