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Aug 1, 2007
In a club environment, there's nothing that satisfies like a rich, meaty kick and a big fat bass line. That nose-tickling sensation of loud, room-filling...
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Aug 1, 2007
Being a techno geek can pay off. So can being in the right place at the right time. For Toronto producer Jason Spanu, aka DJ Shine, years of woes ended...
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Aug 1, 2007
If I weren't working in the music industry but was still making music, I'd either be discouraged by the cutthroat competition or navely unaware of the...
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Aug 1, 2007
GOING BACK TO CALI I'm the guy who called your offices a year or so ago and asked you about doing a story on J Dilla. Then I called you the very next...
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Jul 1, 2007
VJ LOOPS, ANYONE? Need some visual loops for your VJ sequences? Check out VJ Anyone's Nite Lites (DVJ Vision, 2007, www.dvjvision.com), a 30-minute sequence...
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Jul 1, 2007
The entire rock 'n' roll aesthetic has long weighed heavy on the minds of today's electronic dance-music producers. Ever since acts like Underworld, Daft...
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Jul 1, 2007
In 2007, after years of hyperdetailed, program-heavy albums that helped define and challenge contemporary music, Björk Guttir took a minimalist turn. Now...
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Jul 1, 2007
Just because I have a band called Cinematic Orchestra doesn't mean they have to be on every song with an ensemble sound, says frontman Jason Swinscoe...
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Jul 1, 2007
You won't get a lot of wild stage antics at a Chromeo show, but the duo's subtlety is no less engaging. The first thing you'll notice is Pee Thug (aka...
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Jul 1, 2007
As a lifelong piano player, I've played and performed on pretty much everything from the worst out-of-tune pianos to opulent 9-foot Steinways. With the...
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Jul 1, 2007
DJ Jazzy Jeff's ascent to veteran status is by now a well-known tale one that had traveled in hip-hop circles long before Jeff's alliance with the Fresh...
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Jul 1, 2007
WE'RE ALL GROWN UP! I remember back when I saw one of the first volumes/issues of Remix. The cover included a picture of Ritchie Hawtin. I believe I still...
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Jul 1, 2007
Back in the not-so-distant days of pre-millennial anxiety, just about everyone with a sliver of creative marrow in their bones had cultivated their own...
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Jul 1, 2007
Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL) made its mark creating the highest-quality orchestral sample libraries for world-class film composers and arrangers. Its...
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Jul 1, 2007
Over the years as a producer, engineer and production tutor, one of the most common topics I'm asked about is mastering. Artists and budding producers...
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Jul 1, 2007
You may feel you've conquered and mastered many areas of electronic music's technical complexities the difference between hard and soft knee compression,...
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Jul 1, 2007
We've all heard arpeggiators at some point or another. They've been used in everything from hip-hop to trance, techno and even glitch. Arpeggiators are...
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Jul 1, 2007
FEIST The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope) Feist goes a little deeper Even in the quieter moments of Let It Die (Interscope, 2005), Leslie Feist's voice...
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Jul 1, 2007
Let's take a brief departure from the norm here in digital-DJ land and look at a very talented turntablist and a few of the techniques that make him great....
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Jul 1, 2007
Only a small group of aficionados may realize it today, but just a few blocks from where Morton Subotnick now lives and works in New York's Greenwich...
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Jul 1, 2007
I did not have a strategic plan about where I wanted to go as an artist. There have been so many different opportunities that have crossed my path during...
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Jul 1, 2007
If you took a walk in Manhattan's streets during the past two years, you most likely passed by some signs inviting you to one of Offer Nissim's parties...
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Jul 1, 2007
AKAI MPK49 USB MIDI KEYBOARD WITH MPC PADS Combining real MPC pads with a USB keyboard controller for the first time, Akai's new MPK49 ($TBA; www.akaipro.com)...
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Jul 1, 2007
I'm always interested in the business side of making music. Beyond working on this magazine and writing/playing music, I don't have a lot of time to be...
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Jul 1, 2007
Roland has rolled out the red carpet to introduce the MV-8800, the latest addition to its MV-Series. With the look and feel of a master sequencing machine,...
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THE LOW-END THEORY
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