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“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

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“I got to jam with Stevie Wonder. Just me and him, one afternoon. We each had a keyboard and we were just trading riffs and jamming together and it was like, ‘Wow’”: Howard Jones talks vintage gear, his new piano album and that 1985 Grammys synth medley

“I think things absolutely turned around that night. People stopped putting things on their record saying ‘No synthesizers were used in the making of this record’”

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"It was ugly, like watching a divorce between four people. After a while, I had to get out": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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“I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades”: This deep dive into The Beatles' Here Comes The Sun reveals 4 Moog Modular parts that we’d never even noticed before

Anthony Marinelli’s video might change the way you listen to George Harrison’s ode to sunny positivity

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“Ozzy drove us all nuts with that Moog thing. But the song was great”: How Black Sabbath took a surprise left turn on the classic album Sabotage

And how Ozzy ‘played’ a cider jug like a tuba!

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"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"

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"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"

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

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"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...

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“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

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“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”

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“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

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"This faithful recreation replicates the look and feel of this legendary synthesizer, inside and out": Someone's built a full-sized Lego Minimoog, and it's so good that it might go into production

Although its creator put so much effort into it, he might as well have built the real thing

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"We’re here to break the barriers and put powerful instruments into the hands of real musicians, not collectors": Here's the 2025 update on all the synths and drum machines that Behringer has announced that aren't in the shops yet

The controversial company has teased a huge number of reimagined products and some of its own designs, too. Here's where everything's at...

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Music technology gear of the year 2024: The 10 best new synths, samplers and drum machines

We count down our favourite music tech hardware from the past 12 months

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“That’s all I had. FL Studio and four plugins made Midnight Request Line”: Skream on how he made his biggest track, why he doesn’t mix his own music, and dropping his 13-year-old son’s tune in a Boiler Room set

We sit down with Oliver Jones to hear about his studio set-up, how going sober has affected his music-making, and the stock plugin behind dubstep anthem Midnight Request Line

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"George had a smugness on his face when he came in with this one, and rightly so - he knew it was absolutely brilliant.": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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"The future of analogue synthesis": Moog officially announces long-rumoured Muse synthesizer

Moog says Muse is "an instrument that gazes boldly into the future while honoring Moog’s storied past"

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Issue 412 of Future Music is out now

Ultimate Drum Machines. Plus: Actress, Max Cooper, Moog Labyrinth, Kiasmos, Elsy Wameyo, Reason 13 masterclass, Dreadbox Murmux Adept & much more!

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"Muse is the culmination of over 5 years of dreams, design, and passion": Specs, price and pictures leaked for Moog's new flagship polysynth

The leak suggests that Moog has packed a whole lot of synth goodness into its forthcoming eight-voice analogue synthesizer - and priced it competitively

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"We love its West Coast sound and experimental design": Moog Labyrinth review

The US brand’s second semi-modular of the year has the makings of a West Coast-inspired, IDM powerhouse

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Watch the first videos of the leaked Moog Labyrinth synthesizer

Get lost in the sounds of the Labyrinth, a left turn for Moog with generative sequencing and a West Coast-style architecture

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“As we prepare for the next chapter of Moog Music, the Moog Store will be closing its doors”: Iconic synth manufacturer to shutter its Asheville factory outlet

Moog Music confirms that this is part of a “shift away from brick-and-mortar sales”

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"It’s just $50, and it’s the best reverb for the buck, in the world": Composer Jason Graves on his go-to reverb plugin

After scoring Dead Space and Call of Duty, Graves' latest video game project takes him offshore to a monster-infested oil rig

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Is this the end for the Moog One? Belgian retailer Turnlab says Moog's flagship poly is "now discontinued"

If you were thinking of picking up Moog's beastly 16-voice polysynth, you might want to grab one before it's too late

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