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Games music needs to be bolder...

If you're in the habit of reading hi-fi magazines, you may have noticed a number of products based on what one might call '...

This month Pharrell Williams Happy, DJ Snake Turn Down For What, John Legend's All Of Me and the Classic Mix - Dire Straits Money For Nothing.   

Music commissioning has always been squalid. But today's composers get a fairer deal than Mozart ever did.

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Punk By Numbers

No matter how weird, obscure or downright distasteful your...

What keeps us upgrading? Anxiety.

In defence of the iPad.

This month featuring 'Pompeii' by Bastille, 'Let It Go' by Idina Menzel, 'Strong' by London Grammar and the most classic of classic tracks from 1971, Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven'.

When it comes to music technology, truth can be stranger than fiction.

This month albums from Ad Asteris, Glass Ankle, Pierre Shlimon, Marvin B Naylor, The Evolutionaries, Kenwood Anderson and As Follows.

We investigate an experimental system that promises to retrospectively add Yamaha CS80-style expression control to any keyboard.

When computers first came on the scene, many musicians were scared away by the apparent complexity and retreated to their cassette Portastudios.

I'm writing this column in February, and here in the UK, half the country seems to be flooded — so terms like 'SOS' and 'Rescue' have taken on a far more serious connotation.

This month we discuss tracks from Disclosure, Naughty Boy, Tom Odell and our Classic Mix is Bonnie Raitt's 'I Can't Make You Love Me' from 1991.    

You can't please all of the people all of the time. Even when they are on the same production team.

This month we review to music from Gertrude,Tycho, Richard Pinhas, Daniel Trigger, Contemporary Dead Finnish Music Ensemble, Andrew Maxwell Morris, Michael Lee and Rebecca Shearing. 

Want to be a superstar DJ? Join the queue.

If you've read up on what was shown at NAMM earlier this year, you might wonder where there is for the industry to go next.

This month's tracks from Miley Cyrus, One Republic, Black Sabbath and our Classic Mix - ZZ Top "Gimme All Your Lovin'' from 1983.

There's a place for art in almost everything — even music for TV.

This month we review to music from Young Peculiar, The Situation, Vincent Pierce Smith & Karttikeya, Mark Barnwell and Christian Gregory.