The many-textured musical mind of Mark Pritchard - part two
This is part two of my guide to the brilliance of British producer Mark Pritchard, whose collaborative album with Thom Yorke has sent him skittering into the...
The many-textured musical mind of Mark Pritchard - part one
To be eclectic in music is to be fundamentally inefficient. Musicians would, in the mind of the algorithm, be far better off relentlessly pushing one...
Boccaccio Life 1987-1993 - un-silo-d tunes, when dance music was up for grabs
This week I have mainly been listening to the Hypnotone mix of Cascades by Sheer Taft, a duo signed to Creation Records in the early 90s, when Alan McGee...
The KLF were cool and other shock revelations from a 90s pop childhood
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10 best techstep slammers - Part two
This is part two of my ten biggest techstep slammers. You can read part one - in which I explain my relationship to techstep and talk about tunes from T...
10 best techstep slammers - Part one
I used to think that techstep ruined jungle. I love drums, perhaps more than anything else, and techstep - the loud, aggressive and (almost) uniformly dark...
Motorik madness: 10 Krautrock albums that rotated my head - part two
This is the second part of my introduction to Krautrock, aka ten Krautrock albums that rotated my head. You can read part one, which included records by Amon...
Motorik madness: 10 Krautrock albums that rotated my head - part one
Was zum Teufel ist Krautrock überhaupt? Or: what the hell is Krautrock, anyway? This is a question that surely comes to all right-thinking music fans at some...
DJ Gregory - the accidental house hero
DJ Gregory, aka Grégory Darsa, is one of the most unusual producers in French House. This is not so much for his sound, which is far from the absurd sonic...
10 dub albums that changed my world (Part two)
Welcome to part two of my list of 10 dub (or dub-adjacent) albums that changed my world, in some way. You can read part one, here. In part two, things get...
10 dub albums that changed my world (Part one)
In my recent post about Loidis' One Day - TL:DR I don’t much like it - I had a whine about the producer’s description of his music as “dub mnml emo tech”,...
Life’s a GAS with Wolfgang Voigt
It seems appropriate for an artist named GAS that you can never quite tie down the music of Wolfgang Voigt and his long-standing psychedelic / ambient /...
Line Noise podcast is 200 episodes old
Philip Sherburne and I started the Line Noise podcast back in January 2016. The idea was, if I recall rightly, to do something like the New York Times...
Wolfgang Flür: on joy, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Times and more
Wolfgang Flür in 2025 is everything that Kraftwerk, his former band, are not: friendly, communicative and shot through with a vivid sense of humour. He’s...
Who killed 2-Step? MJ Cole and UKG’s second album syndrome
UK Garage was, at least for a few months in 2000, a far bigger deal in the British charts than jungle had ever been. But UKG never really had the same global...
The bread in a Bruce sandwich
I wasn’t initially planing to write about Bruce. I had interviewed him for the Line Noise podcast and I thought that would be that. The more I thought about...
Yello: musique concrète, sampling and (not) the Alpine Kraftwerk
Swiss electronic band Yello are the answer to a question not often posed, namely: what would Kraftwerk be like with a moustachioed bon viveur on vocals and a...
Chrystabell on David Lynch
Last year I interviewed American singer Chrystabell ahead of the release of Cellophane Memories, her third album in collaboration with David Lynch. After the...
Let’s dance? David Bowie’s diverse history with electronic music
January 2025 marks the ninth anniversary of the Line Noise podcast and also the ninth anniversary of David Bowie’s death, two things which always come...
Why don’t more rock bands make 2-Step? aka The Beta Band appreciation post
Guitar music wasn’t up to much in the year 2000. The comprehensive kickstart that The Strokes eventually brought wouldn’t arrive until the release of their...
