From the late 1960s to the present day, Tom Oberheim has shaped the development of modern musicianship in a way that very few others manage to, building legendary devices that have been used by ...

Giorgio Moroder brought a very European aesthetic to black American dance grooves. Although Italian by upbringing, Moroder did most of his work in Munich and the influence of Düsseldorf’s Kraftwerk ...

Trevor Horn started small and became huge. He spent his early career as a session musician, playing bass on cheap and nasty albums of hits covers, before producing mostly forgotten sides by John ...

In electronic music, it’s hard to exaggerate the importance of Isao Tomita’s work. Born in Japan in the 1930s, Tomita imagined other worlds – seemingly outside his own, human reach – and so used his ...

Organized Noize’s Sleepy Brown had a successful career behind the scenes of some of Atlanta hip-hop’s finest moments throughout the ’90s. But as the decade came to a close, he knew that he wanted more ...

Where do you start talking about Don Letts? In the late 1970s he was the link between the burgeoning punk and reggae scenes, playing heavy dub records to members of bands such as The Clash, The Sex ...

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 ...

Dennis Bovell’s youthful exuberance belies a long and distinguished career taking in some surprisingly far-flung corners of the music industry. Responsible for more or less inventing the lovers rock ...

Hugh Masekela, born near Johannesburg in 1939, grew up immersed in the urban and traditional sounds of South Africa. As the apartheid-era government continued to perform crimes against humanity, Hugh ...

Nile Rodgers’ life story reads like the stuff of fiction. Born to a family of drug-addicted bohemians in New York, he hung out with jazz stars and Hollywood superstars as a kid and went on to forge ...

MS-1, Electribe, Triton, Wavestation, Kaoss Pad: Korg has put an indelible stamp on the synthesizer game since 1962, when the company was founded in Tokyo by a nightclub owner and an accordion player ...

Uncompromising, ever-changing and always intriguing – that’s Mike Paradinas in a nutshell. Producing innovative and idiosyncratic music since the early 1990s, he has recorded under aliases, including ...