When Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music For Airports in 1978, flying was still a relative luxury and airports were gateways to holiday destinations that didn’t involve candy floss and sandcastles. Eno’s four-track suite of […]
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Anything’s Humanly Possible: Stratis – New Face (1983)
For the last 10 years, San Francisco label Dark Entries has been unearthing rusty and out of circulation cult electronic records and giving them a new life outside their few hundred plays on YouTube or […]
Kraftwerk still charging their batteries
The Live at the Marquee series has brought many acts to Cork over the years, but none as important as Kraftwerk. The German electric pioneers could well be the most influential act of all time […]
At the Drive-in lead the Irish gigs highlighter
At The Drive-In Vicar Street, Dublin, Tuesday, €47 At The Drive-In are now over two years into their reunion tour, and it never ruined their legacy after all. When the El Paso post-hardcore act split […]
Sound Carriers of the world unite: Damo Suzuki and United Bible Studies in Galway (2005)
Damo Suzuki would “like to see you and make smile on your face everywhere in the world”, according to the press release for his Never Ending Tour. His tour is the second ‘Never Ending’ one […]
Irish gigs of the week
GHOSTPOET, The Button Factory, Dublin, Tuesday, €16 Ghostpoet’s fourth album Dark Days and Canapes is the bleakest yet from the poet, rapper, singer, beatmaker and producer, but his acclaimed live show will be no less intense. The […]
Jean-Michel Jarre interview: ‘We need to rebuild the future’
Electronic music was always supposed to be about looking to the future, but French pioneer Jean Michel Jarre worries that we’re getting blinded by misty-eyed nostalgia. Chatting about his new album Electronica, Jarre concedes that […]
It’s more fun to compute: Interview with Wolfgang Flür of Kraftwerk
TO most rock fans, the idea that Kraftwerk are more influential than the Beatles is more controversial than John Lennon’s claim that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. But it’s an idea that’s losing its […]
The artist in residence: Jeff Mills interview
When techno first rewired the late 80s counterculture, few could’ve predicted the gradual shift from studios and basement clubs in Detroit, to art galleries and classical concert halls. Techno was more ‘other’ than Kraftwerk’s prophetic […]
House nation: Interview with Joey Negro
In this climate of reissues and retromania it’s easy to turn your nose up at major labels wringing pennies out of dormant rock acts with best-ofs or anniversary releases full of leftovers. Retrospectives in dance music generally […]
On a Dream ticket: Interview with the Juan MacLean
THIS may be jumping the gun a bit, but when everyone’s making end of 2014 lists, we reckon The Juan MacLean’s A Place Called Space should be up there as one of the tracks of […]
Preacher Man: Green Velvet interview
Green Velvet has one manic infectious laugh, a slapstick high-pitched thigh-slapper. He’s cracking up at my croaky attempts to chant lines from his classic track Preacher Man, helping out with the track’s evangelical punchlines, mortified for me. […]
More man than machine: Icebreaker presents Kraftwerk, A Future Past – Dublin
Kraftwerk’s self-curated brand is one of the most rigid in modern music, and the iconic image of Man Machine automatons is crystallised in the current live show — pristine electronic pulses honed with nano scale […]
The fear: Berberian Sound Studio soundtrack by Broadcast
The recording rooms in the movie Berberian Sound Studio could easily be Broadcast’s rehearsal space – a Formica-panelled Aladdin’s cave littered with hanging cables, whirring reel-to-reel tapes, valve oscillators and chunky dials. The studio looks like […]
Kamerad, komm tanz mit mir: Laibach in Berghain, Berlin
I’m a stone’s throw from the Berlin Wall and a blood-soaked axe-swastika is spinning behind five silhouettes in strobe-lit slow motion, grinding out 10 factories’ worth of industrial clatter. The screen lingers on deepthroat blowjobs, […]
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