Orbury Common: Common People

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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Philippe Petit: Little Wonder

byJeremy Allen

Philippe Petit, co-founder of thriving electronic/modular synthesis platform Modulisme, is a prolific, modular-focused recording artist in his own right

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10 minute read

Hifi Sean And David McAlmont: Strings Attached

byBob Fischer

Take indie frontman turned superstar DJ Hifi Sean, team him up with peerless vocal acrobat David McAlmont, add lashings of Bollywood strings, and what do you get? An exquisite record shaped by a heart-warming alliance

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9 minute read

Lucrecia Dalt: Space Invader

byClaire Francis

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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10 minute read

Clock DVA: Back To The Future

byDavid Stubbs

The first new Clock DVA studio album in 30 years explores a dystopian world where “machines of intimidation” rule. Founder Adi Newton muses on technology overload, the importance and influence of artistic experimentation, and how a 1970s Sheffield theatre workshop first turned him onto electronic music

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8 minute read

Steve Hillage: All Systems Go

byBen Willmott

Depending on your vintage, you’ll know him from Gong, or as the big cheese of The Steve Hillage Band, or maybe he’s arch Orb collaborator and System 7 kingpin. As a boxset of Gong’s Virgin years emerges, we enjoy a free-range chat with the multi-faceted Steve Hillage

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9 minute read

Delia Derbyshire: the Delian mythic mode

byDr David Butler

The myth of Delia Derbyshire grows by the year, but her archive reveals that all is not quite as it seems, offering a fascinating insight into her sound-obsessed childhood and her work after leaving the radiophonic workshop

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Bob Fischer

Philippe Petit: Little Wonder

Hifi Sean And David McAlmont: Strings Attached

Lucrecia Dalt: Space Invader

Clock DVA: Back To The Future

Steve Hillage: All Systems Go

Delia Derbyshire: the Delian mythic mode

Suzanne Ciani

Thomas Leer

John Keenan

Gigi Masin: Changing Tides

The Gift of Sound and Vision: Malcolm Garrett

Ghost Box: Unearthly Realms

Universal Harmonies & Frequencies: Making Waves

‘Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument’

Orbury Common: Common People

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