Featuring Ash Prema

Judie Tzuke, Tangerine Dream, Depeche Mode, Dio

Brian Whiting

Cassette magazine

A potted history of this popular electronic music cassette magazine, by its co-founder Dennis Emsley

Akai EWI 3020/3030

Wind controller and sound modules

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.

In the first instalment of a two-part article, UK synthesist Ian Boddy gives budding EM performers the confidence and advice you need to take your show on the road.

Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind & Fashion

We get the artists' views

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?

Stanley Clarke & George Duke, Pat Benatar and AMM

If you were stranded on a desert island with only a solitary keyboard to occupy your time, what would be the instrument of your choice? The professionals make theirs in this anniversary feature.

UK Electronica

It was once the UK's biggest celebration of live electronic music, but it didn't fare too well in 1985. Dan Goldstein reports.

Doepfer MAQ16/3 MIDI Analogue Sequencer

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.

Brian Eno

...Including the A-Z of Analogue

Keyboard Practising Hints

Practice round-up with keyboardists from Madness, Steel Pulse, Feargal Sharkey, Prefab Sprout and Tangerine Dream

Just the ticket? How to do it yourself explained by Richard Walmsley

A special report on the latest versions of these successful German instruments. Review by David Ellis.

Exclusive reviews of two avant garde music festivals that saw technology pushed to its creative limits, Ars Electronica at Linz and the International Computer Music Conference at IRCAM, Paris.

Lyricon-blowing John Walters, of Landscape fame if not fortune (yet), undertakes the western world's most comprehensive guide to the history, construction and playing of the Lyricon wind synthesiser.