After five years at the top of the electropop tree, Basildon boys Martin Gore and Alan Wilder talk tech with Paul Tingen.

Chas de Whalley talks to the other John Williams about his recent work with chart-toppers The Housemartins

The noise from the black stuff

Are you afraid of the art of Bath? Adrian Deevoy goes into battle with Curt and Roland

Our man Chris Maillard meets the Men for a man-to-Men chat

Chas de Whalley squares up to the young and talented Brian Tench

Mik Sweeney talks about his guitars and Sal Solo describes how he is acquiring production skills.

A behind-the-scenes glimpse into who does what, and how, in the making of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's classic synth-pop records.

Crushed by the wheels of technology?

Clint Boon and the Farfisa beat

the tricks of quitting

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

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

A cosmic David Etheridge gets to the spirit of New Age music in the first instalment of a two-part series.

Fiat Lux

THE STORY OF AN INDEPENDENT RECORD

The story of how one of this country's lesser-known synthesists took the bold step of forming his own record label to independently release his fourth album 'Phoenix'. Paul Gilby documents the process.

The band called it music, the press called it confrontational noise, and the public bought it and danced to it. Stephen Hillier talks to the men behind Renegade Soundwave.

Neville Unwin attempts to shed some light on contemporary production and arrangement.

The Weird and Wonderful World of The Blue Eyed Boys

do you really want to be the next bros?

One of the most successful, certainly the most consistent, of Britain's electronic musicians, Gary Numan has succeeded in taking his eclectic and compelling music into the mass market. Gary talks of his songwriting and recording techniques, his past career, and what he plans for the future

In our exclusive interview, the great domed one himself waxes ambient on remixing, jazz, Sinatra, computers, the Eventide H-3000 and his own original definition of a new, environmentally sound music