KOGG: Spanner In The Works

byJeremy Allen
July 9, 2026

Driven by curiosity and playful improvisation, experimental duo KOGG fashion spanners, elastic bands, toy whistles, brass and broken piano keys into charming, wibbly-wobbly sonic sketches

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Jeremy Allen

The Wolfgang Press: Back To The Future

byDavid Stubbs

With a sonic reinvigoration, former 4AD outfit The Wolfgang Press are making a surprise comeback with their first album in almost 30 years – a brooding and typically multidimensional return to form

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11 minute read

Hans-Joachim Roedelius: With These Hands

byCarl Griffin

He was forced to the join the Hitler Youth and jailed by the East German secret police. He became a musician after hanging out with Hendrix and Beefheart at a nudist camp in Corsica. As a member of Kluster, Cluster and Harmonia, as well as a hugely respected solo artist, he was a pioneer of the krautrock revolution. Meet Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a man whose life has been no less than extraordinary

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12 minute read

Xeno & Oaklander: One Big Family

byMark Roland

Seven degrees of separation? How are Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club connected to Brooklyn retro synth trailblazers Xeno & Oaklander? We unpick the tangled webs…

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18 minute read

Röyksopp: Curiouser and Curiouser

byJeremy Allen

After reneging on their plan to never make another album, Röyksopp are back with two cracking long-players at pretty much the same time, both featuring a host of collaborations and bolstered by some mighty peculiar multimedia content. But then the often weird and always wonderful Norwegian duo don’t like doing things by halves

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6 minute read

Wax Trax! Records: Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

byMark Roland

‘Industrial accident: the story of Wax Trax! Records’ is a forthcoming documentary about… wait for it… Wax Trax! Records. It’s the story of one of the most exciting labels ever, an imprint that lodged its idiosyncratic brand of dark ‘n’ dirty electronic music deep into the American heartland

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7 minute read

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