Time Machine

Decades on from a time when you couldn’t simply produce a film soundtrack on a laptop, sound design supervisor Michael Fremer reflects on what it was like to work with composer Wendy Carlos for Disney’s 1982 sci-fi action-adventure, ‘Tron’

Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis famously retreated from the limelight long before his untimely passing in 2019. But a recently unearthed mixtape given to producer Gareth Jones reveals the early musical influences behind this most reclusive of artists

It’s been a busy year so far for Finnish techno/jazz polymath Jimi Tenor, releasing a photo biography, ‘Omniverse’, and an album, ‘Multiversum’. Hold on tight for a wild ride through his eclectic existence

Jon Wozencroft, founder of pioneering label and publisher Touch, reflects on 40 years of experimental electronics and audiovisual adventures

Heldon guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas reflects on some memorable encounters with Kraftwerk 

We travel back to the good old days of pirate radio and meet Luke Owen, the man behind a new collection of quirky between-song adverts that used to fill our illegal airwaves

When his iconic SP-1200 sampler received a 30th anniversary reissue, designer Dave Rossum took us through the moment he first tested its predecessor and realised he had changed music creation forever with an infinite pee

Producer Pascal Gabriel revisits his innovative work on a brace of 1988 megahits, ‘Beat Dis’ and ‘Theme From S-Express’

Ben Kelly, the designer of The Haçienda, talks us through the club’s iconic design aesthetic   

Getting in the office time machine for the traditional festive trip, our very own loose canon isn’t messing around… Jesus! he exclaimed. Jesus, we sighed