Long Reads
Sound System Revolution
Marcus K. Dowling takes a look at the influence of West Indian sound system culture on the birth of the…
News
England-based DJs And Producers Eligible To Receive Grants Of Up To £10,000 From Arts Council England
Applicants to the Art Council’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) program can receive a grant of £2,000-£10,000 from the total budget of £18 million.
News
Novation Comes To Daddy With The Limited Edition AFX Station
Novation’s 2013 Bass Station 2 gets remixed by Richard D James with new graphics and AFX Mode pre-loaded.
Interviews
Tatsuya Takahashi: “I just tried to design products to be the best I can imagine them”
Synth designer Tatsuya Takahashi spoke to us ahead of his talk at the music conference, Most Wanted.
Beat Dissected
Armando-Style Acid House
In this new Beat Dissected, we program a vintage acid house beat inspired by Armando’s classic ‘151’.
Attack Store
THE SECRETS OF DANCE MUSIC PRODUCTION – ATTACK MAGAZINE
Featuring 312 colour pages packed with technique, tips, illustrations and hands-on walkthroughs, The Secrets of Dance Music Production pulls together all you need to take a mix from concept to club-ready master, featuring a wealth of exclusive content from Attack’s award-winning team of writers.
£29.99
£27.99 Sale
ATTACK X KYLE PLATTS: UNTZ UNTZ
Made in collaboration with Kyle Platts, celebrating the pulse, rhythm and feel of techno. Proudly embroidered in the UK on 100% cotton. Available in black or white on 190GSM shirts.
£34.99
ATTACK X SAM MOORE: ACID HOUSE T-SHIRT
This T-shirt made in collaboration with London-based illustrator and graphic artist Sam Moore is the perfect accompaniment to our 303 badges and our book A Brief History of Acid House. A little bit silly and light-hearted, this T-shirt is a nod to a glorious genre and time. Long live acid house!
£34.99
KORG VOLCA MODULAR
A semi-modular analog synthesizer that makes modular synthesis more accessible and understandable than ever before.
£179.00
PEDAL CRUSH – KIM BJØRN AND SCOTT HARPER
Pedal Crush is a trip into the expansive, eclectic, and mesmerizing world of effects pedals. Bursting with color photos and illustrations, it systematically covers over 800 pedals – from vintage to cutting edge, from the essential to the exotic, from popular classics to boutique wizardry.
£54.99
£49.99 Sale
MAKE YOUR MUSIC MAKE MONEY – INSTANT DOWNLOAD
In Make Your Music Make Money, a brand new 238 page PDF (with instant download) book from Attack Magazine, we show you how, armed with nothing more than a laptop, some talent and a decent work ethic, you can write and record your music, create an international profile and access a worldwide sales infrastructure to make money and build a fanbase from day one.
£14.99
£11.99 Sale
THE PRODUCER’S MANUAL – PAUL WHITE
Featuring 350+ full-colour pages packed with pro techniques, practical photos, detailed illustrations and hands-on walkthroughs, The Producer’s Manual brings together everything you need to take a mix, from initial recording to final master.
£14.99
ADONIS – NO WAY BACK
From Chicago to the world, Adonis was just 19 years old when he crafted this huge Trax label hit "No Way Back" in. In this poster, artist Rob Ricketts has designed the famous pattern to "No Way Back" so you can now get the claps, clav and cowbell just right!
£13.99
EVERMIXBOX4 DJ SET RECORDER
The pocket-sized EvermixBox4 plugs into the back of your mixer and into your iPhone / iPad / Android smartphone, where the Evermix App allows you to record the set in super high quality. After your set, share to Mixcloud + Soundcloud or save to cloud storage locations such as iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive.
£109.99
Gear/Software
Pioneer CDJ-3000
With the CDJ’s ubiquity in clubland, and at this price point, it was always going to create a stir…
Gear/Software
Korg Volca Sample2
Korg has updated its popular Volca Sample with USB sample import. But is it enough to justify the price bump?
News
Spitfire Audio Releases Spectrum, A Virtual Instrument Made In Collaboration With Afrodeutsche
Spectrum contains 50 presets of multi-textural synth sounds ranging from pads to tempo-synced loops and drums, all programmed by Afrodeutsche.
Columns
Music Industry Suggests Sunak Retrains As A Decent Politician
Harold Heath examines multi-millionaire re-training advocate Rishi Sunak’s advice to the music industry to simply get another…
Columns
The Unsung Synth Influence Of Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen may have been known as a guitarist but his synth work also had a lasting influence on a generation of kids raised on MTV.
Passing Notes
Orchestral Techniques from Jeff Mills’ Amazon (Blue Potential Version)
In this new Passing Notes we use Spitfire Audio’s new Originals orchestral instrument plug-ins to recreate two sections from the Detroit Producers’ collaboration with a live orchestra.
News
Sequential Renews The Prophet-5 And Introduces The Prophet-10
Sequential this week announced the reintroduction of its most famous and beloved instrument: the Prophet-5. Timed to coincide with founder Dave Smith’s 70th birthday, the instrument stays faithful to the original while adding new features based on its revisions over the years.
News
Rebekah Launches #ForTheMusic Campaign To Combat Sexual Harassment and Assault In Dance Music
In an open letter to the industry on change.org the DJ and producer describes obstructions women have regularly faced and underlines that now is the time to choose to be on the right side of history
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: Wavetable Soft Synths
In this instalment of Ten Of The Best, we run down the top, must-have wavetable soft synths available.
Gear/Software
ASM Hydrasynth Desktop
ASM’s all-digital Hydrasynth is packed with features and is certainly impressive on paper but does it live up to its promise?
News
Rave Game Invites You To Dance And Die
The party soon turns deadly in Strobophagia: Rave Horror, a PC game that drops you into a deadly and psychedelic occult forest rave.
News
New Japanese Company Tweets Images Of A Prophet-mini In The Works
The Prophet-mini appears to be a battery-powered and condensed Prophet-5, featuring four voices, 37 keys and built-in speakers.
Tutorials
Tuned Metallic Delays
In this tutorial, we look at how to add metallic delays to a break, and then tune them to match the key of the track.
Gear/Software
Solid State Logic SSL 2+ Offers Analogue Warmth Appeals to Musicians and DJs alike
The iconic Solid State Logic has always been known for its incredible but pricey analogue and digital audio mixing consoles…
Track By Track
Setaoc Mass
Setaoc Mass has just dropped a new eight-track EP ‘Neo-Noir’ on Berlin’s SK_eleven label. ‘Neo-Noir’ is…
News
Arturia Announce PolyBrute, A Morphing Analogue Polysynth
The French brand’s follow-up to 2016’s MatrixBrute boasts polyphony, preset morphing and new options for modulation with expression.
Quizzes
Crossword #2: Acid House
Time on your hands? You don’t have to be in retirement to enjoy this classic format as we present…
Passing Notes
Parallel Chords
In this new Passing Notes we focus on the technique of parallel chords, which are one of the tried and tested means for catchy progressions in dance music.
News
Pioneer DJ Introduces The MPU-Powered CDJ-3000
Pioneer DJ’s latest DJ multi player features an MPU processor, a nine-inch touchscreen, and a number of overall improvements.
News
Native Instruments Announce Maschine+, The First-Ever Standalone Version Of Their Flagship Groovebox
Maschine+ is the first embedded product from Native Instruments, bringing the company’s instruments, effects, and sounds into an entirely hardware-based workflow.
Tutorials
Reamping In And Out Of The Box
In this tutorial, we look at how to use the technique of reamping to add size and weight to dry sounds—both inside and outside your DAW.
Interviews
Stephane Clavel, Virtual DJ: “We’re a start-up, we don’t have job titles!”
Stephane Clavel is the founder of Virtual DJ, the DJ software company and joins us for the second of this…
News
UDO Audio’s New Analogue-Hybrid Synthesizer, The Super 6, Hits The Market
The Super 6 is a 12-voice polyphonic binaural analog-hybrid synthesizer with replaceable wavetables.
News
Fold And Corsica Studios Among 135 Venues Saved By Culture Recovery Fund
135 UK venues will receive support from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.…
Deconstructed
Marie Davidson – Lara
Deconstructed is an ongoing series where we take apart the arrangement of a song to see what makes it work. This time, we’re going deep with ‘Lara’, an album cut from Montreal producer Marie Davidson.
My Studio
Eelke Kleijn
This month’s My Studio feature is with Netherlands-based producer Eelke Kleijn, a multi-instrumentalist and composer who has…
News
August’s Best Music
Another month and another round-up of some of the best techno, house and electronic music released in August.…
Interviews
Raj Rags, R&S: “Programming, event organisation, record labels, A&Ring – I do all of it really”
He’s A&R for the mighty R&S as well as a DJ, promotor event organiser, music…
Synth Secrets
8-Bit Video Game Samples
In this Synth Secrets we’ll be creating a variety of 8-bit video game loops and textures using the Kingston Chip Synthesizer in the Korg Gadget 2 app.
News
Eventide Release Pendulate, A Free Synth Plug-In With a “Chaotic” Oscillator
Pendulate’s oscillator generates waveshapes based on the movement of a double pendulum while its effects emulate numerous Buchla Series 200 modules.
