Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger came out in October 2001, built on Edwin Birdsong’s Cola Bottle Baby. A 272-page Daft Punk comic is on the way.
Karl Bartos, in Kraftwerk from 1975 to 1990, says the band still played together on Computer World before the computer turned them into “a musical box”.
The Human League released Dare on 16 October 1981. How Martin Rushent layered 24 synths, used a Linn LM-1 and recorded Don’t You Want Me in a toilet.
Pet Shop Boys first played A Man from the Future at the 2014 Proms. Now the Alan Turing piece is an album, rebuilt in Berlin with analogue synths and an octet.
David Bowie released “Heroes” on 14 October 1977. How Brian Eno’s EMS Synthi, Robert Fripp’s feedback and three gated mics made the Berlin title track.
Anton Corbijn shot Dave Gahan and Martin Gore by the Pietà on Prague’s Charles Bridge in 1988. Now fans queue daily to recreate the photo. Here is the story.
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.
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.
Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ hit No. 1 in the UK in July 1977, built on a borrowed Moog modular synth, one human drummer, and an engineer named Robby Wedel.
Great synthwave doesn’t just sound like a movie—it tells a story. When 57KOD set out to create their latest track, “Lucky Luke,” they didn’t just want to program a generic retro beat; they wanted to score a narrative about refusing to remain a spectator. The concept was born out of a chance meeting in March … Read more