Röyksopp Quit Traditional Albums and Made Five More
In 2014 Röyksopp announced that The Inevitable End would be their last traditional album, explaining that they wanted to explore new ways of releasing music.... Read More
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Carpenter Brut Closed an Eight-Year Trilogy With Leather Temple
A darksynth album that opens on a church organ is telling you something before the first drum hits. Ouverture (Deus Ex Machina) runs one minute... Read More
Nathan Fake Made Evaporator on an Ancient Cubase Rig in Single Takes
Cubase VST5 shipped when Nathan Fake was a teenager. It is a sequencer from the era before audio and MIDI editing converged into the single... Read More
Apparat Broke a Writing Block by Making One Song Every Day
There is a trombone on this record. Not a sampled brass patch, not a stab lifted from a library and pitched into a chord: Christian... Read More
Purity Ring Cut Lemonlime From an Album and Used It to Launch a Tour
The Korg M1 is the best-selling digital synthesiser ever built, a 1988 workstation whose factory piano and organ presets are stamped across three decades of... Read More
Jessie Ware Wrote Her First Key Change on Her Sixth Album
Jessie Ware has made six albums across fourteen years. The lead single from the newest one contains the first key change she has ever written.... Read More
Ladytron Released Six Singles From a Seventy-One-Minute Album
Ladytron put out six singles from their eighth album. The last of them arrived on the day the record did. Paradises came out on 20... Read More
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The Missing Kick on Imvula by Mphara, and How to Hear It 
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