In summer festival sets and even a Kia commercial, the anthem “In My Mind” has been inescapable. The tune, on the other hand, is too often erroneously attributed to Swedish House Mafia. Instead, Australian duo Feenixpawl, composed of Aden Forte and Josh Soon, created this ubiquitous track with TV Rock’s [...]
Modern-day electronic music owes a great deal to New Order, of seminal 1983 dance single “Blue Monday.” That being said, the band’s 30-plus year career has never kept on a strictly electronic path, starting out as quintessential post-punk outfit Joy Division, experimenting with synths and sequencers early on, dabbling in [...]
Chicago-based electronica artist and composer, Alex Yoffe, has been making his unique brand of music under the name “Bode Radio” for over a year, recently releasing his debut EP, “Osaka Jazz,” at the beginning of the month. From its rich, dense textures to its diversity in instrumentation and samples, I [...]
Not all sounds are equal. That’s why, within your studio setup, having an excellent preamp interface is crucial. If you’ve spent all your money on quality mixers, controllers, instruments, and microphones, the sound of all will be lessened if the actual audio interface is subpar. The Focusrite Saffire PRO 40 [...]
Detroit Electronic Music Festival is one of the quintessential EDM events in the U.S., so why not translate that energy, particularly from the early days, in another location? With the first Drop Fest, which occurred on August 11, local events coordinator and promoter Jerin Sage looked to replicate that vibe [...]
Novation has announced MiniNova, an amazingly powerful but compact synthesizer that packs never-seen-before features, including push-button Animate controls and Novation's brand new voice effect: VocalTune™. Key Features: 37-note mini-keys synth with custom-designed Novation keybed. Extremely powerful sound and effects engines from Novation’s flagship UltraNova synth. New VocalTune feature with feature-packed [...]
For many on this side of the pond, electronic dance music is new to the charts and radio, coming over here through popular European producers David Guetta and Tiesto. Yet, more than 20 years ago, such sounds originated here, and Kevin Saunderson was one of the pioneers of the Detroit [...]
2012 has been a good year for Monophonics. The group was initially formed as an instrumental funk and groove outfit more than eight years ago. However the recent addition of singer/Hammond organist Kelly Finnigan to the lineup has opened up a new dimension of the band’s sound that’s enabled them [...]
Tabletop, by Retronyms, is a fantastic tool for sound designers looking to work in an environment that simulates the “real thing” while allowing the functionality of electronic expandability. The main goal of tabletop is to provide a studio-like experience for those designing, mixing, and recording sound. Everything from a light [...]
If you want to feel a vibe like you’re driving through the intro of a 1980s nightclub-scene television series wearing a bushy moustache, dial into Chromeo. Eminently danceworthy, infectious and ever-so-accessible to millions of electro-funk addicts, the stuff these guys have been exuding for almost a decade capitalizes on the [...]