On Joe Boyd’s business card it probably says “Record/Film Producer,” but that’s a bloody simple way of putting it. In truth, Joe is a producer like the Vatican is a church. He started out touring ...

The New York Times called Steve Reich “our greatest living composer.” Experienced in the field of Western classical, Reich managed to transcend regional and cultural boundaries, incorporating ...

Egyptian Lover is a legend in certain circles but a mystery to most – an artist who was in deep with most of the West Coast hip-hop scene before the gangsta sound came along. Born Greg Broussard, ...

It’s hard to overstate the influence of New York City composer Philip Glass. Along with Steve Reich, his minimalist compositions transformed the world of classical music and, eventually, popular music ...

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Music as we know it would look a lot different (and less colorful) without the contributions of George Clinton. From his early musical beginnings in doo-wop and as a songwriter at Motown, the hugely ...

Haruomi Hosono is best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, with Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto – ...

Dave Smith is a synthesizer designer and tech visionary of the highest order. He created the first polyphonic synth, the Prophet-5, which has become the obsession of everyone from Parliament to Arcade ...

In the world of gaming, Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka - sometimes affectionately known as “Chip” Tanaka - is one of its most celebrated figures. As a sound designer, musician and composer, Tanaka was the ...

Peter Brötzmann is a revered free jazz musician from West Germany whose over 50-year career has taken him from the interdisciplinary radicalism of the late 20th-century Fluxus art movement to ...

In 2014, Red Bull Music Academy came to Tokyo, Japan. To hold an Academy in this country – the birthplace of so much influential music-making technology, and so many inspiring evocations of what the ...

Bay Area ambient pioneer Robert Rich began building his own synthesizer at the age of 13, around the same time he became interested in avant-garde and minimal composition. By the time he got to ...