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Goth-Trad (Deep Medi / Japan) Video Interview + New EP ‘Babylon Fall’ w/ Max Romeo

Artist & Labels

Dubstep may still be somewhat underground in Japan, but the country’s primary bass export Goth-Trad is a monster on the international scene. As a kid he was tuned onto the sounds of electronic music bands and labels like Kraftwerk and

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NI’s Komplete 8 Video Tutorial: Studio Drummer – New Drum Kits, Effects, EQ

Sound Design

In the third installment of our video tutorial series highlighting the exciting updates to Native Instruments’ comprehensive producer bundles, Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate; Dubspot instructor and NI’s product specialist Matt Cellitti explains and demonstrates why Studio Drummer from Native Instruments truly makes Komplete more “kompleterer”.

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Mad Professor (Ariwa Sounds) @ Dubspot! Live Streaming Workshop 09/16 + Dub Invasion

Dubspot Homepage

On Friday, September 16th, at 6PM (EST), London’s Mad Professor – the dub icon who founded Ariwa Sounds – will come to Dubspot NYC to present a live, streaming workshop and a performance as part of the weeklong Dub Invasion Festival

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NI’s Komplete 8 Video Tutorial: Sound Design w/ Guitar Rig 5 + Maschine

Sound Design

In the second installment of our tutorial series highlighting the exciting updates and additions to Native Instruments’ comprehensive producer bundle Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate. Dubspot instructor and NI’s product specialist Matt Cellitti showcases Guitar Rig 5 as a dedicated effects unit

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Video Interview: King Britt & Rucyl (Saturn Never Sleeps) @ Dubspot + Ableton Live Workshop Recap

Workshops

On Friday, July 29 legendary Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, and remixer King Britt and singer and collaborator Rucyl. The duo performs live with Ableton and release music under the name Saturn Never Sleeps, and in our interview, they share insights into the recording process for their debut album Yesterday’s Machine.

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Video Tutorial: Mixing & Mastering w/ iZotope Ozone 4 – Using Multiband Compression

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Dubspot Instructor and Mixing & Mastering engineer Daniel Wyatt is back with more invaluable techniques, tips and tricks using iZotope’s versatile mastering plug-in Ozone 4. In this new tutorial video, Wyatt shares an amazing technique using Ozone’s Multiband Compressor to gather up all the low end frequencies

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Maschine 1.7 Released, iMaschine iOS App + Mikro Controller Announced!

Featured

Native Instruments hits us with a trifecta of Maschine goodies today with the 1.7 update, the new Maschine Mikro controller and the iMaschine iOS application.

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Dubspot Hi-Fidelity Workshops NYC – Sat 9/10 @ Dub Invasion Festival!

Events

On Saturday, September 10th, from 1-6pm, Dubspot will host The High Fidelity EDU Sessions: a series of demonstrations, workshops, photo exhibitions, film screenings, and presentations with Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Ableton, iZotope, Native Instruments, Propellerhead and more!

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Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound) @ Dubspot! Live Streaming Workshop 9/8 6PM EDT

Artist & Labels

London’s Adrian Sherwood, the founder of On-U Sound, will come to Dubspot NYC to present a live, streaming workshop (RSVP HERE TO ATTEND IN PERSON). Sherwood was never interested in sounding like anyone else, and that ethos led to him working with the likes of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Prince Far I to Depeche Mode and The Bug.

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Electric Zoo Festival 2011 NYC: Plastikman, Rusko, Diplo, Guetta, Tiesto, BT, Skrillex, Moby, Boys Noize, MSTRKRFT, Tiga, Tenaglia, Carl Cox, Dubfire +

Events

Now in its 3rd year, New York’s electronic music festival Electric Zoo will come to Randall’s Island Labor Day weekend for 3 days of enormous line-ups of world-renowned DJs. Beginning Friday, September 2nd and lasting through Sunday, some…

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NI’s Komplete 8: Kontakt 5 + Maschine Video Tutorial – Filters, Effects, Timestretching

Video tutorials

In this new tutorial, Dubspot instructor and Native Instruments product specialist Matt Cellitti shows off some of the incredible features in NI’s brand-new Kontakt 5, which is of course included in the upcoming Komplete 8. Cellitti explains hat many of these features have remained unchanged since version 2, which came out several years ago

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Dub Invasion Festival NYC: Dubspot Presents Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Clive Chin

Events

Starting Thursday, September 8 in New York, Dubspot is excited to be a part of Sound Liberation Front and New York label Subatomic Soundsystem’s Dub Invasion Festival. Spanning 10 days in both Boston and New York, the festival will feature

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Friends of Friends (LA): Label Spotlight & Interview w/ Leeor Brown

Artist & Labels

In our final installment of the Friends of Friends video recap series, we present the tie that binds all these artists together—FoF label owner and PR wiz Leeor Brown. In this Dubspot-produced interview, Brown chats about the origins of the label, his business philosophy, and why he doesn’t like CDs.

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5 Ableton Live Tips from Dubspot Instructors – Pt 2: Nalepa, John Selway, DJ Excess, Pat Cupo

Ableton Live

No matter how experienced you are, there’s always room to improve. Here at Dubspot, we’re surrounded by talented, creative, and generous individuals who are always willing to share production tips, tricks, and techniques to anyone looking to improve their production skills or performance abilities.

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Appleblim (Apple Pips, Skull Disco) Dubspot Interview: Production, DJing, Bristol +

Artist & Labels

Although tropical storm clouds threatened to let loose outside of the Sub:Stance party here in New York last weekend, Appleblim was happy to risk the downpours for this interview. The following exchange took place mostly under an awning sheltered from the heavy rain, which the DJ and producer seemed to find pretty entertaining.

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