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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Jeremy Allen

The Flaming Lips: Wayne’s (and Steve’s) World

byMark Roland

Their new album tells of a future drug and a fairy tale world where unicorn sex is encouraged and sleeping is the cure-all. A chat with Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips is rarely dull, this is a whole other level…

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Oneohtrix Point Never : Straw Dog

byBen Willmott

Films played quite a role in the making of the new Oneohtrix Point Never album, ‘Age Of’. Recording alone in a rented a house on the hill that freaked the bejesus out him at night, Daniel Lapotin talks Kubrick, harpsichords, alien regression and, erm, ‘The Great Whatsit’…

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Cold War Electronica: Atomic Anthems

byMat Smith

Five synth-driven gems from the 1980s that captured the paranoia and effervescent pop of the nuclear age – tales of tension, technology, hope and fear, as told by the artists themselves

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YACHT: Sail Of The Century

byBen Willmott

The ever-inventive YACHT used AI to deconstruct their entire back catalogue and then painstakingly put the whole lot back together to create ‘Chain Tripping’, an album of the year contender that has to be heard to be believed

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‘Autobahn’ At 50: Krautrock’s Off-Ramp

byMark Roland

As Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ celebrates its big birthday, we examine its nuanced relationship with krautrock and Germany’s history

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Gemma Cullingford: Vox Humana

byMark Roland

Sink Ya Teeth bassist Gemma Cullingford has found her voice and is stepping into the spotlight with a solo album of electronic songs about love, death and getting the boiler mended

Der Plan: We are the Robots

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Jeremy Allen

The Flaming Lips: Wayne’s (and Steve’s) World

Oneohtrix Point Never : Straw Dog

Cold War Electronica: Atomic Anthems

YACHT: Sail Of The Century

‘Autobahn’ At 50: Krautrock’s Off-Ramp

Gemma Cullingford: Vox Humana

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Der Plan: We are the Robots

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