Several manufacturers' attention to compact control surfaces more specifically, single-fader packs has sparked a controller showdown of late. Getting...
The only thing that'll glue together pulsing drums, gnarly synths, gargantuan bass lines and your favorite spatial ear-candy tricks into a perfectly balanced,...
It's possible, and sometimes pleasurable, to swim against the current, which these days is definitely flowing toward the widespread adoption of computer-based...
When Sharam Tayebi and I met in 1991 and formed Deep Dish, we had modest aspirations of launching a local label with the hopes of realizing a few of our...
Sometimes people get way too serious about gear and lose sight of the fact that making music should be a lot of fun. It's probably a trap everyone has...
By now notorious for its searing hot live music and even hotter desert sun, the annual Coachella festival sizzled for three long days this year, April...
SAMPLE MAGIC BREAKBUSTERS ALL THE FUNK 'N' FILTH YOU CAN HANDLE Following the commercial dance appeal of Funky House Grooves, relative newcomer Sample...
There's this big misconception that I started out as a spoken-word artist and then decided to rap, Sage Francis says with a rueful chuckle, his mood darkening...
Browsing the endless shelves of tapes, vintage vinyl, musical scores, session notes and photos archived in the basement of Teo Macero's Long Island home,...
Just Blaze devoted son to his mother (a high school principal), superfan of Roland V-Drums and Ableton Live, owner of three feisty poodles and producer...
With a few exceptions, post-'90s dance music has lacked any identity. Although top-flight DJs continued to thrive in clubs around the world, there was...
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Without a good dose of jet lag, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn would have turned out to be quite a different album. When Bianca and Sierra...
I was producing and writing part-time when I was in the U.S. Army. I decided after four years that it was time to go for it all the way. I moved to Atlanta...
Arguably the single most critical piece of gear in a computer-centric studio yet perhaps the most underrated, undervalued and unsexy is the hard drive....
The life of the jet-setting house DJ is the envy of every kid who ever block-rocked a beat, right? Miguel Migs is one of the world's most successful spanning-the-globe...
The techniques of musique concrte where recorded sounds are used as compositional material have been around since the 1940s. It wasn't until the mid-'60s,...
Many albums see only the inside of a single studio during their creation, but when it came time to record her third full-length album, Bebel Gilberto...
It's good to be the king especially if you're Tim Mosley. For well over a decade now, the 36-year-old producer has spun his quirkily deconstructed beats...
Sometimes a song calls for a loop; just grab it and slam it nonstop. Other times, you crave more flexibility and control. Maybe you're wishing for real...
No doubt you've invested a lot of dough in your home studio. In fact, it's probably worth more than the rest of your stuff put together, especially when...
ALLEN & HEATH XONE:S2 PROFESSIONAL DJ/Club INSTALLATION MIXER Allen & Heath's new Xone:S2 club DJ mixer ($1,999; www.allen-heath.com) represents a true...
Numark's iCDX digital audio player/software controller builds on its already impressive line of in-house engineered DJ products. The iCDX is a tidy little...
We here at Remix have to admit that until now, we thought lasers were only for optical discs and that ELP was just a bitchin' '70s band that sang Lucky...
Whenever you are tracking a live instrument, the first and most essential link in the recording chain is always the microphone. There are countless choices...
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