THE POSITIONAL MORPH  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....

SLOW COOKER  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...

MUSIC MANEUVERS  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...

Beyond the Preset Downloads  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....

NORTHERN STATE Q&A Online Exclusive  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...

METAMORPHOSIS  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...

BUCK THE BIZ  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,...

CINDERELLA STORY  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...

VHS OR BETA  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...

CARIBOU  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...

Z-TRIP  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...

OUT ON A WHIM  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.,...

BEYOND THE PRESET  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....

HIGH CONTRAST  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....

REBIRTH OF THE COOL  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...

NORTHERN STATE  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...

WILD CARDS  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...

cross examinations  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...

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM  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....

STEP TO THIS  Jul 1, 2007 We've all heard arpeggiators at some point or another. They've been used in everything from hip-hop to trance, techno and even glitch. Arpeggiators are...

ELECTRIC AVENUES  Jul 1, 2007 You may feel you've conquered and mastered many areas of electronic music's technical complexities the difference between hard and soft knee compression,...

THE MASTER DEBATE  Jul 1, 2007 Over the years as a producer, engineer and production tutor, one of the most common topics I'm asked about is mastering. Artists and budding producers...

BLACK STROBE  Jul 1, 2007 The entire rock 'n' roll aesthetic has long weighed heavy on the minds of today's electronic dance-music producers. Ever since acts like Underworld, Daft...

THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA  Jul 1, 2007 Just because I have a band called Cinematic Orchestra doesn't mean they have to be on every song with an ensemble sound, says frontman Jason Swinscoe...

Gypsy Queen  Jul 1, 2007 In 2007, after years of hyperdetailed, program-heavy albums that helped define and challenge contemporary music, Björk Guttir took a minimalist turn. Now...

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