Along with the release of my album Sampled Library, I wanted to write up some thoughts about sampling I’ve had kicking around my head. The sampler is a relatively recent invention: showed up in the late 60s, affordable by plonkers in the 80s, and gutted by legal nonsense the 90s. In between the last two […]
You know what it’s like when music, sound, and the related equipment just amuse you beyond words?? You just want to sit there all day and fuck with it.
prodigy — smack my bitch up
There’s no step-by-step formula for music. Almost everyone picks up on this intuitively… yet, people will still ask, “How do you write music? Where do I start?”
One of the best ways to get over a creative block is to take a walk.
It’s easy to listen to a track by some genius god of electronic music and get terribly overwhelmed. Here’s an approach that lets you cut the task of writing one down to size.