From the classic Happy Mondays album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (Elektra, 1989) to his own tracks such as Starry-Eyed Surprise (as heard in that...
In early 2005, the big players in the subscription space were few, Napster and RealNetworks' Rhapsody taking the lead. As the year progressed, it seemed...
She's only 20 years old, but she's ready to rule. She has taken meetings with Jay-Z, Antonio Reid and Usher and deemed them One of England's first female...
Q-Tip's highly anticipated Motown debut, Live at the Renaissance, has been pushed back several times but is scheduled for a late-March release as of this...
Compared with the big advertising dollar laden professional audio manufacturers, Radial Engineering is a virtual unknown. Ask around in a crowd of particular...
It's the first time that DJ Shadow has put the recording process of his new album into words, and it takes him a minute to figure out which way to go...
Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that file-sharing services may be held responsible for copyright violations if they intended for customers to use...
WEBSITE OF THE MONTH Just launching is Motorola's iRadio service (www.getheardnetwork.com), which enables you to download Internet radio stations and...
Way Out Ware is not the first at the party with an ARP 2600 emulation, but the wait is worth the while. Nevertheless, it's hard to extol the virtues of...
It's fair to predict (and hope) that the European Union will ditch its fragmented, bureaucratic, red-tape-ridden, country-specific licensing system in...
DON'T PULL THE PLUG In response to Citizen Vern (Envelope Filter, November 2005): First, let me say that I enjoy modern electronic music and listen to...
It's not often that the legendary media pranksters and sound collagists of Negativland take their work to the stage, but they did stop by San Francisco's...
Here we are with the fourth installment of the Remix Technology Awards, and 2005 proved to be another great year for producers and musicians. This year,...
Rock is back, says a 30-something yuppie professional over his $12 martini in an overstyled L.A. bar. Further questing led to his admission that, for...
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,...
It's funny because I never really wanted to do a solo record, says an energized Pharrell Williams, fresh off a whirlwind trip to Tokyo and the much-hyped...
Antares maker of various useful to unusual audio software and hardware and perhaps best known for its flagship plug-in, Auto-Tune has lifted the curtain...
The number of Americans with high-speed Internet access is still less than 50 percent. In 2006, this number will continue to grow, further fueling the...
Unless you've been hiding in a cave for the past several years, you've certainly heard of Ableton's groundbreaking live-performance loop software, Live....
Since touring all over in support of his jazzy-house debut album, Music Fiction (Om, 2003), DJ and multi-instrumentalist Rithma (aka Etienne Stehelin)...
Florida's Bass Queen and D.C.'s Princess of Darkness sparkle as they chat animatedly, flipping through record bins at DJ Hut on a brisk October evening...
Because it's always fun to look ahead and see what's in store for the world musicwise, we at Remix decided to make an entire issue about the future. Well,...
Cult status rarely shadows any work that comes out of a major movie studio unless, of course, you consider MGM's sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, which...
It's gonna be our darkest, craziest record since Phrenology or Illadelph Halflife, drummer and producer Ahmir Thompson explained to MTV recently. This...
Standing behind the million-selling records, media glare and controversy that accompany hip-hop superstardom are the producers whose sonic groundwork...
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