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Electronic SoundGearSoho Electronic returns for its second year A 12-hour exploration of avant-electronic and experimental music in central London

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Electronic SoundGearLonelady album announcement alongside ‘Groove It Out’ video release LoneLady a.k.a Julie Campbell announces new album 'Hinterland Home Recordings' via Warp on January 29th

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Electronic SoundGearIt’s All About Vinyl Episode 22 In this episode, Electronic Sound magazine founders discuss the stoned and naked shenanigans of krautrock legends Faust, the bizarre link between indie champs The Yummy Fur and rap god LL Cool…

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Electronic SoundGearIt’s All About Vinyl Episode 21 In this episode Push returns, and talks to his Electronic Sound magazine co-founder Mark Roland about Dollar, which seems to be a popular topic, including their contribution to a Gary Numan track...

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Electronic SoundGearIt’s All About Vinyl Episode 20 In this episode, Electronic Sound co-founder Mark Roland chats to e.m.arson about her debut album, being released on the Electronic Sound label, and delves into a selection of her record and book…

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Electronic SoundGearIt’s All About Vinyl Episode 19 In this episode, Electronic Sound co-founder Mark Roland chats to his bandmate Paul Thompson about the forthcoming re-release of their band Globo's 1995 debut LP 'Pro…

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Electronic SoundGearOwn a Piece of Audio History Born of a visionary partnership between acoustic designer Ojas and Klipsch, the limited edition kO-R2 two-way multisectoral loudspeaker represents the pinnacle of audio collaboration...

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Electronic SoundGearMcChunky and Kenneth Spatula More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is Flash Animation

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Electronic SoundGearEP-4 ‘Found Tapes’ (Telegraph, 1984) "Spinning out of a scene centred around the Kyoto venue Club Modern, EP-4 were formed by local musician Kaoru Sato in 1980..."

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Electronic SoundGearEric Random ‘That’s What I Like About Me’ This month, resident archivist Jack Dangers focuses on ‘That’s What I Like About Me’, a Cabaret Voltaire-adjacent album by Eric Random from 1980

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· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

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How records get made in 2026 from the industry's own reports

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About

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.