Features Talking Heads – ‘Remain in Light’: Why It Mattered by Max Mahood Talking Heads’ Remain in Light expanded the vernacular of rock, embracing an experimental approach to a style that had become bloated on ego. It’s an album that regularly appears on many ‘greatest…
Features Pro Audio Roxy Music – ‘Avalon’: Why It Mattered by Max Mahood Powered by an explosion of creativity and experimentation, Roxy Music’s star burned brightly. Let’s have a closer look at the band’s final, groundbreaking record, Avalon. 40 years old, Avalon is…
Features News Patti Smith – ‘Horses’: Why It Mattered by Max Mahood In the ’70s, New York was a crucible of musical style. Let’s take a look at one of the seminal albums of this time and place: Horses by Patti Smith….
Features Music Pro Audio The worldwide temple of dance: house music goes global by Max Mahood House music began its life in the clubs of Chicago in the mid-80s. But in the ’90s, thanks to a new wave of digital tech, it went worldwide. House music…
Features Pro Audio Disco’s revenge: the legends of house, acid, and techno by Max Mahood The four-on-the-floor grooves that defined the ’80s were said to be ‘disco’s revenge’. Read on to explore the legendary artists and gear behind house, acid house and techno. The 1980s…
Features Pro Audio Madchester and the sounds of the Second Summer of Love by Max Mahood Even though electronic music and synthesisers were becoming more popular throughout the 1980s, there was still a healthy guitar-based strain of alternative-rock music on both sides of the Atlantic. If…
Features Pro Audio The Fairlight CMI: an orchestra in a box that rewrote electronic music by Max Mahood In the late 1970s, right here in Sydney, there was an auditory revolution that was being developed by two men, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, that would eventually help to…
Exclusives Pro Audio The 80s Part I: experimentation, cutting edge tech and breaking into the mainstream by Max Mahood If the 1970s was the decade that began the revolution of electronic music, the 1980s was the decade that improved it. The 80s also added new cultural and technological features…
Features Pro Audio Wheels of Steel: the story of the Technics SL-1200 by Max Mahood Meet the machine that has influenced a generation of artists and music lovers alike: the Technics SL-1200. It’s not often that audio equipment (that isn’t a musical instrument or amplifier)…
Features Pro Audio Engineering the Sound: The Doors ‘The Doors’ by Max Mahood The Doors’ influence in the rock and roll canon has been immeasurable. In the fifty years since the idealistic, drug addled ‘Summer of Love’, the southern California band has gone…
Features Pro Audio How Bowie bridged the gap between glam and electronic excess on ‘Station to Station’ by Max Mahood David Bowie is often described as a chameleon both in a musical and aesthetic sense. From his cast of characters and alter egos – Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke…
