Midge Ure: Vox Pop

Returning with his first new material in 12 years, Midge Ure reflects on his punk adventures, synth epiphanies and five decades of highs and lows

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Bas Jan: Swamp Things

byBob Fischer

The new album by London synthpop quartet Bas Jan deftly combines the everyday and the esoteric. Examples? Fonts on British road signs and the tragic history of Irish witchcraft...

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Krautrock: Bowie’s Krautrock Connection

byMark Roland

First, there was Cluster, Kraftwerk, Neu! and Harmonia, then there was David Bowie’s ‘Low’. Next came the British post-punk and electronic music explosion. This is not a coincidence. Michael Rother helps join the dots

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14 minute read

John Foxx And The Maths: Cosine Of The Times

byMark Roland

‘Howl’, the album from John Foxx And The Maths, seems spookily prophetic given these strange and unsettling times. We talk to Foxx and his Mathematicians – Benge, Hannah Peel and former Ultravox axeman Robin Simon – about heavy electronics, contorted guitars, violent violins, and howling into the void

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8 minute read

Crammed Discs: Measure of the Man

byJeremy Allen

Crammed Discs’ avant-garde ‘Made To Measure’ series has recently reactivated to serve up reissued classics as well as new releases. We meet Crammed boss Marc Hollander and some of the Belgian label’s always idiosyncratic artists

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10 minute read

William Orbit: True Colours

byJeremy Allen

Songwriter, musician and all-round chart supremo of four decades, William Orbit has clearly lost neither his producerly nouse, nor his knack for a good story. His new album, ‘The Painter’, is a wistful, hypnotic and thoroughly immersive voyage into sound

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11 minute read

Irmin Schmidt: About Schmidt

byKris Needs

With the imminent release of a bumper box set of his solo work, one-time Can man Irmin Schmidt looks back over his illustrious career and talks about fleeing war-torn Berlin as a child, learning his trade under Stockhausen, and his sonic adventures in the worlds of classical music, experimental electronics, film soundtracks and fantasy operatics