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A close up of a vinyl record under a needle. The centre of the record is bright yellow, like the colour of a rubber duck.

Floating record shop Rubber Ducky Records reopens after sinking with new stock

Vinyl records displayed on the wall in HMV. There are also large boxes filled with vinyls, which are sorted under labels such as "rock" and "pop". A person stands to the right of the photo, holding one of the records.

UK vinyl sales increase for 16th consecutive year reaching highest level since 1990

Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk and Nile Rodgers on stage in 2013 at the MTV VMAs. They are all wearing matching silver sparkle suit jackets.

Daft Punk’s Get Lucky reaches over one billion streams on Spotify

Peggy Gou behind the decks at the event. She is lit up by red lighting and is surrounded by a large crowd who have their arms up in the air.

Sets from Kaytranada, Honey Dijon and Peggy Gou to be streamed as part of Apple Music New Year’s Eve Party

Skrillex performing

Skrillex is Beatport’s best-selling artist of 2023

Behringer introduces Victor Eurorack module with a PRO-VS Mini engine

SSL X-Gate 2000x1500

Solid State Logic offering up to 90 percent off its X-Series plugins just in time for Christmas

Musio in use

You can now get the entire Cinesamples catalogue in one plugin with Musio

Michael Jackson in his famous bright red jacket. He is on stage, holding a mic in one hand and his other hand up in the air clenched in a fist as he is singing.

Original programmer who worked on Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean reveals how he created its iconic four-chord stack

Man making music using a MIDI controller

Best new mixing plugins, effects and VST instruments out this week

GForce AXXESS

GForce launches AXXESS software synth inspired by a streamline ARP classic

Baby Audio Beat Slammer. It is a small, square shape, with a glowing purple circle shape in the middle.

Baby Audio launches free Beat Slammer plugin for “smashing and squashing” beats

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