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“People never believe me that Kraftwerk created Atomic Kitten”: OMD’s Andy McCluskey says that it was an electronic music legend who advised him to form the …

You might be aware that the driving force behind ‘00s UK girlband Atomic Kitten was Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres ...
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“I find it amazing that people are singing along in such a celebratory way about being involved in a car crash”: We speak to The Smiths’ producer Stephen Street and lear…

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out remains one of The Smiths’ most heartbreaking songs - a near-perfect example of the ...
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“At least I'm a record holder of something!”: Songwriter Diane Warren is out on her own as the most nominated person not to win an Oscar as KPop Demon Hunters’ G…

Warren had previously been tied on 16 with sound mixer Greg P Russell for the most Oscar nominations without a win, but now ...
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"How real can drums feel inside a plugin?": Klevgrand promises to "redefine what a drum sampler can be" with OneShot 2

OneShot 2 features a new Motion Engine designed to create phrases that "breathe and evolve" by morphing through multiple ...
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“At least three albums with people who are a few of my favourite artists of all time... I’d say 95 percent of the work I’ve done was unpaid”: James Blake on the hit and ...

"There’s at least three albums with people who are a few of my favourite artists of all time that haven’t come out…. I’d say 99 - not 99 - 95 percent of the work I’ve done was unpaid.” ...
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“We never wanted David Bowie to write the score. It would have been a cliché”: Why Ryuichi Sakamoto’s spellbinding theme from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence remain…

We take a deeper look at the theory underpinning Ryuichi Sakamoto’s gorgeous, award-winning theme from the movie that gave ...
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“The Matrix hack song to clear your debt and get wealthy”: Is Anita Ward’s Ring My Bell more than just a disco classic?

The trend appears to stem from TikTok user GoddessInanna15, who has posted multiple videos that make a variety of claims ...
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“When Tarantino first sent me the script I hated it. I didn’t want my music associated with that!”: Why Neil Diamond refused to have his song used in Pulp Fiction – and ...

In the mid-’90s, Diamond refused permission for his song Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon to be featured in the movie Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Diamond’s original recording of the song ...
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“I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with my Prophet ’08”: Art School Girlfriend on the synths, software and studio secrets behind new project Lean In

London-based, Wrexham-born artist and producer Polly Mackey began her musical career as frontwoman for shoegaze five-piece ...
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“There are a lot of amazing guitars in this world, but none are as versatile as the Telecaster”: Country star John Osborne’s signature Tele comes factory modded wit…

Based of his beloved 1968 Tele, this Road Worn doozie has it all going on, and while the B-bender is a headline spec item, ...
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“Even when we went to collect the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1980, I was thinking, ‘How did this happen?’”: This No.1 hit is the pinnacle of yacht rock, but its ...

What A Fool Believes reached No.1 in the US and Canada by April 1979 and won Grammys for Song of the Year and Record of the ...
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Baby Audio's “most advanced synthesizer to date” is a granular plugin with audio-rate modulation capable of creating “entirely new textures”

Grainferno's morphing, dual sample engine will turn your loops and one-shots into “tonal instruments, lush evolving ...