Folk at its rawest is often bloody, uncompromising stuff, and Bert Jansch was one of its magical practitioners. Add fiery guitar-playing, a voice hewn from Edinburgh stone, original songs full of lyrics fabout the darkest sides of life, and you get one of music's most fascinating characters, argues Jude Rogers
For their new collaboration Proto, Jack Adams and James Parker drew on their love of 90s rave music, folding happy hardcore, gabber and jungle influences into their own forward-looking sonics. In an in-depth interview, they talk to Christian Eede about putting the album together