Cover Band

Wow cool we are are the front of Electronic Sound Magazine! And they put our new single on vinyl!! I do so love ES Mag. Very proud to be part of John Foxx & The Maths, the new album is out soon(ish) and its a corker!

Futuristic

Check out the new edition of Future Music Magazine (now updated with the full article) - theres a big feature on Wrangler and the studio - unfortunately Phil couldn't make it down for the interview - but me and Mal have plenty to say. You can't probably buy the real magazine in a shop because of the zombie apocalypse but you can download it here

Guide

Ooh - Those nice people over at Electricity Club have gone and done a Beginners Guide To Benge - how handy is that!

Mojo Mag

Speaking of Mojo - John Foxx and the Maths are featured in this months issue of the magazine. (Oh, I took that picture of Foxxy and Robin!)

Electronic Music Sound

Got my new copy of Electronic Sound - I am featured on the CD that comes with it if you order it here. Yippee!

My FX

I was looking through the excellent Muzines website and decided to download scans of vintage reviews and info on all my 1980s FX units (I concentrated on the digital multi effects for now). Then I printed them all out and bound them. Geeky! Anyway, I had to make a cover for it and came up with this:

I know, its pretty ugly and uses about 20 different fonts - but it is in fact based on the 1980s Music Technology magazine look (see here for an extraordinary example) and I love it in a weird way

I made a PDF of the document for future reference

Memetune FX by on Scribd

Mag Stash

I've posted before about vintage magazine archives (e.g. here), and I just found another one - this time UK music technology magazines from the 70s and 80s. Mu:zines is the place to go for a serious hit of prototypical studio porn. The way I found it was by doing a search for a review on a very obscure 1980s reverb unit (the Dynacord DRP16) and it led me to the online version of the December 1984 issue of Home Studio Recording magazine. So if you are like me and prefer buying pieces of equipment made yonks ago (they have a certain sound you know) then you can step back in time too and read all the latest reviews!

Facts

Just spotted this modular synthesis playlist over on FACT mag. It features one of my tracks from Twenty Systems. Cool

Four Out Of Thirty

Heres another 2017 top of the pops, and I've got FOUR albums in it!! So cool - thank you Electronic Sound!!!

No.8 - Blancmange, Unfurnished Rooms
No.13 - Fader, First Light
No.21 - Lone Taxidermist, Trifle
No.23 - I Speak Machine, Zombies 1984

Settled On A Platform

I am in a real magazine! Yes, there is an interview / feature on me and my London studio in this months Computer Music. Its also online here

Thanks so much to Danny for doing the interview - that was a very long phone call mate!!

Just a few corrections, for the record: my tape machine is 16 track not 24; the first computer sequencer I got on the Atari was C-Lab Notator, not Studio Vision (that was my 2nd sequencer, when I got a Mac); my 20 Systems album wasn't synced up using midi - on that record, if a synth had a built in sequencer I used that on the track, otherwise I played it by hand; "Kyma, it's a bit like Max, but not quite as complex" Kyma is as complex as Max, if you want it to be! Other than that its a brillo interview and hopefully I don't come across as too much of a nobber

Thanks Mr Hopkins

Oh cool - Jon Hopkins gave me a shout in his feature this month in Mojo Magazine:

And thanks Sponge for pointing it out