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Electronic Music

How To Webcast Live Electronic Music

June 1, 2010

Tagged as: Electronic Music, electronic music tips, Korg ElecTribe ER-1, Music, Synthesizers and Samplers

My friend Brandon Coffee (a.k.a electracomplex ) recently asked how I run a weekly electronic music webcast with my friend David . For the most part, David and I do hardware only – no software – and it’s all improvised. Doing this is a lot of fun and if you’re looking to engage electronic musicians and fans online , [...]

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Awesome Historical Archive of Electronic Dance Music – 40 Dj Mixes, 407 Tracks

April 11, 2010

Tagged as: archive, dj, Electronic Music, history, house, rave, techno

When people ask me what kind of music I like I usually just say ‘techno’, but electronic dance music is hard to describe to people who don’t already ‘know’. It’s got such a long history of being the soundtrack to young people transgressing the boundaries of modern, urbanized life – creating something new, something their [...]

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5 Steps to Social Media Engagement for Electronic Musicians

February 16, 2009

Tagged as: djing, Electronic Music, electronic music tips, Facebook, Google Reader, MySpace, RSS, Social Media, Twitter

During my work with NAMAC, I created a ‘Social Media Engagement Cycle’ template in order to communicate with my supervisors just how we might dive in to using blogs, RSS, Facebook and Twitter to engage with our members. Inspired by Beth Kanter’s post ‘How Much time Does it Take to Do Social Media‘ I thought [...]

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How to Start Making Electronic Music

December 31, 2008

Tagged as: Ableton, Arts, dj, Electronic, Electronic Music, electronic music tips, laptop, midi, Music, performance, Synthesizer, techno

I love electronic music. I love making it, listening to it, promoting it and of course, helping other people create it. While I didn’t write these myself, I thought I’d share some helpful PDF manuals and guides I’ve compiled to get you started.
In writing this, I’m also assuming that readers have some kind of multi-track [...]

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5 Tips To Boost Your Performance in Ableton Live

July 22, 2008

Tagged as: Ableton, AbletonLive, Arts, Edirol, Electronic Music, electronic music tips, how to, MIDI controller, Music, Music and Audio, performance

Photo by Accent Creative
I love Ableton . I’d probably swear by it as a compositional and performance tool. As far as multi-track recording, I’m sure there are some better ones, but Ableton Live is not really about that – it’s about performing and having the most intuitive interface for expressing your musical ideas. That’s why [...]

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