Polypores and Field Lines Cartographer: The Weird Dream Team

Stephen James Buckley and Mark Burford are Polypores and Field Lines Cartographer respectively. Holed up together in a remote Lancashire church, their minds frequently wander to cosmic vibrations, pixelated dream states and chain-smoking ghosts…

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Bob Fischer

Spizzenergi: Enterprise Allowance

byPush

He landed the inaugural Independent Chart’s first Number One single with Spizzenergi’s ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’. Four decades on, the irrepressible Spizz shows little sign of slowing down…

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Catskills Records: Paws And Rewind

byNeil Mason

Celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, under the radar Brighton-based Catskills Records is an imprint well worth discovering. We chat with founders, brothers Amr and Kahalid Mallassi, and meet Pepe DeluxÉ and Husky Rescue, the double whammy of Finnish bands that still sets the label apart…

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We Are The Robots: The Roboticisation of Kraftwerk

byMark Roland

Their transition from arty hippies to electronic music’s most famous robots would appear to be more of a masterstoke than first meets the eye

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Thomas Leer and Robert Rental: Bedroom Bedlam

byMat Smith

They pooled their gear to record their first singles, which they then released on their own labels. Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, old friends from the town of port Glasgow on the Clyde, were the original bedroom producers and key players in the nascent diy electronic scene of the late 1970s. And they didn’t own a single synth between them

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Luke Vibert: Amen Corner

byBen Willmott

Luke Vibert has reanimated his Amen Andrews jungle alias for one of a trio of essential future-retro releases this summer. Join us for stories galore, including the one about how Aphex Twin helped him pay his tax bill

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The NID Tapes: The India Connection

byJeremy Allen

‘The NID Tapes’ is an extraordinary compilation of early Indian electronic tracks recorded at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad between 1969 and 1972. Sound artist Paul Purgas relays the story of how he uncovered these long-forgotten gems

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