Pink Floyd, the band that spawned 70’s electronic space rock artists like Tangerine Dream, has won the ABBA prize.
Floyd and American soprano Renee Fleming were awarded Sweden’s annual Polar Music Prize on Wednesday, joining an eclectic group of winners including Paul McCartney, Elton John, Quincy Jones and Joni Mitchell.
The award, given each year by the [...]

Abbey Road Studios and Propellerhead Software have announced that they have partnered to produce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill for Propellerhead Software’s Reason.
Abbey Road Keyboards delivers a hypersampled collection of seven unique instruments, recorded using the original equipment at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill consists of Reason 3.0 patches with samples [...]

Tangerine Dream will celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2007 with the release of their latest album, Madcap’s Flaming Duty. To be released April 2nd, the album is dedicated to former Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett, who died in July 2006.
The lyrics for each of the songs on the new album are adapted from English and [...]

I was a little skeptical when I saw this CD. A reggae version of Dark Side of the Moon? What were they smoking?
This is the sort of concept CD that is all to often botched. Fortunately, Dub Side of the Moon is a masterful reworking of the original. Pink Floyd’s recording has been played to [...]

EMS calls itself the “Longest Established Synthesizer Manufacturer”. We’re not sure if that’s proper English, but EMS is an English company, so they ought to know.
Electronic Music Studios was created in 1969 by Dr. Peter Zinovieff to sell equipment arising from his interests in music applications of computers and electronics. EMS created many products that [...]