Our Cabaret Voltaire feature is an epic saga told across 20 pages. It's a highly entertaining on-the-road piece, tracking the group from Sheffield to London to Brighton and covering three live shows, with lots of in-depth chats with founding members Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson along the way. It's 53 years since Mal and Chris started the band with the late Richard H Kirk and 45 years since the pair last shared a stage, hence the excited buzz that greeted their decision to play a handful of Cabs gigs at the end of 2025, with more dates in the pipeline for 2026. The shows lived up to all expectations too. "We're loving it," notes Mal. "For me and Chris to come back to do this is magical. And seeing everyone responding to it so positively, I know that we've done the right thing."

Although we've given a big chunk of the issue over to Cabaret Voltaire, we still have plenty of space for interviews with the effortlessly iconoclastic Peaches and the increasingly introspective Apparat, as well as early 1980s tape pioneers CULTURAL AMNESIA and sonic twisters MANDY, INDIANA. Plus MISS Grit, Brigitte Fontaine, Xylitol, Borokov Borokov and Isa Gordon, together with Radio 6 Music DJ Ded Grant and the spine-tingling LIBRARY OF THE OCCULT label. All of which makes for another great edition of your favourite electronic music mag mag mag. 

This month's Electronic Sound seven-inch is the first opportunity for everybody to hear the reformed Cabaret Voltaire on wax. Pressed on lush green vinyl, the disc has two storming live tracks, both recorded during the group's short UK tour at the end of last year. On one side is the eternally menacing 'Nag Nag Nag', which was originally issued as a single by Rough Trade in 1979. The other side is 'Spies In The Wires' from the Cabs' 1984 'Micro-Phonies' album, the lyrics of which are just as pertinent today as they were four decades ago. "We're living our lives through our phones and the spies exist in the devices we're holding in our hands," warns Stephen Mallinder.