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Nils Frahm on his new live album, Paris, and fighting against the orthodoxy
By Danny Turner published
“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”

Albert Hammond Jr of the Strokes is (reluctantly) selling a heap of his stage-played gear on Reverb
By Jonathan Horsley published
Too bad his Bigsby-equipped SG has already been sold but that Mastery-equipped Jazzmaster looks pretty sweet, as does his Custom Shop Strat – and his father's Jupiter-6 synth is up for grabs too

Watch Hazel Mills recreate the rowdy wub-wub bass patch and chord stabs from Caribou’s Honey on her UDO Super 8
By Matt Mullen published
The musician and songwriter shows you how to cook up two of Honey's primary sounds using one of this year's hottest synths

Bastl’s Kastle 2 FX Wizard is a pocket-sized box of patchable effects
By Si Truss published
Bastl’s pocket synth gets reimagined as a modulation-focused stereo effects processor

“A well-priced synth workstation – just don't expect a 1980s Juno”: Roland Juno-D7 review
By Andy Jones published
Roland's entry-level synth workstation is easy, light, and cheap, but has depth if you want it

The history of Korg in 21 synths: Inside Korg's new London museum
By Si Truss published
Take a trip through of Korg's most influential synths with our video tour of the new Korg Gallery exhibition

A synth from the Purple Rain era and the mixer that Prince used to record Dirty Mind are up for auction
By Ben Rogerson published
The items come from Matt ‘Dr’ Fink’s personal collection, and could fetch up to £100,000 and £60,000 respectively

Teenage Engineering's OP-XY is a hybrid of OP-Z and OP-1... and costs more than the two of them combined
By Matt Mullen published
The elusive Swedish brand's new groovebox puts the advanced sequencing capabilities of the OP-Z in an OP-1-style form factor with an OLED screen and beefed-up specs
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