Brian Wilson
Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Brian Wilson
Black Sites: Danger Danger, High Voltage!
Hamburg’s formidable Black Sites – Helena Hauff and Kris Jakob – finally unleash their first full-length offering, an electrifying collision of machine precision and pulsating EBM
‘Esempi Di Musica Elettronica’
Resident archivist Jack Dangers checks out ‘Esempi Di Musica Elettronica’, a scarce 1960s seven-inch single from Italy
Guedra Guedra: Beats Across Borders
Rooted in Pan-African tradition, Moroccan artist Guedra Guedra deploys a broad palette of sounds and vital rhythms from across his home continent
Love Parade Music Festival
In 1989, Danielle De Picciotto dreamed of witnessing Carnival in Brazil. Instead, she brought the carnival to a still-partitioned Berlin by co-creating the dance music festival, Love ParadeÂ
Holden & Zimpel: Cosmic Custodians
An immersive fusion of psychedelic sonics and experimentation, the debut long-player from master synthesist James Holden and intrepid jazz/electronic polymath Wacław Zimpel is a beguiling odyssey of exalted, hypnotic bliss
Adam Wiltzie
Adam Wiltzie, co-founder of Stars Of The Lid and A Winged Victory For The Sullen, shares the forces that have shaped his creative life, from football to John Peel
Scaler: Hammer Time
Mashing up trip hop, drum ’n’ bass, techno, metal and drill, Bristol’s Scaler unleash a pounding sonic brew
Big Long Sun
Brighton bedroom popper burns brightÂ
Telepathic Fish: Reeling ‘Em In
A new compilation celebrates South London’s influential Telepathic Fish ambient/chill-out parties of the 1990s. Some of the original crew look back at the scene’s evolution and how even a certain Richard D James joined the fold