Your sequencer could be having more of an effect on your music than your synths do. Wilf Smarties wonders whether you should be giving your MC50 a co-writing credit...

Using Sequencers with Modular Systems

More about modular sequencing and the effects it can be used for. Steve Howell educates.

We talk to synth punk band Attrition. Will they wear you down?

Studio Test

A peace of magic, or no Bel prize? Curtis Schwartz judges

Scarlet Party

Jim Betteridge takes a lesson in love

Big in America, big in rehearsal rooms — but why isn't this dead good pop group dead big here?

Harold Budd - The incredible lightness of being

How our seminars rocked London’s APRS Exhibition

A new column introducing musicians with their own home studios.

Rotterdam's master of electronic listening music talks to Simon Trask about presets, sampling, hardcore rave, Warp Records, and the value of spontaneity...

Few producers begin their careers with experimental bands, become world-renowned for their work with electronic pop, and then turn their attention to traditional rock music. Paul Tingen talks to Mike Howlett, a man of many talents.

How much do musicians really earn? The rich ones (ahem) the poor ones (definitely).

Who's been recording where

Riding the ambient house wave, The Orb have released a concept album that mixes dance beats with new age textures. Tim Goodyer tunes in to Alex Paterson and Thrash as they chill out with technology.

Jazzer who likes to mix his rhythms

beat in the bahamas

Cities in Concert Paris, La Defense

Jean-Michel Jarre recently trod the boards in magnificent style in Paris to mark the occasion of Bastille Day - report in full from Mark Jenkins.

Jazz rock reggae punk funk folk joke.

Oberheim SEM

Oberheim had expanders on their minds long before Xpanders. Steve Howell extols the virtues of yesterday's modular approach to synthesis.

Chord Formation

Mark King, master bassist with a string of hit albums to his name as leader of Level 42, has reaped many of the rewards that pop stardom can bring — but satisfaction with the music industry is never guaranteed, as Paul Tingen discovers.

reverb, metal, and programmable fuzz

The Sports, The, er, wires

An Introduction to the Art Form

Producer/jingle composer Robin Lumley commences a new series that explores the role and function of music in the visual world.