Richard Sen: Richard The First

The debut solo album from revered DJ and producer Richard Sen is a collection of questing cosmic house and disco that explores his ancestral roots and cements his reputation as a creative polymath. Strap in for one heck of a backstory…

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Harald Grosskopf: Tempel Pilot

byDavid Stubbs

Having been part of Ash Ra Tempel and its Ashra reincarnation, as well as Wallenstein and the legendary Cosmic Jokers, Harald Grosskopf is krautrock royalty. His scintillating 1986 solo release, ‘Oceanheart’, is now being reissued and given a contemporary rework by the man himself

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8 minute read

Lucrecia Dalt: The Sensual World

byDerek Walmsley

Emerging from an “abyssal realm of erotic delirium”, the latest work from Lucrecia Dalt explores the nuanced complexities of human connection. Co-produced by Dalt and David Sylvian, it’s a charismatic and enigmatic ode to love and longing

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9 minute read

Jon Hopkins: Beats Surrender

bySharon O'Connell

Don’t be fooled, ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ isn’t Jon Hopkins going all wallpaper ambient on us. It’s a weighty album he says needs to be listened to loud. We turn up the volume

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9 minute read

Craven Faults: Faulty Towers

byBob Fischer

In a secret corner of Yorkshire, a man known only as Craven Faults creates epic modular synth homages to the dark, post-industrial uplands that surround him. Who is he? We really can’t say

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4 minute read

Cold War Electronica: The Jingle At The End Of The World

byBob Fischer

In 1975, the Central Office of Information secretly produced the chilling ‘Protect And Survive’ series of public information films, to be broadcast on British TV in the event of an imminent nuclear war. And the composer of its jingle, potentially the final piece of music the country would ever hear? The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Roger Limb

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5 minute read

Mark Reeder: Reed All About It

byMark Roland

Mark Reeder is one of the many intriguing characters to have emerged from the outrageously fertile Manchester music scene of the late 1970s. Here he talks about New Order, his life in berlin, the art of the remix