Stephen Solo
Phone app warrior serves up off-kilter electro loveliness
Sir Was
Connected Swedish saxman gives himself an electronic music knighthood
Hologram Teen
Stereolab synthesist treads the line between the funk and the fear
Beautify Junkyards
Pastoral electronic psych with some languid Latin heat
Ladyhawke
From Wellington to Melbourne to Sydney to London to Los Angeles. Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, settles down for just about long enough to talk through some of the things that have shaped her along the way
Léon Theremin
We’re setting the dials all the way back to 1927, to the Royal Albert Hall in London, where a packed audience gathered on a chilly winter’s evening to witness Russian scientist Léon Theremin using his remarkable black box to create “Music from the Ether”
‘Snowflakes Are Dancing’
Our resident archivist remembers Japanese maestro Tomita, who recently died at the age of 84, and celebrates the enduring magic of his ‘Snowflakes Are Dancing’ album
M, ‘Pop Muzik’ (MCA Records, 1979)
Robin Scott remembers the genesis of ‘Pop Muzik’, his huge worldwide hit as M in 1979. New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about…
Chips. Cheese. Things. Words
We’re a little bit worried about Fat Roland, our resident columnist. This month, despite promising he wouldn’t keep taking the tablets, he’s talking about his BRIAN ENO HOT PANTS again
Vince Clarke: On The Square
Erasure with rave licks? Orbital with pop flecks? it’s an unlikely collaboration on the face of it, but these two electronic music behemoths have served up a proper treat in the form of Vince Clarke and Paul Hartnoll’s ‘2Square’. We pop round to Vince’s Brooklyn studio to discover more, while Paul joins in the conversation on Skype