Issue 87 – Page 2 – Electronic Sound

10 minute read

Keith Seatman: Trip Advisor

byBob Fischer

There’s no one quite like Keith Seatman. His new album, ‘Sad Old Tatty Bunting’, is a psychedelic joyride through a parallel universe, a dreamlike England full of alchemists and scarecrows and gated communities guarded by gnomes

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Electribe 101: Soul Survivor

byBen Murphy

The second album by Electribe 101 is the stuff of legend. Dismissed as “crap” when they were dropped by their major label in 1992, ‘Electribal Soul’ is nothing of the kind. When it finally saw the light of day, singer Billie Ray Martin proudly showed off this lost classic

FFirst and Last and Always

2 minute read

Loraine James

byClaire Francis

Loraine James reveals the first and last records she bought and the one she turns to in an emergency

LLabel Profile

2 minute read

Holuzam

byClaire Francis

Location: Lisbon, Portugal Est: 2018

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Rational Youth ‘Cold War Night Life’ (YUL, 1982)

byMat Smith

The accepted history of electronic pop music that I was spoon-fed, via compilation cassettes and CDs, ran a well-worn patch cable back to 1981.

BBrief Encounters

2 minute read

Zeus B Held

byNeil Mason

Gina X Performance’s Zeus B Held takes to the chair as we stoke up the quick-fire question machine

BBanging On

3 minute read

Space For 1999?

byFat Roland

There’s a good reason we park this columnist at the back of the mag.

RReviews

4 minute read

Kraftwerk ‘Remixes’ (Parlophone)

byMark Roland

In 1997, in a tent in the English countryside, Kraftwerk experienced a rather special moment.

TThe School of Electronic Music

2 minute read

Beatriz Ferreyra

byJack Dangers

Resident archivist Jack Dangers plays a track by Beatriz Ferreyra, from one of the classic Prospective 21e Siècle records with their “Procédé Heliophore” aluminium foil sleeves

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Metronomy: World View

byJeremy Allen

Good things come in little parcels. And the new Metronomy album, ‘Small World’, is certainly a welcome delivery. Joseph Mount, the band’s de facto leader, gives us the lowdown on their finest outing since ‘The English Riviera’