Trax Records Facing Lawsuit Brought by Artists Larry Heard and Robert Owens

Larry Heard and Robert Owens are suing the Chicago house label for $1 million ‘unpaid’ royalties. Attorneys Robert S. Meloni and Christopher M. Heintskill have filed a lawsuit against Trax Records and owner Rachael Cain.  Several seminal tracks are listed in the 27-page federal copyright infringement, including  ‘Can You Feel It’, ‘Beyond The Clouds’, ‘Bring…

Ken Liu

Ken Liu is a graphic designer – “the creative department for small companies like record labels that don’t have a creative department”. We got him to tell us all about his job. Name? Ken Liu Place of work? I mostly work from home. Sometimes I’m needed on site for meetings, presentations, or proofing. When I’m…

4 Ways To Build A Great DJ Music Collection Cheaply

Before the advent of MP3s and streaming, the only way to amass a collection of music was to buy vinyl, cassettes and CDs. Not only were they expensive compared to today’s US$0.99 downloads, but they were finite too: travelling to swap meets and digging through piles of dusty records to look for gems and rarities…

Get Acapellas From Full Tracks Instantly & For Free With Lalal.ai

Splitting tracks into “stems” for DJing with is the current buzz among DJs, with both Virtual DJ and djay Pro adding real-time stems DJing to their software recently, services like Moises.ai offering stems creation online, and software like XTRAX STEMS giving you a desktop way to achieve this. But one new (to us) service stands…

Toontrack updates EZbass to v1.0.5

Toontrack has updated EZbass to v1.0.5. New General: Added support for authorizing and using EBXs (EZbass sound expansions). The CCs for modulation, damping… Read More Read the full story