Producer

A select panel featuring James Lavelle, Andy Caldwell & DJ White Shadow will select six DJs/producers to attend a luxury boot camp at W Retreat, Koh Sumui in Thailand where you will receive expert mentoring from the judging panel.

London has delivered its fair share of hit records over the years, so it sort of makes sense that Zero-G and Xfonic have got together to dish up a rather tasty London-inspired sample pack. 'The London Sessions' contains around 1700 royalty-free samples from some of the best session musicians around, ensuring that producers that use this pack are getting not only an authentic sound but a true slice of real musicianship.

Dylan Long's killer sound

Loopmasters' 'Patchworx Dubstep Bass' is a collection of bass sounds for use with Logic’s ES2 soft synth.

Breakbeat and bass music badman ILS is a master of baleful bassline building. Here he hips us on how he transformed Prof Green's 'Remedy' into a low-end beast...

After many years of judging the categories live with an expert panel, we remixed the format last year - putting the decision squarely in your hands! Over 100,000 votes were cast, making this far and away the biggest test of DJ kit anywhere in the world!

Sugarbytes make the amazing Cyclops bass plug-in which is featured on many dancefloor fillers and is many a producer’s go-to soft synth for dynamic basslines. With this great heritage it's no surprise that their Turnado plug-in has won the hearts of many dance music producers. Turnado is a tasty multi-effect tool, designed especially for real-time audio manipulation. It’s a great performance tool as well as perfect for studio applications

Adam Fielding on how he captured killer sounds with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on his new record, 'Icarus'...

Expect to find the sounds associated with Simon and his releases on labels such as 2020Vision, Playhouse, Get Physical, and Infant.

Reloop have just released a new studio headphone especially designed for DJ/Producers.

Waves is a name known to all but the greenest of studio dilettantes as producing some of the finest studio effect plug-ins known to humankind.

“‘Leave It All Behind’ began as an eight-bar guitar/drum/synth loop Patrick wrote on his Akai MPC 2000XL. The main chords you can hear in the song were created using the MPC's note-repeat function. I also used the note-repeat function on an MPC 1000 to create the chords in 'Malmo'.

Most project studios are hosted inside rooms that were not built with acoustics in mind. Bedrooms, garages, offices and other conventional rooms can vastly affect the accuracy of your referencing during producing, listening and mixing down.

Dan and Phil Brookes, aka the Brookes Brothers, have been carving out a unique niche in the liquid drum & bass world since 2006. Smashing up the d&b arenas with their DJing and production skills, this year sees their stock rising still higher…

Ableton’s award-winning software is now up to version 9, but will it still stand up against its uber slick production rivals? DJ Mag sneak a crafty peek...

Novation today announced an update to their popular Launchpad Ableton Live controller.

Launchpad S, has an updated, brighter display, faster refresh rate and also adds...

Novation have just launched a new hardware/software instrument — the Launchkey.

Based around a 25, 49 or 61-note keyboard controller with 16 velocity-sensitive multi-colour launch...

Johan Agebjorn is the Swedish producer behind Italo disco singer Sally Shapiro. Here he tells us how they recorded the strangely-titled 'This City’s Local Italo Disco DJ Has A Crush On Me'...

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