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.
Interviews
Michail Stangl, Boiler Room: The Business of Music
Boiler Room is one of dance music’s most recognisable brands. In this month’s Business Of Music feature, we…
Top Tracks
Simina Grigoriu
With her ‘Confiscate / Elucidate’ EP dropping on her Kuukou imprint last month, we asked Simina Grigoriu about her Top Tracks…
Job Envy
Jayne Stynes
Jayne Stynes has worked with Gorillaz, Roisin Murphy and Kano and is currently General Manager of industry body the Music…
News
Rekordbox 6.0.1 Adds Vocal Detection Feature
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Beat Dissected
Jazzy House
In this latest Beat Dissected, we’re going to program a house beat inspired by the likes of Project Pablo…
Tutorials
Creative Tape Stop Effects
We show you how tape stop effects can bring movement and interest to your beats, pads, and breakdowns.
News
Ibiza To Re-Open To Tourists In July
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the announcement over the weekend. …
News
German Venue Hosts ‘Socially Distanced’ Rave
Gerd Janson DJed to 100 people at a 2000 capacity venue in what’s believed to be Europe’s first…
Interviews
Bushwacka! “Tech house – the genre that ate itself.”
Following the release of his ‘Listen Up’ Vol 1 compilation, we chat with Matthew B, JustBe, Bushwacka!, the one and…
Show & Tell
Tom Lown
UK deep house label Lucky Sun Recordings have just released their ‘Lucky Sun Recordings, Sound of The Sun Vol 2…
News
New Drum & Bass Documentary Airs On Monday
Brand new feature-length film ‘Drum & Bass: The Movement’ will be screened this Monday 25th May.…
Long Reads
Respect: How Black Artists Changed The Way We Hear
We pay tribute to the Black Artists who changed the way we hear dance music.
My Studio
Adriana Lopez
DJ, producer and Grey Report label-boss Adriana Lopez has released her brand of rolling, future-facing techno on Stroboscopic…
Tutorials
The Rights and Wrongs of Sampling
How to clear a sample? Do I need to clear a sample? What about one-shots? In this article we breakdown the most common sampling queries.
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: Semi-Modular Hardware Synthesizers
We pick 10 of the best semi-modular hardware synths currently on the market.
News
FabFilter Overhaul Saturn 2 With New Look, Distortion, and Modulation Options
FabFilter has released Saturn 2, an upgrade of the multiband distortion and saturation plugin.
Track By Track
Bushwacka!
Producer extraordinaire Bushwacka! is dropping an album of classic and rare Bushwacka! cuts from his Plank archive on May 22nd…
Interviews
Jimmy Asquith: “Just go out there and do it. Fail, fast. Do as much as you can”
In part five of our series – The Business of Music – in partnership with iMusician, Attack’s Oliver Payne talks…
Tutorials
Processing Berghain Kicks With Multiband Distortion
We show you how to apply multiband distortion to Berghain-style kicks.
News
Reports Of Logic Pro X 10.5 Update Crashing For Some Users
Apple’s 10.5 update to Logic Pro X is causing headaches for some users and developers.
News
April’s Best Music
Here’s our round-up of some of the best electronic music releases of April 2020.…
Deconstructed
Joey Beltram – ‘Energy Flash’
We deconstruct the arrangement of Joey Beltram’s smouldering techno classic, ‘Energy Flash’.
Gear/Software
Kilohearts Phase Plant
Kilohearts Phase Plant combines wavetable synthesis with samples and virtual analogue.
Books/DVDs
Book Smarts Pt. 2: More of our Favourite Dance Music Books
The history of dance music and DJ culture continues to be written. There are always new tales to tell and…
News
Akai Professional Announce The MPC Live II With Built-In Monitors
Akai professional announce the MPC Live II.
Interviews
MixCloud – The Business of Music
It takes a lot to make a company successful in the music industry. In part three of our series – The…
Gear/Software
Korg Nu:Tekt NTS-1
Korg’s NTS-1 puts the digital oscillator from the Prologue and effects section from the Minilogue XD in a small synth that you put together yourself.
