Acid Revival: Long Live The Squelch
Of late, it’s not just Paranoid London who are reviving the squirming electronic funk of the acid sound. The underground is teeming with producers, DJs and events powered by the 303…
Acid: In The Theatre Of Madness
In the hands of a small group of Chicago musicians and producers a little silver box created the squelch for Acid House and sparked the revolutionary illegal rave scene that followed soon after
808 State: State of the Nation
Graham Massey and Andrew Barker talk Rolands, Manchester, Tony Wilson, Pete Waterman, Cash Generator, and selling pop records by mistake
Ombrelle Concrète
Location: Kent/London Est: 2019
Sam Shepherd
Floating Points’ Sam Shepherd on the first and last records he bought, and his emergency pick
One Dove ‘Morning Dove White’ (Boys Own Productions, 1993)
The trio of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven released a solitary album. There was apparently a second, but it never saw the light.
Acid House
He turns up each month waving paper with words on insisting he’s a columnist. We think he might be lost.
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army ‘Replicas – The First Recordings’ / Gary Numan ‘The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings’ (Beggars Arkive)
If the names of these two records said together are a mouthful, then spare a thought for Gary Numan, who’d wanted ‘Replicas’ to come out under his own name rather than as the follow-up to Tubeway Army’s eponymous debut.
R Elizabeth
Otherworldy academic electropop
Fariña
Devon-based 90s three-piece reunited