100 TRACKS OF TOMORROW

Arty new wave outsiders who became unlikely pop stars, The Associates shook the 80s firmly by its lacy lapels. Three decades on, bandmates Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey try to make some sense of it all…

With the imminent release of a bumper box set of his solo work, one-time Can man Irmin Schmidt looks back over his illustrious career and talks about fleeing war-torn Berlin as a child, learning his trade under Stockhausen, and his sonic adventures in the worlds of classical music, experimental electronics, film soundtracks and fantasy operatics

Headlined, “David Bowie: Who Was That (Un)masked Man?”, The New Musical Express cover story in November 1977 – reproduced here in full – is the first time Charles Sharr Murray had come face to face with bowie since HIS famous “who needs this shit” review of ‘Low’. It’s a fascinating encounter all things considered…