Articles by: Hamish Mackintosh

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Articles by: Hamish Mackintosh

Miss Grit: "I grew up being a little bit of an analogue purist, but that kind of thinking limited my creativity"

By Hamish Mackintosh published 2 March 23

Miss Grit follows up previous EPs with the utterly captivating debut album, Follow The Cyborg on Mute. Hamish Mackintosh finds out more

George Fitzgerald: "Serum is one of the best synthesizers ever made, hardware of software"

By Hamish Mackintosh published 14 October 22

George FitzGerald looks to the cosmos to fashion the sumptuous electronica of new album, Stellar Drifting

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: “I’ve played with Buchla instruments so long, they've become an extension of my brain”

By Hamish Mackintosh last updated 28 September 22

Doyen of the Buchla and maker of modular mayhem Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith returns with a new album, the chaotically beautiful Let’s Turn it Into Sound

FKJ: "I don’t think there’s any MIDI on this album - I find clicking on a laptop very uninspiring"

By Hamish Mackintosh last updated 11 August 22

FKJ returns with a brilliant new album, boasting contributions from Little Dragon, Toro Y Moi and guitar legend Carlos Santana. Hamish Mackintosh finds out more about the spaces in between

Moderat: "After 20 years of electronic music, the clean synth sound isn’t the most euphoric or rewarding sound to us"

By Hamish Mackintosh, Future Music published 30 May 22

Six years on from Moderat III, Berlin’s finest elektronische supergruppe emerge with sublime new album, MORE D4TA

Jon Hopkins: "I don’t really have any modular synths, drum machines or any of that stuff - it’s all really Ableton and source audio from random places"

By Hamish Mackintosh published 28 December 21

Best of 2021: The Grammy-nominated producer opens up about his ambient masterwork, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, going off-grid with Ableton, field recording in Ecuadorian caves and hanging speakers in trees

Proc Fiskal: "I sort of play YouTube like an instrument [...] five of the tracks came about just by mashing the random start-points in a video"

By Hamish Mackintosh, Future Music last updated 7 January 22

"When I got into electronic music I just assumed that you had to have synths… I didn’t realise at that time that I could just do it all on my laptop there and then"