Apple’s platform squeeze holds back music and creativity, too – so will there be consequences?

Apple’s desire to tax and control its app ecosystem is earning outcry from developers, government, and outside observers. It’s a stand-off musicians and creators should watch closely.

Teenage Engineering has a record label and a pocket modular pop music video

Dear young Buster: why do you look so sad and lonely? Don’t you know that having a yellow Teenage Engineering pocket modular is all the love you need?

Peter Kirn - May 23, 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

SoundCloud will now handle distributing your music – and give you a 100% cut

Peter Kirn - February 19, 2019

This playlist is full of wonderful ARP music – some might surprise you

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2019

A year overflowing with electronic sound: 2018 music we loved

David Abravanel - January 1, 2019

Upload music directly to Spotify: streaming giant goes in new direction

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2018

Minds, machines, and centralization: AI and music

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2018

djay Pro 2 brings algorithms and machine learning to DJing

Peter Kirn - December 12, 2017

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