Elizabeth Parker: Singing In The Wires

Elizabeth Parker was a BBC Radiophonic Workshop mainstay and one of Britain’s most in-demand composers of TV and film soundtracks. A new compilation, ‘Future Perfect’, gathers together previously unheard pieces from her own private archive. Expect ghostly nuns and clunky scaffolding

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Bob Fischer

Wevie Stonder: Stuck On Stupid

byBen Murphy

After a 16-year hiatus, glorious oddballs Wevie Stonder are back. Deploying a familiar melange of multi-hued electronics, eccentric humour, cartoonish sound effects and patently skewed storytelling, they’re still delightfully bonkers

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8 minute read

Dan Tombs: Vision On

byNeil Mason

Have you ever been to a live show and wondered where, as if by magic, the images and graphics and fancy lights come from? If you’ve seen Jon Hopkins or Blanck Mass this summer, you’ve been wowed by visual artist Dan Tombs

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9 minute read

Lucrecia Dalt: Space Invader

byClaire Francis

Lucrecia Dalt’s latest album is a sumptuous and radiant sci-fi meditation in which the bolero, salsa, mambo and merengue influences she absorbed throughout her childhood are refracted through “machinic distortions”. But an alien presence is lurking…

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8 minute read

Moby & The Void Pacific Choir: When The Machine Breaks Down

byBen Myers

Lining up as Moby & The Void Pacific Choir, the latest adventure from rave’s first superstar stirs both sonically and morally. Who else can combine angry indignation with hands-in-the-air joy so successfully?

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9 minute read

Telefis: Town to Town

byBen Willmott

First meeting in Dublin during the 1980s, Microdisney’s Cathal Coughlan and uber-producer Jacknife Lee have recently reconnected. Working via a musical trans-Atlantic hook-up their new album as Telefís is a real cracker

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11 minute read

Hannah Peel: Permanent Waves

byBob Fischer

Hannah Peel has surely and steadily established herself as one of the leading lights of the electronic world, with the likes of John Foxx, OMD and Paul Weller seeking out her services. With her new album, ‘Fir Wave’, she enjoys the unique privilege of retrospectively collaborating with her idol, the late Delia Derbyshire