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You Hum It, I’ll Play It: James Ellis Ford Interviewed

After building a home studio the SMD musician and Arctic Monkeys and Depeche Mode producer James Ford picked up no less than 18 instruments – and a microphone – in order to make his beguiling debut LP. Words by Jeremy Allen. All portraits by Pip Bourdillon
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Human Synthesisers And Robot Armies: An Interview With SMD

Despite some recent bad news, Simian Mobile Disco are focused on the future... which includes robots. Photographs: James Pearson Howe
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Graham Massey On 808 State’s Blueprint

Graham Massey returns to write us another fantastic piece, this time an overview of tracks from the new 808 State anthology, Blueprint with photos taken from his own archive
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Don’t Go Breaking My ARP: SMD Interviewed

After SMD's awesome collection of analogue bangers Delicacies quickly became one of our albums of the year John Doran popped in to see their collection of synths. Band and equipment photography by the formidable Lucy Johnston

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