We know you all love a bit of synth porn so here's Benge's Baker's Dozen - a sort of synth erotica reading, if you will, as he guides you through 13 electronic favourites from Morton Subotnick to Else Marie Pade and George Harrison's Moog explorations to Air and Autechre. Benge photo by Ed Fielding
With her latest record Six just released through Thrill Jockey, Thalia Zedek speaks to Nick Hutchings about immersing herself totally in music in recent years, last year's acclaimed album Via, and reanimating her Come project with Chris Brokaw