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It seems fitting that one of the most inventive acts of the 1980s has a back story you couldn’t make up. On the eve of a live reboot, Anne Dudley, JJ Jeczalik and Gary Langan tell the incredible tale of Art Of Noise. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…

After a four-year hiatus, the Hartnoll brothers are marking the return of Orbital with a string of summer festival dates. Paul and Phil talk family feuds, kicking ass live, and brand new recordings, plus their love of Kraftwerk and, erm, Morris dancing. You read it here first, folks   

The first weekly Independent Chart was published on 19 January 1980. We talk to Cherry Red’s Iain McNay and Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis, the instigator and the catalyst, about how punk rock and a garden shed ignited the indie label revolution

The reclusive synth sorceress Wendy Carlos has granted very few interviews over the last 20 years. This one from 1998, to mark the release of her ‘Tales Of Heaven And Hell’ album and published here for the first time, offers a candid glimpse at her musical philosophy, her working relationship with Stanley Kubrick, what she thinks of her fellow soundtrack composers and much more…

The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock Dva, Vice Versa, and a whole lot more besides. What on earth was going on in Sheffield in the late 1970s? Was the electricity really better there? Six of the key players take us back to the early days of the Steel City’s pioneering electronic scene, with tales of groups like Musical Vomit, The Dead Daughters, The Studs and The Future…

EMS created nearly 30 synthesisers and other related technologies, and many more were developed that never went into production. Here are some of the highlights from a decade of innovation