Enter the freaky trippy acid 90s German synth world of Air Liquide

If you need a break from buttoned-up techno, dance music as business and fashion statement and morose wallpaper – take a holiday with some “trippy mindfkk-muzzikkk.” Here, we’ve got 170 tracks from 1991 Cologne to today to get utterly weird. In 1990s Cologne, if the techno scene was spread too thin, you could just manufacture […]

No, Beatport’s subscription will not kill music – here’s how it really works

Pioneer and Beatport this week announced new streaming offerings for DJs. And then lots of people kind of freaked out. Let’s see what’s actually going on, if any of it is useful to DJs and music lovers, and what we should or shouldn’t worry about.

Peter Kirn - May 17, 2019

Hardware VST? Steinberg Retrologue plug-in gets physical version

There’s plug-ins, and then there’s hardware. Well, just in time for Superbooth, here’s a hardware plug-in, from Steinberg – really.

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2019

Glitchy art pours out of vintage video gear, at new FRGTWN shop

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2019

Behringer update: TC-Helicon hardware mimics IK Multimedia products

Peter Kirn - April 19, 2019

SPICE is a one-stop modular distortion box – and it needs support

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2019

SSL SiX is a compact version of that legendary console goodness

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2019

Two twisted desktop grooveboxes: hapiNES L, Acid8 MKIII

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Elektron’s Model:Samples is a hands-on, $449 sound box

Peter Kirn - January 22, 2019

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