Issue 53: Berlin After Bowie - From Lodger to the Fall of The Wall (Magazine + 7")
When is a Berlin album not a Berlin album? When it’s ‘Lodger’ by David Bowie. When we talk about Bowie’s Berlin trilogy, what we really mean is ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ and, erm, the other one… ‘Lodger’ was the afterthought, the wobbly third wheel, a series of “planned accidents” stitched together into an album.
Issue 62: The Out of This World Story of Joe Meek ( Magazine + 7")
This eidtion of Electronic Sound main feature tells the astonishing story of Joe Meek, the king of space age pop and one of the most extraordinary characters in British music history.
Issue 73: Steven Wilson - The Future Bites (Magazine + 7")
We've been talking to Steven Wilson about his new album for this issue of Electronic Sound and we have a special limited edition cover based on the artwork concept of the record for our subscribers and our webshop. To accompany the magazine, we also have a red vinyl seven-inch boasting exclusive edits of two tracks from the album.
Issue 74: Telex - The Original Eurovisionaries (Magazine + 7")
This month's Electronic Sound cover story details the highly entertaining exploits of Telex, the maverick Belgian trio whose early synthpop records were a major influence on the American and European club scenes that followed a decade or so later. And to accompany the magazine, we have an exclusive yellow vinyl seven-inch boasting two of the band's best-known tracks.
Issue 75: Hannah Peel - Rewiring the Radiophonic Workshop
This edition of Electronic Sound's cover star is Hannah Peel, whose latest album is a superb reimagining of 'Electrosonic', a 1972 library music collection on KPM Records featuring The Radiophonic Workshop. To accompany the issue, we also have an incredibly special seven-inch release, for which Hannah Peel has incorporated excerpts from a previously unknown interview with Delia Derbyshire into a brand new composition called 'Unheard Delia'.
Issue 78: Spiritualized - The Spaceman Reissue Program (Magazine + 7")
This month's Electronic Sound cover star is Jason Pierce, aka J Spaceman, the main man of cosmic kings Spiritualized. We have a fantastic seven-inch – dual speed and white vinyl – featuring tracks from the band's extremely rare 'Pure Phase Tones For DJs' EP to accompany the magazine too.
Issue 82: The Genius of Tom Tom Club (Magazine + 7")
Devoted to the art of moving butts, our latest cover stars are the fabulous Tom Tom Club, the band that started out as a Talking Heads offshoot but rapidly turned Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz into global musical heavyweights in their own right. We have an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch featuring two awesome remixes of the group's 'Genius Of Love' to accompany the magazine too.
Schubkraft
“Kontraktion” and “Extruder” are the results of various tape-sessions by Conrad Schnitzler and Siegmar Fricke in Con’s former studio Leberstrasse in Berlin.The soundscapes on both records (produced in November 1986 and July 1987 with EMS-Synthi A, Korg MS 10 + MS 20 + delays) contain all the machinistic energy and infernal industrial sound-eruptions similar to Conrad’s first three albums “Schwarz”, “Rot” and “Blau” and to the rumbling train wheel rhythms of “Zug” (from the “Red Cassette” 1974).
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Issue 83: The MiniMoog - 50 Golden Years (Magazine + 7")
It's 50 years since the launch of the Minimoog and the latest Electronic Sound has a very special gold foil cover to celebrate. Our lead feature tells the inside story of this superb machine and we also have an exclusive seven-inch reissue of 'The Sound Of Moog', the demonstration disc that Moog released to welcome the Minimoog to the world.Pages of features and articles, this is a journal not to be missed.
Emotional Engramm
The German-based guitar trio Maeror Tri was active between 1988 and 1996. Well known in the industrial cassette underground Its brand of drone music borrowed elements from industrial, gothic, avant-garde minimalism and later became know as TRroum.
Disappeared Redux
More blissfuldark ambience from Robin Storey a.k.a. Rapoon, founding member of the legendary post-industrial group zoviet-france. With almost 50 releases under his belt, Rapoon is a household name in the ambient world.
Church Road
Another spellbinding meditation from 2006 from Robin Storey a.k.a. Rapoon, founding members of the legendary post-industrial group Zoviet France.
Muslimgauze Vs Celtarabia
Limited edition of 300 copies in a 4-panel matte laminated digipak, Celtarabia play a wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats given a radical remix treatment from Muslimgauze.
Forse
Alessandro Cortini's acclaimed 'Forse' series is available for the first time on CD including an exclusive disc of 'Forse' performed live. Packaged in matte coated digipacks housed in a heavy duty tip-on style outer box. 2021 digital master by Stephan Mathieu.
Composed using only an original Buchla Music Easel, an incredibly rare electronic music instrument designed by Don Buchla, the Forse series features long, romantic compositions full of voluminous, bombastic tones and dripping with thick t…
Companion
* Full Tone Cover Artwork, incl. printed Inner Sleeve * The Lost follows and expands on Otto A Totland's intimate debut solo piano album Pinô from 2014. Once again several days were spent in Nils Frahm's legendary Durton studio to lay down both composed and improvised pieces of quiet beauty. While mostly residing in a small Norwegian coastal town, Otto has been trying to escape the constant movement towards fast paced, polluted lives, where it seems like sounds and impressions never stop. The Lo…
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سایه [sāje]
* 300 copies * Oliver Doerell and Jawad Salkhordeh find themselves merging eastern and western sound in an absolutely absorbing record of electronic music dipped in Persian traditions. They create a sound with textures, rhythms, distortions, altered frequencies, voice insertions and blends reality and mysticism into a unique soundscape. The sonorities transpose a nostalgia for a world that never existed, a place where the two musicians find home. Oliver Doerell was born in Brussels, Belgium in …
Together Is The New Alone
* Edition of 500 copies, fulltone artwork, incl. black poly-lined inners, incl. download * For its 20th anniversary, Keplar presents an absolute milestone in the history of IDM and ambient music for the first time in its definite form: »Together Is the New Alone« by Donnacha Costello was originally released on Mille Plateaux in 2001 as the second LP under the Irish producer’s given name and firmly established him as one of the leading artists in the field of forward-thinking electronic music aft…
Trawl
Special edition reissue of Robin Rimbaud A.K.A. Scanner's "Trawl" (1996) featuring 30+ mins of unreleased material, plus additional mixes from Mick Harris (Scorn/Napalm Death) and Bill Laswell (Material/legendary music producer), and full artwork scans.
Synistа́nai
** 300 copies in a 4-panel laminated ecopak with two-sided insert. ** A collection of rare and deleted tracks by Troum taken from compilations; Vol. III (2003-2007) in a series that includes Symballein, (Part I, 1997-1999) and Syzygue (Part II, 1999-2002). Collected during autumn 2019 by Baraka[H]. Artwork based on a painting by Stefan Knappe.
Mathias Grassow & Closing The Eternity
** 150 hand-numbered copies in digipak ** Reissue of an album by Closing the Eternity and Mathias Grassow, two masters of ambient music, orginally published in 2016 by the Russian label ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ on cassette. The new mix for this CD edition was made in January 2018."Perhaps my drones are 'cosmic downloads' that contain a certain message – but even if so: if perceived by our ears only, this message does not have the power to change our dna and open up the way to more profound experiences of our inn…