Motor Synth is brutal, electro-mechanical synth – last days of discount

Gamechanger Audio’s Motor Synth is a devastating industrial machine – with actual motors driving the sounds, all built in Latvia. Here’s everything you need to know about it, as this week is the end of its steep crowd funding discount.

Hands on Erica Synths Techno System, dream industrial modular

The modular world is replete with ideas – but what would a complete modular concept look like? Erica Synths’ Techno System is just that rare kind of concept, a modular made for dancefloors rather than chin scratching, and a total vision instead of just components parts. So we thought it deserved a proper techno test […]

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2019

Enter the freaky trippy acid 90s German synth world of Air Liquide

If you need a break from buttoned-up techno, dance music as business and fashion statement and morose wallpaper – take a holiday with some “trippy mindfkk-muzzikkk.” Here, we’ve got 170 tracks from 1991 Cologne to today to get utterly weird. In 1990s Cologne, if the techno scene was spread too thin, you could just manufacture […]

Peter Kirn - May 22, 2019

No, Beatport’s subscription will not kill music – here’s how it really works

Peter Kirn - May 17, 2019

Hardware VST? Steinberg Retrologue plug-in gets physical version

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2019

Glitchy art pours out of vintage video gear, at new FRGTWN shop

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2019

Behringer update: TC-Helicon hardware mimics IK Multimedia products

Peter Kirn - April 19, 2019

SPICE is a one-stop modular distortion box – and it needs support

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2019

SSL SiX is a compact version of that legendary console goodness

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2019

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