I check Beatport semi-regularly for their remix contests but only sometimes find songs that actually interest me, or more often find them between contests. I was pleasantly surprised to find several brand new contests the other day and quickly downloaded various stems and got to work. The first one I’ve managed to finish up is Omid…
Tags: music, remix
I had a chance to listen to Coast to Coast AM last night, something I rarely do anymore since I’m usually busy spending time with my fiancée, absorbing other media, creating other media, or sleeping. It’s long been a favorite of mine ever since driving home from a friend’s late one night and stopping at a…
Tags: Coast to Coast AM, Giorgio Moroder, hi-NRG, music
I found the site Indaba Music the other day while searching for user groups and communities for Propellerhead’s Reason, my DAW of choice, and joined, only to find that they host remix contests. I dug through a few of their offerings and found that DJ Fresh‘s track “Louder” was up for grabs. I’d heard DJ…
Tags: music, remix
Just mash all the buttons and turn all the knobs. No, seriously. The beast above is known as the Malström Graintable Synthesizer. It’s Propellerhead’s weird cross between a wavetable and granular synthesis, and makes really bizarre noises. To this day I’m still not any good at programming it but that doesn’t matter, because if I…
Tags: programming, sound design, synthesizers
The extent of my musical training is a single guitar class in high school, which consisted of three types of people: People who were there for some reason that had nothing to do with playing guitars The one guy who know how to play guitar well Everyone who huddled around that guy and tried to…
Tags: music, music technology, music theory
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