Nick Rhodes

When a mysterious album of nine experimental electronic trance mixes of the same tune was released in 1993, no one could quite believe who was responsible…

In 1978, Nurse With Wound lynchpins Steve Stapleton and John Fothergill were unknown noise merchants. Then they made a list that would accidentally become the guiding light for experimental music creators 

In January 1984, German experimental noise pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten performed the Concerto For Voice And Machinery in all its spontaneous glory at the ICA in London. Art? Or demolition?

We backpedal to 19 April 1980 when leftfield Belgian electronic outfit TELEX took the stage at the Eurovision Song Contest in a bid to bag the legendary musical prize… or failing that, come last with null points

Originally published in French in 2003, Laurent Garnier’s book ‘Electrochoc’ finally gets an English version. We talk to the author and, in an exclusive extract, he casts back to 1993 and recalls his very first visit to Detroit