Orbury Common: Common People

byBob Fischer
July 11, 2024

Orbury Common’s records are fanciful delights, combining hazy hip hop beats and traditional folk trappings with the hallucinogenic imagery of a nightmarish parallel universe

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Rival Consoles

byVel Ilic

Inspired by the Bergman flick of the same name, Rival Consoles’ ‘persona’ album moves him one step closer to film soundtracks being his next musical step

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4 minute read

We Are The Robots: They Are The Robots

byNeil Mason

We visit the remarkable new ‘ROBOTS’ exhibition at London’s Science Museum and find ourselves asking what is our relationship with all these captivating human-like machines

LLong Reads

5 minute read

You may know Carsten Nicolai, AKA Alva Noto, from his pioneering work as co-founder of glitch techno label Raster-Noton, or maybe from his collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Or there’s his work with Michael Nyman and a talking budgie…

LLong Reads

24 minute read

David Bowie: Synthesist

byMark Roland

Let’s get this straight: David Bowie was the godhead of 1970s electronic music. It was through him that electronic music was understood by a mass audience. His unique ability to synthesise, in both senses of the word, opened up pop music and revealed new ways of creating it, ways which would rapidly mutate and produce beautiful (and gloriously ugly) offspring in quick succession.

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Cosey Fanni Tutti: Stranger than Fiction

byMat Smith

Actor, writer and director Caroline Catz and electronic luminary Cosey Fanni Tutti discuss their collaboration on ‘Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes’, a film that takes an immersive trip through the life and work of the Radiophonic Workshop icon

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