Neu!: Get Your Motorik Runnin’

With a new boxset marking the 50th anniversary of their self-titled 1972 debut album, Neu!’s pioneering krautrock groove continues to resonate. Here, Michael Rother sheds light on irascible Neu! co-founder Klaus Dinger, his time with Kraftwerk, and the Bowie collaboration that never quite came to pass

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Stephen Dalton

The Associates: 18-Carat Love Affair

byStephen Dalton

Arty new wave outsiders who became unlikely pop stars, The Associates shook the 80s firmly by its lacy lapels. Three decades on, bandmates Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey try to make some sense of it all…

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4 minute read

AM Boys: Duo Purpose

byMat Smith

Having met at an Aphex Twin listening party – as you do – New York’s AM Boys deploy synths, drum machines and vocoders to craft enticingly languid pop and electronic instrumentals, imbued with all-essential “space echo”

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9 minute read

Emma Anderson: Out Of Her Shell

byBob Fischer

It’s 35 years since Emma Anderson formed shoegaze behemoths Lush, but her new album ‘Pearlies’ is her first solo record proper. As both a paean to independence and a work of darkly beautiful psychedelic pop, it’s a triumph. What’s on her mind these days?

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9 minute read

Keith Seatman: Outside The Box

byBob Fischer

He’s the psychedelic alchemist slowly building his own world of sepia-tinted weirdness. So what can we see through Keith Seatman’s window today?

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9 minute read

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan: Care In The Community

byBob Fischer

As Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Gordon Chapman-Fox has explored the utopian dreams of 1970s town planning over the course of five albums. His latest release, ‘Your Community Hub’, completes his transformation from wry hauntologist to strident political commentator

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12 minute read

Planet Mu: Music Sounds Better With Mμ

byMat Smith

Start blowing up the birthday party balloons. Planet Mu is 20 years old. That’s 20 years as one of the most consistently innovative and interesting electronic music labels in the world. And Mike Paradinas, full-time company boss and sometime μ-ZIQ man, is celebrating in style. Well, he would be if he had the time