Sequences Magazine

Happy New Year to all our friends & listeners from the team, Mike, Andy and, of course, our host, Karen. Moving house over Christmas has been a busy time for me. Now in temporary accommodation with my daughter & son-in-law before another move later in the year back to the UK. Since starting Sequences in a cupboard (yes, you heard it right) with just a cassette machine, I have come full circle bein...

Now you’ve gorged yourself on the festive spirit, and your loved ones drag some of you to those Boxing Day bargain sales. It’s time for the music with another special edition featuring VoLt, with band members Michael Shipway & Steve Smith’s solo & various projects. Two of my close friends in this genre have enjoyed each other’s company, especially on many memorable excursions to Germany & Holland...

This month’s first edition will be our last podcast featuring a full lineup of different musicians, with the finale for this year just before the Christmas holiday, another special on a well-respected band and their various solo and other projects. We are back with a more upbeat selection here, including melodic sequential music and several Berlin School-influenced tracks. Only one new name, B. As...

Those who join us for the first time on Sequences are Terminus Void’s ambient music from Seattle-based American musician. Peruvian avant-garde artist Manongo Mujica uses a fusion of electronics and cello percussion, creating a sound montage of immersive, hypnotic atmospheres. Two from Projekt, Alain Elettronico remixes from the label’s artists, uptempo melodies & rhythm-driven tracks and Swedish c...

After several years buried in books, manuals, patch cables and messing with a DIY synth, JakoJako (real name Sibel Koçer) was playing her first live sets in Berlin, spending every spare cent on Eurorack modules. The trio Emeralds with soaring sounds stylistically indebted to deep German electronic music pioneers. ACTIVE DARK FILAMENT is a Canadian electronic music artist creating textured cinemati...

Just a quick intro: this will be the only edition this month due to being very busy with other projects, but an extended one, covering another hour of diverse electronic sounds. Most of the albums featured are new releases from previous musicians & bands who have over the years been with us on Sequences since our journey started podcasting in 2012. It’s quite a line-up here. We won’t go into detai...

Our lineup in this issue includes the third volume of their benefit compilation of Various Artists From Ukraine, now 19 months since Russia invaded with no end in sight. Ambient space music, performed by David Luxton, was inspired by astronomy and celestial themes. His mission is to make transcendent music from the inner and outer worlds. Modular synthesis Ombre Cohen experimenting with semi-modul...

We kick off this edition with Robert Schroeder’s new release, ‘Into The Light’, drifting away into dream worlds by letting yourself be beamed into other dimensions with space effects, mysterious spheres, deep strings and dreamy melodies. Erik Wollo returns with an assemblage of acoustic guitars. Erik says everything you hear is acoustic, with no synths used on the new album ‘Cloud Of Strings’. One...

It’s always a pleasure to introduce musicians in Mick’s domain of Australia, which includes a relatively new composer on the scene, Matt Goodluck, who has a long history in the music business and is also a member of Australia’s largest Pink Floyd tribute act, Echoes of Pink Floyd as lead vocalist and tours nationwide. Cinematic ambient composer Paul Headon, a.k.a DREAMSCAPIST new album ‘Mind Space...

Hope you all enjoyed the last edition, delving into the music of Bas Broekhuis Detlef Keller & Mario Schonwalder, more specials are to come later in the year. Now it’s back to our usual look at new releases from those musicians we featured over the years, including the epic journey-style album called ‘Oracle’ from David Wright & vocalist Carys, the calm & relaxing atmosphere in an ambient universe...

Feat: Thomas Fanger: Frank Rothe: Klaus Hoffman Hoch: Lutz Graf Ulbrich: Raughi Ebert: Thomas Kagermann: Frank Rothe: Frank Specht: Gerd Wienekamp: Dedicated to the Memory of Thomas Fanger 1962-2022 & Klaus Hoffman Hock 1951-2017 Download Bios: https://we.tl/t-IO2wh9Hc4x Playlist B.K.S. Playlist 00.00 Detlef Keller & Mario Schonwalder ‘Another Temptation’ (album The Two Piece Box) *** 11.29 Broekh...

It’s great to see the feedback from some of you who enjoyed the Modular/vintage edition. Now, back to our usual look at recent new releases, with another round of superlative sounds from musicians based around the globe. Seven new names added to the list include, Under Water Sleep Orchestra, a nightmarish trip within blurry worlds and a nostalgic journey of dark ambient with a cinematic edge. The...

In this 4-hour special, we focus on musicians who have used new modular & vintage synths in their studios, with tracks taken from the 80s to the present day, which have been featured on various editions of our previous podcasts. Modular synths, once considered virtually obsolete, have been one of the most surprising growth areas in music technology over the last decade. The main appeal to musician...

With many recent releases, this edition gives us more ambient electro-acoustic & downtempo music, including two pioneering musicians from the 80s to the present day. Steve Roach with the 20th anniversary of ‘Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, where the label Projekt collects all four parts into a single release — close to five hours of electronic ambient music, which allows the listener blissful hours...

We welcome eight new acts to Sequences, including Christine Ott’s two bands, The Cry, an improvising trio with multiple textures & the duo Snowdrops, a unique combination of contemporary classical, jazz, electronic music and film score. With her distinctive voice Amaya (Maud Of Moth), a Madrid born residing in Edinburgh, dances all over her deftly woven compositions. Not using a name but numbers 5...

Only one edition this month due to moving my daughter & son-in-law out of my place into their newly renovated home. Meanwhile, I present our first Sequences audio tape from 1992 remastered was born from the demise of the UK Electronic music audio magazine, Inkeys and the short-lived Syntrax. Our debut edition, released in 1992, was the only one mastered on audio cassette, which, unfortunately, is...

With a third of the year already gone by, the so-called pandemic has quietly dropped out from the main media news, but more worrying is the war continuing in Ukraine with no end in sight. As you know, we’ve supported Ukraine & Russian musicians with no malice to the latter, any music from them kept out of the politics of this war. The lineup for this edition is mostly names that have appeared befo...

As always, we are governed by the releases that come in every month; we’ve certainly had our fair share this time of ambient, symphonic, neo-classical & experimental stuff for this podcast. In addition to what would have been Vangelis’s 80th birthday, there are tributes from Michael Neil on his album ‘Into Infinity’, & Aural Films, with thirty-seven artists from around the world who have contribut...

Sequences Playlist No 3 1.00 Holle Mangler 'Apocalyptic Dance' (album Eternal Dimension) www.groove.nl 7.45 Martino Vergnaghi 'Walk Young Pilgrim' (unreleased) https://yellowroserecords.bandcamp.com 10.59 Ion 'Blues For A Red Planet’ (unreleased) 17.09 Eric Van Der Heijden 'Tempo Rubato' (album Da Capo) www.groove.nl 22.41 Mark Jenkins 'Mexico Rising’ (album Mexico Rising) *** edit www.markjenkins...

As we said in the past, our podcasts are not like DJ mixes. We are here to promote electronic music showcasing so many different genres in that field, which is sometimes challenging and thought-provoking, featuring mostly up-to-date new releases. Our analogue/modular section includes the musician Hélène Vogelsinger, with her second part in the Metaphysical Alteration series of four sessions, takin...

As our support for the unjustified war in Ukraine started over a year ago, we decided to feature a few musicians from that country in this latest edition. Zavoloka's experimental work began with that inspiration from British ‘90s electronic music, which is still a key influence for her, but she’s expanded into the world of field recordings with strong driving rhythms. You won’t necessarily be able...

Ten years ago, our podcasts were released on iTunes. We’ve had many requests from listeners who didn’t like using iTunes, saying they would like to hear early shows not available on any of the music sites we published on now (Soundcloud is popular). Your voices have been answered. Over time we will bring the missing podcasts up to date on those websites. Sequences playlist No 2 1.00 Ron Boots ‘The...

Back to our usual edition for this month with a look at the latest releases. From Lisa Bella Donna’s crystalline images on the modular synthesizer systems to Harald Nies classic electronic music with space-rock elements. Erik Wollo’s single, an EP of remixes, is an exquisite collection of moods and emotions, ranging from vigorous and earthy to mesmerizing evocative. A heady mixture of an epic tour...

Ian Boddy has been at the forefront of the UK electronic music scene since 1983, when he both performed at the very first UK Electronica Festival in Milton Keynes and released his first vinyl album, The Climb. The formation of his DiN label in 1999 allowed Ian to actively collaborate with a wide variety of musicians as well as release music from other artists and celebrate its 100th release in 202...

Ian Boddy has been at the forefront of the UK electronic music scene since 1983, when he both performed at the very first UK Electronica Festival in Milton Keynes and released his first vinyl album, The Climb. The formation of his DiN label in 1999 allowed Ian to actively collaborate with a wide variety of musicians as well as release music from other artists and celebrate its 100th release in 202...