An intriguing insight into just what is required of the home recordist when setting out to cut your first disc.

Metalwork

Part 2 deals with that crucial part of the record making process - the metalwork stage.

Record Pressing

Part 3 completes our short series with a detailed look at record pressing, labels, sleeves and promotion.

Indie Records

First part on how to go about releasing your own electronic record. A D.I.Y. guide.

Part two, in which we meet the fifth Beatle, George Martin, and also brush with Trevor Horn's Fairlight.

guitar legend and mail order rock star

What happens when you start making money from music? Just before you buy the Porsche? You see an accountant, OK?

Then After A Few Years I Think I'll Be A Producer

making a career of knob twiddling

Pete Wingfield in the ring with Soul mate Chas de Whalley

Lieber and Stoller

More record production legends. This month Lieber and Stoller and the black breakthrough.

Two ex-cats and an earl add more lines to the story of Rock and Roll. David Marx chronicles

Chas de Whalley encounters his old pal Huey Lewis to discuss the merits of self-production

Thomas Dolby

name check

In his career as disc jockey, audio engineer and pop star Tim Simenon has called upon musical influences as diverse as Rick James and Kraftwerk. Tim Goodyer talks tech with a DJ who intends to take cut-up records on the road.

Mainframe's road to fame

Naked truths from a pop idol

Chas de Whalley meets legendary Folk Rock svengali, Joe Boyd

Seminal German avant garde composer Hans-Joachim Roedelius was in London recently to promote a new solo album, 'Gift of the Moment'. Dan Goldstein was granted a brief audience.

a house music producer who hates sampling and big drum sounds? some mistake, surely?

Virgin veterans XTC are under pressure to pull off a Pop success with their latest album, Skywalking. So is it open season on Andy Partridge? Chris Maillard takes aim...

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.

After three years out of the public eye, Scritti are straight back in the charts with a new LP and single. Green Gartside explains to Tim Goodyer why technology has replaced live performance.

The Music Works

Patrick Hunt gives Music Works the once over