Nathan Fake: Diamond Geezer
With guest appearances by Clark and Wizard Apprentice, Nathan Fake’s latest release is a euphoric rush of techno, house and even jungle hues. Get thee to a dancefloor!
Penelope Trappes: Heaven Up Here
Australian producer and ethereal soundscaper Penelope Trappes returns with the haunting ‘Heavenly Spheres’. Using just her voice, an upright piano and an old reel-to-reel, it’s a remarkable record steeped in phantasmal atmospherics and hypnagogic strangeness
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Magic Touch
Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder, ardent sonic adventurer, soundtrack maestro… following his recent passing at the age of 71, we reflect on the remarkable 45-year career of revered Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sparks: Mael Men
Ron and Russell Mael talk about Veronica Lake, North Korean military pageantry and their expanding collection of trainers and snow globes. Oh, and their 25th studio album, ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’. Yes, it’s just another day in the strange and beautiful world of Sparks
Trees Speak: Special Branch
Kraftwerk, motorik beats, New York synthcore, free jazz and lashings of psych. Deeply and thrillingly eclectic, the new album from Arizona duo Trees Speak is one heck of a sonic brew
Anne Clark ‘Sleeper In Metropolis’
Singer and poet Anne Clark outlines the making of ‘Sleeper In Metropolis’, her defining 1985 synthpop cut with producer David Harrow
Nina Walsh and Niall Pearce
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Nina Walsh and Niall Pearce
Hazel Mills
Synthpopper partners with big hitters
Nabihah Iqbal ‘Dreamer’ (Ninja Tune)
Inner Visions
Jordan Stanley
Rave tapes from Auld Reekie