Michael Brook: Blue Is The Colour

byBob Fischer
August 13, 2026

In 1992, Canadian sound artist Michael Brook recorded ‘Cobalt Blue’ and ‘Live At The Aquarium’. As these immersive world music albums are reissued by 4AD, he looks back fondly on a fertile creative period spent working with Brian Eno, the “Infinite Guitar” and a tank filled with hungry sharks

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Bob Fischer

Lost Souls Of Saturn: Alternate Realities

byBen Murphy

As “multidimensional creative dissidents” Lost Souls Of Saturn, Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa fuse elements of techno, dub, house, jazz, psych and ambient into vivid and expansive new shapes. Enhanced by augmented reality, it’s quite the trip

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9 minute read

Telefis: Town to Town

byBen Willmott

First meeting in Dublin during the 1980s, Microdisney’s Cathal Coughlan and uber-producer Jacknife Lee have recently reconnected. Working via a musical trans-Atlantic hook-up their new album as Telefís is a real cracker

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6 minute read

L Pierre: Vinyl Countdown

byBen Murphy

Arab Strap’s Aiden Moffat retires his L Pierre side project with a fourth album, a vinyl-only release with no sleeve that samples a 1948 Mendelssohn concerto…

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8 minute read

Tangerine Dream: Golden years

byPush

It’s been a long and often very strange trip, that’s for sure. So just in case they come up in your local pub quiz, here’s A handy history of Tangerine Dream

LLong Reads

9 minute read

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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8 minute read

Dan Tombs: Vision On

byNeil Mason

Have you ever been to a live show and wondered where, as if by magic, the images and graphics and fancy lights come from? If you’ve seen Jon Hopkins or Blanck Mass this summer, you’ve been wowed by visual artist Dan Tombs