Features
Futurama: Ten Days In A Black Hole
Futurama was the ultimate gathering of the clans. The brainchild of leeds live promoter John Keenan, the legendary post-punk festival ran over two days every year from 1979 to 1983, with punks, goths, futurists and more…
Clock DVA: Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick… Boom!
They’re often mentioned alongside Cabaret Voltaire and the Human League, but their story isn’t as well known as those of their Sheffield contemporaries…welcome to the weird and wild world of Clock DVA
Alan Vega: The Final Flourish
While Alan Vega’s early solo albums lit the fuse, his later works reflect a lifetime of sonic risk-taking, ferocious invention and urban dread
Roger Powell ‘Air Pocket’ (Bearsville, 1980)
“The window is about 20 years, more or less. That’s the point where that obscure band you loved is mostly forgotten about…”
Daft Punk, Coachella, 2006
Two decades after the fact, we explore Daft Punk’s totemic pyramid show which changed the face of electronic music forever
Jimi Tenor
Hot on the heels of his recent ‘Selenites, Selenites!’ album, Finnish composer and musician Jimi Tenor traces the key inspirations behind his very singular sonic universe
Reviews
Nathan Fake ‘Evaporator’ (Infiné)
Something In The Air
Craven Faults ‘Sidings’ (The Leaf Label)
Do The Locomotion
Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Tranquilizer’ (Warp)
Sample Relics
News
It’s All About Vinyl Extra Episode 01
It’s a bonus episode! Mark Roland and Push take a look at the new issue of Electronic Sound…
It’s All About Vinyl Episode 04
In episode four of the new podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, founders Mark Roland and Push discuss Harry…
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7134
ES7134 seven-inch features Clock DVA
Live Sessions
ESLS018 – Sunda Arc
Electronica and woodwind – together at last Sunda Arc is an electronic project that seamlessly blends digital soundscapes…
ESLS017 – Bodega
Brooklyn’s post-punk art rock stylings hit the Electronic Sound studio
ESLS016 – Ultramarine
Electronica blends into a sound art experience in the Electronic Sound studio
Recent
Alan Vega: Vega Voltage
Almost 10 years after Alan Vega’s death, we revisit Suicide’s incendiary frontman as a radical solo artist –……
Night Ritualz
San Antonio synth-punk artist Night Ritualz on his first and last albums, and an all-time favourite
Curtain Twitcher: Peep Show
Meet the Appealingly analogue and quirkily kosmische female duo Curtain Twitcher – the new synth-toting sound of Sheffield
Debbie Sings
Steam room techno-gurn, anyone?
Woo
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Woo
Annie Hogan
Composer, musician and “Queen Goth” Annie Hogan takes on this month’s quick- fire question machine
‘Relaxez-Vous’
Resident archivist Jack Dangers is in a state of ondes Martenot-induced bliss thanks to ‘Relaxez-Vous’, a French LP designed to do just that
Annie Leeth
Stateside producer does things her way
UFO95
Brutalism goes four-to-the-floor
Nu Vision
Post-punkers pen debut for EBM pals
Chronicles Of The Residuum
Destruction never sounded so good
Voka Gentle: Domestic Unrest
Fearlessly unpredictable, mercurial trio Voka Gentle blend left-field pop, folk and experimental sounds to sparkling effect