I’ve been a fan of abstract electronic music for decades, but I generally associate the genre with late-night radio, art spaces, or off nights at music clubs. In early November, a close friend, dub ...

Modular synthesizers (explore them in detail here) have played a big-yet-understated role in music and sound production over the course of a few decades but they’ve only recently become a more ...

Everyone loves playing music stoned, but the (high) times they are a-changing. No disrespect to Bob Dylan covers strummed on “the quad” or psychedelic arsenals of guitar pedals, but these are ...

South African [Afrorack] claims to have built the first home-built modular synthesiser in Africa. Whilst we can’t be sure of this (and to be frank, it doesn’t actually matter) what we can be sure of ...

Formed around the London Modular synth boutique, LMA are a trio of Eurorack-loving musicians whose improvisational hardware jams have garnered considerable praise on the capital’s club circuit. The ...

My background is in punk, straightedge hardcore and west coast powerviolence. That’s where I came from as a DJ. I went to my first raves in the ‘90s—in 1994, actually—and I was in that scene for a ...

A unique synth that can be controlled by incoming audio. Marrying the usability of a guitar pedal with the expressiveness of a semi-modular synth, it has foot switches and a knob for blending external ...

The process of making electronic music began more than a century ago with unpredictable and impractical 'instruments' such as the Telharmonium, Theremin, Ondioline and other exotically named ...

If you like building things, electronic music and want to learn about synthesizers, a modular synthesizer is a perfect option for you. Audio synthesis is the creation of electronic sounds by ...