This month, Electronic Dream Plant to Elka.

Vintage technology strikes back

...Including The A-Z of Analogue

Legal raves demand state-of-the-art audio-visual technology, and Fantazia are the experts. Dave Arcari reports from the dance floor

The non-musician has taken a lot of stick from his educated counterparts, yet he's contributed a lot to musical progress. What separates musicians and non-musicians?

All the snippety little secret bits of musicians' gossip that no-one else would print

Lyceum Ballroom, London

John Foxx at the Lyceum.

To mime or not to mime, that is the question. Just when does miming stop being a convenient practice in presenting music TV programs and start to have an effect on the music itself?

How to be an engineer, what happened at these two trade shows and why John Lennon would turn in his grave

No time to lose when it comes to odd metres. Nigel Lord takes a look at "difficult" time signatures in this month's instalment of MT's rhythm programming series.

New music from Eurythmics, David Lee Roth, Queen, Genesis, ELP, and old-time Beatles.

Recognising Europeans

...on the making of their video

Always eager to expand their experiences. Mainframe duo Murray Munro and John Malloy talk to Ian Gilby about the processes involved in the shooting of the promo video that accompanied their recent Polydor single release.

Behind the scenes on the tour of one of the world's most popular live bands

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