Birth of a Nation – Inevitable Records: An Independent Liverpool (1979-1986)
❉ Another splendid addition from Cherry Red to this fertile and febrile period in pop music history.
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Interview: Cult With No Name
❉ We Are Cult’s Ange Chan catches up with genre-hopping ‘post-punk half-drunk atmospheric esoteric electronic balladeers’ Erik Stein and Jon Boux.
A Step into Obliqueness: ‘Ideal Home’ – Near Future
❉ In every dream home a heartache? Ange Chan on a collaboration between Neil Arthur from Blancmange and Gazelle Twin’s Bernholz.
SynthWave Live 2, Electrowerkz – a European Extravaganza!
❉ Ange Chan reports back from a truly a European affair, proving the power of the synth transcends political boundaries!
Cult Q & A: Jessica Martin
❉ We’re asking, they’re answering. This week: West End leading lady and indie comic creator, Jessica Martin.
Androids Playing the Blues: ‘Low’ at 40
❉ An appreciation of the timeless, cathartic qualities of Bowie’s masterwork, released on this day in 1977.
Non-stop electro cabaret: ‘Electric Dreams’
❉ Ange Chan reports back from a weekend of wall-to-wall eighties electro pop.
The Pattern Forms: ‘Peel Away The Ivy’ reviewed
❉ Stranger Things meets The Owl Service, with this latest long player from the Ghost Box stable.
‘Electri_City: The Düsseldorf School of Electronic Music’
❉ We review Rudi Esch’s eyewitness account of how the Düsseldorf electronic scene developed from 1970 to 1986.