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Sep 1, 2007
It's hard enough to make it once in the music industry; it's exceptionally rare for luck to strike twice. But that is exactly what happened to Joy Division....
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Sep 1, 2007
Since first bursting on the scene in the early 1990s, James Lavelle has remained one of the coolest and most important names in the electronic-music genre....
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Sep 1, 2007
Read the full Q&A with New York hip-hop/rock trio Northern State and producer Chuck Brody on the band's album, Can I Keep This Pen? For the story in the...
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Sep 1, 2007
If you're working on a cheap pair of monitors, you might think you have a good handle on your sound, but chances are there's stuff going on in your music...
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Sep 1, 2007
Interviewing Northern State is like chatting with your enviably cool East Coast girlfriends. Friendly and effusive, Hesta Prynn (aka Julie Potash) and...
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Sep 1, 2007
JAM ON IT Have you ever wanted to participate in a spontaneous jam session? Now you have your chance with JamNow.com, which offers musical collaboration,...
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Sep 1, 2007
When you're DJing to people who are really drunk at one in the morning, Z-Trip says, if you come with something superintelligent, it's going to fly over...
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Sep 1, 2007
For so long, VHS or Beta singer/guitarist Craig Pfunder says, we were about trying to re-create dance music with traditional instruments. That was a big...
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Sep 1, 2007
Behind his bug-eyed wraparound shades, Prince Paul cuts an almost extraterrestrial profile, smiling mischievously as he warms to a question about the...
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Sep 1, 2007
As the name implies, this first in a promised long line of optional plug-ins for the Solid State Logic (SSL) Duende DSP platform combines dynamics and...
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Sep 1, 2007
When using synthesizers and software instruments during the writing process, most of us reach for the presets on our favorite plug-ins and keyboards....
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Sep 1, 2007
Sometimes I have to totally check out from the media that's being blasted at me. I'm bored to tears hearing about Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Nicole...
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Sep 1, 2007
Since taking seed from its Jamaican roots three decades ago, remix culture has pervaded every corner of society. Beyond the arguable notion that the very...
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Sep 1, 2007
NO JUNK IN THE TRUNK I began reading Remix in 2005 (I know, I'm a late bloomer). I grew up in NYC and never went to a conference. I moved to Miami, and...
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Sep 1, 2007
Waking up after a long gig you find a tiny mosquito has taken up residence in your ear. You can try to get it out, but no amount of prying will shake...
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Sep 1, 2007
Proving music fans no longer need to choose sides, the second Pitchfork Music Festival (July 13-15) brought 39 seemingly incongruous acts together for...
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Sep 1, 2007
Compression most commonly falls into the dynamics processing not the effects category. Most often, compression clamps down on signal peaks and generally...
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Sep 1, 2007
Judging by his latest effort, Dan Snaith presumably works in a recording studio made entirely of glass, what with the amount of sunlight that shines through...
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Sep 1, 2007
The path on which I discovered my musical identity was a little more convoluted than I would've liked. I spent a lot of years trying a little too hard,...
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Sep 1, 2007
JUNIOR SENIOR Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (Rykodisc/Crunchy Frog) Danish duo fuses rock, hip-hop and dance Junior Senior may be Denmark's biggest export, offering...
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Sep 1, 2007
One year ago, Korg released the Radias synthesizer, which expanded on the company's Multi-Modeling Technology (MMT) synthesis across 24-note polyphony....
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Aug 1, 2007
Kode9's dubstep, Shitdisco and Klaxon's new-rave, Wolf Eyes' digital noise. Sounds like some sort of elaborate musical anthology. As a matter of fact,...
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Aug 1, 2007
Instead of sitting in a bedroom with three keyboards and a sampler, we were sitting in a studio with 30 keyboards, says the Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands....
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Aug 1, 2007
Thanks to Daft Punk, Coachella 2006 was a watershed moment for electronic music in America. Their rapturously received set proved once and for all that...
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Aug 1, 2007
It's 10:30 in the morning, and Mark Ronson is waking up after a rare DJ gig the previous night at Club Love in New York. This British-born Manhattanite...
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