Kid Koala: Creature Feature

Typically big on imagination and hoping to “joyfully connect people”, renowned Canadian DJ and producer Kid Koala puts his multifarious skills to good use on his new double album, ‘Creatures Of The Late Afternoon’ – with a built-in board game, to boot

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Ian Boddy: Boddy Talk

byBen Willmott

Ian Boddy tells us about running his north east-based DiN label, a two-decade labour of love that has carved him a rightful place in the ambient hall of fame

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6 minute read

Floating Spectrum: Making A Point

byClaire Francis

Mixing real instruments with the sounds of household objects, the mesmeric creations of Berlin’s Floating Spectrum come via self-made software synths and a generative system that turns visual data into sound…

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10 minute read

Ambient: An Introduction

byDavid Stubbs

From Debussy to Brian Eno, The Orb to Burial, the foundations of ambient are rooted in esoteric, unconventional and often surprising forms and sounds

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12 minute read

Yello: Oh Yeah

byStephen Dalton

Gypsy fortune tellers, chocolate factories, gambling habits, Japanese plate-jugglers, watching trees grow… all in a day’s work when interviewing Yello’s Boris Blank and Dieter Meier as they prepare to release their first albumin seven years and play their first live shows ever

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25 minute read

Factory Records: Tony Wilson

byJames Nice

My conversation with Tony Wilson took place on Saturday 29 October 2005 at his loft apartment on Little Peter Street in Manchester.

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9 minute read

A conversation with Holger Czukay: “There’s a method to this madness”

byHendrik Otremba

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