News Pro Audio It’s about time: Kraftwerk enters the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Oliver Newland Kraftwerk, Germany’s eternally relevant performance outfit, has been entered into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: some necessary love for the showroom dummies. It’s hard to make the argument…
Features Pro Audio The vocoder: from military communication to musical inspiration by Borna Crvelin The vocoder has been a tool for manipulating the human voice for nearly a century. Let’s dive into its fascinating history and count the classic examples along the way. The…
Features Pro Audio The ARP Odyssey: the classic synth that took on the Minimoog by Josh Davies In the early 1970s, the synthesizer market was dominated by two names – Robert Moog, and Alan R. Pearlman. Both men lent their names to the companies they fronted, and…
News Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider dead at 73 by Tom Cameron Florian Schneider, whose contribution to electronic music and music as a whole cannot be understated, has passed away at 73 years old. Sony Berlin confirmed the news, sharing that cancer…
Features Pro Audio How the Minimoog sparked a synthesizer revolution by Josh Davies An enduring legacy paired with a unique sound, the Minimoog Model D is the ancestor of modern synthesizers as we know them. The Minimoog Model D is known as the…
Features Pro Audio The electronic genius of Karlheinz Stockhausen by Jonathan Mendolicchio If you were to name 5 composers who changed the path of music or realised music’s potential, Karlheinz Stockhausen would be one of them. He is considered one of the…
Features Pro Audio A wall of sound in your pocket: the tale of Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator by Jonathan Mendolicchio Teenage Engineering is a Swedish synth manufacturer that made its debut in 2011 with the OP-1. Since then, they’ve expanded on their catalogue with a line of handheld devices called…
News Remembering the time Kraftwerk made a calculator to promote their new single by Luke Saunders Everyone loves a good old blast from the past. And boy have we got some eighties nostalgia from the legendary Kraftwerk calculator. Kraftwerk began as part of West Germany’s experimental…
News Watch Kraftwerk perform Spacelab with astronaut Alexander Gerst, live from space by Happy I like to imagine Kraftwerk founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider sitting across the dinner table from each other, thinking ‘how can we jazz up our next show?’ Ralf shrugs…
Music The Man-Machine: re-examining Kraftwerk’s prototype for electronic music by Stanley Widdison Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider probably never thought they’d be considered two of music’s most influential innovators and pioneers when they formed Kraftwerk in 1970. Perhaps they imagined it or…
