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From imposing modular synths to classic Moogs

The history of electronic instruments is charted in a new book, 'Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back)'. 

Published by Velocity Press, with a...

Prepare to revisit the upside-down...

Following the news that 'Vol. 1' of the stunning Stranger Things soundtrack would be released on vinyl at the end of the month (28th October)...

DJ Mag talks to electronic music legend Giorgio Moroder about producing this enduring, game-changing disco classic...



One of the most prolific and pioneering electronic music composers of the '70s and '80s, Giorgio Moroder was born in Italy and started playing guitar...

Learning to produce deep house with Ableton Live

We enrolled Point Blank's Deep House Ableton Live course to check out the process, and hopefully learn some tricks along the way. This is part one of the the four week course diary.

Andy Blake chooses his top five

Armando – ‘151’ (Hot Mix 5 1988)
No melody, no changes, no chords, no pads. Just some drums and one solitary note courtesy of everyone's...

Roland 808

Inspire The Music features 70 interviews with revered artists and Roland designers

Sister Bliss, Richie Hawtin, Orbital and more are to be featured in a new book celebrating 50 years of Roland. Inspire The Music: 50 Years...

Artwork depicting 'Lunatic Harness' record sleeve

Released in 1997, μ-Ziq’s ‘Lunatic Harness’ mixed jungle and out-there electronica in a way few had heard before. Here, Mike Paradinas talks to Ben Murphy about the influences that went into creating this genre-meshing gem, and his new album 'Magic Pony Ride'

“THE PIRATES were the only way you could get to hear the jungle stuff,” says Mike Paradinas, aka µ-Ziq, reflecting on the mix of influences...

Techno luminary Maceo Plex remixes Remake’s classic take on the Blade Runner soundtrack as part of Renaissance Recordings’ ‘Remix Collection’ series – Sprawling, epic and suitably...

Ellum Audio don and techno luminary Maceo Plex is the latest artist enlisted to take part in longstanding UK label Renaissance Recordings’ ‘The Remix Collection’...

The Belleville Three

Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...

mytracks

The MyTracks features 16 pads, a built-in sampler, and a kid-friendly design

Playtime Engineering — the musical instrument company that designs products to introduce electronic music production to children — has returned with a new crowd-funded product...

Premiere: Amselysen ‘Misery (feat. Ubu Boi)’

Montréal’s Amselysen returns to Genot Centre with an album of wild vocal mutations and electro-acoustic experiments

Amselysen will release a new album, ‘Organe Solaire’, via Prague’s Genot Centre label this month. Listen to ‘Misery (feat. Ubu Boi)’ below. The Montréal-based producer’s...

Roland Store

The store will offer pre-booked demos of a range of hard-to-find Roland and BOSS products

Roland has opened a new store and showroom in central London. Located on Soho's historic Denmark Street, the Roland London Store is part of Outernet...

The UK techno stalwart has something very special, and very physical, lined up for ADE

Carl Cox is playing a semi-modular live show online today, according to the techno hero's Twitter feed. 

The UK stalwart took to social media to...

Drawing from dub, jazz and field recordings, the debut album from rRoxymore finds her upturning the orthodoxies of dance music to create something fresh

The cover art for rRoxymore’s debut album ‘Face To Phase’ depicts an earthly scene tinged with the surreal. Against a black backdrop, flamingos, tropical fauna...

Coinciding with the release of a major Tangerine Dream retrospective, DJ Mag catches up with Peter Baumann, one third of the band’s classic line-up, to...

One of the curiosities of psychedelia is that, until 1967, American “happenings” had been mostly sound-tracked by electronic music. Then, as soon as acid trips...