Gaister: Immersion Therapy

Comprising left-field producer Coby Sey, soprano Olivia Salvadori and drummer Akihide Monna, Gaister’s self-titled debut is a mesmeric fusion of rarefied soundscapes and poetic form – sonic balm for the soul

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Derek Walmsley

White Noise: Lightning Strikes

byDavid Stubbs

Dark, psychedelic, sensual and enticingly strange… with their trailblazing 1969 debut album ‘An Electric Storm’, White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – created visionary electronic music that has continued to resonate ever since. Vorhaus, Hodgson and others revisit the story behind this extraordinary record

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6 minute read

Warpaint: “Let’s just make some good old fucking rock and roll…”

bySophie Little

Despite their confrontational moniker, Warpaint are a harmonious bunch, both musically and personally. Bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg offers some wise words on how to be in a band that matters these days

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8 minute read

Jane Weaver: Love Parade

bySharon O'Connell

Cosmically lush, gently kaleidoscopic and swirling with mystic “wyrd folk”, Jane Weaver is back with a compelling and groovily seductive new work that truly hits the heights

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5 minute read

Reaper On Red: Hot Fuzz

byAndrew Perry

The shadowy sonics of Cincinnati pairing Reaper On Red pulse with dark psych, brooding electronics and “gothic-shaded salvos”

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24 minute read

David Bowie: Synthesist

byMark Roland

Let’s get this straight: David Bowie was the godhead of 1970s electronic music. It was through him that electronic music was understood by a mass audience. His unique ability to synthesise, in both senses of the word, opened up pop music and revealed new ways of creating it, ways which would rapidly mutate and produce beautiful (and gloriously ugly) offspring in quick succession.

LLong Reads

11 minute read

Marc Houle: Techno Outsider

byPush

He started his career buying vintage synths from Detroit pawn shops and became a key member of Richie Hawtin’s Minus family. But as his latest album proves, Marc Houle is every bit the techno maverick