Actress ‘Statik’ (Smalltown Supersound)
Show Stopper
KRM and KMRU
KRM (Kevin Richard Martin) and KMRU (Joseph Kamaru) answer this month’s quick-fire questions
David Behrman ‘On The Other Ocean’ (Lovely Music, 1978)
"For more than 23 minutes, the side-long title piece emerges like fog that’s crept in so slowly overnight"
Martha Rose
Martha Rose on the first and last albums she bought, plus an all-time favourite
Quindi Records
Location: Florence, Italy Est: 2020
Chanel Beads: The Bead Generation
Touting a mutated brand of electrified yet introspective post-punk, the debut album by New York’s Chanel Beads includes David Sylvian and The Blue Nile among its many influences. Yep, it’s that good
Pimpled Herbert
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) are Gig Flyers
Jeff Mills: To Boldly Go…
Detroit techno don, pioneering DJ and ardent futurist, Jeff Mills is electronic royalty. His latest mission, themed around black holes, is a breathtaking “cosmic opera” that’s quite possibly his most ambitious work to date
Simon Reynolds: Tomorrow’s World
From Kraftwerk to Auto-Tune via a range of scenes, subcultures, technologies and sci-fi backdrops, Simon Reynolds’ latest book ‘Futuromania’ looks at the impact of “machine music” from the 1970s to the present day
Eddy Grant ‘Electric Avenue’
Eddy Grant tells us why he has British Airways to thank for his 1983 mega-hit single ‘Electric Avenue’ – sort of