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Intellijel Metropolix £519
What a difference an ‘x’ makes. Rob Redman explores this sequel to the jammers’ favourite Metropolis sequencer
5 min |
October 2021
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James Hurr Love Together Toolroom, 2021
Low-key industry titan James Hurr has a CV most producers would give up a limb for, including collaborations with the likes of Todd Terry, Mark Knight and Basement Jaxx, and remixes for Beyoncé, Nile Rogers and Kylie amongst others. We caught up with James to find out more about his love of dance music and how he creates his tracks.
6 min |
October 2021
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DJ Seinfeld
Known for spearheading the lo-fihouse scene, DJ Seinfeld’s new album Mirrors offers an entirely new sonic fidelity. Danny Turner talks to Armand Jakobsson about his reinvention
10+ min |
October 2021
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Sequential Prophet-5 Rev 4 £3,000
With Dave Smith back at Sequential’s helm, a new version of this ’80s icon was nigh-on obligatory, says Andy Jones
8 min |
October 2021
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LoneLady
Exchanging grey Manchester for a basement studio at London’s Somerset House, Julie Campbell (aka LoneLady) broke out the machines and got started on her third album.
10+ min |
October 2021
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Hardcore
Springing from house and techno, this is a sound to be taken just as seriously. Hardcore: do you know the score?
4 min |
October 2021
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Ten City Foundation Atlantic, 1989
After dropping his groundbreaking single, Move Your Body in 1986, Marshall Jefferson was “hotter than fish grease”. Sensing the heat, chum and vocal powerhouse, Byron Stingily, picked up the phone and got his hustle on, calling every major label, dangling the hottest name in house music in front of them.
10 min |
October 2021
Guitar Techniques
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers. This month: Song Work.
4 min |
October 2021
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“It's really important to spend time away from the studio and do other things” Sebastian Plano
Argentinian-born, Berlin-based musician Sebastian Plano is a man of many talents – an accomplished cellist, classically-trained composer and electronic producer. He puts all these skills to work on his latest album, Save Me Not, a beautiful concoction of delicate piano lines, haunting vocals, luscious strings and electronic atmospherics. We caught up with him to find out more...
3 min |
October 2021
Guitar Techniques
INSTRUMENTAL INQUISITION!
Guitar instrumentals have supplied some of music’s most evocative moments. Jason Sidwell asks top guitarists for their take on this iconic movement. This month: Snarky Puppy’s guitarist, plus producer and composer, Mark Lettieri.
6 min |
October 2021
Guitar Techniques
SIXTY SECONDS WITH...
A minute’s all it takes to discover what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo for the Airport, we grabbed a quick chatwith Welsh blues slide guitarist and bandleader, Troy Redfern.
9 min |
October 2021
Guitar Techniques
SESSION SHENANIGANS
The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by session ace Mitch Dalton. This month: Hi-Tek with Low-Tech (1981-2021).
4 min |
October 2021
Guitar Techniques
THE CROSSROADS Chord Voicings
This month at the Crossroads, John Wheatcroft finds the chordal connections from modern bluesman Kirk Fletcher, to jazz legends Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery, via the great Robben Ford.
4 min |
October 2021
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50 Studio Hacks ...To Help You Make Better Music
From creative ideas to mixdown advice, we’re here to make your music making life easier – one tip at a time!
10+ min |
October 2021
Guitarist
TROY REDFERN
A musical awakening courtesy of that famous sequence in Back To The Future led to a lifelong interest in country blues, National Resonators and gnarly, fuzzed-up slide guitar…
8 min |
September 2021
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Mods Like Us
One way to view these new ProShop guitars is as pre-modded Vintage models. So with our own Mod Squad experience in mind we grilled the team
8 min |
September 2021
Guitarist
JOAN ARMATRADING
She’s the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter whose observational songs have struck a chord since ’72. Now, as Joan Armatrading releases her 22nd studio album, Consequences, she tells us about pawn-shop guitars, disapproving parents and why human emotion still drives her songwriting
10 min |
September 2021
Guitarist
TEENAGE FANCLUB
AS GLASGOW’S FINEST RETURN WITH THEIR ELEVENTH ALBUM, ENDLESS ARCADE, WE ASK CO-FOUNDING GUITARISTS NORMAN B LAKE AND RAYMOND MC GINLEY ABOUT SONGWRITING, STOLEN GUITARS, CHANNELLING ROBERT FRIPP AND WHY THEIR WORKING RELATIONSHIP IS “LIKE THE CHUCKLE BROTHERS”…
10+ min |
September 2021
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Shaping Sound
Few guitar companies have the kind of technology Yamaha boasts at their disposal when it comes to the acoustic. The redesigned NX series illustrates some complex electronics under the hood of these new nylon-strings
9 min |
September 2021
Guitarist
RICKENBACKER PICKUPS
Martin Kelly – author of Rickenbacker Guitars 1931-1999: Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fireglo – straightens out the subject of Rickenbacker pickups
4 min |
September 2021
Guitarist
Epiphone Slash Les Paul ProBuckers
As authentic clones, the pickups in these Epiphone signature guitars offer true Gibson tone
3 min |
September 2021
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Longtermers
A few months’ gigging, recording and everything that goes with it – welcome to Guitarist ’s longterm test report
4 min |
September 2021
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60 YEARS OF THE SG
Its sharp horns seemed to belong to the Devil’s orchestra, not the polite jazz scene of the early 60s. As a statement of intent, the SG’s radical styling succeeded – but maybe not as first intended. The design was swiftly disowned by Les Paul, though it was supposed to be his signature instrument. Rejected by its patron, the SG grew up in the shadow of its iconic sibling, the Les Paul Standard, becoming the anti-hero’s tool of choice from Angus and Iommi onwards...
10+ min |
September 2021
Guitarist
CHRIS BUCK
The Cardinal Black guitar maestro spins tales of a bargain ’62 Strat and how the P-90 is criminally underrated…
6 min |
September 2021
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MEETING THE MARK
Mark Lettieri is one of the most in-demand players in the world at the moment. Aside from his edgy instrumental jazz work with Snarky Puppy, he’s also a close musical compadre of neo-funk stars Vulfpeck. We catch up with him to find out how, with Paul Reed Smith’s help, he designed a guitar to cover all musical terrains – and how tins of soup played an unexpectedly important role in the process…
9 min |
Summer 2021
Guitarist
JACKSON BROWNE
A laureate of the Laurel Canyon scene of the 70s, Jackson Browne’s love of guitar has fuelled a 50-year career that keeps getting better. As he releases his latest album, Downhill From Everywhere, we catch up with the Californian songsmith to talk old guitars and new directions
10+ min |
Summer 2021
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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
He’s the Swedish wizard whose neo-classical flash turned the 80s shred scene on its head. Now, as Yngwie Malmsteen releases new album, Parabellum, he looks back on first Strats, scalloped fretboards, crashed sports cars, and his notorious ‘air rage’ spat
10+ min |
Summer 2021
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NICK JONAH DAVIS
THE LATEST ALBUM FROM DERBYSHIRE GUITARIST NICK JONAH DAVIS, WHEN THE SUN CAME, WAS RECORDED IN A CHURCH AND RELEASED JUST BEFORE LOCKDOWN–AND IT COULD WELL BE HIS FINEST YET. WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE RECORD’S ORIGINS, WHILE DISCOVERING MORE ABOUT NICK’S INFLUENCES, INSECURITIES AND EXPLORATIONS INTO “WEIRDNESS”...
8 min |
Summer 2021
Guitarist
MYLES KENNEDY
The Alter Bridge guitar man and vocalist recounts how sometimes you can strike gold when working in a music store, and that there is money in horse manure…
6 min |
Summer 2021
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THE ORIGINAL BOLT-ON
The Fiore is PRS’s latest bolt-on guitar, but this story began back in 1988 with the short-lived Classic Electric
4 min |