Issue 123 – Page 2 – Electronic Sound

4 minute read

Loula Yorke

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

With her new ‘Live Compendium’ album recently released, modular tinkerer Loula Yorke ponders how voracious reading, free parties and living in squats have shaped who she is

LLong Reads

8 minute read

The Residents: The Eyes Have It

byMat Smith

Surreal and enigmatic, San Francisco avant-garde collective The Residents have been redefining art with their radical output for over five decades. Blending operatic form with macabre humour, their new work is another experimental triumph

PPulse

2 minute read

100%WET

byRyan Walker

Soulful cataclysm and sonic catharsis

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Krautrock: 10 Definitive Albums

byES Staff

From Amon Düül II to Popol Vuh – essential krautrock gems to plug into

PPulse

2 minute read

Impérieux

byBen Willmott

Bulgarian dynamo offers wubs on wubs

LLong Reads

5 minute read

‘Autobahn’ At 50: Krautrock’s Off-Ramp

byMark Roland

As Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ celebrates its big birthday, we examine its nuanced relationship with krautrock and Germany’s history

PPulse

2 minute read

Wjerstean

byMat Smith

Dark pop ruminations on prison

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Krautrock: Bowie’s Krautrock Connection

byMark Roland

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

PPulse

2 minute read

Teether & Kuya Neil

byImogen Bebb

Rap wrecking ball, cross-continental duo

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Krautrock: Golden Years

byDavid Stubbs

Having released a plethora of krautrock reissues and a stack of experimental/contemporary German music over the last two decades, Bureau B founder Gunther Buskies looks back at some of the key labels from krautrock’s formative era