OMD – Night Cafe (Vile Electrodes B-side the C-side Remix)
What do you do at a night cafe? You sit. And what do you like most? Sitting by the seaside, if you grew up with folksy English songs. Martin (the…
What do you do at a night cafe? You sit. And what do you like most? Sitting by the seaside, if you grew up with folksy English songs. Martin (the…
When Space came out with their synth-heavy disco hit, Magic Fly, it inspired some Soviet musicians to make space-disco of their own. Zodiac (or Zodiaks) was a band formed in…
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Now that Alison Moyet has rediscovered electronic music, it is worth recalling an interim step between Yazoo and her latest solo album. In 2009, Moyet appeared on a single by…
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We missed this when it first came around (in 2006!), but Tobbe Lander’s DaDaDa project is great fun. Lander, of course, is the serial entrepreneur best known for promoting the…
Den där killen (That Guy) is the solo project of Swedish DJ Per Fall. This track is a cover of Kent’s Sverige, taken to a more upbeat place. Released in…
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When the Sun sears the surface of Venus – radiation turning everything into vapour or stone, eating away at matter with energy that can tear electrons away from atoms –…