Slovenia: Find Me In The Damp Basement*

Beastie Boys’ cohort, in-house carpenter, and all-round keyboard whiz Money Mark has created a 21st century player piano that converts holes in paper rolls into MIDI data. Mark’s Keyboard Repair indeed 

‘Howl’, the album from John Foxx And The Maths, seems spookily prophetic given these strange and unsettling times. We talk to Foxx and his Mathematicians – Benge, Hannah Peel and former Ultravox axeman Robin Simon – about heavy electronics, contorted guitars, violent violins, and howling into the void

From art provocateur to porn star to electronic music legend (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, Carter Tutti), there’s nobody quite like Cosey Fanni Tutti. Which is perhaps just as well. No wonder her autobiography – ‘Art Sex Music’, a title that pretty much sums up her incredible life – is every bit as revealing and shocking and fascinating as you might imagine

We trace how musique concrète mutated from turnable experiments in the 1940s to turntable experiments in the 21st century via audio tape and sampling… 

For the third part of his psychedelic trilogy, Luke Haines pays tribute to Suicide, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, William Burroughs and the rest of the red-eyed freaks that stalked the mean streets of 1970s New York

From her early days with Einstürzende Neubauten and Malaria! to her role at the head of the fabulously eclectic Monika Enterprise label, Gudrun Gut has long been a potent force and a significant voice on the Berlin music scene. And it looks like she’s only just warming up…