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FlashBack! - Johan Timman - Trip Into The Body (1981) (album stream)

5595 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — Not as well known internationally as other electronic synth pioneers like Walter Carlos, Kraftwerk, Vangelis or even J.M. Jarre, but don't let that fool you. Dutch synthesist Johan Timman knew exactly what knobs to twist and what cable to plug i... more info

Gus Gus - Att3nti0n

5596 days ago
We Like it Lossless! — Underwater Records / 2002Their third release, Att3nti0n, retains the group's knack for cybernetic pop hooks ("Desire") while exploring chill-out (the modest "Detention") and hard, filter-filled trance ("I.I.E."), all the while nodding its head to the... more info

Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit

5597 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

Kraftwerk appear on Tomorrow's World

5631 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

Saturday Night Fever

5631 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

Detroit gives birth to techno

5631 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

Bowie moves to Berlin

5634 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

This week's new live music

5635 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

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

5649 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

Synth Britannia: The Story of SynthPop (BBC Rockumentary)

5651 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

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