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Daft Punk verruilde eindeloze loops voor echte muzikanten, analoge opnames en een ode aan de disco. Ontdek het verhaal achter Random Access Memories.
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In 1989, The Cure embraced a darker, more emotional sound on Disintegration. From Plainsong to Lovesong, discover why this album still feels so powerful...
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The famous Oasis sleeve was photographed at dawn on Berwick Street. Hundreds of frames were shot with Brian Cannon and Sean Rowley to capture the iconic...
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Discovery became both a dance album and the basis for a complete anime film. Daft Punk collaborated on it with their childhood hero Leiji Matsumoto.
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After SOUR came the hardest question: how do you make a second album without repeating yourself? GUTS grew out of exactly that pressure.
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Part of Purple Rain was captured live at First Avenue in Minneapolis. That club energy remained at the heart of Prince’s most iconic album.
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AM began with simple grooves captured on a cheap four-track recorder. Alex Turner wrote melodies over endless rhythms instead of starting with an acoust...
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Around After Hours, The Weeknd built not just an album but a complete character: red suit, bloodied face and nocturnal Las Vegas.
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Abbey Road was not the last Beatles album released, but it was the last one all four recorded together. The long medley therefore feels almost like a fa...
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Smash was recorded for an independent punk label. Even the producer was thinking of 150,000 copies, not millions.
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Thriller was originally called Starlight. Rod Temperton changed the title and lyrics, Vincent Price joined in, and a pop album became a cultural phenome...
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Much of Dookie’s instantly recognisable power comes from Billie Joe Armstrong’s modified Marshall sound: sharp, loud and still remarkably clear.
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1989 was recorded again nine years later. Taylor Swift turned an old album into both a memory and a new chapter.
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Three relationships inside the band fell apart during Rumours. Yet the members still sang each other’s painful lyrics and made their most famous album t...
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OK Computer was created largely in an English country house, far from a conventional studio. That unusual setting became part of the record.
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For A Bath Full of Ecstasy, Hot Chip let outside producers deep into their process for the first time. It changed the structure without removing the war...
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The clocks on Time were not originally recorded for Pink Floyd at all. Alan Parsons happened to bring the recordings into the sessions.
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Metallica recorded Master of Puppets in Copenhagen in 1985. It became a metal landmark and the band’s final studio album with bassist Cliff Burton.
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Morning Glory was recorded on analogue tape at Rockfield Studios in 1995. Those sessions produced Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova and stadium-rock history.
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Tainted Love was already a forgotten 1964 soul song when Soft Cell picked it up. Seventeen years later, an electronic cover turned it into a worldwide hit.
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A joke involving the words Teen Spirit accidentally gave Nirvana the title of their biggest hit. Kurt Cobain did not even know it was a deodorant brand.
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When director Raine Allen-Miller made the first cut of Rye Lane, almost 90% of her temporary soundtrack already consisted of music by Kwes.
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What's on Your Mind grew from a long studio session into a hit featuring Leonard Nimoy’s voice. The famous “pure energy” came directly from Star Trek.
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With John Frusciante back in the band, Red Hot Chili Peppers found their chemistry again. Californication became more melodic, spacious and ultimately e...
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For Megalomania, Muse travelled to a church in Bath to record a real pipe organ. Nothing on Origin of Symmetry was meant to sound small.
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After Rock Me Amadeus, Falco had to keep moving. The Sound of Musik became his first single for Sire and appeared in several different mixes.
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Eucalyptus grew out of the environment Avey Tare was living in. After years of electronics, he deliberately returned to open, acoustic music.
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Producer Bob Rock forced Metallica to work differently. The sessions were tense, but they produced The Black Album and a completely new sound.
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On The Last Resort, Trentemøller wanted to express personal feelings without vocals. The challenge was to communicate uncertainty and desire through sou...
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Hybrid Theory was once the name of the band itself. When that name had to go, it survived as the title of Linkin Park’s debut.
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Scattersun was made by artists who could barely meet in person. The entire album was written through text chat and across different time zones.
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The Blaze had around fifty tracks ready for Jungle. The two cousins then had to cut ruthlessly to turn them into one coherent story.
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Producer Mike Clink mainly wanted to capture how Guns N’ Roses really sounded. Many of Appetite for Destruction’s rhythm tracks were recorded together a...
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Video Games began with a homemade internet video. The huge reaction to it turned Lana Del Rey into a worldwide phenomenon in a very short time.
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Zara Larsson was only nineteen when So Good was released. For one song, she did not even expect Ed Sheeran to actually show up.
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Fine Line grew out of sessions in which Harry Styles deliberately tried to think less about what a pop star was supposed to make.
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Xenoula grew out of the contrast between Romy Xeno’s childhood in South Africa and her move to the United Kingdom at the age of sixteen.
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After the Gorillaz debut, Damon Albarn brought in Danger Mouse. Demon Days became darker, bigger and ultimately one continuous universe.
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For KALAK, Sarathy Korwar designed his own circular system of rhythmic notation. Even the album title reads the same forwards and backwards.
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RUMTUM began Isles in Indigo during two months beside a coral reef in Hawaii and later finished the rough tape recordings in the mountains of Colorado.
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Greatest Hits did not arrive exactly when Dave Grohl would have chosen. Still, it shows how a one-man studio project grew into a global band.
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Live Vol. 1 was recorded before lockdown at Berlin’s legendary Hansa Studios. Parcels deliberately turned a studio session into a live album.
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Future Nostalgia was ready for the dance floor just as the world shut down. Dua Lipa decided to release the album anyway.
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Within Temptation deliberately wrote Hydra without genre boundaries. That is why symphonic metal, rap and guest vocalists all share the same record.
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James Murphy worked on LCD Soundsystem’s debut while practically living in his studio. Losing My Edge began as a joke about getting older in a young mus...
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Billie Eilish and Finneas wanted a true album experience rather than a collection of singles. That is why HIT ME HARD AND SOFT arrived without advance s...
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Kraftwerk built The Man-Machine around the idea that people and technology were moving ever closer together. Even the band members on the cover almost b...
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A failed attempt to send Amy Winehouse to rehab became one of her biggest songs. Mark Ronson then built her classic soul sound with the Dap-Kings.
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This Greatest Hits deliberately focuses on Fleetwood Mac’s success from 1975 onward. It is not the full history of the band, but a portrait of its most ...
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Ne Me Quitte Pas was written after the end of Brel’s relationship with Suzanne Gabriello. Brel himself did not see it as a romantic love song, but as a ...
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