Yet another selection of recently announced new products to whet your appetite!

What's new in the recording world.

BMF Report

Lager bottle in hand, the Editor guides you through the gallery of new music technology on demonstration at last month's newly-public British Music Fair. Plus lots of photographs so that those who missed it can find out what the gear looks like.

Electronics Into Light

Karlheinz Stockhausen has had a profound influence on modern music from the 1950s onwards, and pioneered the use of electronics to create genuinely new music. Mark J. Prendergast reviews his career.

Highlights from America's West Coast instrument expo. Hot scoops.

Power Amplifier

Compared to a critical appraisal by Ben Duncan, the Spanish Inquisition was about as daunting as an old lady asking the time.

news from the front

No hype, no waffle - just tomorrow's products today

Tomorrow's hot products previewed

Our regular colourful glimpse of forthcoming and recently released new products from the hi-tech and recording fields.

Klaus Schulze & Rainer Bloss, Tim Souster

Jon Hassell has been at the leading edge of new music for three decades, with major contributions to western avant garde and world music. Following the re-release of two classic albums from the early '80s, Mark J. Prendergast presents a retrospective of Hassell's work.

Contrary to popular belief Canadian electro-poppers Trans X have a bizarre and fascinating history that takes in cosmic electronic music. Annabel Scott reports.

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

The buyer's guide that bares all. Most of the dedicated sequencers, software packages and computer music systems currently available in the UK, detailed, listed and criticised by E&MM's reviewing team.

Genesis, Marillion and Fuzzbox producer Nick Davis suggests how British music might regain some lost magic.

Software for the IBM PC

As musical interest in PC-compatible machines grows, more American software is finding its way into the UK. Harvey Newquist sequences the PC way.

Ian Waugh makes a global search of the UK MIDI software scene and presents this roundup of what is available and from whom.

Tony Bacon on the trans-oceanic hotline

Who makes which Jap electrics? Check ERRATA

The release of the M1R puts the M1’s hot sounds in a compact rack-mounting package that will undoubtedly appeal to musicians and studios already burdened by a surfeit of keyboards. Martin Russ looks beyond the surface appeal.

Not all sampler owners have access to every instrument they might wish to sample, hence the appearance of Sample CDs containing all manner of digitally recorded sounds. But how useful are they? Are they value for money? Keyboardist Dave Stewart recently spent many hours sorting the wheat from the chaff. Here are his findings.

The shape of things to come

Tony Reed goes back to the future for the Frankfurt forecast