The West was won long ago, but every year musical manufacturers come out with their big guns ablazin' to Orange County, Calif., for the Winter NAMM convention....
Digital DJ software has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year. In a race to gain dominance, many companies have filled their software with cutting-edge...
It's been awhile since they last spoke or collaborated, rather on the lead single to Aceyalone's last long player, Love & Hate (Red Urban, 2003), but...
UNIVERSAL AUDIO BOSS CE-1 &ROLAND DIMENSION D CHORUS PLUG-INS Universal Audio brings licensed replicas of the Roland Dimension D and Boss CE-1 chorus...
Style: House Established: In 1992 by David Piccionni in London. Artists: A couple years back, Azuli split into Azuli Silver and Azuli Black to reflect...
After countless hours rehearsing and several more spent hauling and setting up your gear, you feel ready to perform for a sizable audience. This isn't...
BECK Guerolito (Interscope) The belittling of the Guero gumbo Restraint has rarely been Beck Hansen's strong suit, but it's exactly this trait that has...
THANKS TO ARTISTS SUCH AS THIEVERY CORPORATION AND DJ SHADOW, as well as labels like James Lavelle's Mo' Wax, the commercial door was opened in the late...
Detectives are usually looking for evidence at the scene of the crime, but not the musical scrutinizer known as Blockhead. Instead, he's constantly on...
FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT As the youngest DMC World champion at 15 (in 1997), member of Invisibl Skratch Piklz and The Allies, and Kanye West's touring DJ, Montreal's...
Yeah, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But the word is definitely out about the grand opening bash for the Studio At The Palms, the latest addition...
VINYL POOL is the handy state-by-state directory that lists some of the fine independent vinyl shops and DJ-gear retailers that carry your favorite magazine,...
A few years ago, I was leading a fun band, playing to great audiences and enjoying the L.A. scene. Then, a friend told me he was music-supervising a new...
Everything we do really stems from being record collectors rather than musicians, says Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley, speaking from a London flat that's...
You can take the synthesis pioneer out of the hardware, but you can't take the hardware out of the pioneer or something like that. For three decades,...
Somewhere in southeast London, Matt Black is reflecting on the glory of his and fellow Coldcut member Jonathan More's brilliant career. They can rightly...
Hurry up, before I get embarrassed, DJ Muggs says. These are the last words you'd expect to hear from a man who has had more of an impact on the astronomic...
Meat Beat Manifesto, Yoda, Hieroglyphics and Zelda have something in common: They were all at the inaugural G.A.M.E. (The Game and Music Experience) event...
Electronic drum kits certainly progress every year, but they still sound unnatural, feel artificial and look silly. Also, sequencing with click tracks...
There's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer discovers weight lifting. He gets so into it that he gets these enormously buff, rippling muscles. But...
Though not the first group to officially record a rap song (that distinction is usually given to the Fatback Band featuring King Tim III), it was the...
You've toiled with your final mixes for what seems like forever, and you're ready to commit the music to whatever its final delivery medium will be. Then...
Unprecedented in the long, illustrious history of binge drinking, the rowdiest drunks at the bar have flipped the script and announced last call themselves....
Designed for working in challenging acoustic spaces, Genelec's compact 8020A biamped monitors and the matching 7050B subwoofer (sold separately) comprise...
LET'S CALL IT COOPERATION Over the years, I have gone back and forth between software and hardware. I learned how to program a drum machine XOX-style...
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