The The ‘This Is The Day’
The The frontman Matt Johnson tells the tale of how the unforgettable ‘This Is The Day’ came to be
AM Boys: Duo Purpose
Having met at an Aphex Twin listening party – as you do – New York’s AM Boys deploy synths, drum machines and vocoders to craft enticingly languid pop and electronic instrumentals, imbued with all-essential “space echo”
Jake Stephenson
Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Jake Stephenson
Cosey Fanni Tutti: Mission Reactivated
Cosey Fanni Tutti’s new solo work is an absorbing “sound cameo” – a profoundly personal sonic reflection of her life that, true to form, finds joy in resistance. Also on the agenda are Delia, Throbbing Gristle and the strange power of dreams
Social Climbers
Resident archivist Jack Dangers revisits the New York no wave scene to explore Social Climbers and their one-off, self-titled 1981 album
Demise Of Love: Love Unlimited
Producer Daniel Avery, Ghost Culture’s James Greenwood and Working Men’s Club frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant join forces as Demise Of Love – a synth-powered supergroup with a dark heart
O Yuki Conjugate
O Yuki Conjugate have just released a superb vault of “early works of charming insignificance”. So it’s about time we returned to the roots of Nottingham’s “dirty ambient” pioneers
Editions Mego: Mega Mego
Marking their 30th anniversary, pioneering Austrian label Editions Mego – formerly Mego – continue to thrive, carrying forward the fearless sonic legacy of visionary founder Peter Rehberg, who passed away in 2021
Max Cooper
From the power of aesthetics to techno epiphanies, producer and multidisciplinary artist Max Cooper reveals his formative influences
Peter Baumann: After Dark
Tangerine Dream legend Peter Baumann knows a thing or two about cosmic voyages. The synth maestro’s latest solo album, ‘Nightfall’, is a masterwork of transcendent atmospherics, shapeshifting soundscapes and an eerie “sense of the beyond”