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Jul 1, 2005
Second Sun's Antoine Toupin and Adam Cavaluzzi have been doing everything in their power to keep the underground scene buzzing with their catchy club...
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Jul 1, 2005
Ah, yes, summer is here. For the past few years now, the summer festival season has started with a bang at the annual Coachella Valley Music Festival...
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Jul 1, 2005
Of the many good causes to get involved with, one of particular urgency is the AIDS crisis in Africa. Benefiting African children who have been orphaned...
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Jul 1, 2005
Recently, at a gym in New York, a music video from DJ Rap's 1999 major-label debut, Learning Curve (Columbia), popped up on eight big-screen televisions,...
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Jul 1, 2005
If you go to Amazon.com and check out the customer reviews of Ying Yang Twins' last album, Me & My Brother, you'll see an average of 3.5 stars. But when...
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Jul 1, 2005
FIRST THINGS FIRST There was a time (not so long ago) that when you wanted to make a mix, you would pull out some vinyl and lay it down on your turntables...
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Jul 1, 2005
With the ever-growing population of audio composition, recording, arranging and mangling software tools showing up on dealers' shelves, it can be difficult...
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Jul 1, 2005
Few artists covet the role of the obscure innovator. Spawning a movement and receiving fawning accolades from your musical progeny holds little attraction...
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Jul 1, 2005
Talk about timing: Nearly the same day that I first sat down to give this latest offing from Trillium Lane Labs a test drive, I had the good fortune of...
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Jun 1, 2005
When I first entered the world of digital audio, I was interested in producing and engineering but had no clue where to start. I knew I needed a computer...
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Jun 1, 2005
ALLEN & HEATH XONE:S6 ROTARY DJ MIXER Allen & Heath scored big-time in the past few years with its Xone range of DJ mixers, particularly the benchmark...
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Jun 1, 2005
Musicians have always longed to break free from the studio. Face it: Few things are less inspiring than sitting down at your music workstation day after...
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Jun 1, 2005
The turntable is an instrument? But you're just playing records! So goes the claim of the naysayer of turntablism as an art. DJ Babu of the Beat Junkies...
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Jun 1, 2005
When most people discuss sequencing software, they invar-iably seem to get hung up on the differences between the major platforms. What many people don't...
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Jun 1, 2005
The art of DJing has evolved significantly since the Technics SL-1200MKII turntable entered the scene in the early 1970s. For years, 12-inch singles and...
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Jun 1, 2005
GURU Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures (7 Grand) Gang Starr's mouthpiece reveals split-personality gene It's hard to be a rapper these days. Cash cows...
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Jun 1, 2005
ZERO-G MORPHOLOGY VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT/SOUND LIBRARY With a name synonymous with explorative analog synthesis and sample-library productions, Ian Boddy...
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Jun 1, 2005
To all the folks who slyly popped Pause (Domino, 2001) into the stereo in anticipation of a little late-night tonsil hockey, to all those who ever sipped...
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Jun 1, 2005
Danny Howells worships his records almost as much as he loves his coffee, which he takes iced, and his tequila, of which he prefers Patron. Clutching...
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Jun 1, 2005
For musicians, few things are worse than playing to an empty room. People don't want to practice long hours and spend time setting up for a show only...
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Jun 1, 2005
The trio that comprises Tpopmusik doesn't approach collaboration in any traditional sense of the word. In fact, Stephan Haeri, Fabrice Dumont and Christophe...
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Jun 1, 2005
LETTER OF THE MONTH A VALID POINT If I never read another letter about the virtues of sampled/electronic music versus instrumentally performed music,...
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Jun 1, 2005
HAVE YOUR CAKEWALK If you're dying to get a guided tour of Cakewalk's Project 5 Version 2, you're in luck. The company is launching an expansive tour...
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Jun 1, 2005
Here's the story: On a lonely windswept night about seven years ago in Lost Gates (near Oxnard, Calif.), Madlib first encountered the elusive trickster...
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Jun 1, 2005
During the past decade or so, the ubiquitous DAW/sequencer/multitrack audio recording software has truly reshaped the recording landscape like nothing...
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