For 30 years, Philip Best has been absorbed in the creation of some of the most extreme music on the planet, as Consumer Electronics, as half of Whitehouse and in collaboration with other artists. Ahead of a show tomorrow in Islington, he speaks to Mat Colegate about the essence of his approach and "creative misreading"
For 30 years, Philip Best has been absorbed in the creation of some of the most extreme music on the planet, as Consumer Electronics, as half of Whitehouse and in collaboration with other artists. Ahead of a show tomorrow in Islington, he speaks to Mat Colegate about the essence of his approach and "creative misreading"
Lead singer of Fat White Family, Lias Saoudi, self-pens a Baker’s Dozen of thirteen musical choices that map his early life to the present day, from Ireland to Scotland, Cambodia to Algeria, via dark country and the howling void. With thanks to Adelle Stripe
From a love for choral music inspired by his grandmother, to discovering Steve Reich at school, setting up a label just to release SD Laika and seeing Cocteau Twins on Top Of The Pops 2, Visionist picks the thirteen albums that made him the artist he is today
Questing experimental guitar hero Ben Chasny, aka Six Organs Of Admittance, tells Ben Graham about 13 records that influenced his playing and shaped his worldview, from psychedelic Japanese noise rock to American Primitive acoustic fingerpicking