Thomas Dolby: Cover Story

byMat Smith
August 8, 2024

Thomas Dolby and ‘The Flat Earth’ graphic designers Malcolm Garrett and Baker Dave discuss the album’s striking artwork, which depicts the dashing Dolby as “explorer, prospector and adventurer”

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Autobahn: The Electronic Road Trip

byMark Roland

It’s 40 years since Kraftwerk released their “year zero” album, ‘Autobahn’. With the help of insiders Wolfgang Flür and Michael Rother, and qualified self-confessed Kraftwerk obsessives Daniel Miller and Andy Mccluskey, we examine this most crucial and enigmatic of electronic music landmarks

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Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine at 40

byMark Roland

How does ‘The Man-Machine’, Kraftwerk’s vision of the future, hold up after four decades? We compare and contrast the vision of 1978 with the reality of 2018

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8 minute read

onDeadWaves: Waving…Not Drowning

byBethan Cole

OnDeadWaves is a fascinating collaboration between Mute artists Polly Scattergood and MAPS, also known as James Chapman. Their self-titled album is one of the most melancholic records you’ll hear all year, but they insist there are nuggets of hope sparkling in the sadness

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Das Koolies: Playing It Kool

byBen Gilbert

As the future-facing Das Koolies, Super Furry Animals’ Huw Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce explore a range of new sounds, concepts and artistic possibilities. Set the controls for a genre-bending vortex of electronic experimentalism

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