Underlord
Techno with the crusts left on
Shamir
Quirky raps meet disco cool
R
Saving electropop one single at a time
Cornelia
Left of centre Scandi electronica
Róisín Murphy
To mark the release of ‘Hairless Toys’, her first album for eight years, former Moloko singer Róisín Murphy maps out her journey from then to now via the people and places she’s encountered on the way
We Are The Muzik Makers
In 1995, a new music magazine catapulted underground electronic music into the mainstream. To mark 20 years since the first issue of MUZIK, we track down its founders to tell the full story (although it wasn’t that hard to find them)
Tristram Cary
Our resident archivist pulls out a couple of EMS records from his collection and ponders the pioneering work of Tristram Cary
Renegade Soundwave ‘Biting My Nails’
Gary Asquith winds back to 1989 and recounts a tale about cocaine, cursed death masks and a somewhat informal business meeting with Robert Plant
Minced Beef Tina Turner
Our resident columnist has a problem with Falk Grieffenhagen. That’s him out of Kraftwerk, that is. He’s like the new money version of Florian Schneider. Or something
Young Wonder ‘Birth’ (Feel Good Lost)
Cork-based duo look fit to burst with their wistfully glittering electropop