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"A kit with some surprising tricks up its sleeve": Donner Backbeat review

A feature-packed mid-range electronic drum set, but are the light up pads a pointless gimmick?

MusicRadar · Mar 11, 2024

"As a proof-of-concept, it’s hard to fault, even if we’d need to sell some organs to buy one": DWe review

Forget your drum module - DW’s jumping head-first towards the deep end of computer-based drum sounds, and its acoustic-electronic hardware is our life raft of familiarity. Let’s hope it’s not a washout…

MusicRadar · Mar 9, 2024

‘Synth map of the world’ reveals that Roland and Behringer dominate other brands when it comes to Google searches

Roland is number one in 73 countries, while Behringer leads the way in 33

MusicRadar · Mar 4, 2024

SampleRadar TB-303 Day special: 252 free 303-style acid samples

Celebrate 303 Day with a killer Roland TB-303 sample pack - absolutely free

MusicRadar · Mar 3, 2024

"I heard Portishead’s Dummy on the radio and thought to myself: ‘I can make that'": Air's Moon Safari is 25 years old, but still sounds like it will be made in 25 years' time. Here's the story of the greatest chillout album ever

And why you should see them play the whole album live this year…

MusicRadar · Feb 27, 2024

Daniel Avery on Drone Logic: “I was taking synthesizers and drum machines and putting them through these effect pedals - it was techno with a shoegaze aesthetic”

Avery talks us through the making of his recently-reissued 2013 experimental electronica debut Drone Logic

MusicRadar · Feb 23, 2024

10 mistakes every beginner keyboard player makes

There are many pitfalls waiting to stymie the beginner keyboard player, from choosing ill-suited gear to practicing the wrong pieces. We’ve made the worst blunders so you don’t have to – here’s our guide to the mistakes every novice should avoid

MusicRadar · Feb 22, 2024

TAL's latest plugin emulates the '80s synth behind the classic rave hoover sound, Roland's Alpha Juno 2

TAL-Pha expands the original synth's capabilities with contemporary features and a more user-friendly interface

MusicRadar · Feb 19, 2024

The producer's guide to the Roland RE-201 Space Echo: "It can cover everything from simple saturation to wild, out-of-control and bizarre self-oscillation"

Here's how to master one of music's most beloved effects boxes, used by dub producers and experimental electronic composers alike since the early ’70s

MusicRadar · Feb 19, 2024

How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman: "The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just one voice – so I used a vocoder"

As the unlikely 1981 hit goes viral on TikTok, we tell the story of Laurie Anderson's strangely compelling masterpiece

MusicRadar · Feb 16, 2024