Live Music For The Hi-Tech Musician

Jo Callis explains how one of popular music's top bands works

Jim Betteridge wades through the swirling, ethereal ambience that is the Cocteau Twins' music

Hairy stories from the USA

Guest Producer Steve Hillage argues for the breaking down of arbitrary barriers between musical styles.

Sharpe & Numan

Gary Numan renews his working relationship with Bill Sharpe for another single project. Dan Goldstein drops in on them, and discovers the link could soon become permanent.

Stereo from one input

Joking apart, this one-off practical column makes the rest of the magazine look quite serious.

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Electronics

Electronics and synthesiser music.

Better than cheap frills, cheap reverb with no frills

D'Cuckoo are hardly your average MIDI band: they build their own instruments; they're all women, and they play "post-industrial cyber-tribal world-funk". Paul Tingen investigates.

A group of new faces for the 1980's, Simple Minds have expanded the original conception of 'pop' music with a series of exciting and refreshing releases and stage shows. Mike McNeil and Charlie Birchill talk here to Dan Goldstein.

A crafty buyer's guide — what to look for.

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So You Want To Be A Screen Music Writer?

Producer/composer Robin Lumley continues this series designed to take the mystery out of writing and recording music for film and television.

Programmability on synthesisers - a convenience or an essential part of the evolution of electronic instruments and music? Tim Goodyer considers the real implications of something we all take for granted.