We all think we know Frankie Goes to Hollywood, don’t we? I mean, we think we know that they were, at best, an average, gender-bending post new wave band out of Liverpool who came to the attention of Trevor Horn and Paul Morley, who then went on to strip away pretty much everything bar Holly [...]

I want to address two things in this review. Firstly, and most importantly, I want to cover the music. Secondly, I want to cover the concept of this offering. Ok, stall set out. Let’s move on. The music. It is often posited that if Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda’s ZTT label mates, had not been [...]

To get Frankie, you have to know Frankie. You had to have been around between 1983 and 1987. You had to have been a certain age. You had to have bought the t-shirts, the twelve inches and the promise of a utopian/dystopian, sexually ambiguous society, living its life according to a Paul Morley script. I [...]

Aside from the slightly cheesy presentation, the unforgivable mispronunciations of Moog & Ableton, and crediting Avid, not Digidesign, with the creation of Pro Tools, this is an interesting podcast from NokiaConnects featuring Trevor Horn & Thomas Dolby. The Fairlight gets a couple of mentions too Worth 23 minutes of anybody’s time. More of a layman’s [...]

Here are The Producers (Trevor Horn, Lol Creme, Stephen Lipson & Ash Soan along with Julian Hinton on keys) performing a slowed down, instrumental version of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood classic, Two Tribes. Of course, Trevor & Stephen played on the original. I saw Buggles do this live at the BME gig at the [...]

An interesting press release from Sarm Studios hit my inbox this morning. It seems they’ve struck a deal to have a Native Instruments Komplete 8 Ultimate drive installed in all four of Sarm’s studios in Basing Street, London as well as the Perfect Songs writing room. Here’s the press release wording… Sarm, the world-famous recording [...]

Just discovered this little gem. A half hour documentary on the history of the Sarm Studios, owned by Trevor Horn and located on Basing St. in London. I’ve only ever been able to stand outside… …dreaming of what is contained behind those blue walls and what musical landmarks were recorded within. One day, it’d by [...]

Trevor Horn has certainly been busy! This week sees the release of ZTT‘s second compilation, entitled “The Art of the 12″ Volume Two — A Promotion of a Way of Life“, a follow up to last year’s first volume featuring some epic, rare and some previously unheard 12″ or obscure mixes from the ZTT vault. [...]

I’m not a religious person. I’m the furthest away from religion that any man can be. However, I respect the importance of certain religious events to members of each and every one of the numerous faiths of this world. To Christians in their version of world events, when God spoke to Moses, it was a [...]

After wowing us at the BME earlier this month, Trevor Horn flew out to lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy when it rolled into Madrid for it’s 2011 term. I’m still waiting for the full lecture to be posted on the Red Bull Music Academy Vimeo page, and I’ll link to it as soon [...]