Digital DJ Tips reader Sam asks: “When I DJ, I take pride in being able to beatmatch manually. However, when listening to professional, pre-recorded mixes online they always sound absolutely spot on. I feel that during a performance tiny mistakes add to the ‘live feel’, but when doing a mix recording it should sound absolutely perfect. “I’ve [...]
Jimpster (Jamie Odell) has been producing music since 1992. He currently co-runs the Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur labels and is a world-renowned producer and DJ. We spoke to Odell about the changes he’s seen in house music over the years, and attempt to uncover the secrets of his sound. Photo by Tom Oldham. The deep house scene owes more to [...]
In 1988, Luke Cowdrey was undergoing his acid-house epiphany in Manchester. “For me, it changed the world,” says the Sheffield-born DJ, better known as Luke Unabomber. “It wasn’t just music, drugs and hedonism. It was the people you met and the sense that life was, suddenly, so much better.” He smiles: “My brother always says the [...]
There's great value in meeting new people and talking to them face to face, especially in today's social media-driven world of faceless private messages. So far we’ve covered a huge variety of techniques and tips to jumpstart your DJ/producer career and being getting noticed. In the first part of this series you built micro [...]
Chip E and Carl Cox remake Time To Jack and Chicago House Music lore of Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy in the studio. He was the man who encouraged and helped co-produce Frankie Knuckles’ first track “You Can’t Hide.” He was in the studio with Ron Hardy when he did his very first [...]
Interview with The CoCreators April 8, 2018 Please, can you tell our readers who you are and what you do? We are The CoCreators, Label Bosses for Love Vibration Nation R3UK which is distributed by MN2S and Sony. We are also the primary artists and remixers for Love Vibration Nation Music. Your ‘Small Rooms [...]
Mr. Fingers' Cerebral Hemispheres comes out April 13 on Alleviated Music. Marc Sethi/Courtesy of the artist As you make your way through all 100+ minutes of Cerebral Hemispheres, Larry Heard's first album of new music released as Mr. Fingers in almost a quarter-century, the thing that may prove most startling is the variety. The house music sound [...]
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As an expected package of music copyright legislation continues to take shape in the United States House of Representatives, a Senate version of the Allocation for Music Producers (AMP) Act was introduced yesterday afternoon (Mar. 22) by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.), Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Kamala Harris(D-Calif). The AMP Act, which was re-introduced in the [...]