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A new promo teaser for Future Music Issue 232 featuring an “In the studio…” session with Kid Massive
He’s released and remixed for some of the the world’s biggest labels and DJ’d for the four corners of the Earth.
Source: Youtube
A new promo teaser for Future Music Issue 231 featuring an “In the studio…” session with Chocolate Puma!
From their early days as the Good Men to breaking into mainstream chart success, this Dance duo have seen it all.
Source: Youtube
A promo teaser from the boys at Future Music for their exclusive “In the studio…” feature of SHM’s “One”…
In a huge, exclusive interview, FM go In The Studio with Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello, otherwise know as Swedish House Mafia. They explain how they produced their summer anthem One and let us in on their production techniques, favourite gear and more!
Source: Youtube
Future Music is now posting selected videos from their monthly bundled DVDs on YouTube, so you can stop trolling all those shady file sharing sites because you’re too cheap to buy a subscription. Next up… Thomas Gold!
Future Music is now posting their monthly “In the Studio…” video series on YouTube, so you can stop trolling all those shady file sharing sites because you’re too cheap to buy a subscription. Next up… Stonebridge!
Future Music is now posting their monthly “In the Studio…” DVD series on Youtube, so you can stop trolling all those shady file sharing sites because you’re too cheap to buy a subscription. Next up… Dave Spoon!
For all you burgeoning producers out there, here is your chance…
Future Music Magazine,Mark Knight and Toolroom Records have teamed up with Beatport and Sonic Academy to launch a fresh and exciting ‘co-production’ competition – the first of its kind. The idea of the competition is to give up and coming producers the chance to work with one of the industry’s leading artists, launch their music career with the world’s premier dance label and be financially rewarded for their work, receiving 50% of publishing and an equal share of artist sales royalties. Not a bad deal at all.
The mechanics of the competition are simple…
Mark Knight has upload key parts of the project to Beatport and midi parts to Toolroom’s online store.
Beatport: Get the key parts HERE
Toolroom: Get the midi parts HERE
- Entrants to finish track, name and upload to Beatport’s SoundCloud by the 15th July.
- No un-cleared samples to be used (full T&C’s relating to music for the competition will be avail on Beatport.com & djmarkknight.com)
- Winning track, as chosen by Toolroom, will be will announced on July 19th and released in physical & digital format as an ‘exclusive track’ on Mark Knight’s forth coming Toolroom Knights CD (out Oct 2010)
Winner receives:
- 50% of publishing & equal share of artist sales royalties
- $200 Beatport voucher
- Focal CMS 40 studio monitors from Future Music Magazine
- Soundcloud Pro account
- Native Instruments Maschine
- Annual subscription to Sonic Academy & 6 months personal mentoring
- Full PR & marketing campaign to launch their career
Mark comments:
“There seems to be an over saturation of remix competitions at the moment, but these aren’t really proving a spring board for people careers. With myself as a producer and Toolroom as a leading label, we felt we had the vehicle to offer up something innovative and put something back into the development of up and coming artists. The ethos of Toolroom has been one of finding and nurturing new talent – ala Funkagenda and Dave Spoon. We’re looking for the stars of the future right now, so this co-production competition makes perfect sense. With the 8 bar loop I’ve provided, I’ve laid down the backbone of the track with enough scope for interpretation. What I’m looking for is clever use of the parts, creative sound design with any new parts included and a good arrangement. Over to you guys…”
Log on to www.djmarkknight.com for full details of the competition
Source: Future Music
Future Music has started posting their monthly “In the Studio…” DVD series on Youtube, so you can stop trolling all those shady file sharing sites because you’re too cheap to buy a subscription. Future Music is one of the most read magazines around the FHMDC office, so we’ll be bringing you the relevant videos as they are posted. We’ll kick it off with Chris Lake — Enjoy!
BBC Four has completed a great documentary that charts the rise of synth pop in Britain during the late ’70s and early ’80s — a must see for any electronic music fan. Check out the videos after the break…
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan’s appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army’s Are Friends Electric heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of the NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits.
By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music.
Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.
Source: BBC Four
For all you Serato DJs who’ve ever had a nightmare trying to patch in your laptop at a gig when the DJ before you was also using a Serato setup… well Rane has the solution for you! Create Digital Music has the lowdown on the new Rane Sixety-Eight dual-computer DJ mixer:
It had to happen sooner or later: the computer has supplanted the turntable, so why not a mixer intended for two computers?
That’s the idea behind the just-announced Rane SIXTY-EIGHT. It’s intended for use with two computers via two independent USB ports, plus controller support (intended primarily for Serato’s tools, but presumably adaptable to other software) for up to four virtual decks.
Now, as a way to manage four decks, it seems like absurd overkill – hasn’t Traktor done four decks for years? But if this solution is indeed software-agnostic, it could be a boon to advanced computer musicians wanting to use computers, or DJs wanting to mix Ableton Live on one machine and a DJ app on another. Of course, you could simply do that with normal audio outputs, or even digital outputs that aren’t USB – in fact, many of the Apple machines (among others) come with digital outs.
Head on over to CDM for the full article.
For all you aspiring house music producers out there… here’s your chance to get some proper recognition and some new kit in the process.
Defected Records announces the launch of their Producer Competition 2010, in partnership with Traxsource, Ableton and Loopmasters. Following the success of last year’s Producer Competition, we’re pleased to announce the 2010 contest.
The rules of the competition remain the same: Upload your tracks to the site, where they’ll be rated and commented on. In the second phase of the competition, the Defected A&R team will pick their ten favorite tracks, which will then be voted on by the public.
Last year’s competition proved that there is a wealth of undiscovered talent out there. This is your chance to see your tracks released on one of the most respected labels in the history of house music.
More info available from Ableton’s website and Defected’s website.
Juno drops an interview with Lindstrøm — the Balearic goovemaster who has been leading the disco renaissance…
It seems Hans-Peter Lindstrøm can do no wrong. His latest album, Real Life Is No Cool, has been rapturously received by every publication from Pitchfork to the Irish Times, and the praise is wholly justified. Whether he’s knocking out a 40-minute cover of Little Drummer Boy, or crafting a superb full-length album, the man has a svelte touch that appeals to pop fans and disco beards alike. We spoke to Lindstrøm about quitting the DJ circuit, his next productions and how he almost covered Boney M.
Full Interview: Juno Plus – Lindstrøm
Juno Plus is starting February off right with a hot new chart from Diplo…
Mad Decent big cheese and all round nice guy Diplo returns with another featured chart for Juno Plus. He talks us through his top tunes for February, which range from subtle dubstep to outright bangers, and admits dressing like Fever Ray at a Halloween party (apparently “it didn’t work out so well”).
01) L-Vis 1990 – United Groove (Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team remix) (Mad Decent)
02) In Flagranti – Ex Ex Ex (Riton Mix) (Codek)
03) Momma’s Boy – Wedouwedou (Kid Kaio remix) (Sound Pellegrino)
04) Diplo – Blow Your Head (Eli Escobar remix) (Hed Kandi)
05) Rob Threezy – You Bad (DJ Sega remix) (Nightshifters)
06) Stenchman – What The Hell Are You? (Prime Audio)
07) Attacca Pesante feat Shea Soul – Make It Funky For Me (Rusko remix) (Digital Soundboy)
08) Fever Ray – Seven (Crookers remix) (Lektroluv)
09) Jose James – Blackmagic (Joy Orbison’s Recreation) (Brownswood)
10) James Mowbray/Leiam Sullivan – Tropical Heights (Ink & Needle cut edit) (Four Twenty)
Full info and reviews for each track by Diplo at Juno Plus.
Ms. Pinky has been on the scene for quite a while pushing out various software tools to let you manipulate audio with timecode records. With Max For Live on the scene you can now scratch in Ableton via Ms. Pinky giving some users an alternate to Ableton’s The Bridge. Create Digital Music posted the down-low on this development:
What should DJing in Ableton Live look like? How could conventional vinyl cueing and scratching be integrated with the Live environment? Serato and Ableton gave us one possible answer to that question last week with The Bridge. Their solution: use your Serato DJ set normally, and simply sync the transport of Ableton Live when the two run simultaneously.
That solution could be ideal for some users, but it falls short of what many expected, which was the ability to scratch audio elements from Live as though they were on vinyl. Scratching Live clips would seem to be the best of both worlds: you get all the live sequencing features of Live, but you can still manipulate sound as you would on a turntable.
Ms. Pinky Revised from Mastah Lee on Vimeo.
Here are FunkyHouseMusic.com we can’t get enough of the “In The Studio…” video series that comes with our monthly gear porn Magazine + DVD from Future Music. Last November, American techno hero Claude VonStroke revealed some of his production secrets in front of the camera and those videos have been re-posted to Youtube. Check ‘em out before they disappear…
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