ONCE UPON A TIME RHYME I once contracted a man to build me a house. He was a handyman with his own set of Pro Tools and was not a fool. But a problem...
Repackaged reissues are all the rage (at least labels seem to think so). Not content with merely going platinum with its first record, the Crystal Method...
Interviewing Northern State is like chatting with your enviably cool East Coast girlfriends. Friendly and effusive, Hesta Prynn (aka Julie Potash) and...
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,...
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...
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...
Behind his bug-eyed wraparound shades, Prince Paul cuts an almost extraterrestrial profile, smiling mischievously as he warms to a question about the...
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...
When using synthesizers and software instruments during the writing process, most of us reach for the presets on our favorite plug-ins and keyboards....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Proving music fans no longer need to choose sides, the second Pitchfork Music Festival (July 13-15) brought 39 seemingly incongruous acts together for...
Compression most commonly falls into the dynamics processing not the effects category. Most often, compression clamps down on signal peaks and generally...
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...
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,...
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...
One year ago, Korg released the Radias synthesizer, which expanded on the company's Multi-Modeling Technology (MMT) synthesis across 24-note polyphony....
The road to fame is a very bumpy ride, and it's nice to see hard-working, successful bands reveal the pain they've endured for the gain. A case in point...
Poor iPod. It's kind of hard to feel sorry for the No. 1 gadget of the decade (or any inanimate object, for that matter), but the iPod is sort of like...
The new Vestax VCI-100 DJ MIDI controller takes a giant leap forward. The latest in a recent flurry of digital DJ-targeted controllers and the first of...
D16 GROUP NEPHETON DEFINITELY AN 808 STATE Hot off recovering from this Polish company's 909 emulator, Drumazon, D16 dropped another hit of acid, this...
I'm in London, of course, cackles Maya Arulpragasam. The Sri Lankan by way of the UK rapper/chatter/singer, who records under the nom de plume M.I.A.,...
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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BACK IN VEGAS
NORTHERN STATE
QUICK HITS
Z-TRIP
VHS OR BETA
WILD CARDS
SOLID STATE LOGIC DRUMSTRIP
BEYOND THE PRESET
REBIRTH OF THE COOL
QUIET PLEASE!
STICK A FORK IN IT
METAMORPHOSIS
CARIBOU
BUCK THE BIZ
CD REVIEWS
KORG R3
CINDERELLA STORY
CORTEX DMIX-300
VESTAX VCI-100 DJ MIDI CONTROLLER
ONE-SHOTS
OUT ON A WHIM
NEW ORDER
