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“I hated it. Absolutely hated it. And I still do. Trip-hop had nothing to do with me”: Portishead’s Geoff Barrow on pigeonholing, production and beating imposter syndrome to become a film soundtrack composer

“I sat back and thought, 'What are you playing at? You can’t write a movie score! You’re not even a real musician'"

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How Burial used a "rubbish, dying computer” and primitive audio editing software to make one of the most influential electronic albums of all time

A prime example of how the less-is-more philosophy can fuel creativity, Burial’s extraordinary 2007 masterpiece Untrue was created entirely within Sony’s antiquated Sound Forge

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“I’ve rocked my roll. It’s a boring dead end. The last thing I want to be is some useless rock singer”: How a disillusioned and drug-addicted David Bowie reinvented his music with a groundbreaking song he could barely remember recording

A dazzling epic that ushered in Bowie’s new persona, the Thin White Duke

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Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies, aged 63

The music world pays tribute to "the perfect example of how a bassist can be the beating heart of a band”

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“Prince was always scared that we were going to give The Time’s sound away”: Prince’s close association with the LM-1 drum machine influenced Jam and Lewis’s decision to switch to the Roland TR-808 on one of their early ‘80s hits, says Jimmy Jam

“We were like, ‘no, no, we're going to do something totally different, you know'"

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"It just shows the power of community skills and generosity and the value of repairing rather than replacing": Local repair cafe saves hip-hop legends' gig

The band’s sampler had packed up

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“If you already own an Apollo or Volt interface and want to upgrade your inputs, then the Volt 876 is a no-brainer”: Universal Audio Volt 876 review

UA's biggest Volt interface makes recording drums or full bands a breeze with some neat workflow-enhancing touches

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“No complicated setups. No software. No cables. Just play”: Popumusic’s PartyStudio is “the world’s first wireless MIDI synthesizer speaker”, and lets up to four people jam simultaneously

Come on in, take your coat off, have a drink and pull up a MIDI keyboard

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"Your golden pipes remain this guy’s all-time favourite rock voice to ever grace the planet": Steve Vai salutes Whitesnake legend David Coverdale

“David has shaken the earth for over half a century with a voice that could level a mountain”

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“We are, first and foremost, Bob Dylan fans - the idea of being excluded from future shows is truly devastating”: Owner of Dylan fansite is kicked out of gig for being an "unwanted person."

He runs the Daily Dylan site

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Roland's new Earth Electric Piano instrument brings "every electric piano you've ever loved together at last"

Equipped with a diverse range of classic electric piano sounds, the plugin also features a vast array of effects and customization options

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“Timeless songs that translate beautifully to guitar”: Ed Sheeran is the king of the guitar tabs

And Hallejulah is the most popular song

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“When Bruce came back I wasn’t 100% sure of the reasons behind it. I was like, ‘Well, okay, let’s see.’ I’ll be honest – I wasn’t sure”: How Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris made his peace with singer Bruce Dickinson

“Bruce is unusual – which is probably what makes him so good”

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“That's the weird thing. I'm thinking, ‘I can hear John, he's never even heard this and he was there!’”: Giles Martin explains how AI de-mixing has resulted in fresh live audio for the Beatles Anthology remaster

Martin shared how this pioneering de-mixing technology has enhanced classic Beatles live performances featured in Disney+'s Beatles Anthology remaster

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“It’s been on stage with everyone from Deep Purple to Janet Jackson. It kind of blows me away that people ever responded in that way”: PRS reworks Mark Lettieri’s signature Fiore as super-versatile dual-humbucker model with serial/parallel switching

Available with satin or gloss finishes in a variety of colours, this is a clever refresh of Lettieri’s smash-hit do-it-all S-style

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UK electronic musicians aren't getting the royalties they deserve and underground scenes are subsidising mainstream producers, according to a new report

Analysis by Fair Play reveals that only 36% of UK electronic music performances result in the right person getting a royalty payment

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“I did that by myself at my house in about 20 minutes. They said, ‘Sing this.’ I said, ‘OK’”: How Bon Iver’s billion-stream collab with Taylor Swift came together in record time

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon reveals that his contribution to Swift's Grammy-winning indie-folk opus was recorded in less time than you probably expected

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“I burned my leg real bad once back in the ‘70s, man. A smoke bomb ignited too early inside the cavity of the guitar”: Ace Frehley’s ‘Smoker’ Les Pauls were spectacular but dangerous – now one from his final Kiss tour heads to auction

You might want to crack a window open before playing this custom Les Paul. It is equipped with the late Spaceman's onboard smoke machine

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“I’ve always loved this kind of hard-clipping circuit as it’s really responsive to playing dynamics”: Great Eastern FX finds stash of super-rare NOS germanium diodes and makes a distortion inspired by MXR and DOD classics with a cocked-wah twist

Take three rare Soviet-era germanium diodes, add a band-pass filter, and there you have it, the recipe for a limited edition hard-clipping distortion like no other, the Distortion Filter D312A

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“Most musicians can’t easily find notation for the songs they actually want to play – we’re using AI to close that gap”: Songscription is an AI-powered platform that converts any audio file into notation, tabs and MIDI

Songscription wants to make transcription fast, easy and accessible for those without the skills to achieve it

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“Now, more than ever, we believe it’s critical to spotlight the humans, creative process, and stories behind the music”: Spotify expands its song credits and previews a SongDNA feature that reveals samples, cover versions and more

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“We were recording Michael Bolton’s version of (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay. And right next door was Steve Cropper, who wrote the song with Otis Redding and played on the original. I was kind of nervous!”: When a legendary guitar hero got the jitters

It was a recording that could have led to Bolton joining Journey

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“This is the first time ever that Abbey Road has created a musical instrument that you can physically pick up and play”: Gretsch teams up with Abbey Road for the Studiomatic – a hollowbody with a filter circuit inspired by tech from the studio

The limited edition Abbey Road RS201 Studiomatic redefines the studio guitar and has an onboard version of Abbey Road's ‘Rumble Filter’ from the 1950s integrated into its wiring

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The band didn't like the English lyrics, the record company didn't want to release it as a single, and the song had no chorus: The story of the 'foreign language song' that became an international hit

UFOs, Mick Jagger, and cold war paranoia: Nena on the bizarre origins of 99 Luftballons (aka 99 Red Balloons)

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“It was right after high school. I was 18. That was the first Gibson bass I had ever played. That became my sound for a long time – and my look”: Epiphone unveils signature G-3 Grabber with Gibson USA pickups for Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt

The Grabber was Dirnt's first Gibson bass and he says his Epiphone performs just as well, and he has tested it in front of 180,000 people

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