Trees Speak: Special Branch

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

We all know him as Robert Moog, the godfather of the synthesiser, a man whose role in the history of electronic sound cannot be overStated. But to Michelle Moog-Koussa, he was plain old Dad, who helped her with her piano lessons, chopped wood for the fire, and liked gardening and canoeing and star gazing. Ahead of a new documentary about Bob Moog that Michelle is putting together for release next year, we get a fascinating and highly personal insight into the everyday life of a legend

With a thoroughly 21st century attitude that mashes up styles, sounds and influences, Parisian three-piece Juniore are producing their own unique take on 1960s French pop

Cabaret Voltaire and Wrangler man Stephen Mallinder gives a hugely entertaining and highly personal account of life at the centre of the Sheffield music scene in the 1970s and beyond