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May 1, 2008
dope music is a force like none other. Just ask 13-month-old Chloe Yoshe. Her mother is missing in action, and she can think of nothing better than to...
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May 1, 2008
For whatever reason, Propellerhead's flagship Reason 4 software is stubbornly different. Maybe the Swedish office has Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way...
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May 1, 2008
Writer's block/creative block is about as common as a cold, and it's no surprise: a 40-hour work week (46 is the average in the United States), straining...
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May 1, 2008
Around the year 2000, Dutch hip-hop producer Nicolay discovered that making cross-continental collaborations was as easy as exchanging music online. After...
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Apr 1, 2008
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, (the adjective form of sibilance) is defined as having, containing or producing the sound of or a sound resembling...
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Apr 1, 2008
Find something you love and do it for the rest of your life. That's one classic maxim that leads to another: easier said than done. But for the many musicians...
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Apr 1, 2008
For better or worse, the '80s revival is still alive and kicking. From Knight Rider remakes to the electro resurgence, the influential decade isn't going...
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Apr 1, 2008
With a throwback sound and retro style more likened to the era of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing than that of today's typical rap group, it's safe to...
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Apr 1, 2008
As part of the innovative '90s Warp Records crew that included such mad boffins as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, LFO, the Black Dog and Nightmares on Wax,...
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Apr 1, 2008
Some artists sit down at a piano or pick up a guitar to start writing, but Rafter finds more inspiration setting up a microphone on his desk and dropping...
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Apr 1, 2008
The Heavy Circle's first album was something of a surprise. Producer/guitarist/composer Harper Simon, son of Paul Simon (yes, that Paul Simon), and singer/songwriter...
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Apr 1, 2008
Standing among the cramped aisles of Uncle Sam's Music, a Miami Beach institution, DJ Craze looks momentarily stymied by the bins of 12-inches. he says,...
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Apr 1, 2008
The phrase If it ain't broke, don't fix it is usually sound advice for any musician who has achieved a modicum of success in today's tumultuous music...
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Apr 1, 2008
The job of a superproducer is never done. The world will always need hits, insists Jean-Claude Olivier, aka Poke, one-half of Track Masters production...
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Apr 1, 2008
Admittedly, I'm an absolute geek for Ableton Live. Ever since version 3, I eagerly await each new release with an excitement that verges on obsession....
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Apr 1, 2008
We humans naturally perform some interesting spatial decoding with each sound we hear. By tracking the microseconds of delay and minor timbral differences...
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Apr 1, 2008
The longer you work, the more experience you gain. If you keep delivering good-quality music, and if you're open-minded to all sorts of things, then your...
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Mar 1, 2008
While the exorbitant price tags that come part and parcel with the majority of full-featured DAWs (digital audio workstations), and audio editors have...
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Mar 1, 2008
Calling from New York while lounging in bed with her two dogs, Lick Lick Science and Pantera Marvelous, Sia Furler speaks like the same soulful, slightly...
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Mar 1, 2008
We all know what it sounds like to run a sound through the cranked-up amplifiers or overdrive pedals guitarists use; basically, it's the same thing that...
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Mar 1, 2008
To modern society, 21-year-old Rollie Pemberton may seem a little behind the times. The Edmonton, Alberta native doesn't have a driver's license, and...
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Mar 1, 2008
When London's influential XFM radio DJ John Kennedy received an innocuous-looking disc in the mail in December 2006, he liked it so much, he immediately...
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Mar 1, 2008
At 11, a young Frenchman started taking keyboard lessons. Self-taught bass, drums, guitar and a lifelong fascination with The Beatles would follow and...
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Mar 1, 2008
It's certainly not Carl Craig's first visit to this small record shop in the centuries-old city center. The Detroit DJ/producer has had a long relationship...
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Mar 1, 2008
Calling out a guest who has arrived at Electric Lady to hear her latest release, New Amerykah, Erykah Badu insists, No one hears my music until they talk...
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Solid as a Rock
4 on the Floor
Hearing Voices
Nicolay & Kay
Diss the Hiss
Just Playin'
Neon Neon
The Cool Kids
Easy to Be Hard
Rafter
The Heavy Circles
Shop.Talk: DJ Craze
Some Kind of Wonderful
Hit Factory
Infinite Beats
The Final Frontier
Come Together
Po' Man's DAWs
Sia
Distorted Realities
Cadence Weapon
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip
Chris Joss
Carl Craig
Earth, Sun, Moon
