Terrible news: storied Leeds producer Mark Bell has died.  As The Black Dog have confirmed on Twitter, the producer has passed on, although full details of his death have yet to emerge.  A former teenage breakdancer, Bell was one half of seminal Warp Records act LFO – one of the most…

“This album came along at a time when my own career was all but dead and buried. I had lost all direction musically and I was floundering. I had no idea how to fix things, how to get my spark back, and then, in 1993, I heard Songs Of Faith And Devotion. “It had a darkness to it that that took…

Given the tendency of major labels to soften music into radio-friendly mush, the first second of Delta Machine comes as something of a surprise. ‘Welcome to My World’ opens with grim synth rumble and a merciless kick drum that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Diamond Version record, not…