The line between man and machine is blurred; today there exists an entity whose purpose is to make music. Simon Trask discovers that its sights are locked on the dance charts and it absolutely will not stop.

Most editing software is more user-friendly than digital parameter access, and more suited to the demands of editing complex digital synthesizers than traditional analogue controls. Greg Truckell investigates.

Basscheck

It's Mark King time again. A handmade beauty with a gorgeous body. The bass, not Mark King

Ronald Alpier takes us through a music package for the Archimedes with a difference

David Ellis begins a two-part excursion into the E&MM archives to discover a myriad of bizarre musical instruments that somehow never quite made the big time. How many of them can you remember?

In 1984, The Blue Nile released an album widely hailed as the finest debut LP of recent years. After five years of silence, they've produced another masterpiece in Hats. Paul Ireson talks to the men behind two of the decade's finest records.

Miroslav Vitous Symphonic Orchestra sample CD-ROMs, Prima Publishing Quick Time: Making Movies With Your Macintosh by Robert Hone

From Jamerson to Joy Division, Chic to Kaye, this is the place of the bass.

can you tell a real drummer?

There seems no end to the creativity of New York performance artist Laurie Anderson. In an exclusive interview, she talks about her music, her lyrics, and life as a 'Diva' for artist Jean-Michel Jarre.

obtaining the best from MIDI sequencers

How it is to be solo

Joan alone with Joan, Wilf Green plays fly on the wall

Robert Fripp Lays Bare His Legendary Effects Rack

A rare interview with this virtuoso King Crimson guitarist and much admired 'guest soloist'.

A Young Person's Guide To Electronic Music

The father of the voltage controlled synthesiser lectures in London, and E&MM reports.

Pat Metheny and the well-tempered Synclavier

Everything you need to know to get a thoroughly professional sound onto tape, and how to treat it once it's there.

Studio pursuits with the violin

Software for Apple Macintosh

It's not often a new program enters the Macintosh stable of sequencers, but one notable newcomer is this package from Dr T's. Mike Collins dons Mac and boldly goes...

Gary Hopkins lends an ear to the Caledonian Crooner

On studio, stage work, and future solo projects

The Prefab Spirit

the screening of Steve McQueen

From Sheffield's tradition as the home of industrial funk, come the Fon Force. David Bradwell talks to the men behind the cream of modern northern dance music.

Resident 'DJ' Wilf Smarties gives a new batch of CDs a spin.