Music

Thomas Dolby’s 1989 explanation of synthesis with the Muppets and a fly in a box is pretty ingenious

Thomas Dolby on Jim Henson's little-known The Ghost of Faffner Hall manages an explanation of synthesis basics that is surprisingly...

Listen to hours of music by Iranian women and nonbinary artists from solidarity takeover

From Tehran to locations around the world, on Palestine's own Radio Alhara, we now have hours of music to play...

Elektron’s Song Mode is already making ambient music to chill out to; OS updates at a glance

Elektron's Song Mode for Digitakt, Syntakt, and Digitone chains together patterns beyond the 64-step limit - and there's some beautiful...

These are the voices of resistance: interviews from Iran, female-nonbinary radio takeover

As people take to the streets of Iran shouting "Women, Life, Freedom!", Iranian music artists are raising their voices, too....

Techno meets graphic novel: Alan Oldham’s Johnny Gambit is back to the future

1986, Chicago. Hot Comics. Inside the sleeve of a Rhythim is Rhythim 12-inch. Private detective Johnny G is always popping...

Sri Lanka – ශ්‍රී ලංකාව – benefit compilation in eerie, delicate drones and ambient sounds

The famines born of corruption continue, planetwide. It's hard to find words sometimes, but the latest release of artists banded...

MVMNTS: Vibrating, shuddering sounds from Hiro Kone x Roxy Farman benefit Pakistan relief

Welded sheet metal and springs have a contact-mic dialog with modular synths in a chillingly brilliant EP by Hiro Kone...