‘Listening To The Music The Machines Make’ is a new book that tells the story of the Synth Britannia generation, an unlikely melange of outsiders, pioneers and mavericks who took advantage of affordable music technology to conquer the pop charts in the UK, Europe and even America.
Written and assembled by Richard Evans, he has conducted years of extensive research to document the synthpop revolution that began from a British standpoint in 1978. Continue Reading ›
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‘Spies’ is the mythical lost album by HELDEN which, despite a show at the London Planetarium in 1983, was never released. HELDEN was the project of Warren Cann and Hans Zimmer who had been the keyboard player and producer for Zaine Griff.
Zaine Griff kindly chatted about his memories of The HELDEN Project and the process involved in realising ‘Spies’ for the 21st Century. Continue Reading ›
Rupert Hine sits in that group of producers whose work was all over the charts for several decades.
But unlike majority of his contemporaries (with the exception of a certain Mr T Horn), he was also a musician of note who produced some of the most engaging releases of the early part of that decade which are now being revisited in this excellent boxset from Cherry Red. Continue Reading ›
A contender for one of the best albums of 2022, ‘Living In Fear’ is SIN COS TAN’s most accessible and immediate body of work since their 2012 eponymous debut.
Jori Hulkkonen took up ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK’s invitation to chat over a game of Vintage Synth Trumps about the making of ‘Living In Fear’ and the workings of SIN COS TAN…
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STRIKE EAGLE is the retrowave project of Graham "G-Man" Waller, a producer from Gillingham in Kent whose influences range from synth and funk to progressive rock and heavy metal.
The premise of ‘Operation Mjölnir’ is that a detachment of McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles are caught behind enemy lines and shot down. Their crews are captured and the story follows their subsequent escape back to friendly forces. Graham "G-Man" Waller donned his aviators for a chat about STRIKE EAGLE. Continue Reading ›
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