Long Reads
10 Key Moments in Music Production History
Here are ten times that companies took chances on new tech and producers abused it in the name of fresh sounds.
News
Splice Adds Country Music To Splice Create
Country techno might just be on the horizon……
News
Trifecta by Manifest Audio: Multitimbral Polyrhythmic Arpeggiator with Auto-Hocketting
Designed to arrive at uniquely interwoven patterns, Manifest Audio delivers a truly unique sequencing arpeggiator…
News
Experience The Secrets of Techno Production: Berlin Book Launch Next Week
Join us at Torte Bar on January 14th for an evening of workshops, networking and techno.…
The Best...
The 10 Best Secret Sauce Plugins Of 2024
Here are our choices for the 10 best secret sauce plugins of 2024, apps that can turn a blah track into a banger – and four of them are free!
Attack Store
Dance Music Producers’ Power Book Bundle
Get 2 best-selling music production books. Buy more, spend less.
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.
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.
Synth Secrets
Mall Grab-Style Layered Pluck Lead
In this Synth Secrets, we create a Mall Grab-inspired layered pluck lead that emulates his fast-paced, rave-ready style.
Deconstructed
Reese – Just Want Another Chance
Deconstructed is an ongoing series where we take apart the arrangement of a song to see what makes it work. This time, we’re looking at Kevin Saunderson’s Detroit techno classic, ‘Just Want Another Chance’.
News
Dreadbox’s Typhon Synthesizer To Pair Analogue Circuitry With Digital Effects
Dreadbox has announced the Typhon, a portable analogue synthesizer with digital effects from Sinevibes.
News
Block 9 Releases Documentary About Glastonbury’s First Gay Nightclub, NYC Downlow
Watch the story of Glastonbury’s legendary queer club in Meat Rack, a new short film released by Block 9…
Long Reads
Unlikely Moments In Dance Music History
Dance music and DJ history has been driven by disruptive technologies, revolutionary movements and pioneering people. We look at few…
Tutorials
Creating Dub Delays With Standard Plugins
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to create dub-style dirty tape delays using standard plugins.
Reviews
Dance Music Documentaries
If you’ve got some time on your hands, there’s a wealth of good quality documentaries about dance music…
News
Output’s Thermal Promises Interactive Distortion
Output, makers of granular processor Portal, are back with Thermal, which they’re billing as an “interactive” distortion plugin.
Columns
We Need To Talk About Plague Raves
As clubs in Italy and Spain close again amid rising COVID infections, Harold Heath wonders if it might be time…
Passing Notes
Kerri Chandler Chords: The Ultimate Guide – Part 2
In the second part of this two-part Passing Notes series, we break down advanced chord tricks used by one of the true pioneers of house.
News
iZotope Stutter Edit 2 Redesigned With More Effects, New UI
Stutter Edit 2 from iZotope gets a redesign, with new effects, a new look, and an auto mode.
News
Nightclubs to stay closed as lockdown measures lifted in UK
Boris Johnson has announced that from July 4th, hotels, pubs, libraries and hairdressers will be allowed to reopen in the…
Columns
Unconscious Racial Bias in the Electronic Music Scene
London’s Silverlining (aka Asad Rizvi) who is of mixed Indian and Pakistani origin, shares his experiences of the electronic…
Gear/Software
Knif Audio Knifonium
Just when you think every worthwhile synthesizer has been emulated for the plugin domain, along comes Knif Audio’s Knifonium to prove you very, very wrong.
News
Buy and Sell Plugin Licenses for Free with Knobcloud
A new website enables users to list their unused audio software licenses on the database and purchase plugins for discounted…
News
Classic Tracks – The Real Stories Behind 68 seminal Recordings
New in the Attack Store is “Classic Tracks – The Real Stories Behind 68 seminal Recordings” by New York Times best…
Beat Dissected
Truncate-Style Melodic Percussion
In the latest Beat Dissected, we program a techno beat featuring melodic percussion inspired by Truncate’s ‘The Bell’.
Tutorials
10 Snare Rolls For The Drop
In this tutorial, we take a look at 10 different ways to create tension with snare rolls.
News
East London’s Rave Radio Pirates Documented
A social history project in East London has produced a map showing the exact location of the area’s pirate…
News
Ibiza Nightclubs May Remain Closed This Summer
Ibiza’s local government has announced that tourists will be permitted this summer but dancing at nightclubs will be prohibited…
News
July’s Best Music
Some absolute bangers in this month’s round of our favourite house, techno and electronic music releases for July 2020…
Passing Notes
Kerri Chandler Chords: The Ultimate Guide
We break down Kerri Chandler’s top chord tricks by analyzing some of his classic tunes.
News
Synth VR Promises a Virtual Modular World For Free
Patch up synths and sequencers in the virtual world for free with SynthVR a virtual reality modular synth.…
Interviews
DJ Bone: “They can’t come back with the same game plan…everything has to change”
Detroit DJ and producer DJ Bone has been putting on some of Europe’s first legal post-covid events. Who…
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: iOS Synths
In our latest best of, we highlight ten of the top synthesizers available on the iOS platform.
Interviews
Bradley Zero: “You have to understand the language of the people who are actually gatekeeping the whole thing.”
Rhythm Section is a successful record label, studio space and events host with founder Bradley Zero at the heart of…
News
Novation Launchkey MK3 Line Aimed At Ableton Users
Novation’s Launchkey MK3 controller feature Ableton Live integration and a number of new modes and features.
News
A Summer of Illegal Raves Predicted as Clubs Remain Closed
With nightclub venues still closed, experts are predicting a summer of illegal raves, perhaps reaching the levels of 1989.…
Tutorials
Sculpting Warehouse-Style Rolling Techno Basslines
In this tutorial, we show you how to produce and process a layered rolling techno bassline, with a focus on useful low-end mixing tricks.
Deconstructed
Alexander Robotnick – Problèmes d’Amour
We examine the arrangement of Alexander Robotnick’s pioneering ‘Problèmes d’Amour’.
News
Prince’s Yamaha DX7 Up For Sale At Auction
Break open your piggy banks as a new auction selling Prince’s Yamaha DX7, which he played on ‘Purple Medley…
