Radiophonic Workshop: Maida To Order

To create a new Radiophonic Workshop sample library, esteemed former members reconvened at the BBC’s iconic Maida Vale studios for one last poignant rendezvous

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Mark Roland

Revolution in the Head: Beautify Junkyards

byBob Fischer

Beautify Junkyards bring a Portuguese perspective to Ghost Box’s retro-futurist aesthetic. Frontman João Branco Kyron discusses Portugal’s 1974 military uprising, his love of British acid folk, and disturbing spectral voice recordings

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19 minute read

Devo: In The Beginning Was The End… 50 years of De-Evolution

byMark Roland

As comic-book lab scientists Devo celebrate their 50th anniversary with a new boxset of archive treasures, they’ve also announced a farewell tour. Have the spudboys really run out of sap?

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12 minute read

Underworld: Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy

byBen Willmott

In March, they played their biggest-ever headline show in front of 10,000 people at London’s Alexandra Palace. Entitled ‘The Surreal Carnival Experiment’, it blew the doors off any ideas of what a live show should be. But what did you expect? This is Underworld after all

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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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5 minute read

Bluedot 2023: Walk This Way

byMark Roland

Ahead of Pavement’s Saturday night slot at this year’s Bluedot, Stephen Malkmus talks about the American indie/slacker outfit’s krautrock influences and the surprising electronics that lurk within their sound

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9 minute read

Yacht: The Shipping Forecast

byMark Roland

Former DFA recording artists Yacht have their very own belief system. They have a manifesto too. Not only that, the Los Angeles outfit produce shiny electronic pop music with side orders of extraterrestrial intelligence and future gazing. And it really is as marvellous as that all sounds