Sarah Nicolls and Warp Works

byWill Stokes
September 10, 2026

Pioneering pianist Sarah Nicolls remembers the first time she felt the concert hall collide with the club, when Warp Works put electronica on even ground with Cage, Stockhausen and Ligeti

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Boccaccio Life, Ghent

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A new compilation celebrating Ghent’s Boccaccio Life club provides the perfect opportunity to look back on the makings of this unlikely electronic institution

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Following the recent reissue of ‘Musical Offering’ from 1971, featuring music composed on the Soviet-made ANS synthesiser, Scanner recalls a visit to Moscow where he first saw the legendary machine

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Richard D James

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Thomas Fehlmann

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PAN SONIC

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It’s 1994, in a Brixton backstreet club, a bunch of Finnish musicians are making their London debut with a live set that will lay the foundations for PAN SONIC, one of electronica’s most revered acts

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Finitribe

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In 1989, Finitribe landed themselves in hot water with a provocative campaign to promote their ‘Animal Farm’ EP. Frontman Davie Miller relives the day the corporate lawyers came a-knocking