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…
News
Beatport Streaming Introduces Lossless FLAC Audio
Audio quality just got a big endorsement.…
News
Stay At Prince’s Home In Minneapolis
The legendary stars’ home will soon be available for rent on Airbnb.…
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.
Columns
Gregory Scott: Demolishing The Myths Of Compression
Kush Audio guru Gregory Scott addresses the most common misconceptions about compression.…
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: Delay Plugins
From analogue emulations to the most techy digital options, we run through ten of our favourite delay plugins.…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 11/1/16
This week’s top mixes include Midnight In A Perfect World with The Juan MacLean, Kamera’s Dronecast and Mumdance…
My Studio
Tom Demac
As he prepares to take his live setup to Fabric this weekend, Tom Demac offers us a tour of his…
Gear/Software
Acoustica Mixcraft Pro Studio 7
Acoustica’s company philosophy strives for user friendliness above all else. Does the latest version of their affordable DAW still…
News Round Up: 8/1/16
Technics announces return of SL-1200, LCD Soundsystem set to reform, drugs policies in electronic music culture and why audiophile…
News
News Round Up: 1/1/16
In the news this week: read a new issue of Legowelt’s cyberzine, learn how brands are trying to use…
Top Tracks
Geddes
The Mulletover co-founder reminisces about a childhood spent in record shops and picks out his all-time favourites.…
The Breakdown
Leon Vynehall – ‘It’s Just (House Of Dupree)’
Our Breakdown series returns with an analysis of Leon Vynehall’s ballroom-inspired 2014 cut, ‘It’s Just’.…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 29/12/15
Our favourite mixes this week include Ben UFO reunited with the old gang, a Christmas gift from Huxley and the…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 21/12/15
This week’s top mixes include an old-school jungle tape from Peverelist, Gerd Janson and Move D live from…
My Studio
Shlomi Aber
The Be As One boss shows us around his Tel Aviv studio, featuring a modest selection of the finest gear…
Long Reads
What Makes A Great DJ?
What makes a great DJ? Kristan Caryl asked a group of top selectors including Dave Clarke, Mr G, Mosca and…
News
News Round Up: 18/12/15
Fabric wins court appeal, VinylHub catalogues the world’s record stores, Michael Jackson’s Thriller breaks record for multi-platinum…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 14/12/15
This week’s top mixes include disco icon Nicky Siano live from The Gallery II, Patricia Live at MUTEK, and…
Interviews
Vince Watson on 25 Years of Studio Evolution
Having produced dance music since the late 80s, Vince Watson has witnessed the evolution of studio gear first hand. We…
Technique
Character & Crunch: Replicating The Sound Of Vintage Samplers
Vintage flavours don’t just come from analogue gear. Bruce Aisher explores the technology behind classic vintage samplers and explains…
News
News Round Up: 11/12/15
One nOb to fine-tune any parameter, the story of Thomas Bangalter’s Roulé Records, the Casiotone preset that revolutionised…
Introducing...
The Element & Musumeci
“Why should you listen to us? It’s an offer you can’t refuse…” The Element & Musumeci introduce themselves…
Interviews
Plaid
As they prepare for a live show in London to launch Elektron’s new record label, we catch up with…
Beat Dissected
Broken House
We get experimental in the latest Beat Dissected, twisting a few house conventions using live drums and broken…
Q&A
Ben Pearce
“I was going away for weekends DJing, then coming back and giving team talks to 15 people about how to…
News
News Round Up: 4/12/15
How LA and NY kept jazz alive, inside the world of obsessive audiophilia, and DJ Fett Burger on Daft Punk…
Tutorials
Essential Transition FX: Technique Masterclass
From simple noise sweeps to more complex combinations of synths and effects, we show how to create some of the…
Gear/Software
Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2
With its first major update since 2008, Omnisphere expands to become an even more powerful synth. Greg Scarth explores its…
My Studio
Davina Moss
With a new EP forthcoming on Hot Creations, the artist formerly known as Davina shows us around her Ibiza studio…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 30/11/15
This week’s top mixes include Bicep’s Synthol Hit, Jackmaster’s 2015 Mastermix, Floating Points’ Essential Mix, and Session…
Job Envy
20/20 Vision Label Manager Bobby Connolly
“Follow your heart, do what you love and never stop dreaming.” Motivational words of wisdom from 20/20 Vision label…
Synth Secrets
Fuzzy Sawtooths With U-He Diva
Synth Secrets is a series of programming tutorials in which we show how to make a range of classic and…
Q&A
Roni Size
We grabbed the drum’n’bass icon at this year’s Take Note music conference and put him to the…
