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The intricate genius and powerful subtext behind a Beatles acoustic gem
At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement
“It’s the heart of my studio”: The story of the Akai MPC, from the MPC60 to the MPC Live III
Few pieces of production gear are as influential as Akai’s MPC series. We trace the MPC's journey through its phoenix-like birth from the ashes of the LinnDrum 9000 to the latest apex-hitting incarnation
We speak to the artist who has just made an album with dangerous plants
Oram Award-winning electronic artist Helen Anahita Wilson tells us how she generated the music for her new album from poisonous plants and hallucinogens
When Kraftwerk saw the future of portable music-making and released a pocket calculator instrument in 1981
Marking an album that foresaw the 21st century’s computer-addicted society, Kraftwerk dropped their own branded handheld synth decades ahead of the trend
“To my knowledge, no one else has tried a project like this”: Reinier Zonneveld is playing B2B with an AI clone of his “musical brain”
The Dutch DJ/producer is reimagining the future of live electronic performance with his R² AI technology. We find out how he does it
The DIY attitude that led to Tom Waits’ greatest album
Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of inventive instrumentation
Electronic polymath Daniel Avery on the genre-blurring magic of new album Tremor and remixing the Cure
Now on his sixth studio album, we speak to Daniel Avery and hear how he mixed the distorted with the ethereal to create the sonic universe of Tremor
“He was clearly intrigued by this ‘happening music’": When David Bowie turned junglist on Little Wonder
Exiled star returned to the music of his hometown for inspiration
