Looking for the perfect beat in LA, a message from Beatport’s new president, Machinedrum’s live session and a Komplete Frenzy.
Sole selector Ben UFO. Dutch dance festival Dekmantel tell their performers’ stories in their new video interview series Sole Selector, which begins with Hessle Audio label co-founder Ben UFO speaking on the roots and motivations behind his music, in the video above.
Looking for the Perfect Beat. A cinéma vérité documentary inside the unique LA beat scene, centred around the Low End Theory club night, told as a 24-hour tour throughout the city. The fly-on-the-wall perspective of Looking for the Perfect Beat archives each artist’s studio at this moment in history. Watch the trailer above.
A message from Beatport’s new president. With a new owner in SFX Entertainment and a new president in the company founder’s first employee Lloyd Starr, Beatport lay out a plan for the platform’s future here.
Machinedrum’s live session. A live multi-instrumental performance of three tracks from Machinedrum‘s concept album Vapour City, performed by Travis Stewart and drummer Lane Barrington. The pair moved the music around the districts of Vapour City, an imaginary metropolis that Stewart’s latest album is based on. Watch it above.
Komplete Frenzy. Give your studio a boost and save big on the industry-leading instruments and effects collections. Until August 31, you can get Native Instrument‘s Komplete 9, with 33 products and over 12,000 sounds, for only £339. Or Komplete 9 ULTIMATE, with 65 Komplete products and over 16,000 sounds, for just £579 here.
UAD Thermionic Culture Vulture released. For more than 15 years, the British-made Thermionic Culture Vulture has set the standard for studio-grade, high-gain valve distortion, yielding a palette of vivid distortion colors on countless genre-spanning recordings. Thanks to an intense engineering effort from Universal Audio, producers and engineers can now track and mix with the only authentic circuit emulation of this one-of-a-kind valve distortion tool exclusively for UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform and Apollo Audio Interfaces. More info here.
Practice may not make perfect. A study just published in Psychological Science by Miriam Mosing of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, suggests that the sceptics are right. Practising music without the right genes to back that practice up may indeed be useless, contrary to author Malcom Gladwell’s much-debunked theory that 10,000 hours practice makes an expert of anybody. Find out more here.