The world of electronica might have become overcrowded since their first release more than a decade ago, but Autechre are still burrowing through microscopic cracks into the cranium on their…
Autechre – The Futurologists
1FF – Dub In D-Minor
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Bluffers Guide To 303:808:909
Sorry to put a spanner in your kraftwerks but Techno, in case you hadn’t noticed, has got fuck all to do with technology. The sounds of Detroit were made with…
Juan Atkins
At the dawn of the 1980s, Juan Atkins began recording what stands as perhaps the most influential body of work in the field of techno. Exploring his vision of a…
New Beat: One Nation Under A (Slowed Down) Groove
First there were a few more club flyers boldly proposing a shift from Acid, if not nationally, at least amongst that ficklest of fraternities, the London club scene. Then came…
Korg KMS-30
1 MIDI IN, 2 MIDI OUT, 1 SYNC IN, 2 SYNC OUT, 1 TAPE IN, 1 TAPE OUT Synchronises 24/48 ppq with MIDI clock & Tape Decks Synchronisation switchable -…
Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry : Musique Concrète
Before Trevor Horn sampled a sound, or Run-DMC scratched a record; when synthesizers were a twinkle in the imagination of Varese and Cage, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry were transmuting…
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Electronic Music’s Enfant Terrible
KARLHEINZ Stockhausen, who has died aged 79, was one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music. He was fond of quoting Blake's lines "He who kisses the joy as it…
The Rise and Fall of ARP Instruments
Back in 1975, when the first issue of Keyboard hit the stands, there were only a handful of companies making synthesizers. The first polyphonic instruments had just appeared, and programmability…
The Birth of Electronic Music Recording Studios
Although experiments in recording sound onto magnetic tape began at the turn of the century, it wasn’t until the 1940’s that the first portable magnetophone tape recorder was invented in…