Latest articles by Danny Turner
"I’m blessed to have every sampler I ever wanted - apart from a Fairlight": Matt Karmil on the hardware samplers and studio techniques behind sixth LP No Going Back
Matt Karmil chats to Danny Turner about the tips, tricks and studio techniques behind his sixth LP, No Going Back
"The Wurly's a living, breathing thing – inspiration just comes flowing out of it": Public Service Broadcasting reaches peak altitude on their new project
J. Willgoose Esq. navigates PSB’s fifth album The Last Flight – a tribute to pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart
"I’ve come to realise that the perfect mix doesn’t exist": Ben Böhmer on overcoming perfectionism in production
Following a 200-date world tour, we chat to the melodic house star about dealing with burnout and the genesis of third album, Bloom
"I was like a little kid unpacking my presents at Christmas": Purple Disco Machine on working with Nile Rodgers
On his third LP, Paradise, Purple Disco Machine’s Tino ‘Schmidt’ Piontek pays homage to ‘70s disco recording techniques
Take a tour of Public Service Broadcasting’s London studio
J Willgoose Esq talks us through the gear behind Amelia Earhart-inspired LP, The Last Flight
Yoni Wolf on the new album from his indie/alt hip-hop band WHY?: "There’s a real soberness to the mix process - though I mix when I’m stoned a lot of the time"
Tapping ever-deeper into his neurosis, Yoni Wolf tells us about his eighth WHY? album, The Well I Fell Into
Ableton co-creator Robert Henke: "We are looking at ways to incorporate AI into our workflow in a way that’s inspiring, beneficial and interesting"
Henke talks us through the new Monolake album Studio and weighs in on the future impact of AI on music-making
Rap/R&B songwriter Elsy Wameyo: "Bass is my favourite instrument - when I open Ableton, I always run to a bassline first"
Elsy Wameyo chats to Danny Turner about the themes of self-empowerment behind her debut LP, Saint Sinner
"My main quest is to dedicate my life to mastering the Korg Kronos, which is going to take me into old age": Experimental producer Actress on his studio set-up
An inscrutable force in electronic music, Danny Turner chats to Darren J. Cunningham about his celestial-sounding tenth Actress album, Statik
Mike Paradinas: "I experimented with Ableton but it did my head in, so I'm still using Logic"
Formed out of live tracks made in hotel rooms on tour, we chat to the Planet Mu label owner about his new µ-Ziq album, Grush
Machinedrum returns to Impulse Tracker to collaborate with his younger self
Travis Stewart tells Danny Turner how a trip to Joshua Tree with a case full of old hard drives inspired his 11th album, 3FOR82
”I never expected anyone to listen to it”: Moby on producing the biggest-selling electronica album of all time
Moby tells Danny Turner how his 22nd album is inspired by the diversity of the late ’70s/early ’80s electronic dance scene
GiGi FM on creative expression with Ableton Live: "It's my emotional puke bag!“
Multi-disciplinary artist GiGi FM tells us about using movement and dance to produce synaesthetic bangers in Ableton Live
"If you play any song to me that came out in 2024 I can tell you what DAW it was made on": How To Dress Well
Knocked sideways by commercial success, Tom Krell chats to Danny Turner about rediscovering his lost sound on sixth album, I Am Toward You
“There’s no way I’m spending more on a Rhodes than a car - it’s ridiculous for a working-class musician”: Prefuse 73
Fascinated by news media’s sensationalism of crime, Guillermo Scott Herren created his own soundtrack to an imaginary film. Danny Turner finds out more
Ride's Mark Gardener: "I’m definitely a gear nerd, but I had to stop otherwise I’d have gone bankrupt"
The Ride frontman chats to Danny Turner about the shoegaze tag and the driving force behind their seventh album, Interplay
"In the late ’90s and early ’00s equipment was so fetishised. I’ve been in fancy studios that have all these iconic machines which are like museum pieces now, but they’re constantly breaking": Naum Gabo on 20 years of progress
Two decades after first starting, Jonnie Wilkes and James Savage finally release their debut Naum Gabo LP, F. Lux. Danny Turner learns more
Ben Frost on working with Steve Albini: "As a recording engineer, he’s the equivalent of a war photographer – he’s not composing images and dictating proportions, he’s documenting what’s occurring in a space"
On Scope Neglect, Ben Frost extends his guitar obsession by re-engineering our perception of metal music
Carl Craig: "People said techno was always supposed to be about the 808, the 909 and the 303. When I use a live drummer, they say it’s not techno because there’s no 808"
Second generation techno pioneer Carl Craig on the genre’s cultural visibility and how he’s keeping the flame alive
Machine Woman: "Ableton changed my life, but I love using Reason 12, GarageBand and I’m exploring Fruity Loops. They all have their own personality - my sound evolves uniquely in each DAW"
Beyond her eccentric track titles and comical cover art, sound artist Anastasia Vtorova is on a mission to inspire. Danny Turner finds out more
MGMT on their humble beginnings and return to form: "We demoed Oracular on a Radio Shack mic and a really bad interface with signal bleed. We thought we'd have to redo it, but our producer said there's a character about it we'll never be able to recreate"
15 years after their early success, MGMT explain how they’ve got their mojo back on new album Loss of Life
Maya Shenfeld: "The imperfections, how you process sounds and the fact that you’re working with friends is really what makes the music yours"
An existential ode to climate change, Berlin-based composer Maya Shenfeld on her evocative second album, Under the Sun
Airhead on working with Brian Eno and James Blake: "The main takeaway from those sessions was that the idea should always take precedence over the technology"
Rob McAndrews’ latest IDM-inflected Airhead album Lightness adapts techniques from the jazz guitar greats
Matmos on sampling dolphins, satellites, electromagnetic disturbances and the mud-dauber wasp for their latest album: "We don't sit at the guitar and sing 'my pain is real', or whatever real musicians do..."
The sample-centric duo on Return to Archive, their latest project to cull sounds from the legendary Smithsonian Folkways back catalogue
Danny Daze: "If I want a low-end analogue sound, I’ll turn to my Moog Voyager, and if I want some high-end crispy stuff I’ll reach for an FM synth like the Ensoniq Fizmo"
After canning two albums, Miami-based DJ/producer Danny Daze delivers a 92-minute concept LP, truncated for VR headsets. Danny Turner finds out more…