Electronic Sound Magazine Issue 116 Retour à l'édition précédente

One of the biggest synthpop stars of the 1980s, Thomas Dolby is coming towards the end of a lengthy live tour to mark the 40th anniversary reissue of ‘The Flat Earth’. He’s spent the last few weeks criss-crossing North America and is now in the UK for more dates later this month. He talks a lot about the album in our cover feature, but there is still plenty of time for a stream of hugely entertaining and often hilarious stories, involving everyone from David Bowie to Prince to The Muppets. No wonder writer Bob Fischer says Dolby is ‘‘the perfect interviewee’’. You don’t want to miss a single word of this.

Keep turning the pages and you’ll also uncover ambitronic voyager Banco De Gaia, hotly tipped electronics-meets-jazz-meets-dub collective Ishmael Ensemble, and post-punk innovators This Heat. Plus Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat, experimental shape-shifter Boris Hauf, avant-goth trio Tristwch Y Fenywod, and unflinching future-pop producer Julie-Sophie. We have an article about the Castlemorton Common Festival too, which took place in 1992 and is the UK’s most infamous illegal rave. It lasted for several days and many of those who attended still haven’t come down yet.