Globo Return With ‘Onward’, A Breaks-Driven Blast From The Past With A Very Modern Edge

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Electronic outliers Globo are back with ‘Onward’, a bouncy, breaks-driven slice of indie-electronic pop that proves some 90s sounds don’t just survive — they get sharper with age.

Out today via Hydrogen Dukebox, ‘Onward’ is the latest preview of Pro War (Redux), a special-edition vinyl reissue of Globo’s cult 1995 debut, arriving 18 September. The track was a mid-90s indie-chart favourite and even found a second life as the theme to Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s BBC2 comedy series Fist Of Fun.

Watch the video for ‘Onward’

Formed in the Norwich/London underground of the 90s, Globo built a reputation for ignoring the rules of conventional dance music. Their sound collided breakbeats, electronics, samples, guitar and live instrumentation into something distinctly their own — earning them praise from Knowledge, Melody Maker, Future Music and Front.

Now, more than 30 years after Pro War first appeared, the album’s subject matter feels uncomfortably contemporary. Written amid the conflicts of Rwanda, the Gulf War and Bosnia, its darkly comic anti-war perspective explored the machinery of conflict and humanity’s repeated fascination with it. Against today’s backdrop of war, political division and increasingly blurred lines between media and conflict, the record has acquired a new sense of urgency.

Pro War (Redux) brings the original 1995 tracklist to vinyl for the first time, alongside the newly included ‘Onward’. The album has been reworked and curated by Globo’s 2026 lineup of Paul Thompson, Mark Wernham, Steve Appleton and Kaoru Sakurai, resulting in a tightly edited 44-minute pressing.

As Globo themselves put it: “the same amazing music, tweaked to fit current-day brains.”

Three decades on, ‘Onward’ sounds less like a nostalgia trip than a reminder that Globo were always slightly ahead of the curve — making electronic music that refused to sit still.

Pro War (Redux) lands 18 September via Hydrogen Dukebox.