Brian Eno reveals how he produced ambient music
A great story from musicradar.com. Interviewer Alan Jensen asked how Brian Eno produces ambient music. Brian’s response: “…on the DX7 – I’m very surprised that Yamaha haven’t given me one …
Which gear defined the artist’s career?
This interesting feature, created by Andy Jones appeared at Musicradar.com : one piece of gear that changed or defined an artist’s career. Below you’ll find an excerpt of this article. …
Interview with Erik Norlander
Michel Scheijen did an extensive interview with Erik Norlander – published as “The ability to be independent” on his website Musicophilia. This interview is kindly reproduced with courtesy (c) Michel …
Calvin Harris – Creating a track with an Amiga 500+
This article, created by Ben Rogerson, was published on Musicradar recently. Although not about synthesizers – we thought that this story about creating music on a (vintage) computer might be …
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Interview with Sandra Sims of SDS
For International Women’s Day, Attack magazine talked to five women engineers working in the synthesizer industry about the challenges they face. This is the interview with Sandra Sims, designer and …
(Updated) Jean Michel Jarre – the Equinoxe sound
Update August 17, 2023: we added an interesting video with JM Jarre performing Equinoxe 3 on piano … Although Equinoxe was considered to be a state-of-the-art electronic album on its …
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Tales from topographic oceans – YES keyboard players
Musicradar just published an interesting article about the different keyboard players in Yes. Below we have summarized this article for you. Please note that all (c) are with Musicradar and …
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The Gear of classic Synthpop
Reverb recently published this article about gear used in Synthpop – such as by Gary Numan and Depeche Mode. Although it is certainly not an indepth nor complete article – …
Sound of Tangerine Dream – ‘White Eagle’
What is your favorite Tangerine Dream track? – Mine are ‘Bent cold sidewalk’ and ‘White Eagle‘ the latter also known as ‘The Mädchen auf der Treppe‘. (oh well – there …
Echoes from the Past – Eloy’s Frank Bornemann
Michel Scheijen, owner and author of Musicophilia.nl did this interview with Frank Bornemann recently. We are happy to present you the translated version of this interview. Please note that all …