Shine On: Alan Wilder
Depeche Mode’s journey from Basildon pop darlings to stadium blues-rock giants was arranged, sampled – and largely steered – by the band’s first non-Bas recruit. Alan Wilder joined the band…
Depeche Mode’s journey from Basildon pop darlings to stadium blues-rock giants was arranged, sampled – and largely steered – by the band’s first non-Bas recruit. Alan Wilder joined the band…
Mark Brydon was born in Sunderland in December 1960. He made his name a few hundred miles south, as the bass player in Chakk, a Sheffield industrial funk band whose…
John Foxx dreams of moving alone through lost cities, forgotten towns, grown-over pavements, and abandoned streets. It is fitting, therefore, that he built his studio, The Garden, in the warehouse…
The producer behind some of the most important records of the past four decades began studio life carrying cups of tea. Mark Ellis was a junior staffer at Morgan Studios…
Jean-Marc Lederman has had a charmed career. He started in Brussels punk with Streets (which later became Contingent), and found his instrument in Digital Dance, the new wave band that…
Plenty of engineers have a room named after them. Eric Radcliffe has an album. Yazoo called their debut Upstairs at Eric’s, in reference to the space at Blackwing where they…
Steve Hillage has made a career finding the spaces within beats and turning rhythms into textures that envelop the listener. As a member of Gong, he was key to the…
Shine On: Bruce Gilbert Bruce Gilbert approaches music as material. A guitar can provide structure, but so can a tape loop, a repeated word, a contact microphone or the sound…
Jimmy Monell has spent much of his career making other people sound more certain of themselves. His credits move between bright Swedish pop, electronic rock, remixes, live production and the…
Keith LeBlanc, who passed away in 2024, was an innovative drummer who developed sounds and styles that shaped hip hop and electro-industrial music.