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In the latest edition of our new series exploring the basics of music production, E.M.M.A. looks at the age old problem of getting stuck in...
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Milan’s dynamic duo has done it again. Flashmob returns with a debut release on their own eponymous label. The house cut titled ‘Don’t Leave’ features...
The Berlin gathering is in its third year...
Ableton have been long-time supports of the creative arts. While their flagship software Live is predominantly a music-making tool, many users have re-imagined what the...
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Producing under the alias Renegade, Ray Keith delivered an instant classic in 1994's ‘Terrorist’, one of the most recognisable jungle tunes of all time. Its thumping chopped...
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For this tutorial, Chris Martin, one of Point Blank’s Course Content Developers, shows how you can use resampling techniques in Ableton Live to create interesting...
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The latest version of the popular DJ software makes bold claims around stem separation. But does it actually work?
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“Money can’t buy you love,” sang The Beatles, although most people do want to be loved. This is especially true of a lot of top-flight DJs, narcissists at the best of times, who feel all at sea if they aren’t constantly getting reassurance about how great they are — and popular.
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The Seoul-based scientist and artist Mikael Hwang, AKA Psients, says it's "the world’s first playable, living music media"
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Abandoning another project file after a few hours, thinking everything sounds s**t, feeling like you should be finishing more tunes. A lot of counterproductive, negative...
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Talik sculpts celestial broken techno jams at slower tempos on her ‘Let It Break’ EP for Intercept. Hear ‘Don't Look Else You'll See’ now
Talik returns to Dutch label Intercept this week with her second EP of the year, ‘Let It Break’. Hear the opening track, ‘Don’t Look Else...
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“We invite the People of Tomorrow to a world underwater,” says Tomorrowland's creative director Christophe Van den Branden...
Tomorrowland this year is going to be very different, aesthetically at least.
The festival, which runs across two weekends in Boom, Belgium, from 20th to...
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Point Blank instructor and producer Paul Ressel gets to grips with the brand new hardware release from NI.
Maschine fast became the go-to beat machine...
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An unanticipated accident turned one figure skater’s dreams upside down, and opened the door to a bass-fueled future the artist now known as Whipped Cream never...
Ten years on and Cream is still one of the most important nights in Ibiza...
The world's two biggest DJs Tiesto and Paul Van Dyk are exclusive residents for Cream at Amnesia again this year, which means another guaranteed sell-out...
London producer Swindle draws on assorted jazz, hip-hop, funk and dubstep influences in his great new album 'Long Live The Jazz'.
“I know what you mean, like on ‘Forest Funk’. I played that guitar! I just do what feels right. I mean, I’ve grown up around great music, especially jazz and funk and of course drum & bass, garage and everything else. I just like to play around. I’ll play with any instrument that I can get my hands on. A little bit of madness. I like to try and get my head working crazy, to make crazy music.”