Jodie Nicholson
Exquisite synthpop with north-east grit
Reunion Island
US synthsters are alt-stars in the making
Less-O
Nuclear productions from French artist
Andrew Wasylyk And Tommy Perman ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’ (Clay Pipe)
Beauty And The Beats
Nicholas Langley
Musician and Third Kind label boss Nicholas Langley takes on this month’s quick-fire questions
The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)
Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station
Blank Mind
Location: London Est: 2011
Finlay Shakespeare
Finlay Shakespeare on his first and last albums, and one he always returns to
Air: Shoot For The Moon
Retro-futuristic, gorgeously languid, utterly irresistible – Air changed the sonic landscape almost overnight with the release of ‘Moon Safari’ in 1998. Taking a break from performing the album in full on a mammoth world tour, Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin reflect on their robo-romantic masterpiece
DJ Donkey Botherer
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is Blackpool