An Introduction to Futurepop
Futurepop took the structure of EBM, the hooks of synth-pop, and the atmosphere of modern club music as its starting point. Then, it sharpened and focussed them into something that…
Futurepop took the structure of EBM, the hooks of synth-pop, and the atmosphere of modern club music as its starting point. Then, it sharpened and focussed them into something that…
Darkwave has always lived in the space between the dance floor and the graveyard. Emerging from the post-punk and new wave currents of the late 1970s and early 1980s, it…
The Swedish photographer, Krichan Wihlborg, met up with one of the country’s most interesting EBM acts and came back with some images to share.
It is impossible to talk about pop in Sweden without a nod to the quartet who conquered the world from Polar Studios. Long before syntare was a word, Benny Andersson…
Space disco emerged in the late 1970s as a gleaming, synthesizer‑driven offshoot of disco that swapped mirrorballs for starfields and limousines for rocket ships. It took the groove and hedonism…
Electronic Body Music (EBM) is the motor that drives alternative dancefloors. Diesel-fuelled, aggressive, and sometimes sensual, EBM lives in the tension between discipline and release. Militant rhythms, shouted vocals, and…
It’s hard to work out what Brett Wickens is best known for. He founded Spoons at high school with Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horn in 1979 before moving on the…
Paul Kendall has been moving through British music history since the late 1970s, quietly altering its signal path. He was a member of a post-punk band, Dry Rib, before an…
We have a soft spot for record store clerks. The movie, High Fidelity, was a disappointment, precisely because it missed the point about why they are cool. The workers in…
From Sweden come these images of Test Dept. Shot by Krichan Wihlborg, the British industrial pioneers are captured on stage in Stockholm. Metal percussion has been replaced by laptops, but…