TThe School of Electronic Music
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Mauricio Kagel

How our resident archivist became the owner of Henry Jacobs’ stash of early electronic music reel-to-reel tapes, among them a piece by the German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel, is one of the strangest stories you’ll ever hear
LLandmarks
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British Electric Foundation ‘Groove Thang’

You might know ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’ as a Heaven 17 song, but it started life as ‘Groove Thang’, an instrumental on BEF’s cassette-only debut, ‘Music For Stowaways’. Martyn Ware explains how the track liberated him from The Human League’s synth-only policy and helped him uncover a very rare talent
BBuried Treasure
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‘Carrera’

It was overlooked when it came out in 1997. It remains overlooked now. But Sluts’n’Strings & 909’s ‘Carrera’ album is the musical equivalent of an enormous chest brimming with sparkly and glittery things
BBanging On
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Tesco Value Headphones

Our potentially award-winning columnist is not easily impressed. He is, in fact, easily unimpressed. Ask him about DJs these days. Go on, ask him and see what happens. And yes, that is prune juice on his cardigan
LLong Reads
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Luke’s Anger: Anger Management

Our esteemed Tech section kit reviewer Luke Sanger doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk as techno producer Luke’s Anger. We hitch a ride with him for a weekend in Poland to discover how he cuts his one-man rug live…