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Scanner: "When I'm mixing, I play a kind of sonic Jenga"
Electronic artist, producer, gear explorer, film composer, and modular master Robin Rimbaud has been releasing music as Scanner and other acts for more than four decades. Here, he gives us a more electronic expert viewpoint on what separates a demo from the finished article…
Orbital on recording The Green Album: "We didn’t have multi-tracking equipment, so we’d get everything working and just run it out live. Any manipulation or synth magic would happen as it was going down - if you didn’t like it, you’d do it again"
Phil and Paul Hartnoll talk us through the debut album that started it all, track by track
“We don’t think we’ve ever made anything that sounds remotely like this track before”: Justice enlist Miguel and an E-MU synth guitar sound on new single, Saturnine, and confirm the full tracklisting and list of collaborators for new album, Hyperdrama
“We love Miguel’s voice when it’s raw. We wanted him to sound outrageously frontal”
Jeff Mills: “I’m waiting for instrument makers to make that simple piece of gear that does that one thing brilliantly… just like a 303. There’s no sound like it”
We caught up with electronic music-maker extraordinaire Jeff Mills prior to his appearance at this year’s CRSSD Festival, appropriately enough on 303 Day. Hamish Mackintosh spoke with The Wizard himself…
“Success is something that you attract, not something that you try to chase or catch”: Skrillex offers advice to young music makers as he accepts the Best Dance/Electronic Recording Grammy for Rumble, with Fred Again and Flowdan
The producer says that they weren’t trying to make a hit, but to “push culture forward”
"Not many producers can get away with putting out tracks that stretch to 45 minutes long": How Ricardo Villalobos' hypnotic grooves changed the face of minimal techno
This month in our Pioneers series, we're exploring the genius of a Chilean-German master of minimal dance music
"The most heartwarming thing was to receive nice words about my music from Aphex Twin": Sign Libra takes us inside the making of her intensely personal third album
Latvian producer Agata Melnikova is harnessing old-school software for a cutting-edge sound on Hidden Beauty
"A trailblazer, spirited, adventurous, fearless, hilarious, smart": Annie Nightingale, influential DJ, dies aged 83
Tributes pour in for first female Radio 1 presenter
