Ahead of his Necklace Of Bites shows at Blackest Ever Black and Unsound this coming week, Filip Kalinowski speaks to the Downwards boss and UK techno figurehead about ritual, sound pressure, DIY as necessity and being half of "Britain's best-loved absurdist space rock duo"
40 years after This Heat’s debut performance Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward are playing together for the first time since 1982 at London’s Café Oto. To celebrate we look at their fresh and forceful music that proved to be so far ahead of its time. All band photographs by Lesley Evans, courtesy of This Heat
Daniel Higgs has built a legacy in the pursuit of his own spiritual truth. Ahead of an appearance at Terraforma festival he talks Matthew Neale through his back catalogue, with detours via mass media indoctrination, a drive-by shooting, and the mystery of how cassettes work