With Ultra Music Festival expanding to two weekends, the 2013 Winter Music Conference’s workshops in between, and plenty of DJ appearances at local clubs over roughly 15 days, the city’s electronic music offerings were consolidated into Miami Music Week back in March. After the panels and workshops, we hit up [...]
Remember when blogs and forums constituted most of social media? Moving from one trend to the next over the past decade, social media and video have intertwined on multiple occasions, and now are emerging as a single trend. Vine – recommended at a 2013 WMC panel as a social media [...]
When mentioning how I planned to spend my Memorial Day weekend to friends and family, there are few cities in the world that elicit quite the same response as when Detroit is mentioned as your target destination. Those who know automatically get it, but those who don't, simply haven’t a [...]
At this point, the press behind Daft Punk’s latest album Random Access Memories borders on overkill. Yes, the release sounds totally different from everything else mainstream EDM these days – but that’s nearly entirely because the duo, along with collaborators Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder, went for a back-to-basics approach [...]
Discussions concerning the future of electronic dance music typically cover two aspects: DJing technology and how to promote it. Up-to-date social media knowledge, really, defines the former, while the latter, as we saw back at the 2013 Winter Music Conference, has evolved beyond the turntable-versus-laptop debate to the sounds the [...]
By now, many in the music production realm are familiar with the “classic” dubstep sound. affectionately labeled “wobble bass,” this sound is created by taking a simple oscillator and applying a low pass filter with a LFO applied to the filter cutoff, resulting in the iconic “wob, wob” heard in [...]
To even professional DJs based in the U.S., Akiyama is a lesser-known brand. But this company, based just outside of Barcelona, has been attempting to match the quality of its products with global recognition. In business since 1986, Akiyama remains at the forefront with a knowledgeable staff of third-generation professionals [...]
Something exciting is afoot in Toronto. The electronic music community is beginning to stretch it legs and is setting its sights on consolidating its networks through a project called Studiofeed. Long a bustling hub for electronic music, Toronto’s underground is no longer content with operating in the shadows and has [...]
In the mid 00’s, there was a sudden flurry of innovation in the field of controller design. Manufacturers started working with artists and programmers and a flood of homebrew builders appeared on the scene, all spreading the word via blogs, websites and viral videos. A handful of these devices were [...]
By now, you’ve heard Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” the initial single from their first studio album since 2005. With its slowed down tempo, upbeat character, and prominent guitar groove, “Get Lucky” – and Daft Punk’s upcoming album Random Access Memories, out May 21 in the U.S. – has served as [...]