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When the iPad 2 launched, a ripple of excitement ran through the music-making community.  Not only because the successor to Cupertino’s tablet continued to prove...

Being creative with your DJ sets is a great way to stand out from the crowd and become more immersed in your performances. That’s why...

Akai have revealed Force – a portable, standalone, groovebox and production machine designed to create, produce and mix your music without a computer. Having designed...

Another year, another NME Awards show. And it appears that the nu-rave flame hasn't dimmed in the hearts of either the programmers of tonight's four...

Erol Alkan was 27 when he received his first album offer. Kylie Minogue had just performed his ‘Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head’...

THERE'S something stirring in the bushes. A bugged-out funky buzz beckons from the branches in the sweltering Mediterranean heat, as the loose disco guitar groove...

Earlier in January, Point Blank celebrated the release of Arturia’s new DX7 plugin, based on the classic Yahama FM synth of the same name. It’s...

You can now get acquainted with the many types of synthesiser designed in Russia throughout the last century.

Considering the huge part Russia has played...

African rhythms and punk energy!

In the current climate of deep house dullards Letherette stand out like a sore thumb. Cutting 'n' pasting micro fragments of dusty old vinyl into emotive, pulsing electronic decoupages, their skewed, psych take on house and hip-hop acknowledges pioneers like J Dilla, Daft Punk, Cassius and Madlib, while injecting unexpected kaleidoscopic flourishes and live instrumentation, pushing sampladelia in a unique direction.

With praise from Mary Anne Hobbs and a string of releases on pivotal imprints Numbers, Audio Culture and 877, Belgian double act GoldFFinch have wasted no time in establishing their name since they appeared on the scene back in 2011.

Layo & Bushwacka! were a popular tech house duo before Millennium time, but after they released ‘Love Story’ in 2002 they totally went supernova. They met at the legendary central London nightclub The End, where Bushwacka!, aka Matthew Benjamin, was a resident DJ and Layo Paskin was co-owner (with Mr C). 



ROLI has announced Seaboard Block, a smaller, more affordable version of its award-winning touch keyboard.

The original ROLI keyboard — which came to prominence thanks...

Behringer has shared some preliminary designs for their recently announced Minimoog clone, the Behringer D. You can see them below.

The company’s founder Uli Behringer ...

If you thought 2012 was a fine vintage for speaker-cracking sounds, get a load of these lot. They're some of the cats who'll be making the dancefloor an intoxicating place to be this year. Serving up everything from deep disco vibes to subterranean bass darkness, these are the DJ/producers destined to make a splash in 2013...