Muallem: “In dance music, it’s hedonistic – but it’s also business”

For the first of this month’s The Business of Music interviews, we speak with Muallem, booker and one of the owners of Munich club Blitz.  Muallem – David to his friends – has spent his entire working life in dance music, from the age of 15 when he was sneaking into Munich nightclubs. He’s produced…

Pioneer DJ’s New Film Shows DJing Is Bigger Than Clubbing

Pioneer DJ has just released a video documentary called Distant Dancefloors: COVID-19 and the Electronic Music Industry. It’s a half-hour look at how the electronic music industry has been affected by 2020’s pandemic. It’s excellent, and it’s well worth a watch. In it, DJs, such as BLOND:ISH, Luciano, Eats Everything, Honey Dijon, Fatboy Slim and…

Get 71% OFF Pulsar Audio’s Echorec Delay Plugin @ VSTBuzz

VSTBuzz is running a 77% OFF flash sale on Echorec (€29 discounted price), a vintage echo/delay plugin developed by Pulsar Audio. Ah, the 60s. The birth of psychedelic rock, the Beatles’ first arrival in the United States, and (mostly) no Nixon. The era where the modern tone and mixing techniques that we take for granted…

2021 Winter NAMM Show Cancelled

The biggest gear event of the year will be replaced by a virtual ‘Believe in Music’ week. Despite the cancellation of 2020 Summer NAMM and an optimistic statement by its organizers back in June, the Winter NAMM 2021 show has officially been cancelled in the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The music instrument industry’s largest event was originally…

Knif Audio Knifonium

Just when you think every worthwhile synthesizer has been emulated for the plugin domain, along comes Knif Audio’s Knifonium to prove you very, very wrong. Developed by top-shelf plugin team Brainworx and the hardcore hardware boffins at Knif Audio with help from Plugin Alliance, Knifonium (pronounced with a hard ‘K’) is a recreation of the…