Articles
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Classic Albums – Huhtikuu's Ensimmäinen Päivähuhtikuussa
|Dark Loungecore was not long for this world. A brief moment of irony in the late 1990s and it was gone. It left no lasting legacy, produced no stars, and most of the albums were ...read more -
Classic Album Sundays - Pink Floyd's The Wall
|I must admit I have not listened to Pink Floyd’s The Wall in its entirety for nearly three decades until recently. However, in anticipation of our The Wall 35th anniversary celebrations, I duly dusted off ...read more -
Classic Albums: Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
|Frank Zappa might not be your run-of-the-mill rock star. He was not one for recreational pharmaceuticals. As a teenager, when his contemporaries were listening to Bill Haley & His Comets, Zappa was paying attention to ...read more -
Classic Albums: Beethoven's 5th and 7th Symphony, Vienna Philharmonia, Carlos Kleiber, cond
|Although this Classic Albums series has its gaze primarily fixed on rock, jazz, and folk music, there are some extraordinarily powerful classic albums from the Classical canon that deserve greater attention. However, Carlos Kleiber’s legendary ...read more -
The Beatles Mono Box Set at Abbey Road
|I admit it, some elements of this job are inescapably on the “you lucky, lucky bastard!” side of things. So, when I got the last minute call to be at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins big week (part 1)
|Bowers & Wilkins had a busy week. First there was the launch of the in-car audio, navigation, and comms system of the new Volvo XC90. This was swiftly followed by the announcement of the complete ...read more -
Classic Album Sundays: Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
|In 1973, Herbie Hancock surprised his many of his followers with his new album ‘Head Hunters’. The record seemed to mark yet another direction for the pianist and composer who had developed his sound under ...read more -
Classic Album Sundays: The Pixies - Doolittle
|The Pixies’ Doolittle stimulated a slew of early nineties indie acts to shape their guitar-led onslaught with more imagination. The Boston quartet culled a sweeping sound, but although they harvested from an expansive musical field, ...read more -
Classic Album Sundays: The Cure - Disintegration
|Although The Cure were lumped in with Goth Rock and had a sea of powdered skin, thick black eyeliner and raven-haired heads undulating at their live shows, they never became a parody of themselves. The ...read more -
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For whom the bell tolls – Mike Oldfield interview
|If you had written Tubular Bells as a teenager and saw it go on to sell in excess of 17 million copies worldwide, in the process setting you up for a critically acclaimed and eclectic ...read more -
Vangelis Interview
|Although most now associate the name with the Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks and the score for Carl Sagan’s epic Cosmos TV series, Vangelis’ career as a composer, musician and producer spans more ...read more -
Setting up home with Shelby Lynne
|I recently overstayed my welcome at a dealer event. It was at KJ West One in the heart of London, where Jason the salesperson was busily preparing a Naim Statement versus Constellation Audio Performance demonstration ...read more -
Demystifying Mastering (Part 1)
|We recently scurried down to deepest, darkest Devon to chew the fat with Simon Heyworth at his beautiful state-of-the-art Super Audio Mastering (SAM) facility. Simon kicked off his audio career in the early-‘70s at Virgin’s ...read more -
Interview – Paul Rodgers
|Last year former Free and Bad Company front man Paul Rodgers went to a classic soul studio in Memphis and hooked up with the ‘house band’ to record the songs of his youth. That studio ...read more