...Is one of the producers responsible for the new wave of guitar-based pop. Paul Tingen finds he has plenty to say about modern music technology, not all of it favourable.

Mainframe's road to fame

League leader and Moroder man talks tech to Tony Mills

Secrets of samples and songs

double CD player

Double turntables are the DJ stock-in-trade. Can the CD format take the dance floor by storm?

The Fixx are big in American. Chris Holland-Hill, who's big in Hemel Hempstead, finds out why.

Wrexham's master remixers spill the beans

Jazz for the record

talk the best of

Waiting In The Wings

Part 11. Dave Stewart explains the recording of one of his songs and passes on a few tips into the bargain.

Loop Create software for the Greengate DS:3.

New looping software for the Greengate DS:3.

Richard Burgess, Roland Orzabal and David Lloyd

the hidden tricks

Steve Jolliffe — bodily contact

Welcome to your new free musicians' magazine: what's in it for you?

The original ambient funsters have a new studio album all but ready, a live album on the way and a major recording deal in the offing. Jonathan Miller encounters Dr Alex Paterson and Thrash on the verge of a higher plane...

Their '88 acid house hits took Britain's clubland by storm, but now S' Express are taking their sampling a stage further. Tim Goodyer enjoys the trip.

Making new music from old. Simon Trask talks to the musicians and DJs who made a No. 1 hit from a drum machine and other peoples' records.

As PWL's in-house mixer, Pete Hammond can claim to have had a hand in even more chart singles than Stock, Aitken & Waterman. David Bradwell finds out what makes a hit record.

maxi-trem

How to crash the industry's annual bash

Whatever happened to Thomas Leer? What's become of Propaganda? If you've heard of a band called Act you already know the answers to these questions, if not, David Bradwell is right on cue with this interview.

pop under the hammer

Intrepid reporter/cameraman Ralph Denyer ventures into the wild suburban jungle of East London to capture the rarely heard thoughts of this lesser-spotted songbird and re-mix producer who has recently taken delivery of his very own Synclavier system.