Explode a brain cell.

Three chances to win a slice of a £1400 musical instrument cake, in our biggest, easiest-to-enter competition ever. Just the thing to wile away the hours of post-Christmas apathy.

This month it's Virgin's ambient compilation A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 1 which is up for grabs

Chill out with 5 horizontal questions and win Positiva's brand new compilation album of ambient sounds, featuring Aphex Twin, The Orb, Irresistible Force and many more

The winners of the Quiz of the Decade are named, plus all the music technology news that's fit to print, and isn't covered by our show reports.

Are you a muso?

Our handy multiple-choice quiz will let you know once and for all.

Introducing The Dots...

If you haven't got perfect pitch yet, tune in again to Radio Dave Stewart and try your hand at the quiz that will prove once and for all whether your tone is deaf.

For Atari ST, Apple Mac and PC

This, however, is the bit where we tell you gossipy tittle-tattle you've never heard before.

Why Bands Break Up

A unique Making Music survey; plus a quiz to find out if you're the splitting type.

It's angry time with violent John Morrish. This month's target: 'disc jockeys'. Brace yourself.

ROCK WEEK

preposterous pop

Tony Banks samples the "Invisible Touch" album, keyboard by keyboard.

find out once and for all

CHECKA

Phil Walsh takes time off from watching DIY nasty to design a lead tester, plug prober, mike checker, buttock fondler. Oh all right, we lied about the last one

Geoff Adams tells us what you can do with a broom cupboard and a little imagination...

Betteridge surfaces again to quiz producer Mick Glossop about his work on Furniture's hit, Brilliant Mind

Silica CD-ROMs

A selection of PC CD-ROM drives