Stickies

Renowned Melbourne beat-smith and sound designer Spoonbill, aka Jim Moynihan, is back from inter-galactic scavenging with a new 3-track EP of tropical steampunk electronica: Astro Archipelago.

It's a hyper-catchy digital amalgam of brass, keys, harmonica and guitar doing dirty things with synths and bass to make you shake your booty. Astro Archipelago features Spoonbill’s playful signature cut-up sound, with a galaxy of funky melody pushed to the fore.

The album originated from Jim's work ...

GHF Presents the Producer Q&A Series Part 7: heRobust


Hailing from Atlanta Georgia, heRobust (Hayden Kramer) has burst onto the electronic scene with thoughtful, hip-hop inspired beat music. Hayden's debut EP, Albumin, was released on Saturate Records in February of 2011 and was quickly recognized by industry leaders such as XLR8R, Vice, and Jay Scarlet of Beat Dimensions. Soon after, heRobust had already shared the stage with the likes of Flying Lotus, Daddy Kev, ...

Very pleased to announce that I have decided to give away Chapter 1 of The ill.Methodology FREE online. This 45 minute chapter expounds the psychological and philosophical basis that every electronic musician needs to be successful.

Here is the free workshop: http://illgates.com/2012/02/new-spring- ... tes-added/

The full workshop is available here: http://illgates.com/theillmethodology/t ... hop-video/

Free racks at that second link too

Enjoy!

Freddy Todd hails from Detroit, Michigan and makes delicious beats all day. He has played in multiple metro-Detroit based bands including Ioriba, Tone Poets (his current live jam-tronica jazzy funk/rock band with drums, bass, occasional guitar, and Freddy on live keys routed through computer effects and controls), Cave System (his ex-progressive-indie-rock band), Breezee One (swagged out female hip-hop), and SplaTTerboX (his current live DJ and electronic production project with GRiZ (formerly DJ GK)).

He ...

This is not a discussion about what's better. Just curious what everyone's weapon of choice is.

If you use more than one, just answer for your main one.

Surprised me, but I couldn't find a thread for sharing custom ableton device presets. Either standard ones or just ones you like.

Dewey, if you read this could you be kind enough as to allow upload of .adg and .adv files?

I'll start this shizz out.

Audio Effect Rack:
Standard NY Compression http://www.dissentingmedia.com/NY%20comp.adg

Beat repeats:
64th note glitcher http://www.dissentingmedia.com/64th%20note%20slowmindfuckerater.adv
8th note glitcher http://www.dissentingmedia.com/8th%20killer.adv

GHF Presents the Producer Q&A Series Part 5: Heyoka

Heyoka manages to stand out amongst bass music producers with a cult like following due to his unique take on all things ‘Glitch’ and ‘Bass’ centric. In the past few years Heyoka has been taking elements of Glitch Hop, Grime, Drum & Bass, Dubstep, and now Blues and Jazz and turned them on their heads repeatedly and emerging at times like the audio version of ...

GHF Presents the Producer Q&A Series Part 4: Samples
Ben Samples is one half of the live remix project Fresh2Death that is based out of Boulder, CO.  His style is crunk glitch-hop, complete with bass-heavy remixes of your favorite club anthems and hip hop.  His professional DJ career started in 2006 when he picked up a weekly variety radio show for CU Boulder's KVCU.  His show covered many styles and genres, with a focus on ...

GHF Presents the Producer Q&A Series Part 3: Gettin' ill with the queen of the lizard overlords

For the last decade, ill-esha has been an integral part of the North American electronic scene. Beginning as a vocalist, she soon added MCing and DJing to her repertoire, creating a dynamic and unique live show which has headlined alongside artists such as Andy C, Klute, Dieselboy, Vibesquad, LTJ Bukem, Tipper, T-Power & De La Soul. She ...

GHF Presents the Producer Q&A Series Part 2: Kraddy

I am very excited and pleased to announce that Kraddy is going to shed some light upon his production techniques with our forum. He will be answering the first handful of questions that get posted here.

"Known as a pioneer of electronic music, Kraddy is one of the most innovative and remarkable artists of his day. He stands as a visionary in his field, a ...