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.
Long Reads
The Best Of Attack, 2013
Our most popular articles published this year – plus a few bonus picks of our personal favourites.…
Books/DVDs
Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession
This beautifully produced coffee table book documents the author’s life-long obsession with drum machines, but leaves Greg Scarth…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 1/9/14
This week’s top mixes include James Holden’s chaos, Shawn O’Sullivan’s tripped-out acid, and High Class…
My Studio
Roland Klinkenberg
Roland Klinkenberg shows us his essential studio equipment, including the most extravagant keyboard stand we’ve ever seen.…
News
News Round-up: 13/12/13
James Zabiela plays free 200-capacity event, Fabriclive listings announced and download Todd Edwards’ Essential Edits.…
Job Envy
SoundCloud Content Acquisition Coordinator Sarah Haswell
In the latest of our regular series on jobs around the music industry, we talk to one of the SoundCloud…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 25/8/14
This week’s top mixes include Move D B2B Optimo, Joyride’s UKG selection, Maxmillion Dunbar’s ‘Unwind Flex’ and…
News
News Round Up: 22/8/14
Build a Daft Punk helmet, a guide to London sound systems, Aphex Twin readies new album and Marcel Dettmann on…
Top Tracks
Petar Dundov
The Croatian techno producer runs us through his all-time favourites, from rave anthems to pioneering electronica.…
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: Studio Monitors
A guide to our favourite studio monitors, from the best budget models to our pick of money-no-object dream…
Tutorials
FM Electric Piano
Moving forward with our examination of FM synthesis, we show how to create a classic electric piano patch in NI…
Introducing...
Liar
Self-proclaimed electronic music polymath and “next gen shit”. Liar has a lot to live up to. We let him…
News
News Round-Up: 6/12/13
A frenzy of festive spirit as producers keep giving (apprenticeships in Berlin)… and giving (production tips)… and giving (free tracks…
Q&A
No Regular Play
As they release two remix EPs of their excellent Endangered Species album, we put the Wolf + Lamb duo to the…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 18/8/14
This week’s top mixes include Mumdance’s Rinse FM residency launch, DJ Harvey’s Old Testament mix and Goldie…
News
News Round Up: 15/8/14
Theo Parrish goes live, iconic Paradise Garage images, a 9-foot TR-909, and is laughing gas a laughing matter…
Tutorials
Cold Pads
Pads come in all shapes and sizes. Here we explore the chillier end of the sonic spectrum – perfect for those…
The Breakdown
Four Tet – ‘Angel Echoes’
The Breakdown is a regular series in which we examine the background context, composition and production of some of our…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 11/8/14
This week’s top mixes include Parris Mitchell in session, Luke Abbott on RA, JJ’s FADER Mix and DIS…
Long Reads
Rewind: The Benefit Of Hindsight
If you could go back and edit your past, what would you do differently? We asked a group of eight…
News
News Round Up: 8/8/14
The Making of Marshall Jefferson, introducing Reason 8, back to the Phuture and Radio 4 listeners horrified by dance music…
News
Mo’Wax Meltdown Videos
Watch two full sessions from Ableton and CDR’s events at James Lavelle’s Meltdown Festival. Deep Mo’Wax insight…
Interviews
Detroit Swindle
Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets’ rapid rise through the ranks has been fuelled by their soulful approach to house. We…
Beat Dissected
Motor City Techno
Our latest beat programming and sound design tutorial focuses on the classic sound of early Detroit techno with a 909…
News
Mixes Of The Week: 4/8/14
This week’s top mixes include Resident Advisor on Radio 1, Joy Orbison’s new Essential Mix, Tom Trago’s…
Beat Dissected
Cosmic Nu-Disco
In the latest instalment of Beat Dissected, we construct a nu-disco pattern with a sprinkling of cosmic vibes.…
My Studio
Mathew Jonson
Ahead of his appearance at Cocoon London at Building Six on the 30th of November, we take a look at…
Top Tracks
Mak & Pasteman
The garage- and jungle-inspired Leeds duo reveal their all-time best and worst tracks, from Sven Väth &…
Interviews
Club Nights: How To Survive & Thrive
In the third of our videos from this year’s London Electronic Music Event, promoters and club owners discuss the…
