“Letter To My Younger Self” My success was so big and violent, it was almost abstract. In this letter, synth genius Jean-Michel Jarre talks the Paris riots in 1968, why his stage shows set the template for electronic bands to come and dealing with fame in a…
The Story of Kitaro Masanori Takahashi was born… …on 4 February 1953, in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. He is a graduate of the Sahid University. Kitaro (which is his boyhood name, meaning “man of love and joy”), a practicing Buddhist himself, was born in a family of Shinto-Buddhist farmers….
By Ned Raggett – March 10, 2017. Previously published on Red Bull Music Academy. Buy music from Steve Roach in his webstore. Synth musician Steve Roach on tapping into currents of sound A master of meditative soundscapes shares his creative philosophies Introduction Steve Roach followed his…
Mad Madam Em’s Plike Plike is the brainchild of Mad Madam Em, an electronic music producer/composer hailing from Champaign, Illinois. The sound of Plike is at once hauntingly beautiful and disturbingly dark. It has an eccentric layering of natural, organic sounds against heavy digital elements. Em began her…
Going deep with a founding father of electronic music, Klaus Schulze Among fans of electronic music, German synthesist Klaus Schulze has long been considered a pivotal figure. His early work as an original member of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel served as a launch pad for an almost…