Reese bass is an often-confused term that crops up in dance music production usually within the jungle and Drum’n’Bass communities, but can be found in glitch hop, bass-house, dubstep and virtually any genre that is obsessed with bass.
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Aphex Twin is the moniker of Richard D. James, a Cornwall native whose output spans three decades, releasing on such labels as Apollo (R&S’s ambient sister label), his own imprint, Replhex and of course British indie Warp.
As genre defining classics go it’s hard to look past Marvin Gaye’s Ain’t no Mountain High Enough as a candidate for an exemplary Motown soul song.
When searching for this topic recently I was disappointed that well written articles had missed out one or two notable drum machines, or more thorough lists lacked examples, so here’s my short but sweet list of examples of the drum machines I think are worthy of inclusion.
I love the blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and during 2016 they posted a series of short articles titled Dancing music in the C20, expertly detailing the lineage of dance music during the 20th Century through some of the more and less obvious music genres.
At some stage or another, anyone who records in a humble home studio might want to move beyond the sound of an economy microphone and audio interface.
My production partner and myself have just completed our second sample pack together for Sample Magic and Splice titled French House 2. In this article I want to take a quick look in some detail at some of the production techniques that went into it.
Outside of EQ there isn’t an audio effect I reach for more often than the trusty compressor. Coming in all different flavours, shapes and sizes, no two compressors are the same and it’s one effect I find I can never have too many of.
I’ve been categorising my breakbeats folder by tempo for an upcoming project (more on this another time). The process involves selecting certain breaks, importing them to Logic, cropping them to exactly one, two, four or eights bars and detecting the tempo.
Queen of the Stone Age is the brainchild of guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Josh Homme. Few bands have left such a lasting impression on the rock idiom since the 90s as Queens of the Stone Age, and it could be argued a lot of that is down to this man and the musicians and producers he surrounds himself with.