Features
Tortoise ‘Djed’
With the release of their new album, ‘Touch’, Tortoise man John McEntire deconstructs the production of ‘Djed’, the Chicago band’s otherworldly defining track and blueprint for the mid-1990s post-rock scene
Mike Paradinas
In the wake of his recent release, ‘Manzana’, Planet Mu label founder and IDM veteran Mike Paradinas – aka µ-Ziq – reflects on the influences that shape how he makes music
Rupert Hine ‘The Shout’
In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story
Various Artists ‘Blueprints For Modern (Techno)Logy Vol 1’ (Plus 8, 1991)
“Our first mistake was wandering unprepared into that hip Atlanta boutique where they sold all that rave clobber, and asking for a recommendation on a hot local DJ.”
Crimewave: Long Arm Of The Loud
Fresh from Manchester’s electronic underground, Crimewave twists warped loops, trip hop vibes and shoegazey fuzz into a blistering maelstrom of energy – with not a synth in sight
Charles Hayward and MC Dälek: Hot-Wired
Legendary This Heat drummer Charles Hayward and avant-rap firebrand MC Dälek unite for a boundary-blurring, cross-generational exchange that maps thrilling new territory
Reviews
Craven Faults ‘Sidings’ (The Leaf Label)
Do The Locomotion
Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Tranquilizer’ (Warp)
Sample Relics
Factory Floor
Factory Floor are back… and feel like walking quickly but not quite running through a crumbling concrete industrial estate
News
It’s All About Vinyl Episode 03
In episode three of the new podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, founders Mark Roland and Push delve into…
It’s All About Vinyl – Episode 02
More chat from ES founders Mark Roland and Push In episode two of It’s All About Vinyl, music…
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7133
ES7133 seven-inch features Propaganda
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
Darkroom Dubs
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Darkroom Dubs
Sleaford Mods: X-Cess All Areas
Sleaford Mods return with their most ambitious, sharp-tongued set yet, AS ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ cranks up fury and vivid sonics into a caustic portrait of cultural freefall and catharsis. They’re loud, angry and utterly irresistible
Antoni Maiovvi
British composer Antoni Maiovvi on his first and last records, plus an all-time favourite
Person People
Alt-pop from former Woman’s Hour man
Giant Day
US rockers revel in new-found electronics
Invisible Logic
Scottish stalwart pushes the right buttons
Edip Akbayram
Sweeping the forgotten corridors of music, this month Scott Blixen turns his attention to Edip Akbayram and his group Dostlar
A Thousand Mad Things
Londoner channels synthpop’s golden era
Meat Strap
South London improv duo earn plaudits
Methyl Orange
Epic sonic fictions from Manc marvel
Whitelabrecs
Location: Lincolnshire, UK Est: January 2016
DJ Chloe Harris, aka Raica
Seattle musician and DJ Chloe Harris, aka Raica, settles in for this month’s quick-fire questions