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“I came away from the first session thinking, ‘Well, I like him, but he’s a bit pushy.’ But pushy’s not a bad thing in a producer. It’s just enthusiasm. It’s infectious”: Paul McCartney hails Andrew Watt as the perfect foil for creating his new album

“The way we approached this album was, ‘We’ve done that before. Let’s do it different’”

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“Walk on. Press a button. Leave the gear to play a song all on its own. While we piss off back to the booze in the dressing room and chortle to ourselves”: The mistakes and judicious choices that made New Order’s Blue Monday

Still the biggest-selling 12-inch of all time

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“It was like panning for gold. Amongst the brown murky waters, I saw this track all shiny and glimmery, shining like a big rock of gold. It said, 'Play me, play me!”: How Gorillaz deployed some sublime music theory to build their most beloved tune

The reason Gorillaz biggest track lingers in the mind longer than others is down to its tightly-constructed arrangement

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“This cop came into my dressing room. He's like Robocop – helmet, goggles, gun, handcuffs. He says, ‘Those little fellas – do you hang one of them every night?’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s outrageous tales of idiot lawmen, werewolves, chimpanzees and Paul McCartney

“Sharon’s going, ‘Smile!’ And the chimp is biting my thumb off!”

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“Some of the public found Genesis with Peter Gabriel a bit too strange. But there was a lot of fear about whether we could carry on without him”: How Phil Collins became the singing drummer and led Genesis from despair to superstardom

“In the end, my wife said, ‘Why don’t you do it, Phil?’”

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"Until then, I’d always thought that putting tongues in mouths was disgusting, but when he gave me my first proper kiss, I did indeed ‘have to let it linger’": How the Cranberries bucked '90s trends and made the surprise hit that's become huge once again

The song has recently been given a boost by TV show Love Story, but as befits its title, it never really went away

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While everyone is mesmerised by its veiled mystery synth, Korg also sneakily launches a new effects-packed performance mixer, the NTS-4, at Superbooth

More than just a central hub for your hardware, the NTS-4 promises to be a surprising dab hand at effect-generating

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“When I’m cooking or playing FIFA or cleaning, I’m listening to records – it’s a great time to work whilst you’re not actually working”: 5 things we learned in the studio with O'Flynn

Watch the Bonobo and Barry Can't Swim collaborator build a track from scratch and break down his new single, Sekete

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Superbooth 2026: all the latest synth news from Berlin - LIVE!

Knob tweakers, assemble! Europe's most exciting synth showcase is upon us

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“A pro-quality monster with speed and firepower. Everything a headbanger could want from a metal guitar – just as long as you don’t need a neck pickup”: Jackson Pro Plus Pure Metal KE1A Kelly review

Because the original Jackson Kelly was just not metal enough, right?

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Teenage Engineering’s EP-136 KO Sidekick is part DJ mixer, part interface, part effects unit – and surprisingly affordable

The latest addition to the EP range could be the ideal accompaniment to a compact hardware setup

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“It was time to put all that behind us. Then he played me this one part for this new song and I was like, ‘Oh yeah’”: How Calvin Harris and Katy Perry buried the hatchet and crafted their groovetastic 2017 hit Feels

We analyse the un-escapable groove of Feels - which knowingly doffed its cap at Earth, Wind & Fire

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The most mighty mini amp modelling pedal just got mightier as IK Multimedia offers full MIDI integration and wireless editing on the Tonex One+

The Tonex One+ offers top-class sounds and is just as small as its predecessor – only now you have a lot more control over it

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“This version reflects what creators told us they want from AI hardware in real musical contexts”: Project Lydia, Roland’s neural sampling stompbox, moves a step closer to becoming a product you can actually buy

Next-gen pedal enables you to transform an audio signal into something that sounds completely different

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Meet the $99 stompbox that’ll crush your bits – JHS expands its affordable 3 Series with three exotic effects for your pedalboard

JHS Pedals unveils a ring modulator, glitch delay and bit crusher that's priced for beginners, because an affordable pedal can be fun and a little weird too

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Is it a filter or is it an instrument? For Erica Synths, the answer is ‘Why not both?’ as it drops Resonant Filterbank at Superbooth 2026

Resonant Filterbank allows you to stretch and extend your sounds into entirely new shapes, or use it as a standalone sonic noise-crafter

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Three years in the making, Bastl Instruments’ quirky Kalimba is a fusion of traditional instrument design and state-of-the-art internals: “Treat it like an acoustic instrument, it will answer like one”

It might feel like a delicate physical instrument, but Bastl’s Kalimba is capable of some seriously impressive synth sounds

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"The drum machine we would want to use and own ourselves": Polyend Drums combines the best of analogue and digital

Drums is a hybrid analogue-digital drum machine "built for immediacy, depth and performance"

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“Blackbox 2 is heir to its own portable sampler throne”: 1010music updates its sampling workstation with a better screen, onboard battery and USB audio streaming

Revamped Blackbox boasts better controls and new features resulting in a “more elegant” workflow

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On the first day of Superbooth, Modal bring expressive synthesis without the complex learning curve with the lightweight Element One: “It doesn’t ask you to learn the rules; it dares you to play”

Launching today at Superbooth 2026, the no-fuss Element One is both a tactile and beginner-friendly route into the world of synthesis

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“Built on the rhythmic and pitch drift of legendary drum machines”: Sonicware Deconstruct Minimal is a hardware groovebox designed for ‘hypnotic minimal grooves’

The battery-powered beat machine features sampled drums, a loop player and 303-inspired bass synth

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Eddie Van Halen-approved baked maple necks? Check. Flagship pickups? Check. EVH Gear unveils stunning refresh of the Wolfgang Special

The Wolfgang Special Baked Maple is offered with a Floyd or a fully adjustable EVH compensated bridge with fine-tuners. In other EVH news, a 5150III 6L6 2x12 has been added to the Hypersonic series

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“An inspiring ideas machine that trades technical theory for intuitive workflow”: Telepathic Instruments Orchid ORC-1 review

Is Telepathic Instruments Orchid, a chord-friendly portable synth, the perfect tool for studio inspiration and song-writing on the go?

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“This is quite a hard guitar to categorise – and perhaps Jacob Collier likes it that way... For the right player, though, it could be the key to experiencing guitar anew”: Taylor Jacob Collier GS Mini 5-String review

Compact, sweet-toned five-string, as quirky as its namesake

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“No compromises. No shortcuts. Just pure, hands-on sampling and sound design”: Kiviak Instruments promises to bring the old-school sampling fun for less with the cut-price WoFi LE

Bye bye proper piano-style mini keys – hello €299 price tag

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