Beat Dissected
Underground Resistance ‘The Final Frontier’
In this instalment of Beat Dissected, we’re going to be building a hard-hitting techno beat inspired by Underground…
News
Electronic Music At The Grammys 2023
Beyonce takes home ‘Best Dance/Electronic Album’ while Purple Disco Machine secures his first win for ‘Best Remixed Recording’.…
Track By Track
“How I Made ‘Where I End'” – Baltra Breaks Down His New Mixtape
Following the release of ‘Ted’ in 2019 and ‘Ambition’ in 2021 Baltra continues to evolve his sound with new mixtape…
Gear/Software
KSHMR Reverb: Injecting Rhythm Into The Reverb Plugin Format
WA Production and producer KSHMR have teamed up for KSHMR Reverb, a plugin with a number of useful extras that work well in rhythm-based productions.
Beat Dissected
Building A Tech House Beat Inspired By Classmatic’s ‘Catuca’
This time in Beat Dissected we’re writing a tech house beat inspired by Brazilian DJ and producer Classmatic’s…
Attack Store
The Secrets of Dance Music Production
The world-leading book on dance music production. Comes with samples too.
The Producer’s Manual
Everything you need to take a mix, from initial recording to final master.
Underground Resistance: The Final Frontier Poster
Anti corporate, political, powerful and progressive the power house of Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and "Mad" Mike Banks needs little introduction.
Replicants – Elektron Analog Rytm Sample Pack
Electro sounds for the Elektron Analog Rytm. Free your spirit.
Long Reads
What Happens When You Take Your Music Off Spotify?
A year ago we published a series of articles about artists who had removed their music from Spotify. We caught…
Introducing...
Introducing Jasper Tygner: “Somewhere In Between Headphone Music And The Club”
Hot off the heels of a sold-out debut live show at Peckham Audio, and with a string of highly…
News
East and West Coast Collide In Taiga
Pittsburgh Modular has released Taiga, a semi-modular paraphonic synthesizer taking inspiration from both East and West coast synthesis styles…
News
GPU Audio Announce Competiton With $6K+ Prizes To Be Won
Entrants are invited to create their own impulse response. Prizes will be awarded to the most creative and innovative uses…
Beat Dissected
Beat Dissected: ‘Mogeri’ By Dan Kye
This time on Beat Dissected we create a beat inspired by the gorgeous drums from Mogeri by Dan Kye.…
Gear/Software
Toys In The Static: Why Semi-Modular Synthesizers Matter
Folllowing on from the proposition Minimoog is more influential than Les Paul, Darren Selement uses the Moog Mavis to highlight…
News
Universal Push New Streaming Royalty Payout Models
Sir Lucien Grainge, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group believes it’s time for a change in the way…
News
Google Created a Music AI So Strong They Are Afraid To Release It
Google recently revealed a brand new AI dubbed MusicLM, which is able to generate songs from any text description.…
Synth Secrets
Rebuilding The Strings & Bass Parts From ‘Eutow’ By Autechre
Using Synthmaster, we recreate the synth parts in a mid 90s classic – ‘Eutow’.…
News
The Synth World Cup: Who Beat Who & By How Much?
The Synth World Cup may be over, but the excitement doesn’t have to end! Now is your chance to…
News
Splice Now Allows Users To Download A Certified Licence For All Samples
Splice has finally unveiled a long-sought-after feature allowing users to auto-generate a document with a certified licence…
News
Spotify Are Cutting 6% Of Their Global Workforce
Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, revealed to staff in a memo earlier this week that the company would be laying…
Gear/Software
Minimoog Model D: Greek Gods, Guitars, & Iconic Synthesizers
Darren Selement breaks down how the Model D went from a lunchtime concept to an icon. TLDR? The Minimoog is…
The Best...
The 10 Best Gifts For Music Producers Under $300 On Reverb
Stuck on what to get the music producer in your life. Here are 10 cool gifts on Reverb for the studio that won’t get you in trouble with the credit card company.
News
AVA Returns To Printworks For AVA London
Beloved Northern Irish festival AVA is returning to Printworks on February 24th, 2023 for a conference series/ club night. Talks…
News
Is This The Return Of Aphex Twin?
A cryptic new marketing campaign has left many fans wondering whether Aphex Twin could return to the stage at Field…
The Best...
10 Of The Best Soundtoys Mixing Presets
Haven’t used Soundtoys plugins for mixing before? Here are a few mixing plugin secrets, and not-so-“secret secrets…
Quizzes
Can You Tell The Soundtoys Plugin?
How much do you know about the effects plugin company Soundtoys? Take this test and find out.
News
Mind Expansion Pack Announce Lineup Including Goldie, Interplanetary Criminal & More
Running from Friday 9 June and Saturday 10 June 2023, Mind Expansion Pack has announced its summer lineup with tickets…
News
A Star Is Re-Born: Rhodes’s First Offical Software Instrument The Rhodes V8, Is Here
Along with the launch of the Rhodes V8 software edition, legendary firm Rhodes has also announced a competition to score…
Beat Dissected
Recreating Olive ‘You’re Not Alone’
In this Beat Dissected, we turn our attention to the break beat infused trip-hop of Olive’s You’re…
Interviews
“D Is For Drama”: 30 Years Of Promoting In Detroit
What does it take to promote for thirty years in Detroit? Promotion, wherever you are, is a tough gig, but…
News
Overmono Announce Debut Album ‘Good Lies’, Stream “Is U” Now
UK duo Overmono have just announced their debut album, ‘Good Lies,’ alongside tours of North America and Australia.…
News
Richie Hawtin Announces PhD Scholarship At The University of Huddersfield
Applications are now open for ‘The Richie Hawtin PhD Scholarship In Electronic Music, Cultures and Production.’…
Quizzes
The Synth World Cup – The Winners Are In
The Synth World Cup has been a crazy journey, with upsets we never saw coming (Elektron, we’re talking about…
Quizzes
Crossword #12 December 22
With the actual World Cup now over and the more important Synth Word Cup ending tomorrow, we’re here to…
News
Behringer Unveils Design Of EMS VCS3 Clone On Facebook
The EMS VCS3 dubbed ‘Behringer AKS Mini’ clone will begin shipping this summer for a reported $99.…
News
We’re Hiring
Attack is looking for a commercially minded music producer / DJ to work full time with the team. Read on to…
Quizzes
The Synth World Cup Final: Minimoog Model D vs Prophet-5
The ultimate showdown is here! United States against United States, mono versus poly, Moog might versus Sequential finesse. Who will…
Gear/Software
The Best Cloud Storage Services 2022
Are you in two minds about which cloud storage service is best for musicians and producers? We run through four…
News
Manifest Audio Launch X-FX: Nine M4L Audio Effects
Building on their integrated ecosystem of powerful MIDI generators, X-FX expands on the Berlin outfit’s established workflow utilities with their first foray into audio effects.
