Arp odyssey

Ready to drop a banger? Chris Rowlands loops us in with the best tools for home beatmaking…

High End Munich is the annual showcase of the biggest launches from the heaviest hitters in the hi-fi industry. And this year’s show continued to deliver the goods with a raft of audio products to get

Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Thirty years ago, Marillion released their final album on EMI, their first not to reach the UK Top 10. Afraid Of Sunlight has since been hailed as one of the band’s greatest recordings, but tragedy lay at its heart, even though it kickstarted their career as one of the most successful independent groups. The band recall the challenging times that threatened their career and, at times, their sanity.

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

Danny Hopkins rescues a vision of the future that is firmly in the past