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Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit

4878 days ago
Guardian Music — Once the sultan of sleazy synth pop, Marc Almond's new Edinburgh show Ten Plagues examines the Black Death. Gloomy? 'We're all dropping off the end of a conveyor belt,' he saysThirty years ago, Marc Almond was a slightly built man who wore black eye... more info
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Kraftwerk appear on Tomorrow's World

4912 days ago
Guardian Music — 1975: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicThe germinating moment for British dance music occurred, strangely, in a 1975 edition of Tomorrow's World, which featured four young Germans dressed like geography teacher... more info
Kraftwerk David Bowie Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Saturday Night Fever

4912 days ago
Guardian Music — December 1977: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicReleased on 16 December 1977, Saturday Night Fever was the film that broke disco in both senses: it popularised and developed the form at the same time as it froz... more info
The Glitter Band Bee Gees Donna Summer Kraftwerk Village People

Detroit gives birth to techno

4912 days ago
Guardian Music — 1983-85: Number 9 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicTechnically, Detroit techno was born down the road in suburban Belleville, where chief architects Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson met in high school. By 1... more info
Juan Atkins Derrick May Kevin Saunderson Kraftwerk George Clinton

Bowie moves to Berlin

4915 days ago
Guardian Music — August 1976: Number 33 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicIn the spring of 1976, David Bowie was dangerously close to burnout from fame and drugs. He had just released his 10th studio album, Station to Station, and, wit... more info
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This week's new live music

4916 days ago
Guardian Music — The Horrors, On tourIt was obvious when they appeared on NME's cover in 2006 in Victorian gaoler chic that the Horrors had something, although what that might be wasn't clear from the endearingly rubbish garage-goth rumble of their debut. However, th... more info
The Horrors Kraftwerk Killing Joke Simple Minds Wu-Tang Clan GZA/Genius Raekwon Method Man Cheap Trick Big Star AC/DC Gwilym Simcock Pat Metheny

Call that a job? Music critic Alexis Petridis and daughter Esme

4930 days ago
Guardian Music — 'Listening to an over-hyped indie album about which I have mixed feelings is an improvement on listening to my daughter ask if we're there yet every 90 seconds'I try to adopt a hands-off approach when it comes to Esme's taste in music. People always ... more info
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Synth Britannia: The Story of SynthPop (BBC Rockumentary)

4933 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — Excellent BBC FOUR Documentary, originally aired in 2009, following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists in... more info
The Human League Kraftwerk Gary Numan Friends Electric Depeche Mode Ultravox Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Pet Shop Boys New Order

The Prodigy didn't kill rave, they reanimated rock'n'roll

4937 days ago
Guardian Music — Twenty years on from Charly, the Essex ravers are still massive, a testimony to staying faithful to 'mind-cancelling abandon'It seems incredible now, with the Prodigy's 20-year history as the figureheads of out-of-control, hedonistic, devotedly hardc... more info
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Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles (album stream)

4949 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — Mark Pritchard (Global Communication, Harmonic 33) and Steve Smith (aka Steve Spacek, Blackpocket) first collaborated on a 12” for Sonar Kollektiv that, with its stutter-shuffle breakbeat and deep bass probes, fused broken beat and dubstep. Also... more info
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