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Gregg Kowalsky: "I was feeding all kinds of weird stuff into Ableton's audio-to-MIDI converter. Something just clicked, and I ended up building a whole album around it"
The LA-based multi-instrumentalist and producer embraces the unpredictable chaos of generative MIDI data on new album Eso Es
Tiesto’s reimagining of Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World is everything you thought it would be
“The original track is one of my favourites,” says the trance legend
Mella Dee: "That's the type of music I want to make: deep, dark and heavy - nothing glamorous, just raw and industrial"
The Doncaster-born, London-based producer talks us through the synths and studio techniques behind his latest EP under new alias RYAN
Peter Gabriel reveals that he spent time in his “home studio” with Skrillex: “He was trying to encourage me to write a song about staying up all night in a night club and that sort of thing”
New song This Is Home was also inspired by the great Motown rhythm sections
When Derrick May sold Frankie Knuckles his 909, and house music was born: "This is a Roland 909 drum machine, and it's going to take us to the future. It'll be the foundation of music for the next 10 years"
"I've been in love with that drum machine ever since"
1997 interview reveals that Aphex Twin owned a tank, wanted to buy a submarine and used the vault of the former bank he owned as a reverb: "It would be great for parties"
And there's more about lucid dreams, the music software he used at the time and (maybe) getting a job if no-one bought his records
"The minute I stopped mixing my stuff, I became my most creative": Should electronic artists mix their own tracks?
Skream ignites debate on Twitter over the merits of asking an engineer to handle mixdowns in electronic music production
Tycho is selling 100 pieces of gear on Reverb, including the Eventide H3000 that he purchased after he learned that Eddie Van Halen used one, and an Oberheim FVS-1 synth that he says “has a mind of its own”
“I always saw the Eventide in [EVH’s] studio, and I’d think, ‘I got to get that thing’”
