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.
Job Envy
Mastering Engineer – Matt Colton
Matt Colton, mastering engineer at London’s legendary AIR Studios, talks about the highs and lows of the job, outlines…
Job Envy
Studio Assistant – Henry Broadhead
As the full-time assistant at Booka Shade’s favourite UK studio, Henry Broadhead is learning his trade in one…
Introducing...
Magic Panda
Magic Panda introduces his “intense anthemic” sound and explains how Four Tet inspired him to ditch his guitar and dive…
News
News Round-Up: 21/6/13
Our weekly review of the latest news in music and tech. This week: Daft Punk remixed, NI discounts, a new…
Job Envy
Jacko Adams – Vinyl Cutting Engineer
Despite numerous predictions of the format’s imminent extinction, vinyl sales have risen over recent years. Accordingly, demand for vinyl…
Job Envy
Radio DJ – Andi Durrant
Capital FM’s dance music specialist offers an insight into his hectic lifestyle, which sees him jet between London, Ibiza…
Q&A
Russ Chimes
Championed by the likes of Annie Mac and Pete Tong, Russ Chimes’s Kathy Brown-sampling new single ‘Turn Me…
News
iLok Disables Users’ Licences
Users of PACE’s iLok anti-piracy system left locked out of their plugins as introduction of new License Manager…
Passing Notes
Deep House Chords
Our composition expert explains a simple technique which will help you create deep house chord progressions with ease.…
Top Tracks
Maayan Nidam
Groove-heavy house cat Maayan Nidam lines up 80s classics from Kate Bush and George Michael alongside contemporary cuts from…
Introducing...
Memory9
Memory9 makes jazz-influenced electronic music which falls “somewhere in the space between beats and sound design-heavy electronica”. We…
Beat Dissected
Found Sound 2-Step
In the latest Beat Dissected we create a swinging 2-step beat which uses a blend of vintage drum machine…
Beat Dissected
Deep House – Stripped Workout
Beat Dissected is a regular series in which we deconstruct drum patterns, showing you how to recreate them in any…
Beat Dissected
Raw Drum & Bass
Our resident beatsmith gets back to (drum and) bassics with this raw, sparse drum & bass workout.…
News
Crowdfunding Gigs
Songkick’s new crowdfunding website for live music events allows fans to put their money where their mouth is and…
Q&A
Keith Worthy
The Detroit deep house master takes on our quick-fire Q&A, revealing why money might help you find…
Beat Dissected
Chillout: Raw strip-hop
It’s chillout this fortnight, with three downtempo loops deconstructed. The first is a raw, live workout, loosely influenced by…
Gear/Software
Rob Papen Blade
The latest product to join Rob Papen’s empire is the additive synth Blade, which can serve up stunning pads…
Interviews
Mumdance
With the release of his new free mixtape, eclectic producer Jack Adams returns to music after a two year hiatus…
News
Wave Alchemy Transistor Revolution
Wave Alchemy’s Transistor Revolution is a staggeringly huge collection of 22,000 TR-808 and 909 drum samples. But…
Tutorials
Choosing A Reverb Plugin
As one of the key tools in any mix, reverb is fundamental to the sound of your tracks. Bruce Aisher…
Interviews
Riva Starr
Attack caught up with Italian house producer Riva Starr in his London studio to discuss his kleptomaniac musical style, the…
Top Tracks
Dosem
Marc Dosem picks the tracks which inspire him, explaining the influence of Vangelis’s Blade Runner soundtrack and tipping a…
News
Piracy: From PPL To Pakistan
The British Phonographic Industry plots its latest attempt to stamp out music piracy.…
Top Tracks
Mark Knight
The Toolroom head honcho sings the praises of U2, Maxwell and… Michael Bublé.…
Job Envy
Creative Director – Nicolas Bougaïeff
Nicolas Bougaïeff, Creative Director of the Richie Hawtin-backed German software development house Liine, takes the hotseat for the…
News
Another News Story About Streaming
The streaming race continues as Google beats Apple to the punch.…
News
Giving Fans The Credit
Rhapsody has stepped forward as the first digital service to support the Recording Academy’s initiative to report full credits…
Top Tracks
People Get Real
As residents at Leeds and Newcastle’s massively popular Wax:On events, Simon Lister and Peter Wilson – better known as…
Interviews
Producing Sigur Rós
Richard Buskin speaks to Sigur Rós producers Alex Somers and Birgir Jón Birgisson about the recording of Valtari…
Top Tracks
Grum
Ahead of the release of his second album Human Touch, Grum picks his top tracks from mullet-bearing 80s synthpop…
