Track By Track
DESIREE Chooses Her Top Tracks
At CRSSD Festival in September we followed DESIREE into the Chapter One vinyl pop-up and asked her to select…
Q&A
JKS – “The Importance Of Silence Is Underrated”
We caught up with JKS to put him through the paces of the quick-fire Q&A.…
News
Music Production For Women (MPW) Has Announced A Free 2 Day Course
Music Production for Women (MPW) has announced a two-day Women in Music Tech Summit on October 19th and 20th…
News
Ableton Launches Move: A Portable, Standalone Instrument for On-the-Go Music Creation
After various mystery marketing campaigns, the wait is over. Move from Ableton is here and it’s a long awaited…
Gear/Software
Audiomodern Soundbox Review: The Kontakt Killer?
Upstart plugin developer Audiomodern is challenging the hegemony of Kontakt with its new sampler, Soundbox. Is Audiomodern Soundbox good enough to dethrone the Native Instruments mainstay?
Attack Store
The Secrets of Dance Music Production
The world-leading book on dance music production. Comes with samples too.
Max for Live: Knob Studio
Knob Studio offers dynamic waveform manipulation and parameter mapping capabilities.
The Producer’s Manual
Everything you need to take a mix, from initial recording to final master.
Max For Live: Chance Engine
Add controlled yet random fluctuations to your most important parameters
Max For Live: Mouth Play
Unconventional vocal shaping with a brass model or FM oscillator source
Replicants – Elektron Analog Rytm Sample Pack
Electro sounds for the Elektron Analog Rytm. Free your spirit.
Passing Notes
Understanding Modes
Dance music theory expert Oliver Curry introduces the concept of modes and explains why they’re relevant to electronic music…
News
Win Valhalla Festival Tickets
We’re offering two lucky readers the chance to win tickets to this year’s Valhalla dance music festival in…
News
News Round-Up: 4/10/13
Ewan Pearson discusses remixing, bargain Waves plugins, new flagship Maschine from NI and screen prints based on techno classics.…
Q&A
Chez Damier
The master of deep, soulful house takes on our quick-fire questionnaire, explaining why dance music has to come from…
Top Tracks
Yousef
With the release of his new album, A Product Of Your Environment, UK house stalwart Yousef is on a one…
Q&A
Dillon Francis
Deep house alter egos, pizza tacos and not giving a fuck or shit. Mad Decent’s Dillon Francis reveals all…
Interviews
Dubfire
Industry veteran Ali Shirazinia on the lessons learned from Yoshitoshi, his personal manifesto for SCI+TEC and why he wants…
The Best...
Top 20 Best Compressors Of All Time
In this definitive run down of the world’s top hardware compressors both ancient and modern, a superlative-drained David…
Gear/Software
FXpansion DCAM Dynamics
FXpansion’s new bundle of circuit-modelled compressors is great value for money, but does it sound good? Liam Ashton…
News
Mixes of the week: 30/9/13
This week’s best mixes: two-step treasures, analogue acid and Cologne techno.…
Interviews
Raffertie
Fresh after the release of his first full-length, Sleep of Reason, we caught up with Raffertie to discuss the…
Agony Aunt
Am I Too Old to DJ?
Our resident agony aunt Charlie Leigh Gamble is here to answer your queries on music, life and existential crises. This…
Tutorials
Drum Tuning Basics
Production guru Bruce Aisher explains how to tune drums to suit your tracks.…
Top Tracks
Silkie
The deep dubstep don picks some life-changing tracks. From a 70s soul classic to the local pirate radio station…
Introducing...
J£zus Million
Fresh from collaborations with Charli XCX and Sasha Go Hard, 19 year-old Bostonian Joseph Zucco releases his debut mixtape…
Interviews
King Britt
We chat to the electronic music auteur about how sci-fi movies inspired his recent EP on Hyperdub, why he…
News
Ableton Live 9 Details Announced
Hot on the heels of that Live 9 video leak comes news from Ableton outlining the features to be found…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 16/9/13
In this week’s round-up of the best new mixes: music from Robert Hood, Delroy Edwards and How To…
News
News Round-Up: 13/9/13
Four Tet talks about his process, NI updates Traktor Kontrol S2 and S4, Moog discontinues the Little Phatty. Plus, check…
Interviews
A Guy Called Gerald & Graham Massey
808 State’s Graham Massey and A Guy Called Gerald have reunited to perform all-analogue live acid house jams…
Q&A
Chocolate Puma
Dutch house veterans Chocolate Puma take on our quick-fire Q&A, revealing why they’re fans of the…
Top Tracks
Zombie Disco Squad
“It sounds like I imagine it would feel to get out of a warm bath and be dried off by…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 9/9/13
The first of our new weekly mix round-ups. We’ll be gathering together some of our favourites from around…
Video Tutorials
Reese Bass
Our synthesis expert Marc Adamo demonstrates how to make the classic Reese bass sound in NI Massive.…
Top Tracks
Matt Walsh
Bugged Out! resident DJ, Turbo regular and Clouded Vision label boss Matt Walsh weaves his way through Blur, Primal Scream…
News
News Round-Up 6/9/13
Ableton Live 9.1, innovations in grime, lawsuits and cancellations, and EZ interviews Todd Edwards about garage.…
Introducing...
Alan Johnson
The Peep Show-referencing duo explain why their music is “the reincarnation of a Zulu war dance meets King Tubby…
Books/DVDs
Kraftwerk Publikation
A new Kraftwerk biography aims to provide the definitive account of the iconic band’s story. But does it misrepresent…
Job Envy
Music Publicist – Melissa Taylor
Melissa Taylor, managing director of Tailored Communication, the electronic music PR house representing everyone from M-nus’s Ambivalent to…
Q&A
Guy Gerber
Attack caught up with Guy Gerber at Eastern Electrics and hit him with our quick-fire Q&A…
