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HELLO WELCOME TO ELECTRONIC SOUND 21 EDITOR PUSH @PUSHTWEETING DEPUTY EDITOR MARK ROLAND @MARKROLAND101 ART EDITOR MARK HALL @HELLOMARKHALL COMMISSIONING EDITOR NEIL MASON @NEIL_MASON EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FINLAY MILLIGAN @FINMILLIGAN CONTRIBUTORS STEVE APPLETON, SEAN COEN, BETHAN COLE, STEPHEN DALTON, GEORGE FAIRBAIRN, COSMO GODFREE, CARL GRIFFIN, ANDREW HOLMES, VELIMIR ILIC, JO KENDALL, SOPHIE LITTLE, KRIS NEEDS, WENDY ROBY, FAT ROLAND, SAM ROSE, MAT SMITH, JOOLS STONE, DAVID STUBBS, BRIAN SWEENEY, NICK TAYLOR, NEIL THOMSON, ED WALKER, ROBERT WEBB, BEN WILLMOTT ADVERTISING [email protected] 01603 951 280 SUBSCRIPTIONS ELECTRONICSOUND.CO.UK/SUBSCRIBE [email protected] 01778 392 462 PUBLISHED BY PAM COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED STUDIO 18, CAPITOL HOUSE, HEIGHAM STREET, NORWICH NR2 4TE, UNITED KINGDOM © Electronic Sound 2016. No part of this magazine may be used or reproduced in any way without the prior written consent of the publisher. We may occasionally use material we believe has been placed in the public domain. Sometimes it is not possible to identify and contact the copyright holder. If you claim ownership of something published by us, we will be happy to make the correct acknowledgement. All information is believed to be correct at the time of publication and we cannot accept responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies there may be in that information. WWW.ELECTRONICSOUND.CO.UK FACEBOOK.COM/ELECTRONICMAGAZINE TWITTER.COM/ELECTRONICMAGUK WITH THANKS TO OUR PATRONS: MARK FORDYCE, GINO OLIVIERI, DARREN NORTON, MAT KNOX he analogue Electronic Sound has landed. Whether you’re new to Electronic Sound or you’ve been with us throughout the last three years, when we’ve been published as a digital-only magazine, hello and welcome. If this is your first time with us, let’s catch you up. Electronic Sound is mostly about music made with machines, but we feature any artists we find interesting – electronic or otherwise. It’s a state of mind more than anything. We’re into time travel too, journeying back to the earliest days of electronic music experiments and stopping off at significant points along the way, as well as occasionally dabbling in the wider world of technology and ideas. Oh, and we like robots (one thing tends to lead to another, we find). Electronic music has always been associated with forward-thinking types and Electronic Sound reflects that curiosity, capturing the best of what’s going on right now and what’s about to happen. This time round, we’ve got a fascinating insight into the life of Dr Robert Moog, the man who gave us the synthesiser, through a lengthy and highly personal interview with his daughter, Michelle MoogKoussa. Michelle runs the Bob Moog Foundation and is currently working on a film about her father. Staying in the formative days of synth history, we also have a piece about the ‘Bright Sparks’ album and documentary, which details the stories of the likes of Alan Pearlman of ARP, Don Buchla, EMS man Peter Zinovieff, and Les Bradley of Mellotron fame. Elsewhere, we visit Vince Clarke in his Brooklyn studio to talk about the record he’s made with Paul Hartnoll from Orbital, catch up with James Chapman of Maps and Polly Scattergood for a chat about their haunting ‘onDeadWaves’ album, pausing only for breath before meeting Floorplan, aka Detroit techno legend Robert Hood and his daughter Lyric, and then go on to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the groundbreaking neo-classical label 130701. We’ve got New Zealand electropop queen Ladyhawke too and Robin Scott of M talkin’ ’bout ‘Pop Muzik’, plus our regular contributors Synthesiser Dave, Jack Dangers and Fat Roland, who between them will meet all your technical, archival and, erm, deranged reading requirements. From now on, you’ll be able to find Electronic Sound in high street newsagents across the UK (and one or two other places around the world). If you would like to to save yourself quite a lot of money and quite a lot of time, you can have the magazine delivered directly to you door by taking out a subscription. And if you’re in the UK, we have an introductory subscription offer, with which you can bag the next three issues for a total of just £4.99 (postage included). Pop over to electronicsound.co.uk/subscribe for more information.  We won’t keep you any longer. This magazine isn’t going to read itself. T Electronically yours Push & Mark 3