Ishmael Ensemble: Colours Fly

Bristol collective Ishmael Ensemble are evolving at a rate of knots. Their expansive new album sees them pushing boundaries like never before, exploring not only contemporary jazz and clubby electronics but also dub, psych and experimental sounds. Thrilling stuff it is too

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Oli Warwick

Saint Etienne: Ohm is Where the Heart is

byPeter Paphides

Their new album, ‘Home Counties’, not only celebrates the leafy commuter belt burbs of their formative years, it also sees Saint Etienne getting back into the electronic groove of their prime

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Scanner: Bop Til You Eavesdrop

byBen Murphy

His voyeuristic 1995 ‘Mass Observation’ album broke all the rules and put Scanner on electronica’s top table. Some two decades down the line he’s still pushing at the edges. Robin Rimbaud talks life, the universe and almost everything…

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9 minute read

Tears For Fears: Fear Factory

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Celebrating the release of the first Tears For Fears album since 2004, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith reflect on a five-decade career and talk about loss, working under duress, musique concrète and Gothic architecture

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Roosevelt

byBen Murphy

Mixing the worlds of electroncia, Indie and disco, the second long-player from Cologne’s Roosevelt has found its way onto our turntable with some regularity. That being the case, it would be rude not to have a chat with him about it, right?

LLong Reads

19 minute read

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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Mueran Humanos: Around The Outside

byBethan Cole

They make music that is at once experimental, propulsive, foreboding and beautiful. They call it “rock concrète”. They love Baudelaire and Shakespeare as well as Suicide and Coil and Swans and Sonic Youth. They are Tomás and Carmen, originally from Argentina but now based in Berlin. Meet Mueran Humanos

Ishmael Ensemble: Colours Fly

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Oli Warwick

Saint Etienne: Ohm is Where the Heart is

Scanner: Bop Til You Eavesdrop

Tears For Fears: Fear Factory

Roosevelt

White Noise: Lightning Strikes

Mueran Humanos: Around The Outside

Loula Yorke

When Jacno Met Kraftwerk

Paul Draper

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Magic Touch

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Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords

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Ishmael Ensemble: Colours Fly

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