And plenty of acts like Depeche Mode, New Order, and others put the synth front and center where the guitars used to be. So let’s look at three synth riffs from the 1980s that made you want to buy a ...

'80s Week: After Hollywood’s years of experimenting with electronic music, a new invention changed the sound of cinema. When Alfred Hitchcock fired the composer behind “Vertigo” and “Psycho” over ...

There was a time when music technology would only allow the sequencing of a few notes. A far cry from the DAWs of today, the limit of four, eight or even 16 notes (if you were lucky) was very much the ...