In our Pioneers series, we illuminate the genius of the most influential artists and producers in musical history. This month, we take on Kraftwerk, the extraordinarily influential German four-piece ...

Troy Sheets began making music at 15 years old in his home studio with a keyboard synthesizer, drum machine and four-track cassette recorder — an impressive setup for a high school sophomore. However, ...

If you have any interest at all in electronic music, you owe it to yourself to check out Google’s latest Arts & Culture exhibit. Music, Makers and Machines celebrates the history of the genre, ...

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Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

He invented the first system for integrating multiple instruments using a single control panel, predating the MIDI controller by years. By Clay Risen It was 1974, and Don Lewis was getting tired of ...

A trove of tapes discovered in a cupboard at the country’s National Institute of Design showcases artists composing early synth recordings on their own terms. By Hugh Morris When the musician and ...

The Dutch capital was awash with banging beats as the electronic music business came to town. By Thomas Smith Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) took place in the Dutch capital last week (Oct. 22-26), with ...

As the band Justice, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay have mastered the art of the cosmic gumbo: electronic music that traipses across the funk-disco-house continuum but also nods to the headbanging ...

In the recently released documentary Sisters with Transistors, beloved avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson poses a provocative question: “How do you exorcise the canon of classical music of misogyny?” ...