Sampling The Emulator

Share reality with Culture Club producer Steve Levine, the Attractions' Steve Nieve, and keyboard whizz Dave Stewart.

Aria Competition Answers, Portland Studios, Introducing News Notes

Fred Dellar presents a potted history of the people who bring you the 'product' - the record companies.

Best Basslines

What spew!

The Mellotron: A Historical Perspective

Some words of wisdom from producer Alan Winstanley close the mag this month.

Are They A Good Mix?

mixing the pop world's most powerful cocktail: should your music have a message?

Guitarchives

Five aging axes exhumed by Paul Trynka

The Art Of Arranging

Ian Gardiner gets out the manuscript paper and tells you how to spread those blobs around

It's just another month in the diary, exploding monitors and mains fuses

Eden Studios

Paul Bacon takes up his fig leaf and descends to Eden

gossip column

smelly gossip

Guest producer Muff Winwood holds what are sure to be controversial opinions on artistes' responsibilities and expectations.

Gossip, Fibs, Stuff And Nonsense

oh really?

A complete history of record production accompanied by quotations and anecdotes from no fewer than 18 of the world's leading producers.

Trevor Horn considered

Gossip From The Front

gossip, rumour, lies and so on

The World's Best Songwriters

four stars choose their favourite songsters - Fish, Vince Clarke, Edwyn Collins, Chris Difford

(so that people can actually hear them)

A rundown on what's involved in setting up your own personal cassette label and how to bring your product to the attention of the people who matter.

the bits no-one else prints