Out with vinyl; now anyone who’s anyone releases on Eurorack? Regardless, the Akai S950-inspired module from Mumdance and ALM Busy Circuits sounds brilliant.
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In a documentary film, a return to Detroit and speaker f***ing
It’s still winter, but some crazy techno heads are dreaming of Detroit. Interdimensional Transmissions documents the soul of the midwest techno scene.
Premiere: Spell Drops music video is flowing, organic electronic poetry
Paris-based artist Morgan Friedrich is a choreographer as well as a producer – and his video and music are both infused with that sense of music and body.
Mammut is free software that does completely insane things to sounds
From the darkest arts in auditory alchemy, you can find gems like Mammut, a free tool that will utterly mangle digital audio into forms beautiful and chaotic.
Serato DJ gets more modern features, no longer requires hardware
Serato’s new software gets support for 64-bit and high-resolution displays – and now you can run it in “practice mode” without having to plug in a controller. Hello, prepping on airplanes.
Get lost in the mesmerizing music video, improvs of this duo
Sometimes, you just need to imagine yourself as being made of boulders, on a mental trip that has you wandering a surreal landscape.
An online and mobile DAW called BandLab just acquired Cakewalk’s IP
Cakewalk may not be all dead. A developer of online and mobile music creation tools has snapped up the former PC DAW maker’s complete intellectual property.
Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120
Make anything you want, with free music software of your choice, and <1ms latency. Bela is back, smaller than ever – a pocket-sized £120 computer for sound.
Arturia AudioFuse Review: the tiny square that packs nearly everything
There are some exceptional audio interfaces out there. But Arturia stands out by cramming an unusual amount of connectivity in an ultra-mobile package.
Moog is making a $35,000 modular 1969 synth – so let’s ask them why
Moog Music have announced they’re painstakingly recreating a 1969 modular classic. So we asked the engineers why they’d do that – and why it costs 35 grand.