Future Music Issue 403: Making the future since 1992. Unleash your creativity with 2 exclusive new packs and an 18GB archive library for FREE. Dive into the essential guide to vocal sampling, from discovery to processing. Get inspired by artist interviews with Marta Salog, NI, DJ Shadow, and Evian Christ. Elevate your music to the next level!
This month’s Electronic Sound cover star is Andrew Weatherall – pictured during the early days of his illustrious career – and we have an exclusive white vinyl seven-inch featuring two magnificently wonky tracks from his Woodleigh Research Facility project to accompany the issue. It’s hard to believe that it is almost four years since Weatherall died, robbing the electronic music world of one of its brightest, sharpest and most unique talents. Next week sees the release of his final recordings in the form of Woodleigh Research Facility’s ‘Phonox Nights’ album and we have spoken to his WRF partner Nina Walsh for our cover story, which is a celebration of Weatherall as an artist, a producer and a remixer. We are also reprinting his first interview with the music press, which he gave to Melody Maker just before the release of Primal Scream’s ‘Screamadelica’ in 1991, a record he masterminded following his pioneering remixes of tracks like ‘Loaded’ and ‘Higher Than The Sun’.
This December we reject the doom and gloom surrounding AI’s impending incursion on music production and instead focus on how you can harness it in less obvious ways to enhance your work.
REVIEWS: Clavia Nord Stage 4 keyboard • Rupert Neve Designs MBT • Shure SM7dB • HEDD Audio HEDDphone Two • Zoom MicTraks recorders • IK Multimedia UNO Synth Pro X • Apple Logic Pro For iPad • Boss GM-800 guitar synth • Austrian Audio MiCreator • AJH Synth MiniMod Keyz • Arturia Acid V soft synth • Warm Audio ODD Box v1 pedal • Alice 538R compressor • Mesanovic CDM65 monitors • Digit Music CMPSR controller • Acon Digital Remix source separation plug-in • KMI K-Board-C & QuNexus RED MPE keyboards • Lightning Boy Dark Storm mic pre • Musik Hack Master Plan mastering plug-in • Cherry Audio Novachord & Solovox • Spotlight: Atmos-capable DAWs • Sample Libraries — and more reviews!
Future Music is the number one magazine for today’s producers. Packed with technique and technology we’ll help you make great new music. All-access artist interviews, in-depth gear reviews, essential production tutorials and much more. Every marvellous monthly edition features reliable reviews of the latest and greatest hardware and software technology and techniques, unparalleled advice, in-depth interviews, sensational free samples and so much more to improve the experience and outcome of your music-making.
Earn money with your beats: Hip-Hop, Rap & Boom Bap Hip-Hop is more than music, Hip-Hop is culture – and an incredibly big one, which has long since outgrown the underground and, with acts like Eminem, has found a firm place at the top of the mainstream. In our feature, we not only interview the hottest acts, but also look over their shoulders as they produce and give you all the tools and tricks you need to write exquisite Raps as well as for contemporary Lo-Fi sound and classic sampling & turntablism Hip-Hop with a 12-bit aesthetic.
We are celebrating 60 years of ‘Doctor Who’ with the help of The Radiophonic Workshop in the new issue of Electronic Sound. We have a silver vinyl Radiophonic seven-inch to accompany the magazine as well, the material including two Dalek tracks taken from early episodes of the sci-fi TV show. Our cover story boasts an amazing cast of Radiophonic Workshop members, with Brian Hodgson, Dick Mills, Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb, Peter Howell and Mark Ayres recalling those halcyon days at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale Studios. There are tons of ‘Doctor Who’ anecdotes, of course, but they also talk about some of their other wonderful work for BBC television and radio programmes over the many decades. It’s a lengthy and highly entertaining read and it begins with a mighty strange tale about “two mad scientists and a moon maiden”. They certainly broke the mould when they made the Radiophonic folk.
