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September 2024

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September 30
- "The death of the album is oversold – a lot of people still want to get their teeth into something, and if you give them something intelligent they’ll go for it": Public Service Broadcasting reaches peak altitude on their new project
- Playing your first gig with CDJs? Here are 10 essential features you need to know about
September 23
- LG's amazing earbuds use a magic material for an incredible experience
- “His singing and song choices defy the standard norms of cis masculinity in rock”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Jeff Buckley's Lilac Wine
September 19
- "The biggest lesson I learned is that it’s possible to make an album with limited gear and poor skills in a bedroom which can be talked about 30 years later": Ken Ishii on Reference to Difference
September 17
- "The last 5 or 10 per cent drove me crazy - at one point I had about 130 mixdowns... I’ve come to realise that the perfect mix doesn’t exist": Ben Böhmer on overcoming perfectionism in production
- "I can't really say why it caught on, but if people think something sounds good, they'll use it": A brief history of the dub siren
- “‘F**k this song! Ugh! Turn it off!’ That’s what we wanted!”: Is Trent Reznor music's most uncompromising producer?
September 16
- “When I got the email and started unpacking the stems, I was like a little kid unpacking my presents at Christmas”: Purple Disco Machine on working with Nile Rodgers for Honey Boy
- “I didn't really understand how any of it worked. We were just young and up for anything”: The Postal Service on creating indie-electronic classic Give Up
September 8
- “I didn’t know anything about drugs or any of that stuff. For me, acid was a chemical that stripped away paint”: A Guy Called Gerald on the birth of acid house
September 6
- 5 creative sound design tips: "Try pairing pitch and frequency shifters working in opposing directions for oddball results"
September 5
- “I love figuring out not just what ‘should’ this album be, but what ‘could’ it be”: Katie Tavini on the secrets behind top-class mastering
September 4
- “It's awful, it's illegal, and it's bad for our society”: Have AI music generators been trained on your music?
September 3
- Stadium-sized vulnerability and synth-led synchronicity: Loyle Carner and LCD Soundsystem at Forwards Festival