The first delay pedal from Beetronics offers analogue sound with digital control for some time-warped creativity

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The revitalised Soft Machine are back with their 13th studio album, appropriately titled Thirteen . Packed with impressive songwriting and even a few firsts, it’s arguably one of the ever-evolving collective’s luckiest releases. Woodwind and keys player Theo Travis tells Prog about its creation and the posthumous appearance from one of the band’s co-founders.

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Italian jet-tender turns the ride to shore into the main event

MULTI-EFFECTS PEDALS HAVE come a long way in the last 10 years, and we’re just now starting to see the more advanced tech trickling down into the beginner market. Budget multi-effects have typically b