Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical Brothers

byJeremy Allen
September 10, 2020

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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Soft Cell: Wave Goodbye

byNeil Mason

On the eve of their very last live show and with a mega 10-cd boxset in the shops, the one and only Dave Ball, Soft Cell’s other half, pulls up a pew and tells us a few tales from along the way…

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Ambient: An Introduction

byDavid Stubbs

From Debussy to Brian Eno, The Orb to Burial, the foundations of ambient are rooted in esoteric, unconventional and often surprising forms and sounds

RReviews

7 minute read

Sink Ya Teeth: Apex Twin

byClaire Francis

ACR-endorsed go-getters, Sink Ya Teeth are scaling fresh musical peaks with their new album ‘Two’. Second album wobbles? Not a bit of it…

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Championed by the likes of John Peel and Steve Lamacq back in the late 1990s, Jesse Hartman makes an unexpected but very welcome return with his synthpop alter ego Laptop – all thanks to a Vince Clarke and Neil Arthur cover version

LLong Reads

11 minute read

Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine at 40

byMark Roland

How does ‘The Man-Machine’, Kraftwerk’s vision of the future, hold up after four decades? We compare and contrast the vision of 1978 with the reality of 2018

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Joe Meek: No Ordinary Joe

byJeremy Blackmore

Hidden away for decades, Joe Meek’s near-mythical “tea chest tapes” have finally seen the light of day, revealing much about the working practices of the legendary producer responsible for The Tornados’ pioneering, electronically hued 1962 single, ‘Telstar’