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“One day in Berlin, Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future’”: How to replicate the trailblazing pulse of I Feel Love

I Feel Love’s innovative electronic rhythm section set the stage for pretty much everything that followed, and here’s how you can recreate its bewitching energy in your DAW

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“They needed something slow for the romantic scenes with Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis… The components are the five-note motif, the melody and the distinctive bass sound with a key change in the middle”: The genius of Giorgio Moroder in an ’80s classic

“Giorgio could have farted and I would have sung it!”

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“It says on the record: ‘No synthesizers’. That’s so cool. And I love Ogre Battle – danga-danga, ‘Waaaaah!’”: Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith names his favourite Queen album

“It has a lot of power, it has wonderful orchestration and incredible playing”

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“Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Sinead O’Connor in wigs to do backing vocals… Brian Eno on an Omnichord”: Dave Stewart recalls a bonkers late-'90s TFI Friday appearance

“I was always doing wonky ideas” he tells Chris Evans

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“Powerful, extremely versatile and creatively refreshing, it offers a ton of inspiration if you click with it”: LAG HyVibe 10 HV10ACE review

A capable acoustic guitar that’s its own pedalboard and speaker, too

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“A joy to use, offers some interesting opportunities for patching and can grow with your rig too”: ADDAC System 814 6x6 Stereo Matrix Mixer review

Mix, match and morph both audio and CV with ease, using ADDAC’s matrix mixer

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Hack your disposable vape into a mini wind synth with this DIY guide

“We have to use the low pressure sensor. Which means to play it, you must suck”

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Behringer clones the Lovetone Ring Stinger, a cult classic ring mod/fuzz pedal heard on Radiohead's Kid A

Spice up your tone with Behringer's take on this boutique '90s gem

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“Premium design detail coupled with excellent sonics delivers a listening experience that doesn’t disappoint”: HEDD HEDDphone D1 review

The quality level continues to rise for mixing and mastering headphones. Let’s see how this latest model performs

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“That’s called the lazy musician’s way”: Greg Phillinganes schools Clyde Lawrence on how to play the piano part in Toto’s Rosanna correctly

The Lawrence member had been tasked with learning the song by ear as quickly as possible

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“It’s quite funny when people ask us what it means. We had no clue that it would connect with so many people”: How Wet Leg's breakout hit was created in “teenage sleepover mode” and written in a single day

“We’d just hit our guitars sometimes. Actually hit them!”

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“I was so surprised Rihanna didn't take it, because I thought it was the greatest song in the world at the time”: How Sia went from songwriter to superstar with one of the 2010s' biggest tracks

It was a song that unravelled the psychology of hedonism - with an arrangement that came together in under an hour

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“Who do we really support, and what kind of ecosystem do we want for live music in Europe?”: New research shows the vice-like grip four companies have on Europe’s live music

Live Nation and co own 150 of Europe’s big festivals

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“Developed with Kirk Hammett’s guidance and built from specifications taken directly from the actual PAF humbuckers on that world-renowned guitar”: Gibson unveils the $449 Custom Shop humbucker set that will make your Les Paul sound like ‘Greeny’

Limited to 100 units worldwide, exclusive to Gibson, these are aged by the Murphy Lab to look just like the real thing

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"His creative contributions were immense, and his presence – both musical and personal – will be deeply missed”: Greg Brown, co-founder of '90s band Cake has died

They were best known for 1997 hit The Distance

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“This is the king of synths. It will always be my favourite”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983 that “sounds like no other”

“The way it spits out those notes is incredible,” he says. “The attack… I just miss that on modern keyboards”

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“Give your agent a music career”: New AI-only online radio station launches

But will humans want to listen to it?

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Inside Harley Benton’s 2026 mega-drop: Fresh colours and a baritone for the SC Custom III, a metallic makeover for hot-rodded S-styles, all-solid acoustics for under $250 and more

The budget gear giant rings in the changes with eight new electrics, one ‘thunderous’ retro beginner bass, and a pair of acacia bodied Custom Line acoustics… All at ridiculously low prices

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"Not that Kirk doesn't get enough solos, but Cliff took his solo, which I think is just so cool": Robert Trujillo on the time Metallica mixed up their solos

He says Orion is “the closest thing to the spirit of Cliff Burton”

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"Welcome to the dystopian future we only dreamed about three years ago": Deadmau5 blasts DJ using his AI-generated deepfake to promote music

"AI is great, generative AI not so much; but we need to stop idiots like this from abusing it"

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“Income from streaming simply isn’t enough to sustain most artists and that 99.9% them face a funding gap”: New app launched that could provide grassroots artists with a much-needed revenue stream

Dune works as a stock market where you ‘invest’ in an artist

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“Thank you for everything, for your friendship, your wit and your generosity of spirit, and of course for the music, forever a true friend and brother”: Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken has died, aged 72

He played with them all the way up to 2014

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Harley Benton just dropped an 8-string for southpaw players that has a multi-scale build, high-gain humbuckers – and it offers change from 300 bucks

The R-458MN is a tidy-looking multi-scale eight-string that treads djently on your budget but will put some weight on your riffs

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“He knew one day someone would come and look through this stuff. They’re not objects for veneration to be kept in a box": Rare footage of Bowie from 1978 to be included in new ‘immersive’ show

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone opens in April

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Waldorf Protein hands-on: Four layers, '90s wavetables & MPE in a $399 mini synth

Waldorf's latest puts the wavetable oscillators of the Microwave into a compact and affordable instrument – is this be the best new budget synth?

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