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Lo-fi House Using The New Retro Fi Plugin From Waves

We use Waves’ new lo-fi chain plug-in, Retro Fi, to add warm analogue-style textures and character to a house beat.

Creating House Piano Chords with Toontrack’s EZKeys

Nothing screams classic house music more than house piano chords. In this tutorial, we show you how to make classic…

Resampled Deep House Rhodes

Synth Secrets is a series of programming tutorials in which we show how to make a range of classic and…

Grinding Analogue Techno

In the latest Beat Dissected, we tackle a complex, glitchy techno beat based on analogue drum hits.…

Kevin Saunderson: “Techno: it’s hard to explain, but you really just got to feel it”

Kevin Saunderson has just dropped a remixed version of his classic E-Dancer material, a project that directly links current…

Balancing a Vocal House Mix With AI-Assisted Compression and EQ

Artificial intelligence can help balance a track by working across mix groups. We use Sonible’s smart:EQ3 and smart:Comp to take a vocal house song over the finish line.

Simple Jackin’ House

In the latest instalment of Beat Dissected, we go back to basics with a simple jackin’ house beat with serious…

Raw French House

In our latest drum programming and sound design tutorial, we look back to the 90s heyday of Parisian house.…

Mixing Deep House

In this new installment of our mixing series we mix a deep house-style beat using Waves plug-ins in Ableton Live.

How Techno Provided The Soundtrack of Change in Berlin

When the Berlin Wall fell over 30 years ago, young people from East and West came together to celebrate their…

21st-Century Chicago House

Our latest drum programming and sound design tutorial is inspired by classic Chicago house but brings the sound right…

80s-Style Chicago House

Our latest beat programming and sound design tutorial offers a retro house beat inspired by some of the sounds and…

How Japanese Technology Shaped Dance Music

There’s no denying that Japanese hardware – synthesizers, drum machines, and DJ gear – has exerted a huge influence on dance music. How did this island nation come to dominate music production and playback?

2020: Our Best-Read Technique Articles Of The Year

We look back at the most popular Attack tutorials and how-tos of the year.

Rough House

In our latest beat construction tutorial we focus on a rough, dirty house beat inspired by the likes of Levon…

Maniac Ghetto House

In the latest Beat Dissected we head back to the mid-90s for a ghetto house beat inspired by the…

Armando-Style Acid House

In this new Beat Dissected, we program a vintage acid house beat inspired by Armando’s classic ‘151’.

5 Ways To Add Flanging To Techno Drums

We show you had to add flanging to techno drums.

90s Jersey House

It’s all about the retro 909 grooves in our latest step-by-step drum programming walkthrough, which focuses on…

Waveform Organic Techno

Waveform Recordings’ latest offering delivers top quality techno content, even if it isn’t necessarily very ‘organic’.…

Always Listening: Behind the Scenes at Audio-Technica

We go behind the scenes at Audio-Technica’s Tokyo headquarters to learn more about the company’s dedication to…

Lo-Fi House

In this latest Beat Dissected, we show you how to program a Lo-Fi house beat full of nostalgic warmth…

Dusted Deep House

Our step by step drum programming series breaks down a back-of-the-crate deep house groove with a classic…

Main Room House

The latest of our step by step drum programming tutorials focuses on main room house. Create a real peak time…

DJ Faces – A Journey Through House Music

Twelve years in the making, over 100 portraits, 1000s of miles covered worldwide and one joint delicately rolled for Moodymann – DJ Faces is the definitive dance music family photo album.

Jas Shaw’s New Lease on Life, Touring and Techno

The month’s feature interview comes courtesy of Jas Shaw – one half of Simian Mobile Disco. Having been a mainstay…

Disco House Basslines

Disco house basslines are unashamedly retro, harking back to the 70s heyday of white suits and platform boots. Oliver Curry…

Promised Land(fill)

With over 40,000 pieces of music released every day, Harold Heath wonders how many jokes he can make at the expense of tech house.

How to make an Acid House bassline

We show you how to make an Acid House bassline squeal using AudioRealism’s ABL2 – a Roland TB-303 clone…

90’s House

In this instalment of Beat Dissected we’re going to create classic 90’s House with swing, groove and nostalgic…

Cody Chase Releases ‘By My Side’

By My Side is out now on Blanco y Negro…

OFFAIAH To Release Harry Romero Remix

The Xmas season might be a quiet moment for most, but OFFAIAH is steaming ahead with a Harry Romero remix…

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