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Striped Light: Electric Dreams

Go-to producer and vintage synth obsessive Benge has spent decades connecting creative dots, from John Foxx and Vince Clarke to Cabaret Voltaire and beyond. Now his Striped Light project gathers Tuung’s Sam Genders, Hannah Peel, Gazelle Twin and others for a nostalgic, retro-futuristic electronic journey
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Isobel Anderson: Site And Sound

To make her first album in almost a decade, Isobel Anderson decamped to a caravan site in Dungeness, where she explored the links between deep personal dilemmas and “overwhelming” global angst
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Break Point

Think you’ve got Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith figured out? Then get ready for a big plot twist, as the classically trained modular synthesist swaps immersive sound design and experimental vibes for phat drum ’n’ bass and rolling breakbeats, with electrifying results
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Nash The Slash: Under Wraps

Swathed in bandages and cloaked in mystery, Nash The Slash was one of music’s true eccentrics. As a revealing new documentary arrives, Gary Numan, Bill Nelson, Steve Hillage and Youth recall their encounters with the Canadian electronic/art rock pioneer
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Solex: Sample Pleasures

Elisabeth Esselink – aka Solex – made one of the most adventurous sample-based albums of the early 2000s. As ‘low kick and hard bop’ is reissued, she reflects on how its off-kilter ideas and sounds took shape