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Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke: Tales of the Unexpected

What happens when electronic visionary Mark Pritchard teams up with Radiohead’s enigmatic frontman Thom Yorke? That will be ‘Tall Tales’, a gloriously hyperreal, “elegantly unhinged” album of sonic trickery and digital effects, with mind-zapping visuals by artist Jonathan Zawada
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Barry Gray: Stand By for Action!

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s pioneering TV worlds were driven by Supermarionation and sci-fi spectacle, but it was Barry Gray’s trailblazing soundtracks that gave them soul...
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Krautrock: Bowie’s Krautrock Connection

First, there was Cluster, Kraftwerk, Neu! and Harmonia, then there was David Bowie’s ‘Low’. Next came the British post-punk and electronic music explosion. This is not a coincidence. Michael Rother helps join the dots
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Jean-Michel Jarre:  Live Rendez-Vous

As Jean-Michel Jarre gears up to release a boxset of his city-swallowing spectacular in Bratislava earlier this year, we chat to the French master of electronic music about the evolution of his extraordinary live shows, from his 1971 debut to the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics
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Throbbing Gristle: Art Throbs

Famously described as “wreckers of civilisation”, Throbbing Gristle’s influence on counterculture music and arts has been immense. We speak to Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and others about the seismic impact of the industrial revolutionaries 
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White Noise: Lightning Strikes

Dark, psychedelic, sensual and enticingly strange… with their trailblazing 1969 debut album ‘An Electric Storm’, White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – created visionary electronic music that has continued to resonate ever since. Vorhaus, Hodgson and others revisit the story behind this extraordinary record 
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Thomas Dolby: This Charming Man 

In 1984, Thomas Dolby’s ‘The Flat Earth’ album saw him outgrow his persona as MTV’s favourite “outgoing boffin” and flourish into a songwriter of impressive versatility. With an expanded digital version recently released, is he still “hyperactive now he’s grown”? He may be more reflective, but as he explains, life still has its fair share of adventure and excitement