Richard Sen: Richard The First

Few bands survive being swallowed whole by the music industry, but south London’s ever-inventive sonic tinkerers ROC are thankfully made of sterner stuff

Electronic Sound headed to Germany to catch Kraftwerk playing a huge outdoor concert in celebration of the Tour De France getting under way in Düsseldorf. It was a weekend of beer, bikes and Beuys…

Rooted in fervent, free-form experimentation, Martin Rev’s formative 1970s cassette sonics not only fed into the arch-provocateur’s work with influential New York synth-punksters Suicide, but also his distinctive solo oeuvre. With a new release of archive recordings,  he reflects on those gritty early years

From 60s R&B pop fame in Manfred Mann, to The Beatles’ Moog advisor and subversive 70s synth sorcerer, Mike Vickers is the quiet man of British electronic music

The ever-inventive YACHT used AI to deconstruct their entire back catalogue and then painstakingly put the whole lot back together to create ‘Chain Tripping’, an album of the year contender that has to be heard to be believed

To mark the release of a special deluxe vinyl edition of ‘Soul Mining’, Matt Johnson reveals the inside story of the classic The The album – the drug highs, the wrecked hotel rooms, the fist fights, the dumped tracks, the works…