There's a potent truth to the saying that you never get a second chance to make a first impression but it sure is annoying. Why don't we learn this in...
Read the Remix cover story on Bloc Party and the UK group’s second album, A Weekend in the City. U2 producer Jacknife Lee and the Bloc Party band discuss stacking hundreds of vocal layers and trying to avoid making a rock ’n’ record despite using tons of guitar parts. ...
As the power of host computers expands, makers of native digital audio workstations (DAWs) greedily consume it by adding more features to their applications....
Brooklyn, fear, drug addiction, transition, hope, sex and flying. This fragmented sentence (found on an artist blog created to document the final stages...
Remix reviews the Radikal Technologies Spectralis hybrid synthesizer/sequencer/filter bank. This review includes hardware specifications, lists and descriptions of features and company contact information....
Almost like a sculptor's clay, audio filters possess the ability to shape basic tones. Beyond that, these tragically hip devices can create swelling crescendos...
When I, Sascha, started composing in 1996, there were only a handful of people doing music for video games. It was obviously a lot easier to get into...
With all the recent hip-hop is dead talk and the vast amount of interchangeable garbage on the radio lately, one would think that we've reached some sort...
PRESONUS FIRESTUDIO FIREWIRE RECORDING INTERFACE Presonus offers a multitude of FireWire audio devices, but its flagship, the FireStudio ($799.95; www.presonus.com),...
Read the Remix Magazine recommendations for Fresh Tracks Music website plus an outline of the compelling documentary on gangsta life in Durham, North Carolina called Welcome to Durham, USA and a look at custom graffiti-style jewelry by Kel 1st....
The music industry has undergone dramatic changes in the past few years. With the proliferation of the iPod and other MP3 players, the world has embraced...
THE CORD OF DESTINY I recently played a party that a local promoter invited me to headline. I hadn't touched my gear in about a year for various reasons....
Remix reviews the TC Electronic Konnekt 24D FireWire audio interface with DSP. This review includes hardware specifications, lists and descriptions of features and company contact information....
Many software manufacturers have placed huge emphasis on re-creating the analog synth classics, but only Native Instruments (NI), creators of the ultracomplex...
Not exactly the East Coast and not necessarily pledging allegiance to the Dirty South either, Virginia is in somewhat of a peculiar predicament. But having...
As a teenager about 15 years ago, I would dial into local bulletin-board systems with a pokey 24k modem and chat for hours with like-minded musos across...
It can rightfully be said that the Future Sound of London helped usher in the modern era of electronic music. Classic tracks such as Papua New Guinea...
Last month, we covered some basic questions and concepts about using Ableton Live 6 as a DJ tool. If you missed that issue, you can always read it and...
The concept of remixing hit a mainstream high (and an underground low) back in 2002 when P. Diddy had the chutzpah to release a remix album titled, We...
ZERO-G KOCKTAIL KOLLECTION MARTINIS & LEISURE SUITS Surprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed this humorous look back at the tacky world of early lounge-lizard...
If guilt-free unprotected sex could be embodied in a live show, it would take the form of the Brazilian Girls. Carnivalesque costumes, punk-rock antics,...
Finally, American networks are starting to support 3G, the mobile-phone standard that's dominated Europe and Asia for a while. This means new features...
New York's annual CMJ event is a music conference that generally catches a lot of flack from industry insiders. Venues are spread out all over Manhattan...
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