This premier producer, conductor and arranger discusses his solo album 'The Best of the Alan Parsons Project'

The birth of HM jazz?

Jean Michel Jarre explains his current views on music, synthesisers and synthesis in an in-depth interview.

UK Fresh '86

Simon Trask leaves all that MIDI jargon behind to check out Britain's first major live hip hop event. How are the DJs and the rappers making technology tick?

Direct-to-disk PC recording system

It's getting closer... the home 8-track, gone digital.

From Schoolhouse To Multitrack

A gentleman and a scholar

The Stereo MC's' Connected was for many the album of 1992; their live shows are currently one of the highlights of 1993. Phil Ward makes his own stereo connection and discovers just what it takes to get the balance right.

Hip-hop beats, anarchic industrial noise and the odd jazz lick are the hallmarks of The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy’s debut album Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury. Kean Wong drops in on San Francisco’s uncompromising renegades and discovers which are the sharpest tools at the cutting edge of rap

It's more than a Portastudio; 8-track reel-to-reel and mixing facilities all in one unit - the Tascam 388.

Part one of a new series by Alan Hoida setting out what is involved in the making of a promotional pop video.

Portastudio Review

Drums & more — guaranteed no puns about electrical goods!

Studio pursuits with the violin

Home Recording for Musicians

What it cn d fr th horn recordist (note clever typing trick).

Blackpool-based band 'The Sensible Shoes' outline their working environment and techniques.

His idiosyncratic style of fretless bass playing inspired a generation, but now the ex-Japan man is playing sessions, writing his own music, and programming his own synths.

Software for Apple Macintosh

Our resident Mac user Martin Russ steps his way enthusiastically through two of the best written software packages for the Apple Macintosh computer [in this part] - 'Performer', a comprehensive multitrack sequencing program.

The whizz-kid that made a number one hit out of a spoken-word soundtrack and a sampler with 19' is now The Wizard, courtesy of a new signature tune for 'Top of the Pops'. Tim Goodyer meets the man, the Synclavier, and the passion for new technology.

Exclusive interview with all three ecstatic persons, who chat amiably about office fave "Skylarking".

Vic Springer clashes paisley shirts with the psychedelic medics