Mark Jenkins meets a modular and (maybe) techno-pop innovator Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is one of the new generation of modular synth musicians. She lives in Los...
Akhnaten is a major modern opera by the famous minimalist composer Philip Glass is hailed as the leading figure in the minimalist music movement, developing the...
Larger versions have been praised for their sounds, but does this one go where no synth has gone before (other than a desktop or connected to...
Paperback-sized analog for desktop or Eurorack (in which case it covers lots of ground) The Moog Mavis is a direct descendant of the company’s Mother 32,...
Whether it’s semi-modular goodness or badness, we can say that the road to hell isn’t paved with this synth Malevolent is a semi-modular monophonic analog synth...
Mark Jenkins interviews one of the world’s finest musicians and producers Steve Hillage is one of the world’s finest musicians and producers, and in the next...
Mark Jenkins reports on some remarkable new books about electronic music While download reading is still popular, there are plenty of reasons to own a real...
Sad news as the electronic music world learns of the passing of Manuel Gottsching earlier in this month Gottsching was an innovator of the Berlin scene, initially a...
Can $600 really buy you a synth that sounds at least as good and can do more than the original Prophet 600?! Mark Jenkins says… Behringer’s...
Mark Jenkins flies in all the way from London to attend Los Angeles’ busy post-covid (we hope!) music tech show Well, wouldn’t you know it. No...
Mark Jenkins looks at ways to compact your keyboard setup Keyboard players. You arrive three hours before the rest of the band, drag your Hohner Clavinet...
Mark Jenkins investigates a groundbreaking but still mysterious style of music A lot of the pioneering work in using day’s music technology came from the area...
Mark Jenkins traces the history of pocket-size sound makers 180-pound six foot weighted keyboard controllers are still a going concern, but there’s also a trend toward...
Cheesy Moog albums take on a new life today, as Mark Jenkins enters a world of crazy, psychadelic, and sometimes funny electronic sounds In the course...
We know lots of electronic instruments built in China, but who knows much about Chinese artists? Mark Jenkins spoke to one with some highly unusual performance...
