As well as writing, singing and playing on his new single 'When A Heart Beats', Nik Kershaw also took the credit for its production. In an interview with Nick Webb he displays a rarely seen side of his character and discusses his knowledge of recording studio technology and approach to songwriting.

Take four musicians with a love of acoustic instruments, a fascination for high technology and some considerable talent, and you've got Frazier Chorus. Louise Swann and Stephen Hillier listen to songs from the English coast.

Rapino Brothers

Kylie and Take That’s remixers talk technique

Don Larking guides you through the various equipment that goes to make up a home studio.

Beatfarm

The boys from Beatfarm Studios talk business, production, and new jazz funk

Why limit music to the sounds you hear or the run-of-the-mill images that litter video and concert appearances? Steve Cogan discovers that there's no reason at all - for Meat Beat Manifesto.

Computer music at Goldsmith's College

The 60's R&B producer talks to us about those classic takes, and how he got them

Are They A Good Mix?

mixing the pop world's most powerful cocktail: should your music have a message?

A pro studio that's offering its facilities to new bands for free? Mike Myers tells Nicholas Rowland what's wrong with the record biz and how he's trying to put it right.

In his career as disc jockey, audio engineer and pop star Tim Simenon has called upon musical influences as diverse as Rick James and Kraftwerk. Tim Goodyer talks tech with a DJ who intends to take cut-up records on the road.

Japan's most respected technopop pioneer has recently finished an album that breaks new ground for him - it involves live musicians. He discusses his new LP and his other projects with Paul Tingen.

Could you make music using only samples from natural sources? Paul Tingen talks to a band who've done just that in an attempt to draw attention to our environment.

The feasibility of putting your own records out; Richard Dean tells how to beat them at their own game.

Scottish band Danny Wilson were led by Gary Clark, who regards his debut solo album Ten Short Songs About Love as his finest work to date. From conception to birth, it was made entirely at home. Phil Ward drops in on the basement studio, and finds both album and proud father doing very well

talks to Ralph Denyer

Well... what can you say? You know how good he is and what a writer our Ralph D is. But don't let's give the game away: read on!

Judie Tzuke, Tangerine Dream, Depeche Mode, Dio

Florida's finest remembers accents and accidents with Steve Rosen Stateside

Sandy Roberton emerges from his record collection to talk to Fred Dellar.

Felton Pilate's success spans "traditional" funk to the rap revolution - just now he's writing, producing and playing keys for Hammer. Nick Batzdorf raps tech with the Hammer man.

The originator of acid house claims the secrets of good music are feel and emotion rather than a Roland Bassline and an Akai sampler. Simon Trask gets in the mood.

The Producers

Hugh Murphy — a strange case of former Connie Francis assistant publicist taking the Kilburn High Road to find a kind of fame and fortune on the fast train, City to City. Fred Dellar buys a ticket and goes along for the ride.

Dave Stewart

Eurythmics’s main man rips the lid off

Bill Nelson talks Synths Vs Guitars with Gary Cooper