Grand Popo Football Club
Sweeping the forgotten corridors of music, this month Scott Blixen turns his attention to Grand Popo Football Club
Brigitte Fontaine ‘Patriarcat’
A major figure in the French underground who worked with the likes of Grace Jones, Stereolab and Sonic Youth, Brigitte Fontaine reflects on ‘Patriarcat’, the 1977 electro-funk curveball she made with Areski Belkacem
Ednah Holt
Zipping through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Ednah Holt
Cultural Amnesia
In 1979, Oxfordshire schoolboys Ben Norland, Gerard Greenway and John Peacock formed experimental DIY trio Cultural Amnesia. They revisit the excitement of the early 80s “cassette culture” scene, 47 years on
Deb Grant
With BBC Radio’s annual 6 Music Festival just around the corner, presenter Deb Grant reveals the formative influences that led her to a life on the airwaves
Chalk
Industrial punk pair champion Belfast
Emil Mark
Dane makes a case for debut of the year
Netbooks.WRLD
Post-vaporwave prodigy steps up
Number
ACR inspire Snappers’ new sound
Apparat: Losing My Edge
Embracing analogue hardware, Apparat’s latest release is a richly detailed, quietly triumphant work, born from crippling writer’s block and transformed – almost imperceptibly – into a form of sonic therapy