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So you’ve exhausted the conventional simple start of “generic wave into modulated filter cut-off” as the extent of your dubstep wobble and are looking for something a bit more interesting to make your sounds stand out?

You’ve come to the right place, my friend!   Here are 5 sweet suggestions that will help you keep wobbling innovatively into the future! Read the rest of this entry »

It is now into double figures of this milennium, meaning that Dubstep is almost a decade old. It’s time to look at who is pushing the genre to its limits with high production quality, original ideas and internal-organ-destroying basslines.

It’s the top 5 Dubstep producers here in 2010… Read the rest of this entry »

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One of the main criticisms levelled at electronic music is the lack of the live element – but it doesn’t have to be that way!

Here are 5 pieces of electronic music gear that can make live performance infinitely more interesting… Read the rest of this entry »

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Some of the world’s greatest masters of musical manipulation work in film.

It takes a certain skill to reflect the on-screen action and enhance it with rhythm and melody.   You need a commanding knowledge of the emotions music can convey and the instruments with which to convey it.

Here are the Top 10 people who have mastered that ability.
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This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

There are some wonderful bits of kit in the world allowing you to manipulate your music, but some just go that extra mile and attempt to break the mould with a brand new user interface that is completely different to the conventional buttons and knobs on most pieces of hardware.

It’s time they were recognised – here’s the Top 5 craziest hardware effects units…
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This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Most massive musicians make most of their money outside of music.

The “Self Branding” revolution is well and truly underway, with popular musicians marketing their image more so than their music in so many ways.

But which of these musical entrepreneurs are working the hardest?   Which pop-star players are raking in the cash for something other than their catchy hooks?   And How?

Take a look in the top 10 musical entrepreneurs…

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