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
AFRORACK: Bringing Modular Thinking to Black and Brown Youth
After his father passed away, Chicago resident Aaron Guice turned his attention towards helping black and brown youths without the…
My Studio
Local Dialect
Queen’s representatives, Local Dialect, like to characterize their Moog Voyager “as an old man smoking a pipe in a…
News
Sofa Synthesis: Superbooth20
With Covid-19 forcing the real event to be postponed you can still enjoy all the beeps, squeaks, demos and…
Hardware Focus
Roland TB-303: Not a Real Bass Guitar
In the latest instalment of Hardware Focus, we take a look at a cult classic: the Roland TB-303. A…
Columns
Streaming Won’t Kill DJing, But It Might Just Create DJ Ghosts
Harold Heath makes the case that “streaming won’t kill the DJ star”.…
Show & Tell
Thomas Barnett
Detroit producer and DJ Thomas Barnet releases his ‘Low Tech Funk’ collaboration EP with Ecilo this month. In the…
News
Universal Audio’s LUNA Launches Early
Universal Audio’s new recording and production system has now been released early and is available for free download.…
Beat Dissected
Skee Mask
In this latest Beat Dissected, we’re going to create a beat inspired by Skee Mask.…
Passing Notes
Breaking Down the Strings and Arpeggios of Black Water by Octave One
In our latest Passing Notes feature, we take a better look at the theory and arrangement behind Black Water by…
News
I Love Acid Label Makes Their Vinyl Only Releases Digitally Available
Respected vinyl-only label I Love Acid have just announced that they are making a number of their vinyl releases…
Introducing...
Alex Klein
New UK producer Alex Klein has just released his excellent five-track ‘First Relic’ EP, a collection of slow-burn…
Beat Dissected
Joy Orbison
In this latest Beat Dissected, we’re going to create a beat inspired by the percussion-heavy techno of Joy…
My Studio
Octave One
After a little over thirty years in the game, isn’t it time the Burden brothers take a break? With…
Introducing...
Alex Church
With the second part of his collaborative project with Phantasy Sound’s James Welsh dropping in mid-April, UK producer…
News
SoundCloud To Launch New Music Marketing And Distribution Platform
Soundcloud today launched a set of measures to aid artists during the Covid-19 crisis, including their new distribution platform…
Long Reads
Back To The Old School, Again (Pt 2)
Following on from part-one of our ‘Back To The Old School, Again’ article, we thought it would be interesting…
Interviews
Blond:Ish: People, just do something
We spoke to Blond:Ish on accidental activism and hope in the age of hypocrisy.…
Track By Track
Tim Green
We got producer Tim Green to talk us through his latest EP, ‘Vacation To Life’, released on Lee Burridge’s…
Gear/Software
Waves MultiMod Rack
The latest plugin from Waves’ journey into distortion is the MultiMod Rack, a multi-band distortion and effects unit that…
Gear/Software
Roland MC-101
With the exception of the SE-02 synth, a collaboration with Studio Electronics, Roland has stubbornly doubled down on the…
Synth Secrets
Sulta Synths: Layered Melodic Leads
Synth Secrets is a series of programming tutorials in which we show how to make a range of classic and…
News
Is Logic Pro X introducing Ableton Live style clip-launching?
Has Apple leaked how a new Logic Pro X might look with live triggering of loops and clips similar to…
News
Spotify Creates $10 Million Fund For Musicians & Songwriters Affected By Covid-19
The streaming company announced its new fundraising initiative today and launched a website for people to contribute.…
Gear/Software
Empress Effects – ZOIA
Empress Effects is a renowned effects pedal maker. But with ZOIA, Empress attempts to combine instrumental effects with modular hardware…
My Studio
Dixon Avenue Basement Jams
“Often late at night, after listening to the same segment of a track for hours on end, we find ourselves…
Top Tracks
Rudosa
UK techno producer Rudosa has just dropped his new cut ‘Dominance’ as part of a five-track compilation on his…
News
Musicians Call For Spotify to Increase Payments In Light Of Covid-19
The streaming giant is under pressure from musicians to increase artist compensation in light of the widespread loss of income…
Columns
2020 Manifesto
With all the recent talk of political manifestos, we got to thinking about what an ideal dance music scene might…
News
Polyend Tracker Fuses Sampling, Granular Synthesis and Sequencing in New Groovebox
For anyone hoping that a new groovebox would appear with a software tracker-style interface, behold: Polyend Tracker. …
