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“The best MIDI controller setup isn’t about having more – it’s about staying connected to what matters”: AlphaTheta and Serato launch Slab, the first hardware ...

The entry-level pad controller offers a slick, simplified workflow for Serato Studio, but can also work with Serato Sample ...
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“My mom said, ‘I’ll lend you a quarter if you become a guitar player.’ I think I did!”: Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper dies aged 84

Born in Dora, Missouri on October 21, 1941, Cropper co-wrote the classic songs Green Onions for Booker T. & the M.G.’s and ...
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“We’re in an era of conformity in electronic music – very few people get celebrated for doing anything outside of it”: How TEED went back to basics with a bedroom se…

The artist formerly known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs dives into the making of his latest project, driven by a ...
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“It taps into yearning for a place beyond, a place of love, for me to speak my mind and be myself”: Flea teases his first solo album with a seven-minute jazz rave single

Don’t expect it to get heavy radio rotation though. It’s a seven-minute track, with plenty of bass (surprise!) which includes ...
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"When culture is allowed to move freely, people discover that their common ground is far wider than the borders that divide them": Level 42's Mark King, Jools Holland a…

Jools Holland, Level 42's Mark King and Dame Evelyn Glennie have thrown their weight behind a new cross-industry organisation ...
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“I just walked off the stage. I wanted Jake to have his moment. And Jake nailed it”: Nuno Bettencourt on why he handed Shot Of The Dark over to Jake E Lee at Ozzy's ...

Bettencourt says Lee was far too humble and had to remind him that he had done the impossible by not only replacing Randy ...
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"I've always thought that plagiarism is creative": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and ...
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"This isn't just about Jorja. It's bigger than one artist or one song”: Jorja Smith’s label claims royalties on AI track, allegedly trained on her voice

Jorja Smith’s record company is claiming royalties on a track it is alleged was created using an AI clone of the singer’s ...
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“If I’d had a producer and I was simply an artist, I don’t think they would have had the patience to listen to what I wanted to do”: We catch up with the man who ...

Songwriter, producer and creative artist Robin Scott is the man behind M and the huge hit Pop Muzik. Over 40 years later, he ...
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"We stand for love over hate, hope over fear... join us and be a part of it": Paloma Faith, Fontaines D.C., Brian Eno and Kneecap join campaign group Together Against The Far Right

Speaking on his involvement in the alliance, Lenny Henry said: “We stand for love over hate, hope over fear and unity over division. We’re coming together against racism, join us and be a part of it.” ...
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“It’s the biggest song in the set and it wasn’t a single. It wasn’t anywhere close to being a single”: The classic track that defines John Mayer as a guitarist and a ...

“Slow Dancing is like the biggest song in the set and it wasn’t a single – it wasn’t anywhere close to being a single,” the American singer-songwriter revealed back in 2013.
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I love the Refaces, but at just £59, the Yamaha PSS-A50 is the best Cyber Monday ‘couch keyboard’ deal I’ve seen - and it’s perfect for kids, too

Whisper it quietly, but this could be a better 'couch keyboard' than a Reface for a lot of people. Not only do you get 42 ...