“I grew up on pop music with synthesisers… it was just the sound of the era.” A Sagittariun talks us through his formative musical moments. What’s the first record you ever bought? The first records that were bought for me would have been ABBA’s Greatest Hits Vol 2 which included such favourites as ‘Eagle’ and…
This week’s top mixes include Koodeta’s Women’s Day Playlist, Octo Octa’s Emotional Impact and Shinichiro Yokota & Pleasure Cruiser’s Far-Eastern Inspiration. Koodeta’s Women’s Day Playlist. Honouring the International Women’s Day celebrations, an epic list of 113 techno mixes by women, compiled by record collector and design activist Marallo, of the woman-centric London party Koodeta, with electronic artists…
Paying tribute to the Walkman and Discman. Jamie Lidell chats to Prince’s sound engineer. Roland launch updated TR-8. Gone but not forgotten. Pitchfork pay tribute to portable music players of 1998, the Walkman and Discman. Read it here. Vinyl fetish. The Guardian argue that “gimmicks” like Record Store Day won’t save local shops, here. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf9QZbPFhdy/…
In this week’s Friday Five, we’re leading with a piece from The Guardian that looks at a handful of major shifts in clubbing and how they’ve changed today’s dance music scene. We’ve also got articles from Pitchfork, Mixmag, Digital Music News and DJ Mag. Have a great weekend! The New Rules Of Clubbing – From…
An original RnB Soul release with incredible live instrumentation. Over 2gigs of fresh and inspiring content played by some of the best musicians in Los Angeles. RnB Soul 2 Read the full story
ROLI / The JUCE Team have updated JUCE to v5.3.0 with 30 new tutorials, OBOE support (Android) and hosted plug-in parameters. Tutorials and documentation Updated learning resources includes a [Read More] Read the full story
Seaweed Audio has updated Fathom Synth to v2.9.4, a bug-fix release. Changes: Fixed Bug 0098 Signal flow object mode cannot be changed in Mac Sierra. Fixed Bug 0099 Detune save default not being [Read More] Read the full story
Monade Sounds has announced the release of Pure707, a a sample-based emulation of the classic Roland TR-707. At its core, Pure707 use a pristine set of TR-707 samples recorded at 24-bit, 44.1 [Read More] Read the full story