Chris Maillard chews the cud with the up and coming C&W—crossover cowpunchers.

A special report on the proceedings at this year's UK Electronica festival. Words by Tony Mills; pictures by Alf Annison, Stuart Catterson, Tony Mills and Chris Jenkins.

The life story of the original sampling keyboard — the Mellotron.

Korg MS20

This month's trip down memory lane takes us to Korg's MS20. Greg Truckell reacquaints himself with an analogue synth that may be better suited to use in 1989 than 1979.

Casio discover MIDI

Dream Machine: Casio PG380 guitar synth

is the Casio PG380 the ultimate guitar synth ?

Ian Boddy concludes his look at how to take electronic music on the road by examining his own live set-up and how it's put to use in a concert situation.

Review/pin-up.

Grow misty eyed as vintage revisitors Tokai call up the sounds of 1954.

Judie Tzuke, Tangerine Dream, Depeche Mode, Dio

The section where MT readers submit their own synth sounds. Featured machines this month include the Korg Poly 800, Roland Alpha Juno 2 and Yamaha DX7.

Which nutty boy is a home recording fanatic?

Turning digital dreams into reality

Ian Boddy is one of this country's foremost independent 'electronic music' composers. David Hughes talks to him about the recording of his new CD 'Odyssey'.

The basics of processors propounded by Phil 'DIYners card' Walsh

Music Synthesizer

The name might not be memorable - how about the synth?

Roland SVC-350 Vocoder

voices in a rack

Rosetti's 12-Channel Studio software for the CBM 64. A comprehensive disc-based package that can turn your MIDI gear into a floppy phenomenon.

your problems dissolve as the experts swoop

Multi-Effects Unit

The Ashbory Bass

World scoop review of The Ashbory Bass

The Jones boy finally agrees to talk to us. Tony Horkins plays the diplomatic attaché