The meeting of two diverse talents and minds; Gary Numan and Bill Sharpe of Shakatak. We discover what they've been getting up to and where it will lead.

Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind & Fashion

A Guide to Programming Music with Soul

How often have you heard synthesized, sequenced music described as 'cold' and 'mechanical? All of us want to compose a tune with good 'feel', but few people know exactly what makes for a good 'feel'. Yet it's not a mystery - as this timely article by Michael Stewart, designer of the Kahler Human Clock, reveals.

Techno music, the true successor to late seventies synth-pop, translates the desolation of post-Motown Detroit into electronic dance rhythms. Simon Trask listens to the programmer's tale.

From the American Dr Ts comes an Atari ST program capable of additive, FM, AM and multiwaveform synthesis as well as sample editing. Chris Meyer asks if facilities are everything.

If you can't imagine how Steve Hillage, Derrick May and The Orb would sound making music together, you can buy their forthcoming LP and find out. Simon Trask talks to the man behind the guitar and the project.

UMI-2B

Sequencing interface for the BBC

Software for the IBM PC

System Design Associates' Promidi Studio System is a powerful sequencing package for IBM and compatible computers that records straight to disk. Ian Waugh checks it out.

Duran man Andy Taylor gives Chris Maillard a Station announcement

Fritz McIntyre - the key is simplicity

Chas de Whalley gets down with the Scottish Sultan of Soul, Steve Harvey

first news from the American gear show computer mailed from Chicago

Pitch Training On The BBC Micro

A new pitch trainer for the BBC B

On Tour With Nitzer Ebb

Nitzer Ebb are using the tools of technology to recreate their abrasive, challenging sound in a live context. Nigel Humberstone talks to the man who helps to put the show on the road.

Commodore's Amiga computer is the beneficiary of this impressive - and colourful - sequencing package. Ian Waugh welcomes the illusion.

Dave Simmons, the man behind the name on the hexagonal pad, holds forth on the past, present and future of electronic percussion. Paul White listens.

A Thorne in the side of Tony Mills

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

Over The Tracks With The Big Express

making The Big Express and strumming guitars

Psychedelic psecrets psussed

Video Producer

Jim Betteridge eases you into the big leather chair, switches on the monitors, presses the 'play' button...

A large mixing console can have literally thousands of knobs and switches. David Mellor explains how to use every last one of them - almost! Part 1 of 2.

Steve Cogan talks to Chris and Cosey at their Norfolk home

By ignoring the charts and treating dance music as a live phenomenon, Adamski has won himself a huge following and a chart placing. Simon Trask talks about the live applications of studio music.

The first published survey of micros for music making.