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

News on the newest

Brian Robinson

Mr Bassman, boom boom, thwack thwack, talks exclusively, dang dang, chacker chacker, to Making Music, thock thock, thwackadang

Copyists or Plagiarists?

Wonder at the miracle of microchip technology as we tinkle with the newest Casio mini synth.

Fractal Music Composer

Martin Russ looks at a program that generates music from chaos.

David Bowie

gossip column

Casio discover filters

Life behind the counter

Counter attack

In the first of a series, Fred Dellar looks at the chequered career of Gus Dudgeon.

Psychedelic psecrets psussed

Much-noticed blues guitarist suggests playing solos on front pickup shock.

Wise words from the master of modern production

Gabba Gabba meets MIDI MIDI

Tech Talk

Matthew Vosburgh takes a conducted tour around software for the Apple Macintosh with the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

A gentleman and a scholar

We report on this top chart group.

shrugs and knock 'n' knowall

Wrenched from video filming (with a ballerina no less) and quizzed on gear and blushes.

arpeggiator, delay, mixer

Strangler's keyboard commandant Dave Greenfield tells us why he's Waved goodbye to his Hammond.