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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Karlheinz stockhausen - What They Never Told You

“These are better sine waves. They just are”: We meet the people using test equipment to make music

Curious about how to make music with raw oscillators and other pieces of exotic Cold War-era test equipment? Don your lab coat and find out how you can incorporate old gear into your own productions. Just beware of high voltage

MusicRadar

Stockhausen vs Aphex Twin review: A thrilling performance by chamber duo

5/5 The hot contemporary stars GBSR Duo performed at the Southbank Centre with a unique combination of Stockhausen’s Kontakte and Aphex Twin’s Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

Evening Standard

“If I’d had a producer and I was simply an artist, I don’t think they would have had the patience to listen to what I wanted to do”: We catch up with the man who rewired the charts in 1979 - and is now blowing up on TikTok - with Pop Muzik

Songwriter, producer and creative artist Robin Scott is the man behind M and the huge hit Pop Muzik. Over 40 years later, he shares the story of the iconic track and why he’s brought this moniker back on his new album

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“Everybody said we couldn’t play like the American and English groups. We didn’t want to play like them”: Irmin Schmidt isn’t surprised that Can’s music has endured for so long

50 years after the release of Soon Over Babaluma, the founding keyboardist reflects on what he calls “the last of our best albums”

Louder

"It’s timeless. It was always in its own world; it didn’t fit into any category.” Tangerine Dream and the story of Phaedra

Did you know that Pink Floyd and Emerson Lake & Palmer were both instrumental in the creation of Tangerine Dream's fifth album Phaedra? Read on...

Louder

Wolfgang Rihm obituary

Influential and prolific postwar German composer of contemporary classical music and opera

The Guardian - UK

“There’s stuff that’s quite ugly for the sake of being ugly and quite noisy for the sake of being noisy… I find myself almost talking people out of it”: What Steven Wilson knows – and doesn’t know – about his new Bass Communion album

Surprised that Prog wants to talk about The Itself Of Itself, he explains why he’s exploring ideas with sound rather than melody or rhythm, and how Pink Floyd might be where it all started

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Flip it and reverse it: A history of reversed audio in music production

Backwards is the new forwards!

MusicRadar

Peter Eötvös obituary

Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America

The Guardian - UK

The King Charles effect on school attendance

The Guardian - UK

Karl Bartos and Kraftwerk: "The endless cycling didn’t help invent new music!"

The former Kraftwerk musician and composer looks back over his career and discusses working with 'his former partners'!

Louder

Stockhausen: Carré/Kagel: Chorbuch review – thrillingly original rarities

A rare recording of the German composer’s early work is paired with Mauricio Kagel’s compelling exploration of Bach chorales

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