For some counter-culture genres of music, the digital revolution has been a blessing as well as a curse. It's 6pm on a cool January evening in Bethnal Green, east London. On the top floor of a nondescript building, a group of young, mostly male, music producers mill around, playing pool and throwing darts. A lot [...]
EMI Music Publishing owns or administers more than two million songs, ranging from contemporary artists like Drake to classics by Queen, Carole King, and the Motown catalog.CreditRichard Perry/The New York Times By Ben Sisario Seven years ago, Sony entered a complex deal with Abu Dhabi for control of the EMI Music Publishing catalog, a trove of [...]
Smartphones are making it much easier to access the white stuff OLIVER PAYNE The UK's nearly earned the status of being the "biggest consumer of cocaine in Europe" and the blame is being aimed at smartphones. Ben Wallace, the UK's security minister, outlined that making connections via encryptions and smartphones is making it easier for [...]
Phil Morse May 15, 2018 | Read time: 3 mins Forbes reports today that interactive streaming music services – Spotify, Apple Music, Napster, Deezer, Tidal and so on — now account for the majority of recorded music industry revenue and are growing at better than 50% per year. The numbers, they report, say that the download [...]
We show you how to pick apart a DJ mix so you can learn new tips and tricks that you can add to your DJ toolbox. 17 MAY, 2018 We’ve written previously on how copying other DJs can unlock your own creativity but what we haven’t dived into is how you’re meant to go about [...]
By Anna Codrea-Rado May 3, 2018 WEIL AM RHEIN, Germany — In May 1985, the Palladium nightclub opened its doors to a Who’s Who of the New York art world. Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Larry Rivers were all there to check out the new club billed as a successor to Studio 54, the infamous nightspot that had [...]
Jaclyn Kendall is a DJ and producer who loves heavy-hitting kick drums and 140+ BPM. Making money from your music gigs isn’t easy. Few creators are able to make a living solely off their music. In fact, Incredible and talented musicians often have to work multiple jobs on top of playing gigs just to be [...]
Ron Trent Profiled in New Wax Poetics Series Wax Poetics has launched a new "travel" series of videos and they wisely started off in Chicago. May 2, 2018 Wax Poetics has launched a new “travel” series of videos and they wisely started off in Chicago. Soul City features Ronnie Reese exploring the music of [...]
LAST UPDATED 2 MAY, 2018 Most of us have been there at one point or another… 10 seconds left to play on a track in front of a packed dancefloor, and nothing lined up on the other deck! We may just have failed to find something we want, or got carried away chatting – but [...]
The CoCreators have been consistently releasing quality remixes of various tracks, they are back again with a new mix of ‘Drop It’ by James Bratch. The record rejuvenates the disco vibes along with a funky energetic feeling. It has a massive sub bass line and a smooth touch of Guitar. This can be one of the ubiquitous track of the summer and [...]