Rival Consoles: Total Recall

How did a box of electronic bits and bobs that cost £50 lead to a boatload of drunk journalists stranded on the Thames and the third biggest selling album of all time? With exclusive access to Tristram Cary’s unpublished memoir, this is the story of the EMS VCS 3, from prototype to production… and beyond

As if being one half of Beaver & Krause wasn’t enough. Since his days as pioneering recording artist/Moog salesman extraordinaire Bernie Krause has carved out a further groundbreaking career as a respected sound archivist. We catch up on his recent exploits and then, in an extract from the recently republished ‘Becoming Elektra’ book, discover how the future-facing duo got their first break

Not content on resting on her classically-trained laurels, Poppy Ackroyd takes inspiration from nature and revels in an unconventional approach to tickling the ivories

Arty new wave outsiders who became unlikely pop stars, The Associates shook the 80s firmly by its lacy lapels. Three decades on, bandmates Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey try to make some sense of it all…