The Luxury Gap boys pat themselves on the back after recording their fourth album, 'Pleasure One'. Tim Goodyer finds out how it was done, and discovers the threesome may soon be playing their first-ever concerts.

Crushed by the wheels of technology?

Hitmakers Heaven 17 reveal how they've harnessed the hardware on How Men Are.

DATA: Martyn Ware/new album/Synclavier keyboard/digital technique... HARD COPY

Martyn Ware talks about money and the musician. Make £50,000 without playing a note.

Martyn Ware flatters Fairlights

From penthouse to pavement and back again, Heaven 17 have seen pop finance from both sides. Will their latest album, Pleasure 1, put them back in the black? Tony Reed opens the account...

Martyn Ware has been spending a lot of time producing other people's projects since Heaven 17 faded away, but now a second BEF album is in progress. Interview by Paul Ireson.

Putting Heaven 17 in the past, Martyn Ware has masterminded a definitive meeting of classic singers, classic soul songs and state-of-the-art technology. Tim Goodyer listens to Words of Quality and Distinction.

session guitar from Heaven 17 to Art Garfunkel

six strings out of a magazine

Richard Walmsley takes a ride with BSA down the R'n'B route and finds out how a green band avoid the Blues

England's North has consistently produced some of the most innovative electronic music. Simon Trask talks to a band set to take their place alongside New Order and Heaven 17.

The man who made AOR respectable? Terry Britten confesses all to Chas de Whalley

A conversation with Ged Doherty, Paul Young's manager and best friend

Someday, all home studios will be built this way - an exclusive survey

Geoff Dugmore

Geoff Dugmore discusses drums

Roland Orzabal picks over the Tears' gear

Justifiably unwilling to be written off as just another funk act, Loose Ends talk tactics, technique and technology into Tim Goodyer's Walkman mic.

Tony Prince & The Disco Mix Club

The ingenuity and foresight of DJ Tony Prince resulted in the creation of the DMC record label, the hub of the thriving UK dance remixing scene. Wilf Smarties talks to Tony about how and why the label was set up and persuades remixer Phil Kelsey to take us through a typical remix.

Fiat Lux

From Sheffield's tradition as the home of industrial funk, come the Fon Force. David Bradwell talks to the men behind the cream of modern northern dance music.

Is there life after Limahl? Yup. The four shy boys take turns to explain how they do it, and what they do it on.

With Martin Rushent just voted BBC Producer of the Year, our interview from his Genetic Sound Studio, where Human League recorded ‘Dare’, must be THE music feature of the month!

In 1985 Propaganda produced a seminal electronic music album - then they vanished. Five years on they've returned to pick up where they left off. Michael Mertens talks to Tim Goodyer about technology and the German tradition.