Martin Jenkins
Pye Corner Audio’s Martin Jenkins on the first and last albums he bought and one he turns to in an emergency
Desolate Spools
Location: Sheffield Est: 2013
Boom Boom Satellites ‘7 Ignitions’ (R&S, 1998)
In 1997, R&S Records’ UK head honcho, Bob Fisher, persuaded me to check out a new band from Japan at a small venue in Camden.
Mick Harris
Sound artist and ‘Project OO’ mastermind Chris Dooks takes on the quick-fire question machine
My New Social Media App: Fatr
He’s done what? Well who let him do that? This won’t end well
Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘Esperanto’ (Wewantsounds)
With a title like ‘Esperanto’, you’d have expected Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1985 studio album to have been a universal……
Video Games
We’ve made the call, they are coming to take him away
Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales ‘Consumed In Key’ (Turbo Recordings)
A meeting of minds between two Canadian musical shapeshifters from opposite ends of the stylistic spectrum, ‘Consumed In……
Waldo’s Gift
Gift-wrapped Bristolian rocktronica
Polyhymns
On the rise Sheffield psych-folk trio