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EboSuite 2.0 hands-on: live video recording and more makes VJing feel native in Ableton Live

Ableton Live's improvisatory clip- and device-based interface make the software feel like it could be as natural for visuals as...

Polyend Play looks like beauty in simplicity – for utterly fast grid-based music making

A grid, sequencing, standalone operation - Polyend's new Play, previewed at Superbooth, now looks like a familiar concept. But what...

Watch live sets from Superbooth21: Jamaica Suk, JakoJako, Yann Tiersen, Pole, Bloody Mary…

Spanning dance sets to gorgeous ambient music, mixing instruments and electronics and even some live dance (with JakoJako), here's a...

Hands-on tour of the Oberheim OB-X8 architecture, feature by feature, with Francis Preve

The first new Oberheim instrument in 35 years is something special. So let's get an exclusive tour of what this...

Dark, dreamy dub techno and ambient music: Ukraine’s Danny Skripp needs your support

Proper dub and experimental production will transport you to eerie otherworldly states of mind in this music from Kharkiv, Ukraine....

Superbooth Berlin preview: why the May edition will be an essential music culture event

Superbooth is back in the woods of Köpenick for the second time in under a year - an unmatched meeting...

Psychedelic Soldier: a burnt-out Russian tank headlight made into a synthesizer

Swords into plowshares ... invading Russian tanks burnt up and made into synths. Sherman Drozd did just that, salvaging a...

Klaus Schulze, cosmic Berlin native synth explorer, in gathered remembrances

The towering synthesizer composer, musician, and adventurer in solo work and with Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic...

Exist weaves ethereal new sounds from Ramallah Palestine to the world

There is a scene that now, more than ever, is decentralized. But that doesn't mean simply "out of major hubs."...