Shine On: Mike Howlett
Mike Howlett found himself producing many of the key records of the new wave period, but on paper was an unlikely choice: as the bass player in Gong, from 1973-77,…
Mike Howlett found himself producing many of the key records of the new wave period, but on paper was an unlikely choice: as the bass player in Gong, from 1973-77,…
The loss of Nash the Slash was a terrible blow to Canadian alternative music. Nash had been one of the first successful electronic artists, first with FM and then in…
Gareth Jones is best known for his work with Depeche Mode, having manned the studio for their so-called Berlin trilogy – Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward and Black Celebration.…
The House of Love chose Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones to go into the studio with them to record “Safe,” which caught their record company stiffs off-guard. The Miller-Jones team…
I Am Snow Angel first came to attention with the release of a self-titled, four-track EP at the beginning of 2014. The debut release for Julie Kathryn’s laid-back electronic project…
When the RocknPop Museum in Gronau, Germany, incorporated Can’s studio into a working exhibit, they acquired a mixing desk made for the band by the legendary producer and engineer, Conny…
John Foxx and his sometime-collaborator, Louis Gordon, made some formidable music together. The title track from 2006’s From Trash is notable for the emphatic, glam-stomp of the bass line and…
The UK’s leading poptronica act, Vile Electrodes, have announced a special edition of their debut album, The Future Through a Lens. With new cover artwork and a different digipac design,…
Hannah’s Peel‘s original Rebox release featured the red-headed beauty’s ethereal voice accompanied by the sounds of a hand-cranked music box. For that EP, along with OMD’s “Electricity,” Peel covered tracks…
Touching the Void is a collaboration between Mark Warner of Rossetti’s Compass and Andy Oppenheimer, formerly of Oppenheimer Analysis. The project started up in 2010, when the pair were in…