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Nosaj Thing, accompanied by his Fair Enough visual show, and Mary Anne Hobbs performed this weekend at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, courtesy of Mean Red.

Renowned dub pioneer and innovator Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist talks about the origins of dub and the role dub engineer as a conductor, who essentially takes existing music and rearranges them. At last year’s Dub Summit, in a panel which also featured an array of electronic music producers, musicians, and professionals including DJ /rupture, Raz Mesinai, Ticklah, and Barry Cole.

The iPad is clearly the gadget to get this holiday season. With an impressive selection of music applications from companies such as Propellerhead, Moog, and Korg it’s become the must-have device for musicians too. As an early-adopter of the device

A comedic theme has most definitely been present since the beginning, like the monkey samples in “Chimps” or the vocal samples that blurt “boobies” throughout “Big and Round”. But fun for the Dirtybirders is also about keeping the floor dancing, and their particular brand of tech-funk does this by incorporating a wider range of influences and ideas than simply being goofy.

Ableton Certified Trainer and Dubspot Instructor Michael Hatsis aka !banginclude explains how to make ‘dubstep talking wobble bass‘ in Ableton Live using Operator (if you don’t already own Operator, check out the tutorial video Dubstep Wobble Bass Part 1 in

Wednesday, December 1st, marks yet another commemoration of World AIDS Day. The day is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic. One of the organizations dedicated to raising awareness and building hope for people affected by the disease, NextAid

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“Lost On Tenori St.” by Maddslinky, otherwise known as Zed Bias, feels like summer in city streets also prepared for winter extremes. This calypso infused parade of drums features bright but deep steel drum melodies

The next version of Native Instruments Maschine 1.6 will allow to host VST/AU instruments and Effects along with samples. This will be a game changer and increase the serious production potential of this already very powerful programming tool many fold.

Following up on last month’s post we have more useful video tutorials on Reason and Record from James Bernard. These are some very handy tips and tricks that Bernard has learned as product specialist for Propellerheads over the years. He

Under the curation of founder Dub Gabriel, Destroy All Concepts label draws on an eclectic, transnational collection of producers and artists (from Brooklyn to Berlin to San Francisco and beyond) united by dub and bass-centric experimental and