The Grid ‘Floatation’
Richard Norris tells the story behind The Grid’s 1990 stone-cold ambient house classic ‘Flotation’
Felix Werder
Our resident archivist Jack Dangers heads down under for some EMS Synthi 100 action courtesy of composer Felix Werder
Stephen Buckley
Polypores’ Stephen Buckley on the first and last records he bought and the one he turns to in an emergency
Black Devil Disco Club’s Bernard Fevre
Black Devil Disco Club’s Bernard Fevre is ready and waiting for a go on the quick-fire question machine
Don’t Be Nasty
Location: Northern England Est: 2019
Robert Palmer ‘Pride’ (Island, 1983)
Robert Palmer passed away in 2003 at the shockingly young age of 54. A massively underrated artist who wrote and produced so many great songs, the fact that he died without much comment or celebration of his life was a crying shame.
Music Is Not Real
He asked if he could write “proper stuff”. “You know, about history and that,” he said
John Foxx And The Maths ‘Howl’ (Metamatic)
Humanity needs a vaccination, and not just against Covid-19. I mean, it was bad enough when Foxx conceived…
Polly Scattergood: Right Here, Right Now
From Fuerteventura to the Kent coast, from having a baby to her new album ‘In This Moment’, Polly Scattergood hasn’t exactly been sitting on her hands in the seven years since her last solo release
Soulwax: Come In Number 30
Created entirely on an ultra-rare EMS Synthi 100, Soulwax have made the mythical instrument sound like you’ve never heard it before. But then you’d expect nothing less from the ever-inventive Stephen and David Dewaele