Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970

How did the Minimoog take shape – and set the course of synthesizer and musical instrument history? Among many revelations in JoE Silva’s The Minimoog Book for BJOOKS, we learn how the synth’s early prototypes evolved into the instrument we know today. Read the excerpt here.

Liz Pelly’s Spotify book reveals how company uses ghost content

Harper’s Magazine has an excerpt from Liz Pelly’s book on Spotify, and already we get another bombshell. The company conspired to farm out ghost content, often substituting for known artists, to pay out less to artists. That much was suspected by anyone listening to the platform, but the details are even more damning and far-reaching than you might imagine.

Peter Kirn - December 19, 2024

Fire mix from Janus Rose, full of unreleased music: latest POST

Brooklyn’s incredible artist and writer Janus Rose recently came on Refuge Worldwide in Berlin for my ongoing program POST, and this is one mix you don’t want to mix. It’s one of those times you want to creep/trainspot over the CDJ display on every single track, and a lot of it is forthcoming music so – you heard it here first.

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2023

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