Love Parade Music Festival

byJonathan Wright
August 14, 2025

In 1989, Danielle De Picciotto dreamed of witnessing Carnival in Brazil. Instead, she brought the carnival to a still-partitioned Berlin by co-creating the dance music festival, Love Parade

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‘Tomorrow’s World’

byMark Brend

At the back end of 1969, a new music making machine has its debut on British TV. The show, unsurprisingly, is ‘Tomorrow’s World’, the machine is the Moog Modular…

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The ILLIAC II

byAnastasia Chernysheva

How were computers first used to make music? The ILLIAC II was used by both Lejaren Hiller and Salvatore Martirano to develop two different approaches to algorithmic composition

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Orbital, Glastonbury 1994

byPaul Clarke

Paul Hartnoll remembers Orbital’s era-defining Glastonbury headline performance of 1994, which thrust electronic dance music into the spotlight like never before

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Deb Danahay and Depeche Mode

byES Staff

As Depeche Mode get ready for another massive world tour, Deb Danahay talks about her previously unseen photos of the band’s first ever trip outside the UK

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