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Computer Music issue 334 is out now! With features including: • Vocal Effects guide • FREE Inphonik RYM2612 FM synth • Free samples including Chilled Keys pack • INTERVIEWED: Kölsch and Catching Flies • REVIEWED: Freqport Freqtube FT-1, Oeksound Bloom, Minimal Audio Current, Arturia V Collection X, Steinberg Nuendo 13…

MusicRadar · Apr 17, 2024

"Kraftwerk were using a Bee Gees-branded toy drum machine. You really couldn't make it up": Yes, a band you considered at the forefront of synth technology used a toy beat maker. And a pretty terrible one at that

And it's certainly not the only piece of weird gear the iconic German band have used…

MusicRadar · Apr 17, 2024

Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2024

Roman numerals, wastes of space, and Taylor’s little green dress – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2024

“I didn’t have anything against guitars – I just had this idea in my head of two keyboard players using an array of instruments. Everyone said, ‘It’ll never work.’ Well, they were wrong”: The short life and lasting times of Greenslade

They were forced into an untimely demise after just three years. But the unique bond of two synth geniuses left a catalogue that justifies their reputation as a “thinking man’s band”

Louder · Jan 5, 2024

"It was the machine that made electronic music accessible": The 5 vintage synths that gave us synth-pop

These are the machines that rocked the 1970s and popped the 1980s.

MusicRadar · Dec 7, 2023

“Brian Eno has a very simple view on music - the more we clutter it up with things the more foggy the goodness gets”: Huey Morgan’s prog education

Former Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman traces a line from Nat King Cole and Frank SInatra to Talk Talk, Marillion, Jethro Tull and others

Louder · Nov 22, 2023

“Occasionally one of their legs would go up slightly. Were they playing or checking emails? I thought it would be fun to have them doing The Hokey Cokey”: Bill Bailey’s Kraftwerk sketch

Comedian and master prog musician discusses the gems in his record collection, including Yes, Roxy Music and Hawkwind – and outlines plans to play the Albert Hall like an instrument

Louder · Nov 13, 2023

The 20 greatest Detroit techno tracks – ranked!

As scene legends Cybotron return with their first new music in 28 years, we pick the best of the Motor City’s masterful, mechanical techno music

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

The iconic Roland TR-808 tracks that made a legend

Key cuts from seminal artists, including Kraftwerk, Marvin Gaye, Aphex Twin, New Order, Afrika Bambaataa and more

MusicRadar · Aug 8, 2023