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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Jun 1, 2007
Car horns honking, trains zooming by, wind howling through trees, the incessant orchestra of crickets, unrepentant roommates one of these (or a multitude...
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Jun 1, 2007
There's this big misconception that I started out as a spoken-word artist and then decided to rap, Sage Francis says with a rueful chuckle, his mood darkening...
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Jun 1, 2007
Just Blaze devoted son to his mother (a high school principal), superfan of Roland V-Drums and Ableton Live, owner of three feisty poodles and producer...
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Jun 1, 2007
With a few exceptions, post-'90s dance music has lacked any identity. Although top-flight DJs continued to thrive in clubs around the world, there was...
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Jun 1, 2007
We Answer your questions about making music with Akai MPC sampling drum machines | Learn tips on using the Akai MPC samplers | How to make music with the Akai MPC sampling drum machines | How-to, MPC, sampling, drum machine...
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Jun 1, 2007
The only thing that'll glue together pulsing drums, gnarly synths, gargantuan bass lines and your favorite spatial ear-candy tricks into a perfectly balanced,...
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Jun 1, 2007
Without a good dose of jet lag, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn would have turned out to be quite a different album. When Bianca and Sierra...
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Jun 1, 2007
After five years in the making, Dntel's Dumb Luck hesitantly took shape, evolving into several acts after a splintering, disintegrated acoustic guitar...
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Jun 1, 2007
More than just a victim of stage fright, Daniel Kuypers has long suffered from chronic angst while spinning hip-hop in his native Chicago. Every week,...
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Jun 1, 2007
The first thing you'll notice about the new Savath & Savalas album is the absence of Eva Puyuelo, whose aching vocals floated over the modernized Catalonian...
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Jun 1, 2007
When Sharam Tayebi and I met in 1991 and formed Deep Dish, we had modest aspirations of launching a local label with the hopes of realizing a few of our...
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Jun 1, 2007
Browsing the endless shelves of tapes, vintage vinyl, musical scores, session notes and photos archived in the basement of Teo Macero's Long Island home,...
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May 1, 2007
Many albums see only the inside of a single studio during their creation, but when it came time to record her third full-length album, Bebel Gilberto...
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May 1, 2007
Arguably the single most critical piece of gear in a computer-centric studio yet perhaps the most underrated, undervalued and unsexy is the hard drive....
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May 1, 2007
I was producing and writing part-time when I was in the U.S. Army. I decided after four years that it was time to go for it all the way. I moved to Atlanta...
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May 1, 2007
It's good to be the king especially if you're Tim Mosley. For well over a decade now, the 36-year-old producer has spun his quirkily deconstructed beats...
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May 1, 2007
For MC/producer Pharoahe Monch, being kept out of the studio for nearly seven years has been nothing less than stifling. After scoring the Godzilla-sampled...
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May 1, 2007
Many reggae fans can close their eyes and remember some of their favorite and freshest irie riddims of the past decade and, chances are, five-time Grammy...
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