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“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”
By Jim Ottewill published
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
By Andy Price published
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
By Jim Ottewill published
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
By Will Simpson published
Exiled star returned to the music of his hometown for inspiration

“Mickie says, ‘Jeff – where's your guitar?’ ‘Oh, it's on its way to Leeds!’”: When Donovan and Jeff Beck made magic
By Paul Elliott published
“We knew that people were gonna go crazy listening to this amazing thing”

The story of the strange lost album that Pink Floyd abandoned in 1975
By Andy Price published
Only two tracks have ever been heard from what could have been Pink Floyd's most divisive record

“He said, ‘Nice record. Now, who should we get to sing it?’ How Paul McCartney created the Bond classic Live And Let Die
By Neil Crossley published
“Writing a Bond song is a bit of an accolade. I always had a sneaking ambition to do it”

UFOs! Mick Jagger! Cold War paranoia! The bizarre origins of one of the biggest hits of the 1980s
By Andy Price published
The smash hit song reflected both the decade's geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism
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