Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers

Four months later than originally planned, the Design Museum in London hosted ‘Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers’, a remarkable retrospective of electronic music

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Jeremy Allen

Unicorn Ship Explosion: Horn Of Plenty

byWill Stokes

A detuned mass of driving electronics, oblique kosmische vibes and out-there transmissions, the first album by Stroud duo Unicorn Ship Explosion is an almighty statement of left-field intent

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Bluedot 2023: The Greatest Show in The Galaxy

byBob Fischer

This year marks the 60th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’ and the Radiophonic Workshop are contributing to the celebrations with a special Bluedot performance. Workshop veterans Dick Mills and Peter Howell have set the TARDIS co-ordinates

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Cold War Electronica: The Jingle At The End Of The World

byBob Fischer

In 1975, the Central Office of Information secretly produced the chilling ‘Protect And Survive’ series of public information films, to be broadcast on British TV in the event of an imminent nuclear war. And the composer of its jingle, potentially the final piece of music the country would ever hear? The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Roger Limb

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Chris Carter: Chemical Reaction

byMark Roland

It’s been almost 20 years since we’ve had the pleasure of a lesser-spotted Chris Carter solo album. Brewed up and shot through with the influence of his late, great TG pal, Sleazy, ‘Chemistry Lessons Volume One’, is something very special indeed…

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Shackleton: Most Haunted

byJeremy Allen

Shackleton’s stock has never been higher. In a rare interview, the sound designer and arch-collaborator opens up on his gloriously hypnotic new album, a disorientating miasma of woozy hauntology and “cracked-mirror oddness”

LLong Reads

16 minute read

4,120 Words about Underworld

byPush

We visit the group’s remote rural HQ to talk about their exciting new World Of Underworld project and find out how they’re using sounds and words and pictures to carve out a unique role as 21st century storytellers