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“It's Christmaaaas!”: How Slade created a festive classic - with a little help from John Lennon
Still making half a million quid a year, it’s the Christmas gift that keeps on giving!
How to write better songs by understanding how song forms work
All the theory in the world can’t make you a competent songwriter, to make a song work you need to understand how common song-forms engage listeners
"This particular 808 is arguably the single most important drum machine in history"
The origin of house music in 5 key tracks
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
“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
