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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many young indie music fans making their way through the “alternative” section of their local record store in the mid-’90s, it was the music of Stereolab, and in particular the voice of chanteuse ...

Indie dance don and acid house shapeshifter Andrew Weatherall has been around more blocks than there are in Brooklyn. As remixer extraordinaire, he made sure Primal Scream’s “Loaded” was the ...

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 ...

Randy Muller is the brains behind a stack of 1970s classics. Working with bands such as Brass Construction, BT Express and Skyy, he brought orchestral strings to funk, was at the forefront of synth ...

Bernie Worrell first came to prominence as a founding member and musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic, radically charting the course of emerging keyboard technology during the golden age of ...

The name Mizell may not set bells ringing in every household, but to those of us who devour the small print on the backs of record sleeves, they’re legends, a family that has made its mark on music as ...

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 ...

Erykah Badu is a legend and perhaps the most capricious artist in modern soul. Hailed the queen of neo-soul on her arrival in 1997, with the multiplatinum Baduizm, she shrugged off the apparent demise ...

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 ...