The whole concept behind the beat-side of the ambient techno genre, is in providing a ... but it's very much the ideal for this form of music. 6. Now we can turn our attention to the hi-hat ...

Artist [Graham Dunning] refers to it somewhat dryly as the “Mechanical Techno method”, but that doesn’t quite do it justice. We’re thinking “Turntable-sequencer-synthesizer-beat-box-dub ...

1. Let’s start our beat with the kick. This is a vital part of hardgroove and needs to be tough but also not too short. A ...

BEST Readers' Choice Awards ranks Detroit's Movement music festival No. 6 in the nation. Here's what to know ahead of the 2025 event.

It means you can have a drum beat without a dummer and drum-kit. It also makes it easy to produce steady repetitive beats and has been key to house, hip-hop and techno music. A synthesiser is an ...

This zine, which contains Q&As with 20 DJs, grew out of a series of six raves at 1438 W. Cortland hosted by Ripe Productions.

It is an impressive testament to how artists can stretch out the climactic energy of electronic music, only slowing at the ...