REVIEWS
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William Freaking Orbit – is that what WFO stands for? It should, as the man sometimes known as Billy Bubbles is back with a smashing new album. A self-produced and …
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Propaganda’s “Mabuse” debut single hit the shops around the same time as Depeche Mode’s “People Are People.” Both were influenced by industrial music and the evolving preferences of the alternative …
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It seems improbable that Bill Leeb has come this far without creating a solo album. The former Skinny Puppy keyboardist has spent four decades making music as Front Line Assembly. …
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There is a theme to the musical projects of Mat Smith. His first visible enterprise was the Mute Response series of compilations. Organised around musicians (and non-musicians) reacting to the …
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Anna Öberg has the knack of popping up with catchy tracks imbued with a little mystery. With producer Charles Storm, the Nordic songstress creates techno-infused songs that hint at the …
INTERVIEWS
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A sound starts to rise that conjours the ghost of Throbbing Gristle. The industrial ambience of the Beck Road jazz funk combo is, in the way of these things, consumed …
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It has been twenty years since Torny Gottberg started up Progress Productions. The Swedish label has released dozens of albums over that time – from box sets of Cosmic Overdose …
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Founded in Hornchurch, Silicon Teens were the first of the Essex electronic groups that found their way to Daniel Miller’s Mute imprint at the beginning of the 1980s. Organised as …
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The Mortality Tables project was born in Bloomsbury in 2019. The result of a conversation in a delicatessen, it has already led to a series of releases with Vince Clarke, …