Jill Fraser: Pleasure Principle

Taught by John Cage, and having worked with Morton Subotnick and Serge Tcherepnin, pioneering electronicist Jill Fraser has had quite the career. Her new solo effort, reframing American revival hymns in a modular setting, finds her at the very peak of her powers

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Leafcutter John: Making Waves

byBen Murphy

For his latest outing, Leafcutter John walked the Norfolk coast and recorded the sounds he heard along the way, mixing them with modular synth melodies for his latest album. Released on James Holden’s revered Border Community label, it’s his most direct and delightful work yet

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9 minute read

Pictish Trail: Eigg Head

byDavid Pollock

From his studio on a remote Scottish isle, Johnny Lynch is channelling The Beta Band and serving up his very own life-affirming lo-fi pop as The Pictish Trail

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5 minute read

Mark Reeder: Reed All About It

byMark Roland

Mark Reeder is one of the many intriguing characters to have emerged from the outrageously fertile Manchester music scene of the late 1970s. Here he talks about New Order, his life in berlin, the art of the remix

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Fini Tribe: From Start To Fini

byMark Roland

With a new retrospective anthology charting the rise and fall of Scotland’s restless industrial creatives Fini Tribe, Chris Connelly, Davie Miller and Andy McGregor discuss the art of exploding paint balloons, being skint and the influence of bottle-smashing pensioners

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’

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8 minute read

Olof Dreijer: Cuts Deep

byFat Roland

Best known as one half of The Knife, Olof Dreijer’s inaugural solo work is a rush of vivid yet unconventional dance music – joyful, exuberant and gloriously unbound by customary clubland expectations