Synth

Above & Beyond’s Jono Grant and Darren Tate announce new JODA synthwave project

Above & Beyond's Jono Grant has teamed up with producer Darren Tate to launch a new synthwave project, JODA. The…

2 years ago

This Sega MegaDrive-powered synthesiser is exactly what we need in our lives right now…

There’s DIY synth projects, and then there’s this latest effort from Sam Battle, aka Look Mum No Computer. Battle has…

4 years ago

“When you feel it, it wraps itself around you…” Frankie Knuckles on the devastating impact of the Roland TR-909

Today, 9 September, marks '909 Day' – an annual opportunity to commemorate the impact that the Roland TR-909 has had on…

5 years ago

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Queen – Football Fight [November 1980]

With Bohemian Rhapsody likely to clean up at the Oscars this coming Sunday, it’s only fitting that for this week’s…

5 years ago

Happy birthday to New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, which turns 35 today… [March 1983]

It’s hard to believe that Blue Monday, the track that cemented New Order’s transition from a post punk outfit to…

6 years ago

A ‘Divine’ intervention [1982]…

Maybe I’m watching too much Ru Paul’s Drag Race at the moment (!), but back when the glamorous star of…

7 years ago

Happy 808 day everyone..!

To a generation of techno/acid/hip hop aficionados, August 8 means only one thing - an opportunity to reminisce about the…

7 years ago

Giorgio Moroder toasts 40 years of ‘I Feel Love’…

Now THIS was a good idea... Brooklyn, New York-based Schimanski pulled a jewel out of the record box on 27…

7 years ago