News Pro Audio It’s about time: Kraftwerk enters the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Oliver Newland Kraftwerk, Germany’s eternally relevant performance outfit, has been entered into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: some necessary love…
Features Pro Audio The vocoder: from military communication to musical inspiration by Borna Crvelin The vocoder has been a tool for manipulating the human voice for nearly a century. Let’s dive into its fascinating…
Features Pro Audio The ARP Odyssey: the classic synth that took on the Minimoog by Josh Davies In the early 1970s, the synthesizer market was dominated by two names – Robert Moog, and Alan R. Pearlman. Both…
News Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider dead at 73 by Tom Cameron Florian Schneider, whose contribution to electronic music and music as a whole cannot be understated, has passed away at 73…
Features Pro Audio How the Minimoog sparked a synthesizer revolution by Josh Davies An enduring legacy paired with a unique sound, the Minimoog Model D is the ancestor of modern synthesizers as we…
Features Pro Audio The electronic genius of Karlheinz Stockhausen by Jonathan Mendolicchio If you were to name 5 composers who changed the path of music or realised music’s potential, Karlheinz Stockhausen would…
Features Pro Audio A wall of sound in your pocket: the tale of Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator by Jonathan Mendolicchio Teenage Engineering is a Swedish synth manufacturer that made its debut in 2011 with the OP-1. Since then, they’ve expanded…
News Remembering the time Kraftwerk made a calculator to promote their new single by Luke Saunders Everyone loves a good old blast from the past. And boy have we got some eighties nostalgia from the legendary…
News Watch Kraftwerk perform Spacelab with astronaut Alexander Gerst, live from space by Happy I like to imagine Kraftwerk founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider sitting across the dinner table from each other, thinking…
Music The Man-Machine: re-examining Kraftwerk’s prototype for electronic music by Stanley Widdison Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider probably never thought they’d be considered two of music’s most influential innovators and pioneers when…