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Jul 1, 2005
PLASTIC PEOPLE It turns out you don't have to be a rock star or a mediocre actor these days to get your own action figure. Synth don Bob Moog is now immortalized...
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Jun 28, 2005
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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
Since when did field trips get so cool? On April 8, 100 grade-schoolers from P.S. 34 and P.S. 188 in Manhattan met up with guest teacher Talib Kweli at...
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Jun 1, 2005
With every kid and his second and third cousins lining up to become a producer and take a piece of the billion-dollar hip-hop pie, it's about time someone...
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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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May 1, 2005
In March, Remix teamed up with its sister publications, Mix and Electronic Musician, to host the first annual Musician's Hotel in conjunction with South...
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May 1, 2005
MOVE OVER, CLAY AIKEN To capitalize on the success of American Idol, judges Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson have released the Ultimate Voice Coach (Alpha...
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May 1, 2005
If you have ever felt sluggish or down about yourself, watch this 15-minute slice of inspiration. B-Girl: The Movie (Two Camels Films, 2005) directed...
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May 1, 2005
As if you expected anything less, the Remix Hotel Miami brought some serious heat to Southern Florida for the fourth year in a row March 24-26. Infiltrating...
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Apr 1, 2005
Genres of music are as much about the people and the history as they are about a particular sound. For the jungle and drum 'n' bass crowd, the 1999 book...
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Apr 1, 2005
Like so many others confounded by the devastation wrought upon Southeast Asia by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami, members of the dance-music community took...
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Apr 1, 2005
BY GOD, IT'S A DVD Every country has its prized export. Belgium has Front 242. Front 242 is not just a favorite among the black-trench-coat crowd no self-respecting...
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Mar 1, 2005
FUTURE FORUM Many books on digital recording are available, but The Art of Digital Music (Backbeat) by David Battino and Kelli Richard is especially chock-full...
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Mar 1, 2005
After three successful years headquartered in New York City, the Scratch DJ Academy, the nation's first, is opening a campus on the West Coast. To celebrate,...
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Mar 1, 2005
A dozen VJs took over the iconic 1015 Folsom club in San Francisco on Jan. 12 for a night of trash-talking, four-on-four video battle royals and luscious...
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Feb 2, 2005
Akai's original MPC60 music production station was the size of a small guitar amp and equally heavy. Trying to find space for it on your desktop amid computer keyboards and controllers was always a challenge. Fortunately, advances in technology keep shrinking music production gear without sacrificing features or power, and Akai's venerable MPC units are no exception to the trend; a case in point is the new MPC1000, the smallest MPC unit to date. But despite its compact size, the MPC1000 has a full-feature sampler, a comprehensive sequencer, internal effects, plenty of quality I/O and lots of hands-on controls - and it's ready to rumble with the big dogs.
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Feb 2, 2005
Although CD players for DJs have been around since the 1990s, they have faced considerable opposition from spinners throughout the years, mainly because they didn't offer the tactile feel and control of a conventional turntable. Even up until the latter part of the decade, many vinyl aficionados resisted the advantages that CDs offered. It wasn't until CD burners and software became widely available that the digital format really started to take off, propelled further by the dawn of CD players with touch-sensitive jog wheels or platters. ...
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Feb 2, 2005
Synthesizers with keyboards attached can be a tough sell these days. In this age of supercharged CPUs and high-powered plug-ins, one might think that the market for stand-alone hardwarelike keyboards is dwindling, and as a matter of fact, that's not too far off the mark. A lot of "old boy" manufacturers-Akai, Roland and Novation, to name a few-have released virtual versions of their hardware in an effort to reclaim the throne from virtual upstarts like Native Instruments and Arturia. What's going on here? Have the days of lusting over that shiny new keyboard in the music store passed, only to be replaced by a longing for the next software update?...
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Feb 1, 2005
If you're making the move from simply plugging in your keyboard rig to your soundcard and pressing Record to actually tracking professional-sounding vocals...
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Feb 1, 2005
For Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Wesleyan University Press), Tufts University lecturer and freelance writer Joseph G. Schloss interviews...
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Feb 1, 2005
If ever there were a question to be asked of any artist working in the oft-thankless world of independent music that could yield a thousand different...
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Feb 1, 2005
BACK FROM THE DEAD A few years ago, when Electrix decided to call it quits, many thought they were doomed to scour eBay for the company's now-legendary...
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Feb 1, 2005
An audience of aspiring DJs and prospective students got a firsthand look at a live remix session at Remix Live, Volume 1, an event held in New York on...
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Jan 1, 2005
We were just proud Remix parents to show off our increasingly fabulous Remix Hotel to our hometown crowd in San Francisco Oct. 27-29. And what a weekend...
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