Since its inception, hip-hop has from the past, sampling beats or hooks from old records as inspiration for new pieces. We've all heard the warnings against...
Sleep is highly overrated. At least that's what DJ Scorpio seems to think. Who needs sleep? he asks. I'll sleep when I'm dead. But considering the pace...
When Robots Go Bad! swaps consistency for the kind of teenage thrill born from lawnmower joyrides and beer theft from the neighbor's garage. Hexstatic...
Once upon a time, the top names for guitar amplification and tone were Fender, Vox, Marshall, Peavey and a handful of boutique manufacturers. Then the...
On the surface, there's not much that DJ Premier, the Human League, Peter Gabriel, Don Henley and Prince would seem to have in common, unless you consider...
I like being a muse to artists, Salaam Remi says. My own issue is, what do I actually sound like? It's a new chapter for Remi, the 35-year-old producer...
You can't escape the synthesizer. And why would you want to? The synthesizer is a powerful, mysterious and monolithic tool of unbridled sonic creativity....
Space is always an issue when living in London. You particularly feel it when you are used to the wide-open spaces and clean air of Denmark. This is the...
You're going to look back at the early 21st century and see a defining point that divided DJs into two distinct groups. You could call it the digital...
Download presets, mp3s and screenshots that illustrate the concepts from the Beyond the Preset article from the September 2007 issue of Remix magazine....
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....
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...
Interviewing Northern State is like chatting with your enviably cool East Coast girlfriends. Friendly and effusive, Hesta Prynn (aka Julie Potash) and...
Behind his bug-eyed wraparound shades, Prince Paul cuts an almost extraterrestrial profile, smiling mischievously as he warms to a question about the...
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...
Compression most commonly falls into the dynamics processing not the effects category. Most often, compression clamps down on signal peaks and generally...
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,...
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...
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...
When using synthesizers and software instruments during the writing process, most of us reach for the presets on our favorite plug-ins and keyboards....
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...
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...
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.,...
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....
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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BEAT REDUX
DJ SCORPIO
HEXSTATIC
TURN IT TO 11
Roger Linn
AROUND THE BLOCK
THE POSITIONAL MORPH
SLOW COOKER
MUSIC MANEUVERS
HIGH CONTRAST
REBIRTH OF THE COOL
NORTHERN STATE
WILD CARDS
METAMORPHOSIS
BUCK THE BIZ
CINDERELLA STORY
VHS OR BETA
BEYOND THE PRESET
CARIBOU
Z-TRIP
OUT ON A WHIM
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
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