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8 tips to improve your mixes in 2025 that won't cost you anything
Get ahead on your mixing game in 2025 with these spend-free tips from a master mixing engineer and producer
“Technology is cool, but you’ve got to use it as opposed to letting it use you”: Why Prince never allowed gear to lead the way and how we can take back control of our tech
It’s pretty easy to be daunted by the sheer quantity of music technology at your disposal, but always remember - it's there to serve you
“Calling anything with a loop or sample in it ‘hardgroove’ is kinda annoying and often misunderstands what the sound actually is”: Exploring the hardgroove genre
This techno subgenre has been rediscovered in recent years, but what elements make it stand apart from the rest?
Native Instruments teams up with Akai, Korg, Novation and more to "empower millions of music creators"
Native Instruments is expanding NKS integration to its competitors' controllers and making its software and sounds available on the Akai MPC platform
Producer John Porter on shaping the sound of The Smiths, and why he’s auctioning a huge collection of studio acetates
John found a huge collection of original acetates and mixes of many Smiths’ classics unplayed since the 1980s
How a song intended to be an album track would leave a massive mark on music’s future
When Brian Eno first heard it, he could sense its potential to revolutionise the way pop would be made
Why Paul McCartney’s intuition-led attitude to songwriting is worth taking onboard
The Beatles’ legend has long been open about how his songwriting workflow is guided by ideas and not a rigid format
A music professor breaks down Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Following the release of Gary Hustwit's long-awaited Eno documentary, our resident music prof puts the fabled producer's most celebrated release under the musical microscope
Proggy pentatonic! How to use the good ol’ pentatonic scale in cool new ways
“As production becomes more cloud-oriented, many are questioning whether desktop DAWs are beginning to show their limitations”: How online DAWs are ushering in a new era for music making
Can browser-based digital audio workstations match up to traditional offline DAWs? We take a look