New high-res music download service on the way from Technics, Kid Massive’s production tutorial, an insight into how plugin emulations are made and Mister Saturday Night’s tips on building a proper DJ booth.
Building a Proper DJ Booth. Seasoned experts in the art of throwing a party, Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter of Mister Saturday Night share their knowledge about the less often discussed topics regarding proper DJ booth setup, such as killing excess vibrations, record storage, mixers and booth placement. Check it out here.
Technics launches high-res music download service. Available in the UK and Germany from January 2015, the new Technics Tracks download store will carry a selection of 24-bit FLAC audio tracks, including tens of thousands in the 192kHz sampling rate. This will be complemented by an extensive collection of 16-bit/44.1kHz, CD quality tracks. Find out more here.
Kid Massive’s EDM Production Tutorial. CNTRL Samples and Kid Massive join forces to unveil the secrets of manipulating samples and fattening lead sounds. Check the video out above and find the sounds used in the tutorial plus more production material here.
Volca Sample SDK for non-iOS sample transfer. Having recently released a free iOS sampling app for the Volca Sample, AudioPocket, Korg has opened up sampling by releasing a free software development kit (SDK), designed to help developers create apps that can talk to the Volca Sample. More information and download here.
How Plugin Emulations are Made. Follow the collaborative process that goes into developing one of Universal Audio’s many classic analogue audio processor emulations – in this case the Manley Variable Mu Limiter Compressor – as UA and Manley blur the line between hardware and software. Check out the process here.
10 Mixes: An Intro to French Touch. This instalment of 10 Mixes lists and gives context to the particularly notable mixes that fuelled the mid-90s Parisian dance music explosion that came to be known as French touch, which XLR8R‘s Brandon Ivers defined as “a mélange of filter effects, space disco and rock ‘n’ roll grafted onto house and techno”. Check out the mixes here.
Post-Wall Berlin Techno. 25 years since reunification, The New Yorker collates newly published histories of Berlin’s idiosyncratic techno culture, described as “both a historical inevitability and a freak outbreak” that evolved amid “the weirdness, perpetual incompleteness and outlandishness of Berlin” here.
Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry. The highly acclaimed producer, engineer and author of seminal 1993 essay The Problem With Music, Shellac frontman Steve Albini spoke in Melbourne about the advantages of the internet, the death of the major label system, copyright law and that ‘purple dwarf in assless chaps’. Read it in full courtesy of the Guardian.