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Dance Up-And-Comer of the Month: Tatyana Jane Has Played the Olympics & Gotten Lessons From Skrillex, Now She’s Forging a New Genre

The French-Cameroonian producer recently released her latest EP, Discordia, on Ed Banger Records.

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Best Granular Plugins For Electronic Music: What I Use When A Sound Needs To Become Something New

Best granular plugins for electronic music are worth covering on their own because granular processing solves a specific kind of production problem. Sometimes I do not need another reverb, another delay, or another synth preset. I need one sound to break apart, smear, freeze, repeat, stretch, or tur

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Flowers On Monday On Slowing Down When Music Culture Speeds Up

Flowers on Monday (@flowers_on_monday) return alongside Rowee and Amega on “Lost in Space,” out now via Where The Shadow Ends. The release includes an extended mix from Rowee, Amega, and Flowers on Monday, plus a Madraas remix, with both versions sitting in the organic house lane. It i

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Songwriter AI victory in Europe as GEMA beats Suno in copyright lawsuit

The European music industry has scored a significant win when it comes to AI and copyright, with a German court siding with collecting society GEMA against Suno. Judges ruled that Suno breached US and German copyright law by training its model on GEMA controlled compositions without permission

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Albert Hammond Jr. on The Strokes' 'Angles' Evolution

He did, however, hail one track on the album as "production-wise very cool"

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Rockabye Baby Co-Creator Discusses the Series' 20-Year Journey and Paramore's Role

The executive producer also shares why Paramore was the perfect act to celebrate the series' 20 year anniversary.

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SOCAN acquires CMRRA from SoundExchange

The acquisition will combine Canada's leading performing and reproduction rights organizations, pending regulatory approval. Source

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Albert Hammond Jr says The Strokes’ ‘Angles’ was originally “more Stones-y” but ended up “flat” and “all over the place”

He did, however, hail one track on the album as "production-wise very cool"

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Free Sub Bass Samples Available

Nothing adds weight to your productions like a well-placed sub. Here's a few hundred of them

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Rockabye Baby Co-Creator Lisa Roth Reveals the Recipe For Transforming Hit Songs Into Lullabies: ‘I Had No idea It Would Be Going Two Decades Later’

The executive producer also shares why Paramore was the perfect act to celebrate the series' 20 year anniversary.

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SampleRadar: 473 free sub bass samples

Nothing adds weight to your productions like a well-placed sub. Here's a few hundred of them

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Ozzy Osbourne Haunted Houses Coming to Universal Studios

“Ozzy never stopped pushing boundaries, and he loved anything that gave fans a new way to experience his music and the worlds he created,” said Sharon and Jack Osbourne The post Universal Studios to l

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Universal Studios to launch two Ozzy Osbourne haunted houses in move to “grow his licensing program around the world”

“Ozzy never stopped pushing boundaries, and he loved anything that gave fans a new way to experience his music and the worlds he created,” said Sharon and Jack Osbourne The post Universal Studios to launch two Ozzy Osbourne haunted houses in move to “grow his licensing program around the world” appe

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Boy George Pulls Out of London Production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ In Wake of Backlash to AI-generated ‘We Will Dance Again’ Song

The Culture Club singer was slated to play King Herod in the musical beginning next week.

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Christine McVie's Songcraft and Lindsey Buckingham's Production Fueled Fleetwood Mac Hit

“That song is like that feeling when you’re walking on the clouds because you’re in love”

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The Selecter's Pauline Black Discusses Breakthrough Single and 2 Tone Era

Pauline Black speaks to us about the origins of the Selecter, and how the group’s upbeat debut single ironically gained traction amongst the very DJs it was criticising

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“It’s a strange little song. It’s weird and off its trolley - but people love it and everybody knows it”: We speak to The Selecter’s Pauline Black about their breakthrough 1979 single - and 2 Tone's moment as the sound of British youth culture

Pauline Black speaks to us about the origins of the Selecter, and how the group’s upbeat debut single ironically gained traction amongst the very DJs it was criticising

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Ariana Grande sues to identify music hackers

Ariana Grande is very annoyed that anonymous hackers keep hacking into the devices and accounts of photographers and producers she works with and then leaking pre-release music and other content. So m

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“He slowed the tape down really slowly and played the parts slowly… When it came up to the right speed it sounded amazing”: How Christine McVie’s pop songcraft and Lindsey Buckingham’s production genius created one of Fleetwood Mac's biggest '80s hits

“That song is like that feeling when you’re walking on the clouds because you’re in love”

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‘007 First Light’ soundtrack is available to stream

We’re still waiting for the ravey Dimitri Vegas James Bond theme remix though