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“It's my favourite piece of gear that I own now – I use it on absolutely everything": Art School Girlfriend on the second-hand dynamic mic that shaped the "intimate" soun…

Mackey's latest project, Lean In, finds the Wrexham-born artist exploring existential themes of grief, joy, love and anxiety ...
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“The magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price”: Apple’s new MacBook Neo might be cheap, but for music producers, could it be a false economy? It’s complicated

In the midst of a good number of other product announcements, Apple has unveiled the MacBook Neo, an affordable laptop that’s designed to compete with Chromebooks and cheap Windows machines and ...
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“He played it to Motown, and they said, 'No way is Beck getting this song, it's too good’”: Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just ...

Exploring the mechanics of the song which was taken to mega-success by Stevie Wonder - much to Jeff Beck's frustration ...
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“Until now, creativity has been stifled by the need to acquire playing skills. Now, using the computer, any child can play": Unearthed BBC video from 1986 shows what music ...

The BBC has dipped into its archive once again to give us another fascinating look at how the relationship between computers and music was perceived in the late 20th century. This time, the year is ...
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“A happy bending of the rules of nature”: Elektron’s latest Syntakt update adds sample synthesis and new sequencing tools to the hybrid drum synth

Given that it’s been on the market since 2022, you’d be forgiven for assuming that we’d seen all that Syntakt has to offer. But Elektron – a company with a history of releasing lifespan-extending ...