Hi-NRG Heaven

In July 2017, Hendrik Otremba met Can’s Holger Czukay in the old Weilerswist cinema where he’d lived and worked since the 1970s. The pair sat down to discuss his retrospective ‘Cinema’ boxset, curated by Otremba and set for release this month to mark his 80th birthday. Shortly after their chat, Czukay’s wife passed away, just a few weeks later, on 5 September, Holger died too. This was his final interview

Eight years after the mind-melting experience that was ‘ISAM’, Amon Tobin returns with ‘Fear In A Handful Of Dust’, another masterful and opaque work of exquisite sound design and strange beauty. Is this neo-musique concrète?

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

We all know him as Robert Moog, the godfather of the synthesiser, a man whose role in the history of electronic sound cannot be overStated. But to Michelle Moog-Koussa, he was plain old Dad, who helped her with her piano lessons, chopped wood for the fire, and liked gardening and canoeing and star gazing. Ahead of a new documentary about Bob Moog that Michelle is putting together for release next year, we get a fascinating and highly personal insight into the everyday life of a legend