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Make a DIY velocity-sensitive e-drum kit with Brian Bamanya aka Afrorack

No budget for an electronic drum kit? No problem. Brian Bamanya reports from Uganda on how to DIY the whole...

Charlie Clouser of Saw and NIN has made a sound library for Spitfire, “Hammers”

The White Zombie producer, former Nine Inch Nails keyboardist, and SAW film composer makes exactly the sort of brutalist soundbank...

Audacity makers clarify data usage – and there’s not reason to dump the editor yet

In a cycle echoing a controversy earlier this year, Audacity's new parent again released new legal terms which were then...

Fractured – Seefeel revisit their brilliant, tough 90s and reveal what’s coming this decade

The frightening, darkly beautiful music of Seefeel was revelatory from its early-90s debut. And now with a set of reissues...

Peter Zinovieff, UK synth pioneer and EMS co-founder, has died

It's a tough moment for a whole generation in electronic music history. This weekend claimed the British legend Peter Zinovieff...

Beirut Synthesizer Center is a home for Lebanon’s artists, even when electricity is scarce

Lebanon's DIY scene simply won't quit. On Friday June 26 an informal new space opens, a gathering spot for electronic...

Spatial sound, Suzanne Ciani, a free workshop online, and the joy of quad, with KamranV

With the likes of Apple pushing the concept, spatial audio is fresh again. KamranV connects past, present, and future and...