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Music Production Tutorial: 3 Ways to build energy in your dance tracks

No matter what type of electronic music production we do, whether it be banging progressive house or deep brooding techno, if we want the listener to have any emotional attachment to the music (resulting in them Continue reading

 

 

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Daily Muse: Where do you want to be in three years?


I’ve just been having a long conversation with my housemate and life-long friend about turning thirty and plans for the future.  He’s not in a great financial situation and has big dreams of being a downhill mountain bike racer.  But he has probably the single most important thing required: obsession.  One thing I’ve… Continue reading

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Want to make more music? Say hello to your enemy: Perfection


It’s great to strive towards the perfection that the voice in your head tells you about, but the reality is you will never get there. Never. The target always moves one step further away. Dont get me wrong, nothing will quash your career faster than a string of sub-par work, but “good enough” is often all that is required. In an ideal world… Read on…

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The Art of Sidechaining…

Possibly the most useful technique for getting your sounds to interact with one another is sidechaining.  This is used extensively in electronic music, and as well as gelling the sounds it also helps prevent those unwanted peaks in volume when two instruments sound at the same time.  Often a kick drum is used as the sidechain source for a compressor.  This gives the kick more presence as the

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