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"There's too much new gear!": The 12 best instruments, effects and innovations you need to know about from Superbooth 2025

New synths, drum machines, effects and oddities from the Berlin synth expo

MusicRadar · May 12, 2025

Moog teases new Messenger synth with freaky Severance-inspired video

Superbooth 25 is set to bring us a new instrument from Moog - but what could it be?

MusicRadar · May 6, 2025

“I pulled this Moog bass forward… we were like, ‘OK, that feels kind of trashy’”: Lorde says that she needed to find “just the right amount of dirt” to finish her new single, What Was That

She was working on it with producer Jim-E Stack for almost a year

MusicRadar · May 1, 2025

"They said, ‘Thank you, but no thank you - it’s not a Monkees song.’ He said, ‘Wait a minute, I am one of the Monkees! What are you talking about?’": Micky Dolenz explains Mike Nesmith's "frustration" at being in The Monkees

“I knew what he was going through. He was frustrated because he was misled"

MusicRadar · Mar 25, 2025

"It was the first synth that made dreaming big accessible to a schlub like me": Geddy Lee teams up with Moog for special edition satin red Minimoog Model D with "hot-rodded" VCA circuit

"It’s a thrill to see the Minimoog in that stunning red, so representative of one of the most fertile periods in Rush’s creative history"

MusicRadar · Mar 20, 2025

The LG C5 OLED TV tested, a world first for headphones, new hi-fi speakers and more

Welcome to the latest entry into our weekly hi-fi and home cinema news digest

What Hi-Fi? · Mar 10, 2025

"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 · Feb 20, 2025

“You can even buy and create models of instruments that are impossible to build in the real world”: Don't know where to start with virtual instruments? We're here to help

In today's world of music production, pretty much everything you can dream of will have a virtual counterpart. Let's explore

MusicRadar · Feb 19, 2025

“A noise like God conducting the soundtrack to the end of the world!”: The classic Black Sabbath album with the most bizarre song they ever recorded

Drummer Bill Ward called that song “a demonic chant”

MusicRadar · Feb 12, 2025

“It’s easy to be a show-off with production. In electronic music right now, that’s what a lot of people are doing - but that’s just ego”: Ela Minus looks inwards on new project DÍA

The Colombian hardware synth-head on her soul-searching second album, demolishing the ego, and why she can’t stand Dave Smith’s presets

MusicRadar · Jan 31, 2025