Gorgeous, Erudite Human Beings
Oh heck. This isn’t looking good. This isn’t looking good at all. Our resident columnist is on THE DRUGS again…
Plastikman ‘EX’ (Mute)
Ritchie Hawtin is back with the first new Plastikman tracks for over 10 years – and they’re recorded live too
Luke Abbott ‘Wysing Forest’ (Border Community)
Rural art project involving modular synthesis awash with strange and beautiful sounds and melodies
Irmler & Liebezeit ‘Flut’ (Klangbad)
A brilliant collection of improvisations from two of krautrock’s heaviest hitters
Cabaret Voltaire ‘#7885 (Electropunk To Technopop 1978-1985)’ (Mute)
A bumper Cabs compilation drawing on both their Rough Trade days and their Some Bizarre catalogue
Trip Hop: The Mighty Sound Of Bristol
The 20th anniversary of Britpop has been exercising the nation recently, but there was another UK scene emerging around the same time that we believe should be celebrated. A lot of the artists hated the name, but the music press called it Trip Hop…
Matt Johnson: The Soul Miner
To mark the release of a special deluxe vinyl edition of ‘Soul Mining’, Matt Johnson reveals the inside story of the classic The The album – the drug highs, the wrecked hotel rooms, the fist fights, the dumped tracks, the works…
Matt Berry: Nocturnal Transmissions
He’s one of the funniest men on telly. He’s also an extremely talented musician. And with the woozy synthscapes of ‘Music For Insomniacs’, he’s paying homage to his big hero, Jean Michel Jarre.
Marc Houle: Techno Outsider
He started his career buying vintage synths from Detroit pawn shops and became a key member of Richie Hawtin’s Minus family. But as his latest album proves, Marc Houle is every bit the techno maverick
Luke Haines: Mythic Muthafuckin’ rock ‘n’ Roll
For the third part of his psychedelic trilogy, Luke Haines pays tribute to Suicide, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, William Burroughs and the rest of the red-eyed freaks that stalked the mean streets of 1970s New York