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Workshop #116: Life Form II by Dmitry Glushenko3 September 2010, 3:55 pm
At Audiotuts+ we regularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how [...]...
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Watch and Learn: Top 6 Audiotuts+ Video Series3 September 2010, 5:05 am
Audiotuts+ is full of great step-by-step written tutorials that teach the art of producing music. We also have a growing number of video tutorials. People learn differently – some prefer to read, others learn better by demonstration. In this article we highlight the Top 6 video series for 2010 so far. 1. Producing Great Sound [...]...
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7 Quick Tips on Drum Loops2 September 2010, 4:40 pm
Benjamin Coutts shares seven quick tips about how to get more from your drum loops. He is an Ableton Live user, but the techniques can be used with any DAW. And his tips don’t just apply to drum loops – they can be done on any kind of loop. Enjoy! Tip 1 Everyone loves to [...]...
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Imitate Guitar Techniques With MIDI Part 3 – Glissando (1 Octave)2 September 2010, 4:49 am
In this tutorial Oleg Berg concludes his series on achieving realistic guitar sliding sounds with a MIDI keyboard. Like the previous two parts, this tut is very detailed, and gets technical in places, but is a very worthwhile read if you’re aiming to get the ultimate realism out of your MIDI setup. Achieving a realistic [...]...
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Workshop #115: Blueberry Haze by Sound Scientists1 September 2010, 5:52 pm
At Audiotuts+ we regularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how [...]...
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Inspiration: Starting Tracks with a Vision You Will Want to Finish1 September 2010, 12:17 am
While it is possible to get a great track just by starting and seeing what happens, it can also be helpful to begin with an idea. With a goal in mind, it’s easier to create a cohesive track where the pieces of the puzzle come together to make a unified image. An idea, even if [...]...
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Quick Tip: The World’s Worst Mixing Advice31 August 2010, 5:00 pm
How do you weed through all the tips and tutorials and decide which one you should follow for your mix? Some advice given isn’t necessarily what you need, since a specific tutorial or trick doesn’t give you the context in which it works. If you don’t know that a lush 2.3 s hall reverb should [...]...
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The Art Of Music Production – Part 2 – Audio Premium31 August 2010, 1:00 am
In this week’s Audio Premium content, Bobby Owsinski continues to feed us insights on music production inspired by his new book “The Music Producer’s Handbook”. In Part 2 we look at the important topic of preproduction. To learn more about what you get as part of Audio Premium, read this. To take a peek inside [...]...
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Introducing the Tuts+ Marketplace – Making Premium Accessible to Everyone30 August 2010, 8:17 pm
We’ve just launched the Tuts+ Marketplace, where Premium quality tutorials – both from our Tuts+ Premium program and from unaffiliated authors – are available to purchase individually. Our Tuts+ Premium program will still stay exactly the same – you’ll get all the same things, for the same price. But now, non-members will be able to [...]...
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Workshop #114: APEX by OceanFactory30 August 2010, 5:00 pm
At Audiotuts+ we regularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how [...]...
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I'm Back From Vacation3 September 2010, 7:08 pm
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Eq'ing Guideline Tables & Info3 September 2010, 6:36 pm
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Easiest/most Friendly Vst?3 September 2010, 3:45 pm
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New Project I've Been Working On3 September 2010, 2:45 pm
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Hardstyle Track For Review3 September 2010, 1:55 pm
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How To Program A Synth?3 September 2010, 9:56 am
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Share Your Twitter Links3 September 2010, 5:56 am
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Shimmer - Number 33 September 2010, 5:53 am
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Hardstyle Screeches3 September 2010, 2:49 am
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Reason 4 Sound Generator Project File3 September 2010, 2:15 am
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Ableton Live Quick Tip: Creating Inspiration With The MIDI Devices
Today’s Ableton tutorial is all about finding or creating inspiration on those days when writer’s block is kicking your ass. Anyone that writes music on a regular basis is going to run into this problem once in a while, but for working professionals, simply choosing not to write isn’t always an option. If you have [...]...
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Ableton Live Quick Tip – Decluttering Your Arrangement With “Consolidate”
Today’s Ableton Live tutorial is all about keeping your arrange view neat and uncluttered. After moving, splitting, and rearranging clips on the timeline, it can start looking pretty messy. This gets especially bad when you’ve shifted the start point of a clip to overlap either the start or end of a natural loop or phrase. [...]...
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Dynamic Interference – Join The Sound Design Challenge, Get A Prize!
I’ve been emailing back and forth with Shaun from Dynamic Interference about his new sound design challenge. As far as I can tell, this is the first such challenge that Shaun has offered; it centers around footage of the old Texas Stadium being demolished, and the challenge is of course to add some effective sounds [...]...
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Ableton Live Quick Tip – Resampling and Sample-Based Workflow
Resampling is an incredibly simple yet powerful technique in digital music production. The idea is straighforward: Record the output of one or multiple tracks into a new, editable audio file. It’s not much different than rendering your composition, except here you’re actually going to incorporate the new file into the current song. I employ this [...]...
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Ableton Live Quick Tip: Demoing Note Velocity Values
When you’re programming drum lines, one of the easiest and most effective things you can do is add velocity automation. These subtle changes in velocity can take an otherwise bland loop and add a more organic feel. If you combine this with editing your note triggers off the grid, you’ve got a simple recipe for [...]...
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Ableton Live Quick Tip: The Basics of Parameter Automation
Ableton Live is a simple-looking tool on its face, presenting only the essential functions in an explicit way. However, if you dig a little deeper you’ll find all sorts of clever functionality that can make your music production life a whole lot easier. While these things might not seem that special to people who are [...]...
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Kris Giampa’s Sound Design For Video Games Blog Up Now
Kris Giampa, sound designer at Blizzard by day and electronic music composer/label owner by night, has started a new blog which focuses on music for video games. Like many people, I am a rabid fan of Blizzard’s past catalogue (when Diablo III comes out, I am officially checking out of life for a week). I’m [...]...
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Ableton Operator Inspiration From Mark Mosher
Mark Mosher from Modulate This! has been posting up some fun and educational one off experiments with synth patches which are aimed at “one patch performances.” This means that only one instance of a particular synth is used with a healthy bit of automation to play out a complex song or sequence over time. Operator [...]...
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Ableton Live Quick Tip: Dusting Off the Impulse Device
Remember Impulse? I know there are plenty of people who rightfully swear by it, but there are many more new Live users who purchased the program well after the introduction of the newer stuff like Drum Racks, Sampler, etc., who just haven’t had the time or inclination to dig into the older devices. Impulse has [...]...
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What We Can Learn From The “Singularity” Sound Design Team
Another great sound designer interview is up courtesy of my friend Miguel at Designing Sound. This time around, he interviews the sound design geniuses behind the game “Singularity,” a moody FPS that I’ve had the pleasure of putting some time into over the last week or so. I’m floored at how much game sound design [...]...
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X Factor Autotune – A step too far ?22 August 2010, 4:27 am
First of all, let’s get this out of the way – yes, I watch X Factor. Even though I’m always banging on about authenticity, about being natural, unconventional and genuine – I’m a regular viewer.
Why ?
Mostly because I’m a parent of two highly active little boys, and at the end of a long, [...]...
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10cc – I’m Not In Love in the recording studio13 August 2010, 4:05 pm
People loved this when I posted it on Twitter, and I thought it was well worth putting it up here, too.
If you think you put loads of effort into your recording and mixing – watch this, and think again ! Brings new meaning to the phrase “playing the studio”. No extra commentary is [...]...
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Foley Room by Amon Tobin – In the studio24 July 2010, 3:50 pm
This is an enjoyable short film about the making of Amon Tobin’s excellent Foley Room – a great album which you may already know about. If not, I strongly recommend it.
I talk a lot about classic albums, recording live instruments and ¨real, natural sound¨ on Production Advice, mainly because in this time of [...]...
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Put some real space in your mix18 June 2010, 4:18 pm
I have so much work to do at the moment I really shouldn’t be blogging, but this is just too good not to share.
The video above is number four in a sequence of song-writing tutorials posted by the awesome Artist’s House Music – if you aren’t already subscribed to their feed and Twitter [...]...
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Metallica ‘Enter Sandman’ isolated vocals9 June 2010, 5:33 am
- or: Read Bobby Owsinski’s Blog !
I can’t take any credit or thanks for finding this video – it’s lifted straight from a series of posts on Bobby Owsinski’s blog, featuring isolated instruments and vocals from a fascinating range of artists, each with some interesting comments.
If you’re a Production Advice reader, I’m sure [...]...
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And this is where the story REALLY starts…19 May 2010, 4:06 pm
I quit my job yesterday.
It’s a big deal for me – I’ve worked at SRT for over fifteen years now, so I hope you’ll forgive me if this turns out to be a slightly self-indulgent, sentimental post !
Working at SRT was my first “proper” music industry job. I didn’t even know it was [...]...
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What is Mastering ?4 May 2010, 6:23 pm
There are plenty of moments to enjoy in this video with veteran mastering engineer Howie Weinberg – not least, proof that mastering engineers really do have a sense of humour !
I want to pick up on just one thing he says almost in passing though, and amplify it. People are always asking “What is [...]...
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Recording and mixing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’26 April 2010, 4:43 pm
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends, We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside…
I know, it’s been ages.
And, the way things are looking at the moment, it’s going to stay slow for a while longer yet…
So, stay tuned to the RSS feed for future updates, including a [...]...
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TODAY IS DYNAMIC RANGE DAY !20 March 2010, 7:55 am
AND YOU KNOW WHAT ?
I’m not going to shout about it.
Even though that was the whole idea – to be honest, I’ve been SHOUTING non-stop since midday yesterday, and I’m getting a bit of a headache. (“Shouting” on the internet means typing in ALL CAPS)
When I suggested this gimmick for Dynamic Range Day, I had [...]...
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Dynamic Range Day – How to take part18 March 2010, 3:40 pm
…Wow.
I hoped it really was a good idea, but I never expected this kind of response.
I announced the idea of Dynamic Range Day almost exactly one month ago now, inspired by Derek Siver’s thoughts on starting a movement and Seth Godin’s suggestion to Declare A Holiday to publicise issues we care about.
Now, we have over [...]...
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DIY Custom Fitted In Ear Monitors (earphones)2 September 2010, 10:07 am
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Write a song for a rocketman(or woman) to wake up to1 September 2010, 11:02 pm
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Guitar Hero to…Guitarist29 August 2010, 6:54 pm
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Quick mixing tip : Using software drum instruments26 August 2010, 9:01 pm
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The Cheap Earbud Clones25 August 2010, 12:35 am
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Freezing audio tracks to save processing power21 August 2010, 12:00 am
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Native Instruments Traktor S417 August 2010, 12:12 am
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Using auxiliary sends12 August 2010, 7:06 pm
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Reader Mail : Mixing for unfamiliar sound systems9 August 2010, 11:45 pm
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How Rick Astley’s “Never Going to Give You Up” was made8 August 2010, 3:02 am
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Interview: Jon Hopkins Talks Live, Studio Process, Habit, Instinct1 September 2010, 9:42 pm
Jon Hopkins performs live at the ICA. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Matt Biddulph. Classically trained as a pianist, musician and producer Jon Hopkins has one of the richest resumes in electronic music. He’s a frequent collaborator with Brian Eno, wand has worked with artists like Coldplay (who featured his music on their last album), Tunng, David Holmes, [...]...
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Critter and Gitari’s $150, Battery-Powered Pocket Piano1 September 2010, 8:00 pm
Pocket Piano from Critter and Guitari on Vimeo. Apologies to the immense powers of lumbering studio gear, but a new lifestyle may be forming around unique, mobile, small, simple synths. The latest entry comes from none other than Critter and Gitari, some of our favorite electronics designers, based in Philadelphia. This time, they’re touting a [...]...
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BOSS Pedal Sketch: BOSS Stompboxes as Free iPhone Download1 September 2010, 9:21 am
The BOSS Pedal Sketch application, a free download today for iPhone and iPod touch, probably isn’t what you think it is – but it is a novel concept in mobile apps, and a sign of some of the new ideas to be explored. If your first thought was that this is a handheld set of [...]...
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Roland Round-up: A Mobile Juno Workstation, Realistic Piano Models, More1 September 2010, 9:05 am
Roland dropped a slew of news announcements today, from new keyboards to software. There’s a new JUNO-Gi, which takes Roland’s economical synth workstation and adds multitrack recording and BOSS effects. The virtual piano lineup has all been remade in the image of the V-Piano, with more realistic sampling tech. And there’s a set of offerings [...]...
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In Photos: Discovering Sound Making, Electronics at Culturefix NYC31 August 2010, 10:47 pm
Photos above: Jennifer Meagher, with additional photography by myself. Handmade Music found a new home on New York’s Lower East Side, at Culturefix, an electronics boutique cum gallery, bar, and tapas. The philosophy of this event has long been to simply open the doors, letting a community of people come together, make some noise, and [...]...
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Soundhack Goodness, Now as Pd and Max External Objects31 August 2010, 10:46 pm
Soundhack, the free audio tool for the Mac developed by audio wizard Tom Erbe, was long a beloved tool for doing strange and wonderful things for sound. It was followed by Spectral Shapers, Mac and Windows plug-ins that built on some of those ideas to do more “timbral morphing” with recorded audio. That includes “timbral [...]...
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Sounds by Richard Devine, Granulation on iOS, and Footsteps of a Wasp31 August 2010, 10:01 am
Exploring granular sound on the iPad in the application Curtis. Image courtesy the developers. Named for Curtis Roads, Curtis is an iPad and iPhone/iPod touch application that implements granular sound processing – a technique, imagined early on by the composer Xenakis, which divides sound into tiny granules, allowing more liquid modification of the audio. Roads [...]...
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Korg M1 Keyboard Workstation, Reborn on Nintendo DS30 August 2010, 10:08 pm
The original M1, definitely larger than a DS. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Kevin Phillips. Having made their own DS-10 instrument, Korg and DS developer AQ Interactive yesterday presented something new for the handheld Nintendo. This time, they’re revisiting one of the all-time greatest hits of digital synthesis, the Korg M1 workstation. Markus Schroeder tips us off that [...]...
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Unity Game Engine 3 Adds Real-time Audio, Mod Tracker Features30 August 2010, 9:35 am
Nearing the release of Unity 3, the popular multi-platform game engine, the dev team offers thoughts on what excites them most in the upgrade. Amongst those features are some tasty introductions in sound. Real-time audio features could make Unity an appealing environment for people working on experimental 3D interfaces for sound or adding more interactive [...]...
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Remembering Keith Barr, Founder of Alesis, Lost Last Week30 August 2010, 9:06 am
Photos courtesy Spin Semiconductor. I was stunned last week to learn of the death of Keith Barr, the founder of Alesis and a beloved, legendary engineer of music technology. He was 61. An analog engineer gone digital, he led the charge to make digital reverb and studio recording affordable, and even after his Alesis years [...]...
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Podcast 010 – With guests Tony Anthem and Axl Ender26 August 2010, 12:03 pm
Download a packed hour with loads of dubstep, drum’n'bass, house and trance. Download with iTunes Listen with Mixcloud or subscribe. Endal is your host, and guests of the episode is Tony Anthem & Axl Ender. Episode ten is quite special. Here’s why: It’s record breaking. We have never before fitted in 28 tracks into one [...]...
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Digital DJing – modern day jungle22 August 2010, 10:55 am
It’s a jungle out there. A jungle of different digital DJing platforms, controllers, sound cards and all. Being a “traditional DJ” is much easier. If you play vinyl (like we all did back in the good old days) you had couple of choices, and in 99% of the cases it was a Technics turntable. Couple [...]...
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Sweden taking over the world18 August 2010, 12:10 pm
What do Steve Angello, Spotify, Abba, Pirate Bay, Max Martin and Marcus Schossow have in common? They are all Swedish musical phenomenons. Some famous for their brilliant music making and some for their sharing of music, both legal and illegal. According to the latest IFPI figures Sweden now has the world’s fastest growing music market. [...]...
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Chillout classics Spotify playlist13 July 2010, 6:41 am
What music gives you that special summer feeling? It is of course an individual thing, but for me good downtempo sounds like summer. I mean, I listen to slow beats all year long, but there still are some tracks that suits better to sun, smiling people and lazy days. I’ve made a Spotify playlist [...]...
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The happiest DJ performance ever12 July 2010, 3:07 am
Here’s a video that will make you smile. But it’s also a slap in the face to all those serious faces behind the decks. Loosen up and skip the cool look. This guy sure makes his crowd happy. A big thank you to Bjørn for the tip....
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Podcast 009 – Starring Thomas Sagstad24 June 2010, 7:08 am
Here’s your summer soundtrack. Episode nine has pounding techno, funky house, chill beats and maestro Thomas Sagstad in the mix. Download with iTunes Listen with Mixcloud or subscribe. The opener this time is a massive D’n'B track from Crooked & Camo: History of the future. From there the road is covered with warm beats across [...]...
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Volcano dance music18 May 2010, 10:25 am
Check out Oliver Englafjord – a new and undescribed act from Iceland. There’s not much info to find on this guy, other than the dark, slow and tight sound on a couple of YouTube clips. It’s the soundtrack of Eyjafjallajökull. And since the economy is flat out broken, this might be Icelands way of giving [...]...
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Great electronica Spotify listens15 May 2010, 6:57 am
We’ve made a Spotify playlist for you. It contains a bunch of more or less new electronica albums that we think you should check out. Subscribe to Innotune Album Picks May 2010 at Spotify The new version of Spotify with Facebook integration works quite nice. It’s easier to share your playlists and discover new music [...]...
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March and April blog roundup1 May 2010, 12:09 pm
Time to do a small sum up. If you’re up for retro EDM, check out Håkon’s post about mind.in.a.box and their album R.E.T.R.O. Ville Lope wrote about performing electronic music live. Pick up a few hints from Ville and Steve Helstrip. We’ve also posted news about a new label from Joonas Hahmo. Marcus Schossow created [...]...
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Podcast 008 – With guest Darude25 April 2010, 11:28 am
Episode eight has got energetic trance, crazy breaks and funky house. Our special guest mixer is Darude. Download with iTunes Listen with Mixcloud or subscribe. Our very own Ville Lope has remixed trance legend Tiesto, so be sure to check out “The Tube” in this episode. We’ve also got tunes from the fresh albums of [...]...
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Martyn ‘Great Lengths’3 September 2010, 10:48 am
Martyn has always led the path when it comes to avant-garde mix sets and productions. He’s quite the conceptual artist on both fronts, but he steers into a whole new realm with this latest musical video, or shall we say short film. Watch this video on Beatportal
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Cratedigger Essentials: Jimmy Edgar3 September 2010, 8:32 am
Given dance music’s focus on the new-new-new, a lot of older music can fall by the wayside. But there’s nothing like the feel of chancing across a forgotten track that never sounded as good as it does right now. Cratedigger Essentials is a feature highlighting those forgotten gems that our guest selectors keep on hand for when something a little different is called for.
This week, we've got Jimmy Edgar in the hot seat. Signed to Warp for several years, the Detroit native recently re...
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Focus on France: Don Rimini3 September 2010, 6:00 am
We continue our ongoing feature on French electronic music with an interview with Don Rimini. Despite his frequent releases on the Swiss label Mental Groove—and despite his artist alias, a reference to the seaside resort on the Adriatic Rivera, known for decades for its over-the-top nightclub culture—the Parisian producer is very much a product of the Rex Club, Roulé, and other icons of the French scene.
To coincide with our feature we also have a compilation of French musical ...
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Album of the Week: Shed, ‘The Traveller’3 September 2010, 4:09 am
Shed's René Pawlowitz reminds me a little of James Murphy's persona in LCD Soundsystem's 'You Wanted a Hit', with its memorable refrain, "You wanted a hit/ But maybe we don't do hits."
True, Shed's dusky, sedimentary techno couldn't be further away from LCD's forceful dance-rock, stylistically speaking. But Pawlowitz shows the same kind of ambivalence about fulfilling populist expectations. In an interview with De:Bug magazine this month, he makes it clear that he's no great fan of nightcl...
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Video: Redlight feat. Ms.Dynamite “What you talking about?”3 September 2010, 1:05 am
After the collaboration with DJ Zinc on the crack-house anthem ‘Wile Out’, Ms. Dynamite returns with Redlight on the heavily garage influenced, ‘What you talking about?’. Click on to read more.
Watch this video on Beatportal
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Introducing: Flux Pavillion2 September 2010, 7:54 am
In the narrow span of five years, dubstep has leapt from a sound that attracted a small circle of head-nodding audiophiles into anthems that command hands-in-the-air for a sea of club goers. One artist proving to be a leader in this metamorphosis is Josh Steele, who produces under the title Flux Pavillion, known for brutal, contorted basslines, and quickly becoming the go-to guy for remixes.
Just as Flux Pavillion’s remix of the Freestylers' 'Cracks' was taking the number one position in ...
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Introducing: Renaissance Man2 September 2010, 7:30 am
Renaissance Man are, in fact two former architects from Finland. Having dominated their native countries' house scene the Finnish duo turned their attentions to Greater Europe, winning hearts and warming dancefloors with their outlandish style of housemusic. Having garnered so much attention Jesse Rose was keen to snap them up to this Made to Play imprint earlier this year.
With prestigious shows being lined up in venues such as Fabric and Panorama Bar, Beatportal thought it was the right time ...
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Mount Kimbie tour North America1 September 2010, 7:25 am
Whatever you call Mount Kimbie's music—post-dubstep, folky future garage, warm-fuzzy-wave—they're bringing it to North America this month on a tour hitting nine major cities, coast-to-coast.
In keeping with their unorthodox aesthetic, the duo's live show isn't your average exercise in tapping at the space bar. They incorporate guitars, live percussion, on-the-fly sampling, and even vocals, lending a welcome dose of spontaneity to their immersive, hazily psychedelic tunes.
Check ou...
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Focus on France: Cassius1 September 2010, 6:00 am
Beatportal presents a new series in which we take an in-depth look at a particular country or city, interviewing veteran musicians, rising stars, and record labels to find out what makes their scene special. To coincide we are releasing a compilation of French musical delicacies to download for free. Our first track is courtesy of our featured artists Cassius.
The duo's members, Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass, established themselves in the early '90s as La Funk Mob, one of the few French acts on t...
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Riva Starr feat. Noze “I Was Drunk”31 August 2010, 2:11 pm
In the last year Riva Starr has shattered through the barriers of electronic music and has become one of the most in demand talents in the business. Watch this video on Beatportal
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Apple Ping2 September 2010, 5:32 am
As a musician the word to describe how I feel about the new Apple Ping social network is: exhausted. Musicians have become the tech industries guinea pigs. Why not? We try anything and work cheap right? After creating and curating profiles on MySpace, Last.fm, Imeem, Facebook and then Facebook Fan Pages and on and on [...]...
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My current iPad music creation apps1 September 2010, 3:03 am
Here are screenshots of the two pages of music creation Apps I currently have installed on my iPad. The apps are: Aeolian Harp, audio palette, bleep!BOX, Beat Counter, Bebot, DopplerPad, Dropophone, Everyday Looper, FunkBox, iElectribe, ImproVox, iSample, iStylophone, iVoxel, Loopseque, Jasuto, Magic Piano, Melodica, MorphWiz, nanoloop, NanoStudio, NESynth, NNN MONO, Radarhead, sampletoy, SongMaker, SoundPrism, Soundrop, [...]...
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The Tell Tale Beat31 August 2010, 1:10 pm
In the late 80s when I lived with my mother I learned the craft of making music in the basement. Mostly I just blasted endless loops of kick drums. I don’t know how she put up with it. To this day she says she still hears me down there. “xkcd is a webcomic created by [...]...
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New Martin Gore and Vince Clarke31 August 2010, 5:24 am
As a die hard all things classic DM fan the tweet above means something. Let’s hope the music is good. Guys please put your minds in a time machine for this one. “If you just can’t get enough of early Depeche Mode, you’ll be happy to know that Vince Clarke & Martin Gore are working [...]...
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XILS Lab XILS 330 August 2010, 3:15 am
The XILS Lab XILS 3 is a recreation of the EMS VCS synthesizer. It comes in two flavors. There is a LE version for $37 and a version with more features for $181. There is a demo. All versions including the demo require an iLok. There is an extended review of the XILS 3 in [...]...
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Franz Keller’s Radarhead28 August 2010, 8:31 am
Multimedia designer Franz Keller has created an iPad app called Radarhead. It’s a rotary sequencer in which you can control the speed, direction and center point. The sounds are represented by colorful 8-bit alien images. It’s fun and well worth the .99 price: click here The video of the band using it below inspires me. [...]...
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Fantasy Friday27 August 2010, 3:49 am
If your life really isn’t all that great just dance or play some invisible drums. If the guys in the videos below can be happy so can you. Anyone doing anything fun this weekend? photo credit: Quinn Dombrowski via Laughing Squid Related Posts:Are you shopping on Black Friday?Saying goodbye to my favorite nightclub.Working for it [...]...
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ARP 260026 August 2010, 12:02 pm
I love the ARP 2600 synthesizer. The mighty Macbeth M5 was a new incarnation (there were differences I know). Software-wise the closest you can get is the TimewARP 2600 from Way Out Ware. To play and hear one in person is to want one. “The ARP 2600 is a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer, designed [...]...
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Vince Clarke Analogue Monologues26 August 2010, 3:33 am
The best marriage between a specific synthesizer and artist has to be Vince Clarke and his Sequential Circuits Pro One. You hear layers of the Pro-One on the wonderful sounding Yaz albums. Vince has started what looks to what will be a series of videos called The Analogue Monologues talking about his toys. He starts [...]...
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Reason and Record Update Released25 August 2010, 4:38 am
The big upgrade to Propellerheads Reason and Record has just been released. The new Reason has the Kong Drum Designer, Dr. Octo Rex, Live Sampling, Blocks and more. The big new deal in Record is the Neptune pitch corrector and voice synthesizer. I’ve mentioned before I always have Reason ReWired into Ableton Live. There are [...]...
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Is Editing Cheating?3 September 2010, 2:59 pm
I released a tutorial video series last month called Understanding Editing. On the order page, I basically talk about how cool I think editing is, and what a big difference it makes on my projects.
I even included a before-and-after audio sample right there on the page.
A few days after launching UE, I got an email [...]...
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Listen to the Artist, Not Just the Music1 September 2010, 8:00 am
Telling an audio engineer to listen is like telling a doctor to heal. Of course we’re going to listen! How else do we get a great-sounding recording?
You’re good at listening to the music, but how well do you listen to the artist?
I’m producing an EP for a really talented singer-songwriter named Whitney Winkler. She asked [...]...
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How to Record Violin (or ANY new instrument)30 August 2010, 2:14 pm
At various points throughout your recording career, you’ll have chances to record certain instruments for the first time. Maybe you’ve never recorded an actual piano, or a drum kit. Or maybe you’ll need to record an accordion, or a hammer dulcimer, or bagpipes.
Having never done it before, where do you start? I had the [...]...
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Pre-Order “Out of Indiana”24 August 2010, 2:02 pm
After much scrambling and decision-making, I’ve hit my deadline of pre-releasing my album today. After all, you’re apparently supposed to release new music on Tuesdays and Tuesdays ONLY.
What does “pre-release” mean? Well, since this is obviously an independent release (meaning I’m paying for everything myself and there are no record labels involved), it’s [...]...
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Win a Copy of “Out of Indiana”20 August 2010, 3:10 pm
Next week you’ll be able to pre-order a copy of my album Out of Indiana. I’ve been so immersed in this record for the last several months, and I’m excited to share it with you.
Want to win a free copy? Head over to joegildermusic.com this weekend and download the 3 songs I’m giving away for [...]...
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7 Tips for Finishing Your Album [Part 2]18 August 2010, 4:29 pm
In the last article, I shared with you the first three tips for finishing your album. Today, let’s look at the last four.
4. Get it right at the source.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again many more times I’m sure, but no matter how good your editing and mixing skills are, your mixes [...]...
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7 Tips for Finishing Your Album16 August 2010, 9:00 am
As I mentioned last week, my album is finished, and I’m getting ready to release it in the next couple of weeks. If you’d like a free sample, head over to JoeGilderMusic.com. I’m giving away 3 songs from the album. These were all recorded and mixed in my home studio.
I’m planning some pretty cool things [...]...
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Using Distortion on Vocals [Video]13 August 2010, 11:00 am
Are you ever mixing a song, and the vocal just won’t cut through? You try to EQ out some lows or boost some highs. Nothing. You try to compress the daylights out of it. Still not cutting through enough. Try using distortion.
I’m not talking about distorted vocals. I’m talking about using distortion to help the [...]...
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FREE Music from Yours Truly12 August 2010, 10:00 am
I emailed my newsletter subscribers yesterday about some exciting news regarding my upcoming album. As I mentioned the other day, the album is basically finished. I’m just ironing out artwork/CD details.
In the meantime, I want to give away a few tracks from the CD for free.
I’m using Noisetrade.com to distribute these free tracks. Noisetrade is [...]...
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Update on My Album9 August 2010, 2:55 pm
Know what that picture is? That’s the master copy of my finished album.
If you’ve been a part of Home Studio Corner for any length of time, you’ve heard me talk about my album for quite some time. And as I mentioned in The Magic of Finishing, it feels amazing to be done with [...]...
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Stuff vs Stuff – Can vs Sprouts2 September 2010, 11:22 pm
Directed by Sumo Science for Aardman Animations...
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In Between The Notes2 September 2010, 2:40 am
In Between The Notes: A Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath (1986)...
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Detritus 531 September 2010, 11:43 pm
> Busy week! Started a new film with everything that includes… Lots to do!! > Made me laugh! Someone on twitter said: “Actors dressed as characters from Planet Of The Apes should be the only people to greet the Chilean miners when they’re freed.” > Six keys to being excellent at anything [...]...
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Sound Advice 11628 August 2010, 2:44 pm
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Motivation, Attention and Boring Sounds25 August 2010, 4:42 pm
This post is dedicated to Benoit, who asked me to comment on a post he made expressing a feeling of discontent and frustration – amongst other things he had returned from holiday with no interesting new sounds… I began writing a reply and it started to turn into a novel, so I am here writing [...]...
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Field Recording 200023 August 2010, 4:51 pm
(Oops I actually mean 2001!) While discussing recording crowds (and the issue of avoiding ambient music) over at the new forum, I was reminded of a great crowd track I recorded while on holiday in Beijing, 2001. My sister was living over there for three years so I planned a big trip, first to LA [...]...
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Detritus 5222 August 2010, 4:25 pm
> WOW!!!! The new iPad 2 just announced looks great! > Daily Show Extremist Makeover: Homeland Edition – very funny! > The sound of data…. being sorted…. thanks for tip Anton! > Echoes of the past: the sites and sounds of prehistory > Silence is golden….. > Corn starch & [...]...
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HISSandaROAR Forum22 August 2010, 3:24 pm
Attached to the HISSandaROAR site is a new forum – check it out HERE I’ve set it up for two reasons; 1. I figure it is a better long term means of discussing crowd source sound library projects such as THE DOORS and THE DOGS… and the others I have planned. I will still use [...]...
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ProTools 9 Release Date18 August 2010, 3:07 pm
So no doubt if you use ProTools you will have read of their recent developments i.e. new interfaces and a mixing plugin to make it all more analogue (?) sounding… To support all these new interfaces AVID have released ProTools 8.1 which hopefully also addresses some of the bugs in PT8, especially Quicktime playback issues [...]...
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Crowd Source Libraries Update17 August 2010, 3:38 pm
First re THE DOORS I’m sending out an email today with August 31st as the final upload deadline for the library. I want to get this library finished and out to all the contributors. So on September 1st I’ll share a private google docs spreadsheet with all the contributors and you can each tag it [...]...
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Frome and away21 June 2010, 4:01 am
Ian, Saskia and I went to Frome in Somerset for the Being Human Weekend.
Lovely town, and we met some fantastic people and listened to some great electronic and experimental music. And for the record, you actually say “Froom”, so the pun in the title of this post doesn’t really work. But you can be [...]...
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Unconvention Factory: all kinds of awesome10 May 2010, 4:53 pm
Ian, Saskia and Andrea at the Unconvention venue as the bands set up
The New Music Strategies team was delighted to be invited to Unconvention Factory in Macclesfield this past weekend.
For a start, it looked like it was going to mean an opportunity for us all to be in the same city in the world [...]...
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Un-Convention Factory19 March 2010, 6:02 am
Calling the UKs best creative talent.
Get involved in a music first…
As part of a larger event called Unknown Pleasures, celebrating the life of Ian Curtis on the 30th anniversary of his death, Un-Convention has been commissioned to develop a very special version of the event. Un-Convention have teamed up with the creators of iconic indie-rock [...]...
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Mind the furniture14 February 2010, 1:03 pm
Photo by theothegrey
We’re doing a bit of remodelling around here at New Music Strategies.
In fact, remodelling is the wrong word. This is the online equivalent of moving into new premises, getting new desks and phones, ordering new stationery, and setting up for business.
It’s all a bit new: we’ve just expanded from a sole trader [...]...
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Brian Eno on records and blubber18 January 2010, 3:02 pm
This coincides nicely with a lecture I gave this evening at Westminster University to a group of MA Music Business Management students.
In an interview with Paul Morley, Brian Eno says:
“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no [...]...
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Introducing… New Music Strategies15 January 2010, 9:17 am
The team at New Music Strategies
For the past few years, New Music Strategies has been a blog about music on the internet. And the need for me to do that has changed as time has gone on.
As I’ve hinted over the past couple of months, it’s time for a transformation – and New Music Strategies [...]...
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Just checking in to say hi9 November 2009, 8:20 am
Hi. How’s it going?
I’ve been getting some emails recently from worried New Music Strategies readers. Some of them asking after my health (there’s nothing wrong with my health – but people assume the worst), and others prompting for a return to the blog so they can read more content.
It’s been a good couple of [...]...
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This Is Islet: The making of a fan site5 September 2009, 9:07 am
Islet live. Photo by @edhombre
I’m at Un-Convention in Swansea this weekend. Lots of talk with lots of interesting people about the independent and grassroots DIY music sector. It’s held in a cafe/bar called Monkey in the central city, and in the evening, bands play.
I’m here with a bunch of people I know from these sorts [...]...
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The Broken Record series2 September 2009, 7:39 am
Goldsmith University MA students Nicolle Smith and Stefan Peters have just finished work on a short web-documentary series called Broken Record.
They interviewed me for the series, and there’s a lot of stuff in here that is pertains to my Music As Culture interests and the Deleting Music book as much as it does to the [...]...
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You’re looking at it wrong17 August 2009, 2:23 am
This great data visualisation from the NY Times comes to us via a really fascinating website called Information is Beautiful. It represents the sales in billions of today’s dollars of the various music formats over time.
They claim it represents the dwindling death knell of the music industry. That’s not quite right (even leaving aside the [...]...
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Slow Food, Track By Track, Pt 4 – Imaginary Robot Ninja Assistant2 September 2010, 9:50 am
You can download Imaginary Robot Ninja Assistant here, and the whole Slow Food album here.
Who doesn’t have an imaginary robot ninja assistant? Fixing stuff, being awesome, ass-kicking when needed, and, uhm, assisting…
When I finally get my real Robot Ninja Assistant, it will sing like this track.
And I’d understand every word it sang.
This is how all [...]...
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Great New Album From She Makes War1 September 2010, 12:31 pm
OK, I’m going to interrupt my ‘track by track’ breakdown of my own new album to tell you about a GREAT record by my lovely friend Laura Kidd, AKA She Makes War.
Here it is, in its entirety, on bandcamp (naturally) – hit play while you’re reading this (and then hit the ‘buy’ button when you’ve [...]...
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Slow Food, Track By Track, Pt 3 – Growing Up And Moving On31 August 2010, 4:17 am
[sorry for the break in posts - was away at Greenbelt over the weekend]
You can download Growing Up And Moving On here, or the whole Slow Food album here.
This was the first thing we recorded. It is, I think the most edited too… Perhaps.
Nerves? Expectations?
Trip and I met 11 years ago. We wouldn’t have played [...]...
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Slow Food, Track By Track, Pt 2 – Grown-Ups At Play27 August 2010, 3:18 am
You can download Grown-Ups At Play from here, and the whole Slow Food album from here.
The simplest tune on the record in terms of the techological wizardry. There’s one little loop towards the end, but most of it is just Trip and I playing, with him hitting some deep, deep bass pedals (srsly, you’re not [...]...
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Slow Food, Track By Track, Pt 1 – The Upward Spiral26 August 2010, 4:13 am
Click here to download The Upward Spiral. And here to download the whole ‘Slow Food’ album.
It was really tricky to choose the opener for the album, and this wasn’t the obvious first choice, as it has a kind of false start… it feels likes it’s going to be all big and ambient, then Trip hints [...]...
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And Nothing But The Bass Is 10 Years Old Today.25 August 2010, 12:00 am
10 years ago today, I received a shipment of CDs from ICC duplication, to the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham – it was my first solo album, And Nothing But The Bass, and the start of my solo recording career.
Here it is – please download it for free:
10 years on, and I’m less than 24 [...]...
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“Slow Food” With Trip Wamsley AKA Making Music With Awesome Musicians.24 August 2010, 3:07 am
Here it is!
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll be all-too-familiar with ‘it’ – the first of two duo albums with Trip Wamsley. I blogged about them here, and at the time thought they’d both be EPs. Well, I’m not sure about Trip’s release, but this one has grown into a full album – all [...]...
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It’s The Little Things That Count – You Are The Press.9 August 2010, 12:00 am
Over the years, I’ve sent literally hundreds of CDs to magazines and radio, in the hope of reviews and airplay. And I’ve had a quite large amount of both:
Some high profile radio play (Late Junction on Radio 3 and The Freak Zone and BBC Introducing on 6Music),
Some great magazine reviews (see the press quotes section [...]...
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What’s A Download Worth Pt II: Recovery and Discovery6 August 2010, 12:00 am
So, does the ‘massive downloader’ scenario I outlined in the previous post account for all download traffic? Of course not.
My own torrenting experience has been almost exclusively to get digital copies of music I own physical hard copies of. For me, torrenting wasn’t a replacement for buying music, rather it was a replacement for buying [...]...
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Two EPs On The Way, Duets With Trip Wamsley4 August 2010, 12:00 am
Trip and I have been friends for over a decade. We met at the NAMM Show in LA in ‘99, and I was immediately a fan of his music. I doubt he heard anything I was on at the time – I was still 11 months away from my first ever solo gig, and he’d [...]...
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Weekend Watching: The History Of Led Zeppelin3 September 2010, 2:01 pm
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9/3/10 Music Intelligence (Or Lack Thereof) Dump - Fructose Friday 5PM Edition3 September 2010, 1:47 pm
What we are reading on the Internet that may......
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Watch Architects Record With Producer Steve Evetts3 September 2010, 10:16 am
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Control Synthesizers... WITH YOUR MIND!3 September 2010, 10:15 am
Apples In Stereo bro Robert Schneider has created a......
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9/3/10 Music Intelligence (Or Lack Thereof) Dump - Fructose Friday 12PM Edition3 September 2010, 8:50 am
What we are reading on the Internet that may......
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15 Merch Table Tips3 September 2010, 8:10 am
Mic Control has up a great article that is......
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Tape Simulation Trick In Logic 93 September 2010, 7:53 am
Logic certainly doesn't make it easy to find, but......
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Taco Bell's Feed The Beat Program Will Give Your Touring Band Free Food3 September 2010, 7:32 am
On tour you can be desperate to poison your......
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Some Internet Facts Everyone Should Know3 September 2010, 7:19 am
Flowtown consistently blogs some of the best infographics around......
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3 Common Contract Mistakes w/ International Gigs3 September 2010, 6:59 am
To everyone's surprise 99.9% of international contract mistakes have nothing......
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TC Electronic M30 reverb plug-in - FREE for 72 hours17 November 2009, 3:46 pm
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Fancy a free, high-quality reverb plug-in? Then act fast because effects giants TC Electronic are giving away a reverb plug-in for PC and Mac – but only for 72 hours. In fact, the clock...
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free music and sound from franksspace7 November 2009, 7:46 am
Franksspace just added a contribution to youproduce.net in the userblogs. Thank Frank!
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Puremagnetik Waveframe6 November 2009, 12:35 pm
Waveframe is an advanced wavetable synth based on Ensoniq's unique Fizmo instrument. Utilizing the same "Transwave" concept, Waveframe contains a collection of pre-programmed patches, over 30...
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EastWest QuantumLeap Symphonic Choir Video Tutorials (6 videos)5 November 2009, 6:50 am
Did you ever wanted to know how to use these choirs really? Here you get a in-depth look inside into the working process by using digital choirs. At the end of the article you see the product of that...
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Hans Zimmer Music Studio in Angels & Demons Blu-Ray and 2-Disc DVD Release5 November 2009, 6:46 am
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In cooperation with the highly renowned film score composer Hans Zimmer and film and television production company Sony Pictures Entertainment, Steinberg is proud to announce that the...
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Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 (Mac/Win) Review5 November 2009, 6:43 am
Review
A new dawn for virtual sampler-based production has arrived with the release of Native Instruments' Kontakt 3.5. Its completely rewritten sampler engine gives a huge performance boost and...
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Full Logic Pro 9 Review5 November 2009, 6:36 am
Review
zettt wrote another great review about Logic 9 and its new features and changes.
In Logic 9 many things have changed. Especially the newly introduced “Flex Time” Modes let us assume Logic...
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Free VST plugins download – Blue cat5 November 2009, 6:28 am
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Renoise Tutorial5 November 2009, 6:13 am
Renoise tutorial for beginners. Basic workflow, create a pattern, and make a beat. Thanks to Ron from Indamixx.com for the samples. Count the amount of times I say "alright" and win...
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How to make a Funky Beat in Fl Studio22 October 2009, 4:11 am
The user F.E. is a new on youproduce.net who loves making video tutorials. Therefore we publish his added tutorials on the news page.
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