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Apr 1, 2006
You can ask anybody: Would they rather hear the rawest, dirtiest record that was recorded like shit but that has emotion or a clean record done in a big...
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Apr 1, 2006
More musicians than ever take a jack-of-all-trades approach to producing their work, writing, arranging and recording entire projects themselves. Wearing...
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Mar 1, 2006
So this train really doesn't stop, does it? I'm not referring to time and the stinging reality that we, and everyone we know, keep getting older every...
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Feb 1, 2006
Detectives are usually looking for evidence at the scene of the crime, but not the musical scrutinizer known as Blockhead. Instead, he's constantly on...
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Feb 1, 2006
There's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer discovers weight lifting. He gets so into it that he gets these enormously buff, rippling muscles. But...
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Feb 1, 2006
You've toiled with your final mixes for what seems like forever, and you're ready to commit the music to whatever its final delivery medium will be. Then...
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Feb 1, 2006
THANKS TO ARTISTS SUCH AS THIEVERY CORPORATION AND DJ SHADOW, as well as labels like James Lavelle's Mo' Wax, the commercial door was opened in the late...
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Feb 1, 2006
Somewhere in southeast London, Matt Black is reflecting on the glory of his and fellow Coldcut member Jonathan More's brilliant career. They can rightly...
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Jan 1, 2006
It's funny because I never really wanted to do a solo record, says an energized Pharrell Williams, fresh off a whirlwind trip to Tokyo and the much-hyped...
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Jan 1, 2006
Here's a typical scenario: You've been producing tracks for a while now. You've brewed the pots of coffee at midnight, you've put the hours in learning...
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Jan 1, 2006
Maybe it's because I, Kylee, grew up in the same house from age 5 to 18 in a very safe, rural town in Minnesota, but change freaks me the hell out. Still,...
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Dec 1, 2005
DJ Premier is hip-hop royalty. His signature production sound is immediately recognizable: Loaded with beautifully filthy drums and scratched hooks, his...
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Dec 1, 2005
When many people think of drum recording, they automatically envision certain standards like the following: a dedicated kick-drum mic mounted inside of...
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Dec 1, 2005
Perfection is a nebulous concept, one that varies dramatically depending on who or what is directing the point of comparison. In terms of music production,...
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Nov 1, 2005
The man of a thousand freaky hats, Jay Kay, is sitting in the English garden of his Chillington, Buckinghamshire, estate in England. A stronghold during...
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Nov 1, 2005
Nowadays, those all-too-geeky live electronic-music events have become a norm in clubs, complete with the ghostly, illuminated faces of nonanimated performers...
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Nov 1, 2005
If the standard pop band is the result of years of evolution and natural selection whereby the most well-adapted species rise to the top of the entertainment...
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Nov 1, 2005
Heads are nodding in the control room at Monza Studios in midtown Manhattan, where 26-year-old hip-hop producer and label mogul Swizz Beatz is blasting...
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Nov 1, 2005
The MIDI sequencer was one of the coolest things ever developed for music. Using one of these contraptions in conjunction with a MIDI sound module, musicians...
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Nov 1, 2005
Our main focus here at Remix is obviously music production and the technology behind it. And generally speaking, our artist coverage is centered around...
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Nov 1, 2005
IF YOU'VE EVER SCRATCHED YOUR HEAD AND WONDERED why tracks that sounded killer in the confines of your home studio came out bright and brittle, narrow...
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Oct 1, 2005
The Craft is about our passion toward our discipline of hip-hop, Blackalicious MC Gift of Gab says about the duo's latest album. We really view hip-hop...
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Oct 1, 2005
AS MUCH AS MUSICIANS TODAY ARE BLESSED with cool new audio tools such as Sony Acid, Ableton Live, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX and the like all of which take...
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Oct 1, 2005
As a dumb 22-year-old kid just getting into the world of music production, I, Kylee, was once writing a story that mentioned the legendary Robert Moog....
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Oct 1, 2005
Armed and animated, Timo Maas is flipping through his latest grab bag of CDs and vinyl, rattling off the new acquisitions with the informed nonchalance...
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