Features Why It Mattered: Joy Division – ‘Closer’ by James Peppercorn Few albums are able to conjure images of gloom, darkness, and pain while feeling like a euphoric release. Even fewer are able to do this…
Features Magazine From tape reels to voice notes: how the art of the demo has changed over 50 years by Claudia Schmidt Demos are a curious thing. They are a song in its before-life (if afterlife is after death, then before-life is the opposite). Yet, inevitably, they…
Enmore Audio Features Gear It’s about time: the impact of the AMS digital delay by Claudia Schmidt The AMS DMX 15-80 was the world’s first microprocessor-controlled digital delay. It emerged in the late ’70s, preceded by analog tape delays and succeeded ultimately…
Enmore Audio Features Gear Engineering the Sound: Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ by Happy Post-punk. A hyphenated word likely dropped on almost every music blog in the last week. The genre’s recent revival has become somewhat of a global…
News Joy Division are celebrating 40 years of Unknown Pleasures with special re-release by Luke Saunders Joy Divisions seminal debut album Unknown Pleasures is set to receive a special edition release to celebrate the record’s 40th anniversary next month. Joy Division’s iconic…
