Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early tape experiments to recording at Chernobyl, via a founding stint in Cabaret Voltaire
In Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson used tape loops and field recordings as a pioneer of industrial music. Now, he is a sound recordist for BBC nature programmes who also works on installations, films and his own albums. He speaks to Luke Turner about trying to capture the sound of the world in a very noisy modern age
Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire and film director Peter Care talk to John Doran about the two versions of experimental film Johnny YesNo that are getting released on DVD next week. For the extremely slow off the mark - this piece contains spoilers
Karl O'Connor guides Luke Turner through the 13 teenage hits that made him Regis, with tales of smelling like a badger on the mail train to Brum and what happens when you get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten the wrong gravel on the way
Ahead of their appearance at Sea Change festival and the release of their new album Danijela Bočev talks to Danalogue and Betamax in an attempt to bridge the inner and outer worlds of Soccer96. Photographs by Fabrice Bourgelle
Jake Ferguson and Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics tell John Freeman how the band's second album and one of the Quietus favourites of the year so far, 13 Degrees Of Reality, was inspired by two legendary pioneers of jazz