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I picked up a copy of the new Electronic Music magazine yesterday.It's a bit steep at £7.99 but at least it covers the kind of music that we all love.There's an interview with John discussing important infuences in his life. There's also a positive but factually incorrect review of Brilliant and a brief interview with Midge.Plus there's stuff on Gary Numan,Kraftwerk,Human League,Underworld etc.There's an accompanying cd which contains many of the usual suspects. Mr X is included by Ultravox. Definately worth checking out.

..and it looks like MOJO is trying to 'compete' too ...

http://cover.mojo4music.com/Item.aspx?pageNo=1839&year=2012

FREE CD! ELECTRICITY: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE OF SOUND: Compiled by Mute’s Daniel Miller and starring Can, Moby, Throbbing Gristle, LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Caberet Voltaire and many more!

ELECTRONIC 50: From Neu! to Hot Chip, Brian Eno to Burial, MOJO writers pick the most important tracks of the mechanical age. Plus: Terry Riley, Manuel Göttsching, Derrick May, Alex Paterson, Martin Gore and Alexis Taylor report from the front-line of the digital music revolution.

Thanks for the heads up on that - this one I will look into.

A couple of interesting side-features on MOJO's site:
Andy McCluskey's favourite electro tracks
and
Martyn Ware's .. he puts three of his own songs in!

Picked up the new Mojo on the way to work this morning. At a glance it looks interesting although the '50 great electro records' list is a bit odd and unexpected, with an unacceptable absence of Foxx.

I saw both magazines side-by-side in WH Smiths the other day. One just seems to have morphed into the other - is Electronic a MOJO magazine for the New-Wave/Romantics or is MOJO magazine a magazine this month for the New-Wave/Romantics?

Either way - where's all the new stuff? Where's all the new electronic artists? It all seems to end sometime around 1993.

You expect this from MOJO - that's what it's there for. But I'm not sure what Electronic magazine is all about. If that's its first issue, it's a very expensive and sorry looking one.

I didn't buy the Electronic one on the grounds it was:
1. far too expensive for a magazine
2. not many pages
3. sealed, so I couldn't look at it

I am looking forward to seeing what Jarre has to say and reading the Bowie feature in Mojo, which is really what I bought it for. Not that it will contain anything new (as these things never do), but it makes a refreshing change to have a feature on one of my favourite Bowie periods, rather than Ziggy bloody Stardust.

The list of albums though will probably be ignored, as it'll only anger me!

Well I like it, so there!

Cover to cover it will take awhile to read through, and if it wasn't for the Foxx feature I probably wouldn't have bothered.
But I recognise its only OK, and for anyone with any real depth of knowledge and appreciation of the 'genre' (??) it is rather superficial. Covers a lot of ground though

I have already enjoyed the interview with Mark Jones and the piece on Dare.

But I must say that choosing a music mag each month is not an easy one. Unusual for me to buy two in a go, but there it is.
Fascinating contrast but both a good enough read.

(the other title I have this month is Classic Rock, as if you couldn't have guessed)

One thing that has been 'confirmed ' if you like in my head (evidence by this new mag) is that I'm not REALLY into electronic music as a genre specifically.
Bands like Underworld, Aphex Twin etc have never really done that much for me and a lot of the 80s plinky-plonky passed me by (especially the 'pop' tunes of Erasure, OMD, Human League...)

So that's 'quite interesting'. I always define my taste to non-musos as 'electronic music' but in point of fact I'm more interested in 'experimental' music - anything that challenges definition and seeks out new pathways. A majority of the music I actually BUY is not what this mag would define as 'electronic'.

Just a ramble. As you were! :-D

Oh, and by the way

You can read what Chi Ming Lai of The Electricity Club has to say about the mag here:

http://www.electricity-club.co.uk/blog/?page_id=8693

I agree with him. Longer term, this could go somewhere.
First issue is expensive, generic but promising

*Apparently* you get the Electronic magazine on download via the Future Music app, for 4.99 . .which is still a bit steep I reckon ..
http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/id451416904?mt=8&affId=1736887