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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Oct 1, 2007
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....
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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Oct 1, 2007
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...
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Sep 15, 2007
Download presets, mp3s and screenshots that illustrate the concepts from the Beyond the Preset article from the September 2007 issue of Remix magazine....
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Sep 1, 2007
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...
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Sep 1, 2007
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...
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Sep 1, 2007
When using synthesizers and software instruments during the writing process, most of us reach for the presets on our favorite plug-ins and keyboards....
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Sep 1, 2007
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...
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Sep 1, 2007
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...
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Sep 1, 2007
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.,...
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Sep 1, 2007
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....
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Sep 1, 2007
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...
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Sep 1, 2007
Interviewing Northern State is like chatting with your enviably cool East Coast girlfriends. Friendly and effusive, Hesta Prynn (aka Julie Potash) and...
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Sep 1, 2007
Behind his bug-eyed wraparound shades, Prince Paul cuts an almost extraterrestrial profile, smiling mischievously as he warms to a question about the...
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Sep 1, 2007
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...
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Sep 1, 2007
Compression most commonly falls into the dynamics processing not the effects category. Most often, compression clamps down on signal peaks and generally...
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Sep 1, 2007
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,...
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Aug 1, 2007
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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Aug 1, 2007
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....
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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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