Scaler: Hammer Time

In which the ice-cool alt-rock queen serves up a new album packed with electronic tricks. ‘No Home Record’ also happens to be her solo long-playing debut.

Stepping into the solo world after a raft of collaborations, the delicate work of Erland Cooper

“It was a fact of life as a little kid,” recalls Alexander Hacke, musician, producer, filmmaker and long-time Einstürzende Neubauten member, born and raised in Berlin and a major participant in the city’s post-punk, pre-rave scene in the 1980s. “I’d go out on the street and play, go around one more corner, and there would be a wall.”

Once upon a time, at the dawn of the electronic age, Mark Reeder ran away to join the circus. He never came home again.

Our pick of the modular artists – some of them recognisable names, but most of them new – that you need to know about