Electronic Sound  |  Issue 111
We're rewinding back to the glory days of The Blitz Club for this month's Electronic Sound cover story and we've got a superb purple vinyl seven-inch three-track EP featuring Blitz favourites John Foxx, Vice Versa and Gina X Performance to accompany the magazine.
Founded by Rusty Egan and Steve Strange in 1979, Blitz was key to the development of electronic music in the UK, acting as a catalyst for the new romantic movement along the way, and we've compiled a fascinating oral history of the legendary London club by talking to some of the key figures on the scene. As well as Rusty himself, we have contributions from Billy Currie, Robert Elms, Princess Julia, Mark Moore, Richard James Burgess, Caryn Franklin, Chris Sullivan, Philip Sallon and Steve Dagger. A gripping read from start to finish, packed with entertaining anecdotes and illustrated by lots of brilliant photos, we think this might be one of the best pieces we've ever published.
There's plenty of good stuff elsewhere in the issue as well, of course, including interviews with former Sonic Youth head girl Kim Gordon and self-styled "multi-dimensional creative dissidents" Lost Souls Of Saturn. Plus the anarchic and provocative Paranoid London, ex-Xmal Deutschland singer Anja Huwe, Eno's friend and associate William Doyle, Ninja Tune producer Forest Swords, Detroit techno luminary Robert Hood, and the prolific yet still largely unknown Woo, who have been crafting their wonderfully oddball electronica for more than five decades. That's got to be worth a gold star, right? Woohoo!!
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Electronic Sound Issue 111.