Der Plan: We are the Robots

byJeremy Allen
May 13, 2021

Forget Kraftwerk doing it for one song, in the late 1980s, fellow Düsseldorf outfit Der Plan came up with a crackpot scheme to completely replace themselves with robots…

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Pneumatic Tubes: Son Of His Father

byBob Fischer

Infused with the spirit of Woodstock and resolutely “bound to the mountains”, Midlake and Mercury Rev’s Jesse Chandler pays tribute to his late father on a second album as Pneumatic Tubes

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7 minute read

Tracey Thorn: On The Record

byBen Willmott

With a new album awash with electronic goodness, Tracey Thorn talks production Licks, girl band Picks and her teenage kicks

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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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Andrew Hung: On Song

byFat Roland

With his Fuck Buttons partner cutting a rug on his own as Blanck Mass, it’s high time Andrew Hung showed us what he’s made of. And it isn’t what you might think

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10 minute read

Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man

byStephen Dalton

Former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday has just released his first solo work in 13 years. Reflecting his fabled life, steeped in hook-laden electronics, typically melodramatic and emotive, it’s one of the most absorbing albums he’s ever made

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Philippe Besombes: Tour De Force

byKris Needs

The 71-year-old Parisian composer Philippe Besombes is a man whose work should have been enjoyed alongside that of his pal Jean-Michel Jarre. The story of this undiscovered electronic pioneer is quite a tale…

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Jeremy Allen

Pneumatic Tubes: Son Of His Father

Tracey Thorn: On The Record

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

Andrew Hung: On Song

Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man

Philippe Besombes: Tour De Force

Graham Crabb ‘Def Con One’

Steve Davis

Pictish Trail

Thomas Dolby: The Appliance Of Science

Telepathic Fish: Reeling ‘Em In

Co-Pilot: Taking Flight

Aidan Moffat

Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man

Der Plan: We are the Robots

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