Rudolf Rocker: Revenge Is Sweet

Take brothers Mark and Steve Goodall, add BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jeremy Dyson, and you have the original line-up of Rudolf Rocker – purveyors of synth-fuelled Yorkshire pop

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Bob Fischer

Jochen Irmler: Dealing With The Devil

byCarl Griffin

Electronic and experimental music legend Jochen Irmler talks about his work with pioneering krautrockers Faust in the 1970s and his recent series of collaborations, the latest of which is an astonishingly powerful album with Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit

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7 minute read

Matt Berry: Turn On, Tune In, Sit Down

byFat Roland

TV themes from our formative years are as much a part of our lives as the pop we cherish. With A new album of theme tune covers, Matt Berry is doing more than looking back, he’s preserving them for future generations

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11 minute read

Suicide: A Punk Mass

byKris Needs

Alan Vega and Martin Rev talk through the earliest days of Suicide and offer hints of what we can expect from the pioneering synthpunk duo’s “Punk Mass” show at the Barbican in London

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9 minute read

The Utopia Strong: United We Stand

byBob Fischer

What do you get if you combine Gong’s flamboyant guitarist, an internationally renowned bagpipe builder and a six-time world snooker champion? The joyous friendships behind The Utopia Strong, whose third studio album, ‘Doperider’, is an occult-flavoured delight

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3 minute read

Barry Gray: Scoring Position

byMat Smith

With their promise of exhilarating retro-futuristic adventures, Barry Gray’s defining soundtracks for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson fizz with bombastic brass, sweeping strings and daring electronic innovation

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5 minute read

Krautrock: Golden Years

byDavid Stubbs

Having released a plethora of krautrock reissues and a stack of experimental/contemporary German music over the last two decades, Bureau B founder Gunther Buskies looks back at some of the key labels from krautrock’s formative era