Electronic Sound
The Electronic Music Magazine
Issue 112
2024
98 páginas
THE
FRONT
3 Welcome
4 Opening Shot
6 Reader Offer
13 Cate Hortl
14 Needs Must
16 Savage Pencil
18 The School of
Electronic Music
20 Man Parrish
23 Masaka Masaka
24 Bob Stanley
26 Banging On
27 Moonpools
29 Swansither
31 Not Me But Us
FEATURES
32 1981
50 Electribe 101
56 I Monster
62 Dorothy Moskowitz
66 Dualist Inquiry
70 Arushi Jain
72 Bolis Pupul
THE BACK
76 Pet
Shop Boys
78
Shabazz Palaces, Dali De Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling, Mike Parker, Thomas
Bangalter
79 The
KVB, The Tewlve Hour Foundation, SabaSaba, Kasper Bjorke
80
HJirok, Peel, A Lily, Nia Archives
81 ‘L SERIES #6’,
Sissi Rada, Guests, Naafi
82 ‘Tone
Science Module No 9’, The Night Monitor, Fran
& Flora, Claraguilar
83
Claire Rousay, Howlround, Champagne Dub, Koichi
Shimizu
84 Allie
X, Open Yellow Circle, Pedro Vian, Ivan The Tolerable Trio
85 Dead
Bandit, ‘Noise Of Cologne 3’, Croquet Club,
Strange Boy
86
Creation Rebel, Cars From The Future, ‘Lost Paradise’
87
Pixelh8, These Immortal Souls, Bullion
88
Slowfoam, Clarissa Connely, Gagarin
89 Cédric
Pin & Glen Johnson, The KVB
90
Fingerprintz, Michel Moers
91 Brian
Eno, Ride, Dip Friso
92 A
Certain Ratio, Pye Corner Audio, Arushi Jain
93
Vegyn, Somewhere Press
94 Yosa
Peit
95 Meat
Beat Manifesto & Merzbow, Jane Weaver,
Gudrun Gut
96 Dana
Gavanski, Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz,
FUJI||||||||||TA
97
‘Rusty Egan Presents The Blitz Club’, Air
98
Cédric Pin & Glen Johnson
112
Editor
Push
Deputy
Editor
Mark
Roland
Art
Editor
Mark
Hall
Features
Editor
Velimir
Ilic
Front
Editor
Isaak
Lewis-Smith
Reviews
Editor
Claire
Francis
Artworker
Joel
Benjamin
Sub
Editors
Gill
Mullins
Susie
Dawes
Published
By
Pam
Communications Limited
Studio
18, Capitol House,
Higham
Street, Norwich, NR2 4TE
Contributors
Jeremy
Aleen, Joe Banks, Imogen Bebb, Ian Berriman, Scott Blixen, Claire Carroll, Paul
Clarke, Joe Clay, Betham Cole, Stephen Dalton, Bob Fischer, Ben Gilbert, Ian
Gittins, Carl Griffin, Robert Harris, Jo Hutton, Martin James, Jo Kendall, Andy
Lineham, Neil Mason, Finley Milligan, Ben Murphy, Kris Needs, Sharon O’Connell,
Matt Parker, David Pollock, Chris Roberts, Fat Roland, Will Salmon, Joe Silva,
Dave Simpson, Will Simpson, Mat Smith, Anton Spice, William Stokes, James
Tornhill, Anthony Thornton, Neil Thomson, Spenser Tomson, Oli Warwick, Ben
Wilmott, Jonathan Wright.
Welcome
To Electronic Sound
As
you’ve probably worked out from the big numbers on the cover, we are rewinding
back to 1981 for this month’s lead feature. We’ve been working on it for a
while, ever since we first got wind of ‘Moving Away From The Pulsebeat:
Post-Punk Britain 1977-1981’, a five-CD boxset on Cherry Red. It came out at
the end of March, so you’ll find it in the shops now. It’s jam-packed with gems
and the choice of tracks – 105 of them in total – sparked a lot of discussion
in the Electronic Sound. Especially the selections for 1981, the end point for
the collection.
Two
years after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister and four years out from the
heyday of punk, 1981 was a year of tremendous tension in the UK – politically,
socially and culturally. Many of the country’s inner cities experienced a
large-scale rioting in April and July, with pitched battles between angry
youths and the police on the streets of London, Birmingham, Liverpool,
Manchester, Leeds and elsewhere. Still, who cared about things like high
unemployment, poor housing and systemic racism? Not when there was the pomp and
glitz of Charles and Diana’s wedding to enjoy on the telly.
When it
came to music, one of the talking points of 1981 was the ever-increasing number
of synthpop bands breaking into the UK mainstream charts, many of them climbing
to the dizzying heights of the Top 10. At the same time, though, there was a
dramatic surge in new independent talent, with the post-punk, industrial, goth
rock, electro-dub, jangly pop, agit-prop, avant-jazz, mutant disco and so many
more – and artists putting out their records on both established indies and
previously unknown labels.
It all
added up to an epic year for electronic, groovy, experimental and just plain
brilliant music – whichever tribe you belonged to – and we’re telling the story
of 1981 through 101 milestone releases, both singles and albums (and a couple
of tapes). We think we’ve done a pretty good job but, as is the nature of these
beasts, we’ll no doubt have neglected to include one or two of your favourites.
At which point, we’d like to apologise to long-time ES reader Al Hine of
Kirkwall for leaving The Flying Lizards’ ‘Fourth Wall’ album off the final
list, although we hope he’ll be pleased to see Vivien Goldman in there. Talk to
you on the socials soon, Al.
We have
some fantastic interviews elsewhere in the issue too, including Electribe 101
singer Billie Ray Martin, I Monster men Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling, and
avant-garde pioneer Dorothy Moskowitz, Man Parrish gives us the inside skinny
on ‘Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop), Saint Etienne Bob Stanley mulls over his
influences, and cartoonist Savage Pencil walks us through his cover art for The
Fall’s ‘Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul’. Which, by the way, is the first track on
‘Avant 81’, the seven-inch EP we’re bundling with the magazine this month.
You’ve got your copy of that, right? Turn to page 6 if you haven’t!
Visage –
‘Fade To Grey’
The
Clash – ‘Sandinista’
Various
– ‘Some Bizzare Album’
Talking
Heads – ‘Remain In Light’
Blondie
– ‘Rapture’
Freeez –
‘Southern Freeez’
Various
– ‘C81’
Brian
Eno and David Byrne – ‘ My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’
Ultravox
– ‘Vienna’
Depeche
Mode – Dreaming Of Me’
Toyah –
‘Four From Toyah’
Clock
DVA – ‘Thirst’
Various
– ‘New Age Steppers’
Landscape
– ‘Einstein A Go-Go’
The
Stranglers – ‘The Gospel According The Meninblack’
New
Order – ‘Ceremony’
Orange
Juice – ‘Poor Old Soul’
Linx –
‘Intuition’
British
Electric Foundation – ‘Music For Stowaways’
Kim
Carnes – ‘Bette Davies Eyes’
Spandau
Ballet – ‘Journeys To Glory’
Bauhaus
– ‘Kick In The Eye’
Yellow
Magic Orchestra – ‘BGM’
Public
Image Ltd – ‘The Flowers Of Romance’
The Fall
– ‘Slates’
Funkadelic
– ‘The Electric Spanking Of War Babies’
The Cure
– ‘Faith’
Imagination
– Body Talk’
XMAL
Deutschland – ‘Schwerze Welt’
The
Birthday Party – ‘Prayers On Fire’
Modern
English – ‘Mesh & Lace’
Kraftwerk
– ‘Computer World’
Deutsch
Amerikanische Freundschaft – ‘Alles Is Gut’
Grace
Jones – ‘Nightclubbing’
A
Certain Ratio – ‘To Each…’
Echo &
The Bunnymen – ‘Heaven Up Here’
Au Pairs
– ‘Playing With A Different Sex’
Fire
Engines – ‘Lubricate Your Living Room’
Jean-Michel
Jarre – ‘Les Chants Magnétiques’
Pigbag –
‘Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag’
Siouxsie
And The Banshees – ‘Juju’
Throbbing
Gristle – ‘Discipline’
Jah
Wobble – ‘Fading - Nocturnal’
Various
– ‘Mutant Disco’ (Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Coati Mundi, Material, Was
(Not) Was
Vivien
Goldman – ‘Dirty Washing’
The
Raincoats – ‘Odyshape’
Blurt –
‘The Fish Needs A Bike’
Killing
Joke – ‘What’s THIS For…!’
Soft
Cell – ‘Tainted Love’
Jon
& Vangelis – ‘’The Friends Of Mr. Cairo’
John
Carpenter – ‘Escape From New York’
Josef K
– ‘The Only Fun In Town’
Wah! –
‘Nah=Poo – The Art Of Bluff’
The
Higsons – ‘I Don’t Want To Live With Monkeys’
Maximum
Joy – ‘Stretch’
The
Specials – ‘Ghost Town’
Duran
Duran – ‘Girls On Film’
Gary
Numan – ‘She’s Got Claws’
Simple
Minds – ‘Sons And Fascination / Sister Feelings Call’
Altered
Images – ‘Happy Birthday’
Cluster
– ‘Curiosum’
Herbie
Hancock – ‘Magic Windows’
Roger
Troutman – ‘The Many Facets Of Roger’
The
Comsat Angels – ‘Sleep No More’
Thomas
Leer – ‘4 Movements’
Cabaret
Voltaire – ‘Red Mecca’
Heaven
17 – ‘Penthouse And Pavement’
John
Foxx – ‘The Garden’
Devo –
‘New Tradiotionalists’
This
Heat – ‘Deceit’
Pete
Shelley – ‘Homosapien’
Annie
Anxiety – Barbed Wire Halo’
Girls At
Our Best! – ‘Pleasure’
Grandmaster
Flash – ‘The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Street’
The
Slits – ‘Return Of The Giant Slits’
The
Human League – ‘Dare’
Depeche
Mode – ‘Speak & Spell’
Einstürzende
Neubauten – ‘Kollaps’
Scritti
Politti – ‘The Sweetest Girl’
Junior
Giscombe – Mama Used To Say’
Bow Bow
Bow – ‘’C-30 C-60 C-90’
Haircut
100 – Favouriter Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)’
Virgin
Prunes – ‘A New Form Of Beauty’
The Fall
– ‘Slates’
Soft
Cell – ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’
New
Order – ‘Movement’
Orchestral
Manoeuvres In The Dark – ‘Architecture & Morality’
Gang Of
Four – ‘He’d Send In The Army’
Japan –
‘Tin Drum’
Daryl
Hall & John Oates – ‘I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)’
Fad Gadget
– ‘Incontinent’
The
Durutti Column – ‘LC’
The
Sound – ‘From The Lion’s Mouth’
The
Human League – ‘Don’t You Want Me’
Various –
‘’Dancin’ Master’
Abba – ‘The
Visitors’
Mobiles –
‘Drowning In Berlin’
Glenn
Branca – ‘The Ascension’
Chas
Jankel – ‘Chasanova’
Various –
‘Modern Dance’
Joy
Division – ‘Atmosphere’
