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Harry Styles outed himself as an unlikely modular synth fan in his new Netflix special, but was all that knob-twiddling for real?

Styles' setup also included a Roland SP-404 MKII sampler, Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay unit and a Sequential Prophet-6 analogue synth

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“You’re not working with anyone else. You don’t have to worry even for two seconds about what they think”: Boy George on why he prefers writing songs with AI than humans

“I have fantastic conversations with ChatGPT” he insists

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“I was trying to learn Bohemian Rhapsody on the piano and I messed up a little bit. And then I just wrote half the song accidentally from that”: How making a mistake while trying to learn a huge Queen song inspired Sienna Spiro to write Die On This Hill

“Sounds nothing like it but yeah - thanks Queen,” she says

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“Music is just such a sweet shop. There are so many styles and talents, and it’s hard to just stick to one thing”: Jonny Greenwood to release another collab album with Israeli Qawwali musician Shye Ben Tzur

Ranjha is the follow up to 2015’s Junun

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“There’s a misconception about the vocals being buried - they aren’t”: My Bloody Valentine’s sound engineer on wrangling the shoegaze pioneers’ huge live setup

Sound engineer Marc Carolan shares the challenges and excitement of helping bring My Bloody Valentine's first headline tour in over a decade to life

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SampleRadar: 213 free wooden percussion samples

We bashed together as many wooden objects as we could find to deliver some organic percussion samples capable of livening up any drum pattern

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“Dylan said the answer was blowing in the wind, he didn’t tell you what the answer was”: Jack White on why he doesn’t write protest songs

He has a book of his lyrics out now

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“I was told to take it off. I didn't want to take what he'd said to me off... Because I thought it was really interesting": Damon Albarn reveals that Lou Reed’s voice on The Mountain is a ‘replica’

His estate wouldn’t give permission

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The story of Born Slippy, Underworld’s emotion-stirring dance classic

At the dawn of the 1990s, Underworld were a spent force - little did they realise they were about to create one of the decade’s most enduring tracks

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“We didn’t just want to set a record; we wanted to create something iconic. Something that shows the world what Africa is capable of when vision meets excellence”: Record broken for Largest Orchestra at an Afrobeats concert

The cream of the genre plus an 80-piece ensemble

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“We should all be proud that British musicians are responsible for this force in music called heavy metal. Black Sabbath and Judas Priest invented true heavy metal music”: How Priest singer Rob Halford remembers the band’s breakthrough moment

And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival

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“When I first met George I was just speechless. But when we started playing, he gave no direction. He liked the way I played, and I would just be myself”: Robben Ford on what it was like working with a Beatle at the age of 22

By his own admission, Ford was “green” when he was called into play on George Harrison’s Dark Horse but there was no pressure to be anything other than himself

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“It was such a special moment. It felt very special to be able to give her that towards the end of her life”: Marianne Faithfull's last performance captured in new doc

Broken English is out in a couple of weeks

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"I put it on everything - you get this beautiful shimmery goodness out of it": Jasper Tygner on the Soundtoys plugin behind the "filmic" sound of his debut album Blue

We visited Tygner in his London-based studio ahead of the release of his cinematic, rave-inspired new project

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“I don’t want anybody kissing my eyes. I don’t want anybody staying up all night to hear me breathe. What are you kissing my eyes for?”: 28 years later, songwriter Diane Warren is bewildered by some of her lyrics for what became Aerosmith's biggest hit

We'd definitely be willing to miss out on some of those things

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“This song, on breakfast radio?! It was such a shock, ‘What?! When did the world change that this belongs here?’ Mad. It didn’t make sense”: The story of Born Slippy, Underworld’s emotion-triggering masterwork

At the dawn of the 1990s, Underworld were a spent force - little did they realise they were about to create one of the decade’s most enduring tracks

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“I can play timbres and speeds other drummers can’t – up to 20 hits per second”: Meet Jason Barnes – the prosthetic-assisted one-armed drummer

He’s broken record for most bpm with a prosthetic

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Waldorf upgrades its Iridium Desktop synth with a little help from Aphex Twin

Iridium Desktop Mk2 gains a new synthesis mode, extra power under-the-hood, and an automation feature inspired by Richard D James

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Furby organs, lightsaber theremins and the 1000-oscillator synth: Look Mum No Computer on his 7 craziest musical inventions

UK Eurovision entrant Sam Battle talks us through seven of his most absurd and extraordinary musical machines

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“We believe labels and distributors must take an active role in reporting”: Apple Music announces new tagging system for AI-generated music

But it’s only voluntary...

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“Even when we went to collect the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1980, I was thinking, ‘How did this happen?’”: This No.1 hit is the pinnacle of yacht rock, but its smooth sound belies its tortuous creation

When Michael McDonald teamed up with Kenny Loggins, there was magic in the air

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“In terms of the guitar solo, he just keeps going! You think, ‘OK, surely it’s time to wrap it up?’ But no, he keeps going and it’s great”: The genius of David Gilmour in Pink Floyd’s greatest songs – by Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Stu Mackenzie and more

Plus! Comfortably Numb or comfortably dumb? Find out with our Pink Floyd quiz challenge

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“Evocative organ sounds and slower, gentler revolutions with a distinctive flavour”: Crumar Burn rotary speaker simulation pedal review

A convincing Leslie sound isn't easy. Can a keyboard maker provide the solution for guitarists?

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“Until now, creativity has been stifled by the need to acquire playing skills. Now, using the computer, any child can play": Unearthed BBC video from 1986 shows what music technology in the classroom used to look and sound like

Can a Yamaha CX5M computer succeed in a world of glockenspiels and triangles?

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“I’m sure there are players that don’t have an interest in playing dynamically and just want to be on or off… that’s cool, and there’s a lot of pickups that do that. But not mine”: How Mark Morton and Gibson reinvented the Les Paul for modern metal

The Lamb Of God guitarist walks us through the evolution of his signature Les Paul Modern Quilt and explains why passive humbuckers beat active every time

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