Since first bursting on the scene in the early 1990s, James Lavelle has remained one of the coolest and most important names in the electronic-music genre....
Read the full Q&A with New York hip-hop/rock trio Northern State and producer Chuck Brody on the band's album, Can I Keep This Pen? For the story in the...
If you're working on a cheap pair of monitors, you might think you have a good handle on your sound, but chances are there's stuff going on in your music...
If I weren't working in the music industry but was still making music, I'd either be discouraged by the cutthroat competition or navely unaware of the...
GOING BACK TO CALI I'm the guy who called your offices a year or so ago and asked you about doing a story on J Dilla. Then I called you the very next...
Kode9's dubstep, Shitdisco and Klaxon's new-rave, Wolf Eyes' digital noise. Sounds like some sort of elaborate musical anthology. As a matter of fact,...
Instead of sitting in a bedroom with three keyboards and a sampler, we were sitting in a studio with 30 keyboards, says the Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands....
Thanks to Daft Punk, Coachella 2006 was a watershed moment for electronic music in America. Their rapturously received set proved once and for all that...
It's 10:30 in the morning, and Mark Ronson is waking up after a rare DJ gig the previous night at Club Love in New York. This British-born Manhattanite...
In a club environment, there's nothing that satisfies like a rich, meaty kick and a big fat bass line. That nose-tickling sensation of loud, room-filling...
Being a techno geek can pay off. So can being in the right place at the right time. For Toronto producer Jason Spanu, aka DJ Shine, years of woes ended...
FEIST The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope) Feist goes a little deeper Even in the quieter moments of Let It Die (Interscope, 2005), Leslie Feist's voice...
I did not have a strategic plan about where I wanted to go as an artist. There have been so many different opportunities that have crossed my path during...
Only a small group of aficionados may realize it today, but just a few blocks from where Morton Subotnick now lives and works in New York's Greenwich...
AKAI MPK49 USB MIDI KEYBOARD WITH MPC PADS Combining real MPC pads with a USB keyboard controller for the first time, Akai's new MPK49 ($TBA; www.akaipro.com)...
If you took a walk in Manhattan's streets during the past two years, you most likely passed by some signs inviting you to one of Offer Nissim's parties...
Roland has rolled out the red carpet to introduce the MV-8800, the latest addition to its MV-Series. With the look and feel of a master sequencing machine,...
I'm always interested in the business side of making music. Beyond working on this magazine and writing/playing music, I don't have a lot of time to be...
Roland's Juno and Jupiter series are two of the most honored and respected in synthesizer history. Launched in 1981, the flagship Jupiter-8 fell smack...
The move from hardware to software instruments as the predominant production and performance palette for most musicians hasn't been as seamless as many...
AUDIO BOMB/BEST SERVICE DANCEHALL VIBES VOL. 1 HOT AS JERKY, SMOOTH AS RUM In the midst of literally hundreds of hip-hop libraries covering styles from...
A few days before his set with labelmate Ryan Elliott, Matthew Dear explained the Detroit Electronic Music Festival's je ne sais quoi. The good thing...
Style: World music, electronic music, overlooked pop gems, modern-dance grooves Established: In San Francisco, Calif. by Pat Berry and Bob Duskis Artists:...
Oh, how Remix Hotel has grown. A great big apology from the Remix staff for the unruly lines at the Remix Hotel New York 2007 (May 18-20) for this year's...
VJ LOOPS, ANYONE? Need some visual loops for your VJ sequences? Check out VJ Anyone's Nite Lites (DVJ Vision, 2007, www.dvjvision.com), a 30-minute sequence...
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