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RE-202 and RE-2 emulate the sound of Roland's classic tape delay & spring reverb unit

Banning Eyre interviews Francisco Fininho Sousa about the band Bandé Gamboa.

The largest analogue synthesizer in the world has called Canada home since 2014, and a year after the famed TONTO had been set up and settle...

Local producer Paul Leary put some Austin in the Long Beach surf/punk/dub trios mix

Alessandro Meroli begins, with a track called Nightfall. Notturni is a concept album, one that needs to be played sequentially in order to achieve its full intended effect. Notturni are, of course, nocturnes – musical pieces that evoke the night, so naturally Meroli cites Chopin as an influence, although in truth it’s rock and jazz that come through most strongly. The first track, in which the birds are roosting, represents dusk, the last track, dawn. And in between are all the eerie, sep...

U-Roy, legendary reggae toaster, dies aged 78 Laura Snapes © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Roger Garfield/Alamy The legendary toaster U-Roy has died aged 78, a representative for Trojan Records has confirmed. No cause of death has been made public. The British reggae DJ David Rodigan was among those to pay tribute, describing U-Roy as “the paradigm of Jamaican music … I was always in awe of him; the tone of voice, the cadence, the lyrical shimmering and riddim ridi...

Fact Mix 795: Perko Fact Mix 795: Perko A set of heady, percussive techno and club music from the Scottish producer. Perko’s NV Auto, released on Numbers in 2018, saw the Scottish-born, Copenhagen-based producer land with one of the most impressive debuts in the label’s catalogue. It combined the rhythm and tempo of UK garage with dub chords and ambient techno moods, linking the sound of ’90s chillout rooms to the post-dubstep experimentation of the late ’00s. On 2020’s The City Rings...

Some Kind of Peace. We wish. Clearly fate took an ironic opportunity to intervene shortly before we had a chance to talk to him about both the new album and his approach to creativity more broadly: an earthquake shook Iceland right before this interview took place, prompting Ólafur’s opening exclamation of, “There’s a lot of energy in my body right now!” That’s true, of course, for all sorts of reasons. Having reimagined the piano with his remarkable, semi-generative...

Fact 2020: Live Fact 2020: Live This year, the world’s dancefloors, venues and festivals largely went quiet in the face of a global pandemic. Despite all this, artists, festivals and clubs did everything they could to keep the music alive, adapting to a socially distanced world with livestreams, remote festivals and filmed performances that responded to the COVID-19 era. Festivals such as Unsound and Semibreve turned their IRL festivals into communal online events, while Refraction Festival c...

. and when you say space the silence how difficult is it then to transform that into music when you say you put a very long reverberations on the side and you think god that side so spacey you know theyve been all these devices in the history of music called space echo and space chamber but of course it space theres no echo. theres no sound so so weve created a human fantasy about what space is like and all that we know is that its very big . i started to think that composing making music i shou...