Where is the line between self-belief and delusion, confidence and arrogance? Where do you have to ban borderline banter and chatty becomes simply catty? Coiled on the musical eve of the release of their second album, confidently entitled ‘Empire’, they are wrought with nervous energy.

Welcome to ‘Teachings From The Electronic Brain’, a retrospective audio-montage that maps out the complex labyrinth of time, space, motion and sound described by The Future Sound Of London. Two men, six years, twelve records. A whole bunch of past. Oodles of future…

Basement Jaxx

Scratch Perverts

I am on the set of the video for their new single ‘Hush Boy’, the kind of cheekily euphoric pop record with which their name has long been synonymous. Elsewhere are Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, the Jaxx, 12 years in the game and still going strong

Sonic Youth

Left Wanting Moore

There’s something rather strange about Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore as he walks into a small café in the Soho district of his legendary hometown, New York City. Maybe it’s his mopped hair, black-rim glasses, and gold cassette tape hanging from a chain around his neck.