Chiastic Slide
Marking their fourth studio album, Chiastic Slide saw Autechre exploring dark, glitched-out sonics, harsh sounds, and mechanical rhythms. Chiastic Slide - the glitch blueprint - endlessly imitated, deconstructed and worshipped, now a quarter of a century old and still capable of shaping the narrative. We’ve said it before, but the period that followed Chiastic Slide was a weird one in electronic music, there were just no other records that shaped IDM in quite the same way. This rubs people the…
Issue 63: Inside the Cosmic Underworld of The Orb (Magazine)
It’s been a long ride with the ever-pulsating brain at the centre of the Ultraworld we know as The Orb. Alex Paterson has steered his cosmic vehicle through several decades of sound, so much so that their ineffable mix of influences has become a genre unto itself.
Issue 68: Devo - The Birth of American Synthpop (Magazine)
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of Devo’s ‘Freedom Of Choice’, the album that sparked the American synthpop revolution, in this edition of Electronic Sound.
Issue 67: The Electronic Evolution of Jarvis Cocker (Magazine)
Issue 67 has Jarv Is on the cover. Jarvis Cocker shares with us his 10 All-Time Favourite Electronic Tracks and an extensive interview.
Issue 66: Suzanne Ciani - Modular Pioneer (Magazine)
On the cover modular synth pioneer and legendary Buchla twiddler Suzanne Ciani.
Issue 80: Drive - Inside the Untimate Synthwave Soundtrack (Magazine)
This month's Electronic Sound cover feature tells the fascinating story of the soundtrack to 'Drive', one of the greatest movies of recent times.
Issue 70: One Hundred Years of the Theremin (Magazine)
Marking 100 years since the invention of The Theremin in this edition of Electronic Sound. Russian boffin Leon Theremin was meant to have been constructing a sonar system when he came up with his iconic electronic instrument.
Issue 71: The Return of Cabaret Voltaire (Magazine)
We're celebrating the return of Cabaret Voltaire in this edition of Electronic Sound.Our cover star is Richard H Kirk, who is now the sole member of Cabaret Voltaire.
Issue 60: Anna Meredith (Magazine + CD)
We look back at the highlights of 2019 in this issue of Electronic Sound. And what a great year it was. No wonder we had trouble choosing our favourite records of of the year.
Issue 53: Berlin After Bowie - From Lodger to the Fall of The Wall (Magazine + 7")
When is a Berlin album not a Berlin album? When it’s ‘Lodger’ by David Bowie. When we talk about Bowie’s Berlin trilogy, what we really mean is ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ and, erm, the other one… ‘Lodger’ was the afterthought, the wobbly third wheel, a series of “planned accidents” stitched together into an album.
Issue 62: The Out of This World Story of Joe Meek ( Magazine + 7")
This eidtion of Electronic Sound main feature tells the astonishing story of Joe Meek, the king of space age pop and one of the most extraordinary characters in British music history.
Issue 73: Steven Wilson - The Future Bites (Magazine + 7")
We've been talking to Steven Wilson about his new album for this issue of Electronic Sound and we have a special limited edition cover based on the artwork concept of the record for our subscribers and our webshop. To accompany the magazine, we also have a red vinyl seven-inch boasting exclusive edits of two tracks from the album.
Issue 74: Telex - The Original Eurovisionaries (Magazine + 7")
This month's Electronic Sound cover story details the highly entertaining exploits of Telex, the maverick Belgian trio whose early synthpop records were a major influence on the American and European club scenes that followed a decade or so later. And to accompany the magazine, we have an exclusive yellow vinyl seven-inch boasting two of the band's best-known tracks.
Issue 75: Hannah Peel - Rewiring the Radiophonic Workshop
This edition of Electronic Sound's cover star is Hannah Peel, whose latest album is a superb reimagining of 'Electrosonic', a 1972 library music collection on KPM Records featuring The Radiophonic Workshop. To accompany the issue, we also have an incredibly special seven-inch release, for which Hannah Peel has incorporated excerpts from a previously unknown interview with Delia Derbyshire into a brand new composition called 'Unheard Delia'.
Issue 78: Spiritualized - The Spaceman Reissue Program (Magazine + 7")
This month's Electronic Sound cover star is Jason Pierce, aka J Spaceman, the main man of cosmic kings Spiritualized. We have a fantastic seven-inch – dual speed and white vinyl – featuring tracks from the band's extremely rare 'Pure Phase Tones For DJs' EP to accompany the magazine too.
Issue 82: The Genius of Tom Tom Club (Magazine + 7")
Devoted to the art of moving butts, our latest cover stars are the fabulous Tom Tom Club, the band that started out as a Talking Heads offshoot but rapidly turned Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz into global musical heavyweights in their own right. We have an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch featuring two awesome remixes of the group's 'Genius Of Love' to accompany the magazine too.
Schubkraft
“Kontraktion” and “Extruder” are the results of various tape-sessions by Conrad Schnitzler and Siegmar Fricke in Con’s former studio Leberstrasse in Berlin.The soundscapes on both records (produced in November 1986 and July 1987 with EMS-Synthi A, Korg MS 10 + MS 20 + delays) contain all the machinistic energy and infernal industrial sound-eruptions similar to Conrad’s first three albums “Schwarz”, “Rot” and “Blau” and to the rumbling train wheel rhythms of “Zug” (from the “Red Cassette” 1974).
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Issue 83: The MiniMoog - 50 Golden Years (Magazine + 7")
It's 50 years since the launch of the Minimoog and the latest Electronic Sound has a very special gold foil cover to celebrate. Our lead feature tells the inside story of this superb machine and we also have an exclusive seven-inch reissue of 'The Sound Of Moog', the demonstration disc that Moog released to welcome the Minimoog to the world.Pages of features and articles, this is a journal not to be missed.
Emotional Engramm
The German-based guitar trio Maeror Tri was active between 1988 and 1996. Well known in the industrial cassette underground Its brand of drone music borrowed elements from industrial, gothic, avant-garde minimalism and later became know as TRroum.
Disappeared Redux
More blissfuldark ambience from Robin Storey a.k.a. Rapoon, founding member of the legendary post-industrial group zoviet-france. With almost 50 releases under his belt, Rapoon is a household name in the ambient world.