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Every year, artists from around the world came together in a different host city to learn from musical luminaries – and each other – and collaborate in custom-built studios. Many Academy alumni went ...

Mario Caldato Jr. is a producer and studio engineer best known for wiling away many a long hour (or week, or month, or year) with the Beastie Boys. Born in Brazil, he developed his recording ...

Electronic music didn’t start with Eno, but it was certainly never the same after him. On Roxy Music’s first two albums he helped make synthesizers and tape effects part of a rock lineup, pricking the ...

The first thing I chopped was a [jazz fusion group] Return To Forever jam. Was there an old Roland sampler, the MS something? Whatever. It was big, it was grey, it had a red button on it. I chopped up ...

A demo, recorded back in the day, like people do nowadays with dubplates or CD-Rs. Dubplates, if you’re a dinosaur like me. You recorded a demo to acetate, which you’ve still kept, and which I ...

Ken Scott started at the top – and stayed there for over a decade. Having got himself into EMI’s studio training program, his first session as an engineer was on the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night album.

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 ...

The Red Bull Music Academy couch has played host to many great musical minds, but few can touch the late Don Buchla. A true pioneer in the field of electronic music, Buchla started producing his first ...

From discovering a teenage Leroy Burgess, to writing, producing and arranging disco and ’80s R&B classics like Inner Life’s “I’m Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)” and Fonda Rae’s “Touch Me (All ...