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 ...

Tony Colman is today best known for his work as London Elektricity and the label he runs, Hospital Records. He has been working hard since day one, back in 1988 when his Tottenham-based jazz-funk band ...

Juana Molina first achieved fame in early ’90s Argentina with her sketch comedy show Juana Y Sus Hermanas. Despite this success, she left acting behind for music, releasing her debut album Rara in ...

From a bunker in Nürensdorf, on the outskirts of Zürich, to the main stage of Wacken Open Air festival, Thomas Gabriel Fischer, AKA Tom Warrior, has lived through the highs and lows of heavy metal.

Ian Dewhirst is best known as a compiler but he got his start in music DJing in the Northern Soul scene, where obscurity is everything. He stumbled into Northern Soul thanks to a job at a local market ...

Michaela Melián grew up the classical way, playing in orchestras from a young age. During art college she was asked to found Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle with fellow art fanzine contributors, and she ...

Werner Herzog’s groundbreaking approach to film has always included a similar outlook when it comes to music. Despite music not becoming a part of his life until later on, Herzog has a fine ear – from ...

Sly & Robbie are more than just a rhythm section. Starting out in the heyday of roots reggae, this formidable duo helped to transform Jamaican music into the globe-conquering phenomenon it is today, ...

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 ...

Yuzo Koshiro is a Japanese composer, arranger and programmer whose contributions helped change video game music. Having discovered video games and their music at an early age, Koshiro learned to ...

Tim Westwood is something of a British radio legend. As the voice of hip-hop on the BBC throughout the ’90s and early ’00s, Westwood became something like English Funkmaster Flex – ubiquitous, whether ...

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 ...