Lucrecia Dalt: Space Invader

Lucrecia Dalt’s latest album is a sumptuous and radiant sci-fi meditation in which the bolero, salsa, mambo and merengue influences she absorbed throughout her childhood are refracted through “machinic distortions”. But an alien presence is lurking…

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Claire Francis

Creep Show: The Heebeegeebees

byStephen Dalton

An off-the-wall supergroup, where Stephen Mallinder and John Grant share the mic, and a debut long-player that’s high on our Album Of The Year list already… meet Creep Show

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14 minute read

Wolfgang Flür: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

byMark Roland

Seven years on from his last outing, the inimitable and irrepressible Wolfgang Flür has a new album in the racks. Recorded with the help of an army of fascinating guests, it’s called ‘Magazine 1’ and it’s an opportunity for us to talk robots, romance, pacifism, money, sheep, rubbery legs and, inevitably, Kraftwerk

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10 minute read

Tangerine Dream: Dream Factory

byStephen Dalton

When Edgar Froese changed cosmic address in 2015, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Tangerine Dream would follow suit. But working from his extensive archive of recordings, a new school of composers is keeping his flame very much alive

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14 minute read

Cabaret Voltaire: Call Me A Cab

byDavid Stubbs

He’s been known by many aliases throughout his long solo career, but Richard H Kirk is now once again Cabaret Voltaire. After a hiatus of more than 25 years, the Cabs’ ‘Shadow Of Fear’ album is both a reflection of the current madness and a nod to the possibility of happier times ahead

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7 minute read

Wendy Carlos, Stanley Kubrick, and A Clockwork Orange

byMark Roland

Wendy Carlos’ pioneering soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ was just as subversive as the film, debasing classical masterpieces and putting electronic music on the map. We delve into the work of the maverick musician, the singular director, and their turbulent working relationship…

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9 minute read

Coldcut: Turn Off Tune Out Chill

byStephen Dalton

With new tracks from a who’s who of composers, a few family favourites thrown in for good measure and a continuous Mixmaster Morris set, Coldcut’s ambient ‘@0’ collection is a balm for our times