Brighton-based duo TENEK first came to our attention with their debut album Stateless in 2009. Their distinctive sound, combining hard-edged electro with catchy synth pop hooks won them a legion of admirers.

Geoff Pinckney and Peter Steer, who together make up TENEK, are themselves massive fans of the genre, and their influences past and present shine through in their music. Now they return with a brand new album, On the Wire. More inside »

News came today of THE HUMAN LEAGUE's first album in over nine years as it was being mastered at The Exchange in London by Mike Marsh.

Marsh's previous credits have included DEPECHE MODE and THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS but also THE HUMAN LEAGUE's last album Secrets in 2001.

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"After buckets of blood, tears and gold and emptying the contents of our hearts, it is now over. We feel proud to announce that we will call our child Happiness. "... that was how HURTS announced the arrival of their debut long player. Consisting of singer Theo Hutchcraft and instrumentalist Adam Anderson, melancholic optimism and music of distinct quality remain their passion and goal.

Following a period of relative inactivity using the 'less means more' philosophy, HURTS have finally allowed the public hear what the fuss has been all about following the appearance of the monochromatic viral video of Wonderful Life over a year ago. With approval from no-less than Claudia Brücken of PROPAGANDA whose Dr. Mabuse was a big influence on the track, Wonderful Life has no less impact now even in slightly remixed form and remains electrifyingly elegant. Like most of the Happiness album, it is also has a distinctly European sound. More inside »

CLAUDIA BRÜCKEN is the undoubted queen of electronic avant-pop. Her distinctive ice maiden cool vocal delivery with hints of classic MARLENE DIETRICH and wispy NICO more than suited the glorious European film noir sound of PROPAGANDA, the Düüsseldorf quartet in which she first came to prominence.

Together with Susanne Freytag, Michael Mertens and Ralf Dörper, their songs such as Dr. Mabuse, Duel and P.Machinery were fine examples of how new digital technology could be utilised to produce accessible neo-industrial pop music with a chilling edge. Their 1985 ZTT album A Secret Wish gained a legion of prominent fans including DEPECHE MODE's Martin Gore and MICHAEL JACKSON's producer QUINCY JONES who borrowed their influential sound for the Bad album. More inside »

Neu! 86 (formally Neu! 4), an aborted reunion of founder members Michael Rother and the late Klaus Dinger in the mid-80s has now finally been issued officially as a separate entity on CD and LP via Grönland Records. It was originally released on the Japanese Captain Trip label in 1995 without Rother's consent.

Following Dinger's death in 2008, the album has been reworked from original multitrack tapes by Rother with the blessing of Dinger's widow Miki Yui. With the end result, Rother has now referred to this collection as "our fourth studio album". More inside »

Featuring:
RUSTY EGAN - R.E.R.B.
BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT - Love Part II
AU REVOIR SIMONE - Tell Me
MIRRORS - Ways To An End

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VILE ELECTRODES are a colourful trio consisting of Anais Neon, Loz Tronic and Martin Swan who formed due to an unhealthy obsession with analogue synthesizers and a desire to escape reality through dressing up.

And dress up they do. They also describe themselves "Vulgar - Eloquent, Vitriolic - Electronic, Vintage - Embittered, Visceral - Epicurean, Vague - Ephemeral." More inside »

Gary Langan, along with JJ Jeczalik, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn and Paul Morley is one of the founder members of THE ART OF NOISE. Cutting his teeth in music working as a tape op with renowned producers Mike Stone and Roy Thomas Baker for QUEEN, he later progressed to being assistant engineer for THE BOOMTOWN RATS.

In 1979 he met Trevor Horn, then of BUGGLES and engineered their album The Age Of Plastic which featured the No1 single Video Killed The Radio Star. More inside »

SHH are Diana Huarte and Daniel Gorostegui. Hailing originally from the party city of Buenos Aires, SHH create stylish, intelligent electronic pop that's crammed with big tunes and rampages through everything from Italo to indie, house to punk.

They have already released two albums SHH and Gaucho Boy via the in Argentine indie label Oui Oui Records. With an exciting year in the offing, SHH are about to unleash their first UK product with Wonderful Night and Tiger coupled together as a lushly packaged seven inch vinyl single. More inside »

Zang Tuum Tumb was a label financed by Island Records and named after FT Marinetti's sound poem. Its arch strategist Paul Morley talked gleefully of his belief in "the beauty of the pop single".

Together with his ZTT partners-in-crime producer Trevor Horn and manager Jill Sinclair, they became key to a marketing strategy that changed the course of pop music.
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