Blancmange: Joining All The Dots

Blancmange have released some terrific albums in recent years – and ‘Private View’ is up there with their very best. In a hugely entertaining and highly revealing interview, frontman Neil Arthur gives the inside story on the band’s latest record and also talks art, swimming, dead men’s suits, recycling, smudged bindis, inflatable whales, luck, love, loss… and how everything is connected

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Bob Fischer

Trevor Horn: Clever Trevor

byStephen Dalton

With the release of remastered versions of classic ZTT albums by Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Propaganda, the label’s co-creator Trevor Horn discusses the controversial chart-topping smash hits, the law suits and some eye-wateringly expensive synths

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Acid Revival: Long Live The Squelch

byBen Murphy

Of late, it’s not just Paranoid London who are reviving the squirming electronic funk of the acid sound. The underground is teeming with producers, DJs and events powered by the 303…

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10 minute read

Space: Magic Flying

byMat Smith

It was one of the first electronic records to hit the charts all over the world. It launched the space disco genre and laid down a marker for synthpop. The story of Space and ‘Magic Fly’ is quite a tale too. take your protein pills and put your helmet on

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8 minute read

65DaysofStatic: Day Trippers

byMat Smith

Sheffield’s 65daysofstatic have rejected their old ways of working, and yet new album, ‘replicr, 2019’, is totally informed by their past. Any questions? Oh yes…

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Whatever Happened To Delia Derbyshire?

byDr David Butler

Dr David Butler at The University of Manchester has been researching the life and work of Delia Derbyshire with access to her personal archive. Here he delves into her pioneering work with visual art, and dismantles the myth of her post-BBC activity

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12 minute read

Coldcut: Ahead of Their Time

byMat Smith

Percolating endless ideas, racking up aliases, running multiple labels and still serving up groundbreaking releases, Coldcut are marking 30 years at the coalface with a renewed vigour. Matt Black and Jonathan More step into 2017 full of new music, coming your way on their original, newly revived Ahead Of Our Time imprint…

Blancmange: Joining All The Dots

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