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Articles by: Danny Turner

mmm

MMM: "At some point we get the feeling that we’re not in charge anymore – the track has a life of its own and is suggesting what it wants"

By Future Music, Danny Turner published

The glowing techno chords of MMM’s long-awaited debut album, On The Edge, are delivered with razor-sharp precision. Danny Turner charts the record’s creation

the black dog

The Black Dog: "We had all the OB8s and Roland stuff, but we just sampled the hell out of them and created our own libraries, so why have thirty grand’s worth of stuff that we bought off Phil Collins sat in the corner?"

By Future Music, Danny Turner published

Danny Turner meets the techno outfit to chat Sheffield, brutalism and new album Music for Photographers

nightmares on wax

Nightmares on Wax: "I was like a mad scientist. The studio had no soundproofing, I didn’t know anything about transience and we didn’t even use a compressor, yet the tunes sounded wicked"

By Future Music, Danny Turner published

Due to a health scare and enforced DJing sojourn, Nightmares on Wax’s George Evelyn was forced to totally re-evaluate his life and craft. Danny Turner learns more

rival consoles

Rival Consoles: "There isn’t an analogue synth that can do what software like Massive does, and that’s an old digital synth now"

By Future Music, Danny Turner published

Rival Consoles' soundtrack to the dance production Overflow is a dark, complex body exploring the sinister side of digital media. Danny Turner finds out more

Ross From Friends

Ross From Friends: "I had an idea to create a piece of software that would record everything I play. It’s the same principle as sampling – except I’m sampling myself"

By Danny Turner, Future Music published

Felix Clary Weatheralls’ second Ross from Friends album recontextualises his love of nostalgia via the self-made plugin, Thresho. Danny Turner discusses its creation

boys noize

Boys Noize: "I’m attracted to making extreme decisions and f*cking with people"

By Future Music, Danny Turner published

Alex Ridha’s fifth Boys Noize album aggressively explores the schism between soaring melodies and hard, atonal beats. Danny Turner reveals his modular approach

eris drew

Eris Drew: "It was cool to like Guns N’ Roses and sh*t like that, but there was I with my Depeche Mode shirt listening to house music mixes on the radio late at night"

By Danny Turner, Future Music published

One of the few DJs still performing with turntables, house producer Eris Drew also uses her Technics as a production tool. We take a deep dive into her debut album

feed me

Feed Me: "When I’m producing I’m always trying to hide the process so you just hear the result"

By Future Music, Danny Turner published

EDM producer Jon Gooch has revived his cartoonish Feed Me moniker. He showed Danny Turner around his studio and talked through how live instrumentation changed his production approach

DJ Seinfeld

DJ Seinfeld: "The debate is not whether lo-fi’s good or bad, but if that raw quality can bring something to a track"

By Danny Turner published

Known for spearheading the lo-fi house scene, DJ Seinfeld’s new album Mirrors offers an entirely new sonic fidelity. Danny Turner talks to Armand Jakobsson about his reinvention

Japanese Breakfast

Japanese Breakfast: "I realised that I never want to do this DIY shit again, I’ve hit the ceiling with that"

By Danny Turner published

Moving beyond the grief-stricken narrative woven into Michelle Zauner’s past Japanese Breakfast records, new album Jubilee strikes a more celebratory tone

LoneLady

LoneLady: "I was given a synth by Brian Eno. It’s a very crisp and weird digital-sounding beast"

By Danny Turner published

Exchanging grey Manchester for a basement studio at London’s Somerset House, Julie Campbell broke out the machines and got started on her third album

Mano Le Tough studio

Mano Le Tough: “If I can get one or two good tracks out of each synth then they kind of pay for themselves”

By Danny Turner published

The Irish producer discusses new album, At The Moment, and his sizeable synth collection

Gary Numan 2019

Gary Numan's career in gear: "Honest to God, you could buy that and not need anything else"

By Danny Turner published

Electronic rock icon on his top 10 gear synths, software and more from the last 40+ years

Sunroof

Sunroof: "We needed to move away from doing 45-minute rambling jams"

By Danny Turner published

Danny Turner reveals how the iconic producers’ modular jams finally came to fruition

Hainbach

Hainbach: “I feel I make better music when I have to struggle with an instrument”

By Danny Turner published

Motivated by a fascination for high-end research equipment and turning gear from old sheds and nuclear research labs into sound, Stefan Goetsch discusses his latest album Landfill Totems

Jonas Blue and AWA

Jonas Blue on his 5 favourite samples of all time: “If you use a sample, you need to be aware that you’re going to be giving a lot of your record away”

By Danny Turner published

The producer on teaming up with AWA for the single Something Stupid, which features a Robin S sample from the classic ‘90s house track Show Me Love

Look Mum No Computer

Look Mum No Computer: “My 1,000 oscillator megadrone was challenging”

By Danny Turner published

Ahead of Saturday's Keys & Frequencies, the synth builder and YouTube sensation shares his mind-boggling inventions

SG Lewis

SG Lewis: “There are endless examples of incredible songwriters and producers who couldn’t play a C chord on a piano”

By Danny Turner, Future Music published

Honed in his parents’ attic and featuring a collaboration with Nile Rodgers, here’s the story of Lewis’s debut album, Times

Clark

Clark: “I wanted to write an album that reflects how club music isn’t really working for me anymore”

By Danny Turner published

The production process behind Chris Clark’s soundtrack work has increasingly filtered into his solo productions. Here, he discusses the making of his ambitious new album, Playground in a Lake

Maximo Park

Maximo Park’s Paul Smith on making their new album remotely: “I recorded the vocals in GarageBand in my loft”

By Danny Turner published

“I feel grateful that we’ve made this record, but the idea of making music as a group and coming up with ideas on the spot isn’t something we’d want to sacrifice going forward”

Trevor Horn: “I’m just an old muso who likes playing and programming”

By Danny Turner published

The former Buggles man and chart-topping producer talks synths, studios and re-imagining his ’80s hits

Tom Oberheim

Tom Oberheim: "Thanks to the dance crowd and the Eurorack guys, analogue is back and better than ever"

By Danny Turner published

Synth pioneer on the rise and fall of Oberheim Electronics

Bobby Sparks II: “It’s better to invest in real instruments. The beautiful thing about owning all the originals is that I never have to keep buying computer stuff"

By Danny Turner published

The story behind Sparks’ extraordinary electronic jazz fusion record Schizophrenia - The Yang Project

Tom Odell: “I couldn’t make the music I make today without having learned music theory”

By Danny Turner published

Singer shares his songwriting secrets and discusses the terrors of social media

Trevor Jackson: "Some of the best things are made when you switch off your thought processes and just do it"

By Danny Turner published

After a 30-year career and a period of introspection, we find him clearing the decks for new material