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.
Beat Dissected
Chillout: Dusty Hip Hop
A raw chillout beat with hip hop influences gets the Beat Dissected treatment in the latest from our resident drumsmith…
News
More DJ Awards
As the Ibiza season draws to a close, the island’s key movers and shakers gathered at Pacha for the…
News
Myspace Relaunch
Backed by Justin Timberlake, Myspace is re-entering the social network arena with a comprehensively redesigned version of the site…
News
The Great EDM Gold Rush Continues
The US obsession with the poppier end of dance music continues as an internet entrepreneur attempts to cash in.…
Top Tracks
Audionite
Berlin producer Szymon Rabowicz is one of the young stars of the BNR Trax roster. Here he picks his all…
Interviews
Motor City Drum Ensemble
Danilo Plessow’s jazz-influenced approach to making deep house has resulted in some of the most emotive dance music…
News
No Dough NDS-303
Relatively new to the sample market, No Dough Samples have quickly built a solid reputation thanks to their purist knack…
Gear/Software
Sonic Charge Permut8
Sonic Charge’s Permut8 – a delay-based plugin that embraces the sounds of ‘primitive signal processing hardware’ has been the…
Beat Dissected
Chugging Tech-House
Using classic 808 and 909 hits and other synthetic elements we create a chugging tech-house groove.…
Passing Notes
Ostinatos and Acid Riffs
In the latest instalment of our dance music theory column, we take a look at how repeating melodies can be…
Video Tutorials
How to design a custom kick drum in Ableton
Our sound design expert demonstrates how to create a kick drum from scratch using Ableton Operator…
Q&A
Stacey Pullen
As a key player in the second wave of Detroit techno, Stacey Pullen has been helping to reinvent the sound…
News
Zenhiser Deep House Keys
The latest Zenhiser offering focuses on mellow piano, organ and Rhodes sounds. But does it fit the bill for deep…
News
DJ Top 100 Poll Heats Up
The latest instalment in the ongoing saga of DJ magazine’s annual Top 100 DJs list comes via anonymous blogger…
