Bass you can’t hear makes people dance 11.8% more, a concert study found
McMaster University scientists switched 8-37 Hz speakers on and off during an Orphx concert. Dancers moved 11.8% more with the bass on, without hearing it.
Vangelis’s ‘first’ Yamaha CS-80 sells for £401,465, a synth record
A Yamaha CS-80 listed as Vangelis’s first, used on his 1977 album Spiral, sold on Reverb for £401,465, about $534,000. The seller offered no proof.
Jarre’s Oxygène at 50: kitchen-made album remastered from the original tapes
Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygène, recorded in his Paris kitchen in 1976, returns on 20 November with a remaster from the original tapes and a new Dolby Atmos mix.
AI streaming fraud: Michael Smith gets 18 months and forfeits $8 million
Michael Smith used up to 10,000 bot accounts to stream AI-generated songs billions of times. A Manhattan judge gave him 18 months and an $8.09m forfeiture.
Spotify’s 1,000-stream rule: what it means for small labels
Spotify pays no royalties on a track below 1,000 streams in a trailing year. Here is what the rule, its unique-listener test and its artificial-streaming fines mean for small labels.
Korg Phase8: the synth that strikes steel tines instead of using oscillators
Korg’s Phase8 skips oscillators and strikes eight tuned steel resonators with electromagnets instead. Here is how the $1,149.99 “acoustic synthesizer” works.
Metall auf Metall: Kraftwerk’s 27-year fight over a 2-second drum sample
Kraftwerk sued over a 2-second Metall auf Metall sample in 1999. In September 2026, after 27 years and six BGH rulings, Germany’s top court ruled against them.
Roland Jupiter-8: the $5,295 synth now worth $27,996
The Roland Jupiter-8 cost $5,295 in 1981. By December 2024 a mint original listed on Reverb for $27,996 instead. Who played it and what made it special.
The Power of Love: the song Huey Lewis wrote after saying no to Back to the Future
Huey Lewis would not write a song called ‘Back to the Future’ in 1985. He wrote ‘The Power of Love’ instead, and it became his first US No. 1 hit that August.
Kavinsky’s Nightcall: the 2010 song Drive put over its opening credits
Kavinsky released ‘Nightcall’ in 2010. Drive put it over its 2011 opening credits, the Paris 2024 Olympics revived it, and the track just turned 16.