I was probably listening to too much Esquivel and Tomita at the time, explains Joe Welsh about the genesis of Thelonious Moog. But I always wondered how...
Producers Jez Colin and Matt Cooper have a wealth of album credits to their names. Colin has remixed songs by Bjork, Maxwell, Sade, and Stevie Wonder. Cooper records for U.K. label Dorado Records under the name Outside, and writes and tours with Incognito and David Sylvian. In 1998 Colin and Cooper forged a partnership as The Latin Project....
My main instruments are modular analog synthesizers, says Olivier Gerber, who, under the name Smoo, released Traffic in My Soul (Neuronium, 2002). Working...
Dualities exist on many levels in Juan Carlos Mendizabal's music. Born in El Salvador, Mendizabal immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s as...
Steve Tibbetts's ECM release A Man About a Horse is awash in layered guitar and percussion parts that coalesce into a variety of sonic textures. The album...
Ask anyone around the University of North Texas College of Music about who's doing the most exciting work in music technology, and the answer will certainly...
While manipulating digital audio is all the rage among many electronic musicians, San Francisco based composer Jerry Gerber is excited about the possibilities...
Brooklyn resident Tyondai Braxton expresses his art in varied contexts and mediums. Most recently, Braxton son of experimental multireedist and composer...
Tim Ramenofsky (aka Headfridge) and Gerrit Brusse (aka King Leisure) began their musical partnership in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It was there that Ramenofsky...
Southern California band Anything Box takes its cues primarily from British influences. Since 1986, Anything Box has investigated alternative pop, new...
Motown artist Remy Shand resists the label that is often associated with his music. Shand, who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, learned to craft songs in...
The debut album from Chicago's daring Sinister Luck Ensemble, Anniversary, offers listeners tight orchestration combined with improvisation and breaks...
Guitarist-songwriter Al Schnier grew up absorbing an abundance of musical influences while learning to play a number of instruments. Since 1991 Schnier...
Minus is a fixture in the Pacific Northwest's improvisational music scene. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, Minus comprises Mark France on guitar and vocals,...
Count Zero's Robots Anonymous is an offbeat, tongue-in-cheek work in which retro pop meets electronica. I've always been interested in mixing rhythm-section...
Pleasant Stitch's music defies precise categorization. Touching on ambient, darkwave pop, and gothic trip-hop styles, it is influenced by the Cocteau...
Although guitarist Neil Haverstick lives in the shadow of the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, he might as well be from another planet. A devotee of microtonal...
Kevin Moore was the original keyboardist in the progressive-rock band Dream Theater before embarking on a solo career as Chroma Key. I quit the band because...
Hanna makes no bones about his bare-bones approach to drum 'n' bass. House and techno producer Warren Harris of Cleveland, Ohio, records as Hanna. He...
When it comes to making a record, Math and Science is mostly self-taught. Math and Science, aka John Wolf, is a one-man band. His self-titled debut for...
Electronic sound sculptures send Soulstice in myriad directions. The music of San Francisco's Soulstice is a rich amalgam of styles including soul, R&B,...
A sample of trickling water gives rise to an entire album's worth of epic noises. Michael Oster's passion is recording common environmental sounds to...
As one of the "three tenors of guitar" in the band the Hellecasters, John Jorgenson spends much of his time recording with his bandmates, Jerry Donahue...
Ironman composer Ramin Djawadi talks film-and-TV scoring. Go
What's New: Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 XE and Guitar Rig Session, Rob Papen's Predator synth, and Haunted House Records's Electronic Critters, a sampling CD of circuit-bent toys.Go
