LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)
Laika should be much better known than they are...
Sam Annand
Sam Annand on the first and last albums he bought, plus an all-time favourite
Warm Winters Ltd
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Est: 2019
Custard Bazookas
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) are Assumptions about electronic music
Alan Sparhawk: Petal Power
Dedicated to his late wife and former Low cohort, Mimi Parker, and made using his children’s drum machine and synths, Alan Sparhawk’s astonishing solo debut is both profound and propulsive
Dave Clarke ‘Wisdom To The Wise’
Dave Clarke talks about ‘Wisdom To The Wise’, one of the finest, hard-hitting cuts from his ‘Red’ series, and indeed from techno history
cumgirl8: Riot Grrrls
Extraterrestrial interlopers, hyperreal post-punksters or “cyberfeminists”? Whichever way you see it, NYC’s cumgirl8 are here to save us
Marc Hurtado
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Marc Hurtado
Faithful Johannes: Yours Faithfully
Faithful Johannes? The Alan Bennett of hip hop. Sir John Betjemen with beats. And weighing on his mind at the moment are life-threatening lawns, river monsters called Tony and the “icky” thoughts that have inspired an album riddled with very English anxieties
Scritti Politti
Jack Dangers picks apart the world of difficult and expensive academic electronic music from the dawn of synth, and settles on Scritti Politti