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,...
Long hailed as the holy grail of audio production suites, Digidesign Pro Tools has been an industry leader for quite some time, setting the benchmark...
Roland has a long history of technological innovation behind its name and, along with it, a blazing trail of trademarks that the industry has become accustomed...
LETTER OF THE MONTH GOOD RAP I was excited to read about DJ Rap ( July 2005) and what she had to say about being a female artist in the studio. I'll admit,...
DJ CD players have been an essential element of the modern DJ rig for years now, and in many instances, they have replaced acetates as the primary medium...
Do you remember when music served as a vehicle to tell a story? Although most are familiar with the impact that '60s-era rock and folk musicians had on...
In today's music, groove and timing are everything. If you don't get those two elements right, your tracks are simply not going to pop. To get the timing...
Due to my father's experience as a gigging bass player in Montreal, I started training to play music at the age of 3. I began with guitar, and at 13,...
If feeling ecstatically unsettled is your idea of a good time, then an evening with Bloc Party should be in order. The UK four-piece's debut full-length,...
Anyone who has ever been in a band or any long-running music project can tell you that the experience is very much akin to a marriage. The similarities...
The project-studio revolution may have given countless home recordists the ability to record and mix their own projects, but, unfortunately, there isn't...
Most musicians who work in the electronic realm probably don't concern themselves all that much with P.A. equipment. With so much synth and plug-in tweaking...
Beat-mixing skills are the foundation of any great DJ. Subtract the ability to beat-match songs, and you are nothing more than a human jukebox. But as...
RAIN RECORDING LIVEBOOK MUSIC-PRODUCTION LAPTOP Built specifically with the performance-intensive needs of audio use in mind, Rain Recording offers its...
New York has certainly been good to the Remix Hotel and its third stop in the Big Apple, June 3-5, at SAE NY proved another resounding success. More than...
Literally dozens of DJ mixers are available in today's market, running the gamut from inexpensive, no-frills utilitarian mixers to the high-priced, full-featured...
Cakewalk's Project5 Version 2, in the words of the company's founder, blurs the boundary between studio and stage, and indeed it does. The program encompasses...
REFX VANGUARD 1.2 VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT Gaining a rabid legion of fans across Europe in a little more than a year since its original release, Vanguard has...
THE BLACK EYED PEAS Monkey Business (A&M) On fourth full-length, BEP goes pop and back After the colossal success of their last album, Elephunk, Will.I.Am,...
There are many wonderful locations to play out and have your music heard besides the clubs for example, park festivals, boardwalks, house parties, college...
Released this summer, the DVDs (and separate CD soundtrack) for Maestro (Sanctuary, 2005), Josell Ramos' documentary, reveal a moving view of the dance-party...
From the subterranean, womblike confines of his aptly named 80 Hz Studio in Brussels, Belgium, Benoit Franquet, aka Pole Folder, has been quietly cranking...
If you're a child of the '70s and maybe even if you're not you're sure to recognize the whistling oscillator melody that provided the main theme for the...
Apple's latest incarnation of Mac OS X, Tiger, is aptly nicknamed. Tiger is fast, efficient, lively and colorful. According to Apple's Website, Tiger...
The great thing about electronic dance music is that just about anybody can make it. All you really need is a computer and a bunch of reasonably priced...
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