Electronic Sound Magazine

13 February 2020

This month’s cover feature tells the astonishing story of Joe Meek, the king of space age pop. Using peculiar electronic instruments like the Clavioline and wonky sounds made with tape effects, Joe Meek’s late 1950s and early 1960s productions heralded a new era in music. Add in his unorthodox and intense working methods, a spate of gangland threats and a bit of black magic, and a pill-popping climax of rapidly escalating paranoia, rapidly declining fortunes, and a brutal murder-suicide, and this really is a tale unlike any other.