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Dec 1, 2007
Analog or digital mixer, software or hands-on: Find the gear that’s right for you ...
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Dec 1, 2007
Below is an excerpt of music producer/composer Wendell Hanes' book, The 30-30 Career: Making 30 Grand in 30 Seconds (AuthorHouse, 2007). With his sound-for-pictures...
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Dec 1, 2007
With a nod to hip-hop’s heyday, Buck 65 stirs up a funky Situation...
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Dec 1, 2007
West Indian Girl’s head count multiplies while band leader Robert James maintains a love affair with a certain synth and endangers the homeless people outside the band’s studio window...
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Dec 1, 2007
Just in case you thought reissuing a long-lost LP is only about cashing in on your crate-digging skills, here’s what you really need to know from three of the most erudite archivists on the scene...
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Dec 1, 2007
Use the cut-up technique to turn spare parts into gold ...
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Dec 1, 2007
A lot of actors wish they were musicians and vice versa, but what everyone really wants to do is direct. The do-it-yourself video movement is almost out...
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Nov 1, 2007
Stars move from a DIY bedroom studio to a sweet space at a haunted Warehouse...
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Nov 1, 2007
Burned on the biz and sick of electro-clash, Felix da Housecat returns with his salute to all things melodic and “black electronic” with Virgo Blaktro & the Movie Disco...
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Nov 1, 2007
Backed by his usual army of MCs (minus the late Ol’ Dirty), RZA forges ahead with seasoned production tricks, recently absorbed music theory and a new-fangled fondness for live instruments...
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Nov 1, 2007
With analog tape as their guiding medium—and with everyone from Al Green to Amy Winehouse riding shotgun—Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have orchestrated a whole new R&B revival...
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Nov 1, 2007
Experience the life of Mocean Worker’s Cinco de Mowo tracks, from sampling and songwriting to stage...
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Nov 1, 2007
For studio upstart J.R. Rotem, star power is all in the approach...
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Nov 1, 2007
Simian Mobile Disco fits ultracatchy floor fillers inside pop-music frameworks...
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Nov 1, 2007
Check out the upsides and downsides of real-time versus step drum programming ...
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Nov 1, 2007
Turntablist DJ Krush and his wild style introduce hip-hop to an entire country...
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Nov 1, 2007
The humps and valleys of a humble EQ plug-in can help you achieve that perfect sound...
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Nov 1, 2007
The new turntablism may result from a video revolution...
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Nov 1, 2007
British producers score early with hip-hop and then expand the brand...
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Oct 1, 2007
Remember when hip-hop was less about big pimpin' or gettin' your crunk on and more concerned with telling an actual story? The members of Panacea sure...
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Oct 1, 2007
He meaning Ian Parton is the sampling mastermind who began his early musical ventures with naught more than a 4-track tape recorder and an old Akai S1000....
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Oct 1, 2007
Had Federico Aubele never left his native Buenos Aires five years ago, there's a good chance his new album Panamericana would have never come to fruition....
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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Phantom Power: Room and Board
Band Aid: Quick Buck
Buck 65 Grits & Grease
What's the Commotion?
Wax Archaeology 101
Chop Shop
It's Show Business Time
Stars
Felix da Housecat: The Next Episode
Wu-Tang Clan: Shaolin Secrets
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: Hit in Your Soul
Sound Cycles
J.R. Rotem
Simian Mobile Disco
Beat Battle
DJ Krush: Border Crossing
Get Your Curve On
Future Visions
The Nextmen
PANACEA
THE GO! TEAM
FEDERICO AUBELE
BEAT REDUX
DJ SCORPIO
HEXSTATIC
