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"I was standing crying at the synthesizer, so I pulled out a card and it said 'just carry on'. I did and created something I still like today": How Brian Eno's mysterious Oblique Strategies could help your music production and your life
By Andy Jones published
"Use fewer notes", "Be dirty" or "Mute and continue": which Strategy will you use in the studio today?

“Not what I expected at all”: here’s what happened when Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess was asked to play along to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ Empire State of Mind, a song he’d never heard before
By Ben Rogerson published
“Shall we send it to Alicia and tell her she needs to go back in the studio and add some tracks?”

“I thought, ‘have I done something heinous?’”: James Blake reminds Brian Eno that he once accused him of using ‘the arsehole chord’ and demands to know what it actually is
By Ben Rogerson published
“There’s a way of resolving things in songs which always disappoints me,” Eno begins to explain…

Synth pioneer Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver, has died at the age of 80
By Ben Rogerson published
Accomplished keyboard player and composer worked with both George Harrison and Ringo Starr

In celebration of Jan Hammer: so much more than great film and TV soundtracks
By Jerry Kovarsky published
You might know Jan Hammer as the talented film and TV score writer, but he also redefined keyboard technique and performance

The quiet genius of Ryuichi Sakamoto
By Matt Mullen published
From synth-pop hits to Oscar-winning scores to avant-garde electronics, Ryuichi Sakamoto's talents knew no boundaries

Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc reveals his love of the piano and shows you how he recorded his first track in Ableton Live
By Ben Rogerson published
He doesn’t just race round tracks - he makes them. And we're guessing he's always first on the ‘grid’ controller...

Jon Hopkins launches new beer inspired by one of his tracks and the number 9, and it’s all thanks to something Brian Eno told him
By Ben Rogerson published
Is it a case of Jon’s hops wins?

Brian Eno kept a backup, backup laptop in a fridge for his Acropolis gig with brother Roger
By Ben Rogerson published
“I would hate, more than driving nails into my scrotum, to actually go on tour,” he says

Brian Eno and Roger Eno release the first track from the concert film of their first ever live performance together
By Ben Rogerson published
“I couldn’t miss the chance to perform in what may be the world’s oldest theatre, located at the birthplace of Western Civilisation,” says Brian Eno of Acropolis gig
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