After producing artists ranging from Bomb the Bass and S 'Xpress to Bryan Ferry and Wet Wet Wet, Pascal Gabriel is about to begin his own career as a recording artist. Tim Goodyer discovers a Lovechild.

The Fishman guide to DIY synths

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a founder of the YMO before becoming one of David Sylvian's favoured partners. Now, fresh from a Japanese and a series of film scores he tells Tim Goodyer about his latest LP.

SPK began by hammering away at anything from the scrapyard but now generate their metal beat on the Fairlight. We investigate the method in the mayhem.

After inspiring a generation of experimental musicians to explore synthetic soundscapes, Tangerine Dream found new relevance in 1990's ambient house movement. Simon Trask enters the Dream state.

Upcoming systems music composer chats to Simon Trask about modern technology, Renaissance music and Belgian pop.

In our exclusive interview, the great domed one himself waxes ambient on remixing, jazz, Sinatra, computers, the Eventide H-3000 and his own original definition of a new, environmentally sound music

Part 2: Mark Prendergast continues his in-depth look at the formation of Eno’s new record company, Land Records, and the use of electronics in his music.

An Appreciation

John Cage - The life & the legacy

Says it all really

Real World

Real World music

What is 'New Age' music? Who plays it, and why is it apparently so popular? Our resident musicologist Mark Prendergast traces its development back to the work of 'new music' composers Arnold Schoenberg and Erik Satie.

Part 1 looks at the early growth of this vitally important area of music today.

Brian Eno and the studio

Books

Eddie Cochran-White dispels those post-summertime blues with some cherished memories of recent good reads.

Electronics Into Light

Karlheinz Stockhausen has had a profound influence on modern music from the 1950s onwards, and pioneered the use of electronics to create genuinely new music. Mark J. Prendergast reviews his career.

What the hell's a MIDI Performance System? David Mellor does his level best to explain.

Record label spotlight on the innovatory people who bring you Brian Eno and numerous others.

A look at Newcastle’s ‘open access' electro-music studio.

Brian Eno

Standing at one of the most exciting crossroads in musical history we look at the pros and cons of electronic music.

An overview

Mark Prendergast presents a general overview of record labels, artists, and recordings that make up the exciting area of new electronic and experimental music in the late 1980s.

The Virgin Guide To New Music

Stanley Clarke & George Duke, Pat Benatar and AMM