Vile Electrodes – Play with Fire
No, not a cover of a Rolling Stones b-side – this is Hastings’ finest, Vile Electrodes, in the studio for Phoenix FM, playing one of their most popular songs. The…
No, not a cover of a Rolling Stones b-side – this is Hastings’ finest, Vile Electrodes, in the studio for Phoenix FM, playing one of their most popular songs. The…
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This magazine is named for a Rational Youth album, so it isn’t a reach to find this classic in the archives. In Your Eyes didn’t make it onto the first…
The US is sometimes overlooked as a centre for electronic music, as it never produced a Kraftwerk or Jarre, but bands like Devo and Our Daughter’s Wedding were there making…
Back in 1983, Cabaret Voltaire upgraded their studio with a nice advance from Virgin Records. The resulting album sported a Neville Brody sleeve, sleek production and some of the Cabs’…
Proto-techno synth pioneers Liaisons Dangereuses are best known for a song about the kids who hang around in the park, smoking and intimidating passers-by. This link is to their July…
Secession were one of Scotland’s finest electronic bands. Seen here lip-syncing to their minor hit, Touch, their story ended badly: the singer developed a reputation as poor as that of…
When Ryuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Thomas Dolby got together in 1985, pooling their Atari computers, the result was a sparking piece of synthpop called Field Work. Who…