Recent gems from the London music scene – oh yes, they’re still performing While there are great new artists appearing...
RIP to the Swedish electronic musician (>80 albums!), film director, artist, and author Ralph Lundsten has passed away at the age of 86. The Swedish composer,...
Big Synth and Software contributor’s latest CD for your dancing, dining, and purchasing pleasure “THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and other music by Pink Floyd...
His latest is an all-star collaboration with Michael Manring (bass), Michael Brook (guitar), Jeff Oster (trumpet), and Karsh Kale (percussion) Regular followers of Synth and Software...
The co-creator of Ableton Live is also an electronic music innovator It’s often said of an expert in any field that they “wrote the book on...
Nick Steed, keyboardist of the pioneering blues/rock band, talks to Mark Jenkins about their latest The history of British blues/rock band Colosseum goes back a long...
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...
It’s a chamber strings library, produced with Latvian composer Vasks and featuring lots of different articulations Why are developers constantly releasing new string libraries? Because they’re...
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...
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...
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...
Check out the original ARP Odyssey ad in here! The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation is holding an in-person/online event/fundraiser, celebrating 50 years of the famous synth....
A further blow to the electronic music community has come with the death aged 79 of Vangelis from COVID-related complications [Editor’s note: I posted some brief...
Synth pioneer best known for scoring “Chariots of Fire” (1981) and “Blade Runner (1982) Vangelis’ theme for “Chariots of Fire” was a huge hit in 1981....
