Sequences Magazine

The music we play is always governed by the new releases we receive, again a very varied selection, including the chill-out downtempo music of Thomas Lemmer, his unmistakable compositional signature sound. Relaxing symphonic scores of remixes from Stan Dart. On Winter Light Label, Rapoon & the duo Onasander & Ashtoreth give us ritualistic dark ambient & long form drones. Extremely dense and hypnot...

Happy New year to you all, and welcome to our first edition of 2023, the eleventh year online. I hope you had a great time over Christmas and New Year Festivities. After losing two of the legends in electronic music in 2022, Vangelis & Klaus Schulze, it came as a shock to all of us to hear Manuel Gottshing had passed away on December 4th, regarded as one of the finest guitarists to come out of the...

it’s time to say goodbye to another year with our final edition of 2022. From the team, Mick, Mike, Andy & Karan, big thanks to all the musicians & labels for their support throughout the year and our worldwide listeners. Have a Happy Christmas & New Year. Download bio pages: https://sequencesmagazinecom.wetransfer.com/downloads/8c605112795ee8958149aad8b5a4336420221209085214/c97d4def45aaa6687a7a3f...

It’s been a busy month again outside the music scene and with so many promos coming our way, decided that in the time we had between other projects would compile & release together two separate editions for November, giving us a breather for our last sessions of the year in December. The first podcast, no 221, features melodic uptempo music, progressive, sequential & energetic, with Berlin School-...

It’s been a busy month again outside the music scene and with so many promos coming our way, decided that in the time we had between other projects would compile & release together two separate editions for November, giving us a breather for our last sessions of the year in December. The first podcast, no 221, features melodic uptempo music, progressive, sequential & energetic, with Berlin School-...

Ten years ago, our podcasts were released on iTunes. We’ve had many requests from listeners who didn’t use 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 with the very first edition. Over time we will bring the missing podcasts up to date on those websites. Sequences was born out...

With Mick being occupied with other commitments, this will be the only edition for this month. You know what to expect, music to please the ears and heart. Most of the artists you recognise preview their new albums and tunes. Just a few new names on this latest podcast. Sébastien Guérive with his new single "Omega VI”, an extension of the album composed during the period of creation of the live sh...

Ron Boots is among the most engaging Electronic Musicians ever exporting music from The Netherlands. Since the late 1980s, his work has been rooted in the Berlin School yet reaches far beyond the basic fundamentals of the genre. Combining elements of Contemporary Instrumental, Film Soundtracks and Spacemusic, Boots' music moves easily between the mainstream and the cosmic. In 1995, together with K...

Andy, our team member, is finding it hard on his memory which is understandable after having a stroke, to carry on trying to update the website for the time being. I will post the bios as PDFs on our Facebook group page, giving time for Andy to improve. Always a pleasure to welcome new faces to the long line of musicians we’ve had on our podcasts since 2012. Los Angeles-based artist and producer C...

SEQUENCES PODCAST NO 217 The good news is Andy, our team member, is steadily improving and has now managed to update the podcast page on our website. Welcome to the musicians on Sequences airing their music for the first time, and we have two stars that are worlds apart in their professions. Legendary vocalist and highly acclaimed film composer Lisa Gerrard has joined forces with Los Angeles-based...

I hope you all enjoyed our 80’s UK edition, with many hours of research going into tracing back musicians in that decade and trying to gather information from those who suddenly stopped making music in later years. We feature twenty-two new album releases, many names you know already, who have given us excellent sounds throughout their musical careers. Representing their debut on Sequences are Nox...

This podcast is dedicated to those pioneering bands/musicians, of the UK Electronic/Synthesist movement in the 80s, with a selection of tracks from that decade. PLAYLIST 01.00 Mark Shreeve ‘Assassin’ (album Assassin) 1984 https://www.cd-services.com/markshreeve.htm 12.04 Wavestar ‘Cabala’ (album Moonwind) 1987 https://johndysonwavestar.bandcamp.com 20.53 Ian Boddy ‘Déjà Vu Part 1’ (album The Climb...

Our team member Andy is on the road to recovery after suffering a stroke and spending 91 days in the hospital, hopefully, we will be getting our website updated with the bio’s for no 207 to our latest 2014. A few more new names appeared for the first time. Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar finds the protean guitarist and producer expanding on the ghostly netherworlds of her debut...

This will be the only edition this month due to other projects. Luke Schneider represents a radical new approach to the versatile sounds of the steel guitar, a total reinvention of an iconic instrument. SUSS are the architects of ambient country, with their unique combination of classic Americana instrumentation, with loops and synthesizers, and the unearthly tones of Harry Bertoia sculptures, clu...

We have lost two of the most influential composers in the electronic music scene in just over three weeks. Klaus Schulze & Vangelis both had music careers spanning over 50 years. I had the privilege of seeing both musicians performing, only once for Vangelis at the Royal Albert Hall in 1976, supporting his first album for RCA, Heaven & Hell. Klaus Schulze as many of you know was a member of Tanger...

Not one but eleven new faces to Sequences, including Karmacosmic, made up of four musicians, Rüdiger Gleisberg & Mathias Grassow, well known in this genre for over 40 years with Carsten Agthe & Dirk Schlömer, a musical journey to distant worlds, ambient pads meet spacey sounds and ethnic rhythms. Per Thomhav is Synth Replicants, a musician, composer, and producer whose music is influenced by Tange...

Emma was formed in 1994 by a team of fans and musicians who gathered together to create an organisation promoting electronic music in the UK, producing a regular newsletter and holding yearly festivals. 1994 saw two festivals in Derby, England, the first showcasing the best UK acts inc, John Dyson, Andy Pickford, Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve. The second saw a more international lineup inc. Jonn Serr...

The adventure continues now, coming into the Easter break, with some of the latest releases in our world of electronic music. Steve Roach & Jeffrey Fayman’s 2002 album Trance Spirits remastered, orchestrating a thunderous sound, with an expansive array of synthetic soundworlds, textural guitar and timbre-rich Middle Eastern and West African-influenced drumming. Composed over ten years by David Hel...

Another collection that’s seen more ambient, ethereal, atmospheric music for our second March edition. Always eager to hear a new album from Steve Jolliffe; like the last few releases, just one track of changing structures & sounds. New faces to grace our airways are Elinch from German, a modular synthesist whose calm, slow-moving sound canvases develop into minimalist ambient epics. Female artist...

Over the last month, we’ve had very little in the way of Berlin School & the more uptempo electronic genre, giving way to a large number of promos heading our way carrying the musical styles of modular, symphonic, neoclassical & diverse selection of ambient sounds. Once again, introducing new exciting artists in many fields, fifteen in total. It’s been a while since we played some vintage sounds,...

Welcome to another extended edition highlighting our goal to give you an expansive range of electronic music which taxes the senses and emotions. Fourteen new artists appearing, reflecting a very harmonious range of tones, melodic and rhythmical for some, others going beyond the norm to the experimentation side of unusual sounds in this genre. Too many to mention, I will let the music do the talki...

G’day to you all from around the world. Once again, the music beckons your attention and hopefully livens up your day. You know what to expect, sounds to please the ears and heart. Most of the artists you recognise here preview their new albums and tunes for the first time on Sequences. Just three newcomers: from Austria, Johannes Winkler's debut album ‘Vogelperspektive’, the former pilot takes us...

It’s certainly starting off this new year with a host of new releases, already filling this one & our forthcoming Feb edition, featuring some of our well known musicians with their new albums, including who's music has spanned over many decades includes Airsculpture, Andy Pickford, Erik Wollo, Ian Boddy & Sam Rosenthal. It was great to see one of the old school, Peter Beasley back with a new album...

Happy New Year to all our listeners, friends & musicians. Making their debut on our first edition of 2022 are the band 70db consists of two well-known musicians Steve Schroyder & Wolfram Spyra, plus Rainer Vonviel, Udo P. Leis, & B. Ashra, with a live set of electronics commissioned for the 100th birthday of the Schöneberg Town Hall in Berlin in 2014,. The special thing about the live performance...

Sequences Podcast No 202 (extended edition) This is our last podcast for this year, with some great music to finish it off with. It’s certainly been another 12 months of never-ending constant media attention, fear & panic about the pandemic. As we all were looking forward to the Christmas holidays, now comes the rhetoric of a new variant. Here we go again more lockdowns, mandatory jabs & for the u...