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How a small group of Chicago producers invented house and changed music forever
“I’ve got the 303 but I don’t know how to work it - it’s making all these crazy sounds!”
The flawed genius of pop's biggest anthems, from Hey Jude to Hey Ya!
Our resident music professor explains why it's the weird, unexpected, and slightly annoying details that turn great songs into timeless classics
Meet the viral 67-year-old producer raving into retirement - and proving that techno has no age limit
The Last DJ has built an audience of hundreds of thousands performing live electronic music at home. We sit down with the sexagenarian Syntakt fan to find out how he did it
A marketing expert breaks down how to get more people listening to your music than ever before
"If you were surprised by the 'Top' songs in your Spotify Wrapped, it might be because the difference between your top 5 and top 100 streamed songs is just a tiny number of plays"
“It was a huge disappointment when it didn’t make it to number one”: The story of Wham!’s Last Christmas
A tale of vast ambition, misfired masterplans, tragedy, heartbreak and happiness at last!
The story of Sequential Circuits in 10 synths, sequencers and drum machines
Charting the rise, fall and subsequent resurgence of Sequential, we celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking synthesizers and technical ingenuity from one of the original trailblazers
New to working with loops? Start here
"Those looped dance music breakdowns and drops have been done a million times before - so tweak them a little!"
“The new high-powered mover from Hoover - it’s a little groover!”: What Brian Johnson sang before his audition for AC/DC
He was broke and needed the money!
