The Rhythm Section

Landscape's bassist and drummer recount their reasons for choosing to form their own label to Ralph Denyer.

Upbeat pop from down under

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

The other half of the World

Colin Campsie & George McFarlane

Chas de Whalley chats to Colin Campsie and George McFarlane, aka The Quick

History Of Producers

Just who are these people who get their names on record sleeves and their sounds in your speakers?

The new album, and the bits what made it.

"...comes back from Hammersmith."

What we saw at the big fair, including famous gear and famous people.

The man who made AOR respectable? Terry Britten confesses all to Chas de Whalley

Fun In The Waves

After calling it a day with seventies’ supergroup The Band, and an interim period spent scoring soundtracks for Martin Scorsese films, guitarist Robbie Robertson has teamed up with Daniel Lanois, Peter Gabriel and U2 to create an impeccable first solo outing. Mark Prendergast lends the album an appreciative ear.

Dance music should be about more than 'moaning samples and ecstasy' claims producer Arthur Baker. Simon Trask talks to the man behind 'Planet Rock'.

The prettiest people in Pop meet the ugliest person in journalism

Did you know...?

what's missing in A Cappella

DATA: Martyn Ware/new album/Synclavier keyboard/digital technique... HARD COPY

One of the most popular keyboard samplers of recent years is E-mu's Emax, now its place is to be taken by the Emax II. But will it prove as popular? Dave Richardson gets the Max.

Digital Signal Processor

The latest signal processor from Yamaha may be aimed primarily at guitarists but the small studio owner might prefer to look at it as an adaptation of the SPX90. Rick Davies finds out it has a few new twists as well as a slimline price tag.

With The Housemartins

What a nice, ordinary, loveable bunch of geezers they are, Paul Trynka declares

The Making Of A New Music Supremo

Philip Glass is the best known, and certainly the best paid, contemporary new music composer. In London for performances of his music for the films Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, he talked to Mark J. Prendergast.

Studio Focus

Engineer Jim Ebdon shares some secrets about getting a heavy live sound, and Andrew Levy explains the band’s approach to recording