Mancunian obe:lus (Sean Albiez) has been involved in electronic music making since the mid-1980s - most notably with industrial-electro-EBM band WMTID, with album and single releases on Rouska Records, Concrete Productions, D.O.R. and Released Emotions. He currently splits his time between music-making, researching and writing about the history of electronic music - with a co-edited book on Kraftwerk recently published by Continuum - and working as a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton Solent University. He also creates music as SuckDisco!