Ins & outs

JON’S HOPS We’re fans of both Jon Hopkins and beer, so we’re pretty sure that we’ll enjoy Light Through My Veins, the new ale that the producer has created. Inspired by the number nine, it clocks in at 9% ABV, so you’ll need significantly fewer than nine cans of it to make you merry.

WIKIBLEEPS How do you define Wikipedia in an ‘audio logo’? With a sound that features turning book pages, keyboard clicks and a chiming synth, apparently. Thaddeus Osborne won Wikipedia’s ‘The Sound of All Human Knowledge’ contest to make the sound logo.

GRIMES OR REASON AI music might be causing panic in much of the music industry but Grimes is happy to let people impersonate her voice “without penalty”, tweeting that she’d be happy to split the royalties of any successful ‘AI Grimes’ track 50/50 with the person behind it. ‘FAKE DRAKE’

The mysterious artist known as ‘Ghostwriter’ may have thought they were being clever when they made a track that sounded like it was being sung by Drake and The Weeknd, but Universal Music was unimpressed, and the song quickly disappeared…

I’LL BE PAYING YOU

We knew Diddy would still be paying Sting royalties for the Every Breath You Take sample in 1997 hit I’ll Be Missing You. But when Diddy revealed the sum was $5k a day (up from the previously quoted $2k) we had to stifle a gasp. Now that’s inflation!

RIP RYUICHI SAKAMOTO

We were sad to hear of the passing of Oscar-winning soundtrack and synth pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto. His solo albums influenced electro and hip-hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa, and many modern musicians owe him a debt, too.