Cabaret Voltaire
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Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Chris Watson
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
Things I Have Learned
Chris Watson On Recording The Music Of The Natural World
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
A Quietus Interview
The Places That Women Like To Go To: Cabaret Voltaire & Johnny YesNo
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
Baker’s Dozen Appearances 5
Baker's Dozen
Stir My Teenage Soul: Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor’s Favourite LPs
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
News 35
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Talking Tom Tom Club: Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth Interviewed
As Tom Tom Club hit the UK, Stephen Dalton sits down for a fascinating chat about Talking Heads, their relationship with David Byrne, their creative and romantic relationship, and why working with the Happy Mondays was even more difficult than you might have thought
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Big Balls, A Moustache & A Mullet: Who The Hell Is Bruno Ferrari?
“I think this is best record in the world,” underground Czech legend Bruno Ferrari tells Wyndham Wallace. “Because I hear only my record. I fuck on all other bands.” Contains NSFW video clips. All photographs by the author
A Quietus Interview
Finding The Point: An Interview With Jane Weaver
Ahead of a short UK tour, Jane Weaver tells John Freeman how her stellar sixth solo album, The Silver Globe, was inspired by a Polish sci-fi movie and her desire to remove self-imposed shackles, resulting in the finest record of her 20-year career
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A Life Bizarre: Sheila E Interviewed
Legendary Latin-jazz percussionist SHEILA E gives Simon Price a ticking-off for asking too many Prince questions. And tells him about her new album, her autobiography, her charity work, and her relationship the Almighty. Oh, and also about Prince. (A bit)
A Quietus Interview
“If I Hit You, You’d Feel It”: Leslie Winer, Trip Hop’s Forgotten Pioneer
Some say that Leslie Winer aka © invented trip hop in 1990 with her album, Witch. Now she’s back with a retrospective compilation and Wyndham Wallace meets the reclusive former supermodel. Main picture by Sébastien Chou
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Metamorphic Rock: Gwen Siôn Discusses Quarrying Slate for Sound
Gwen Siôn speaks to Jude Rogers about how her love of dubstep raves in tunnels became a creative practice of turning the slate of North West Wales into music, blending field recordings with choral song, and how landscape art is political
