Ever tried to cram years of techno mixing wisdom into a single day? Underdog Electronic Music School brings in Brice—yeah, the dude with decades on the decks and a bag full of studio hacks—to break down the art of balancing, backbone building, and keeping your mixes alive. This isn’t about chasing perfection; it’s about vibe, taste, and using your ears (not just your eyes). If you want a taste of how to actually mix techno without losing your mind, this one’s for you.
In Daniele Ippolito’s hands, a-ha’s ‘Scoundrel Days’ is more than a relic—it’s a living, breathing nebula of sound and regret. This is not the pastel pop of MTV nostalgia, but an album that exhales fog and fractured light, revealing cold spaces and emotional gravity beneath glossy surfaces. Through Ippolito’s poetic lens, we drift through the album’s restless moods, feeling every magnetic pull of its Scandinavian melancholy. Prepare to enter a landscape where synthesizers become sonic ghosts and the past shivers just out of reach.
If you think Sample and Hold is just a sprinkle of random burbles, AutomaticGainsay is here to slap you with some voltage truth, straight from Behringer’s MS-5. In this no-prisoners demo, Marc Doty wrangles the S&H for weird modulations, creamy lag, and the sort of pitch wobbles that’d make a 70s ARP jealous. Forget polite filter squiggles—this is about wringing every drop of chaos from a budget synth and making it sound like pure synth gold. Buckle up, because things get slippery, steppy, and gloriously unpredictable.
Voltage Labs leads us into the fog-laced streets where Drum and Bass was born—not as a genre, but as an echo of restless cities and deep cultural resonance. Here, sound system ghosts and pirate radio hunger collide, giving rise to a world of quicksilver beats and magnetic bass that shape both body and spirit. This isn’t a timeline; it’s a living nebula, where each evolution pulses with narrative, community, and the ghosts of dub and rave. Voltage Labs’ vision is cinematic: we drift, not through history, but through the living bloodstream of Drum and Bass itself.
Sineway dives headfirst into their debut live performance, dragging a pile of gear into the rave bunker and emerging with stories, sweat, and a few singed eyebrows. Expect sharp verdicts on everything from the Novation Peak to the Digitakt 2, plus hard-won lessons about what actually matters when you’re facing a real crowd and not just your houseplants. This isn’t a victory lap—it’s a breakdown of the good, the bad, and the stuff Sineway will never do again. Grab your headphones, it gets bumpy.
Ever wondered if one control surface can run a proper techno bunker? Starsky Carr grabs the Reliq and goes hardware-only, slapping CV, gates and MIDI into shape. Forget endless menu diving – this is raw, fast, and full of movement. If you want a taste of what the Reliq can really do before the deep-dive lands, this jam is your shot of espresso. Spoiler: it’s not just for the modular nerds.
What happens when mad scientists of the plugin world unleash their latest free monsters into the wild? Bthelick dives headfirst into KVR’s Developer Challenge, sifting through the pile of new sonic gadgets with his signature clarity and dry humour. If you’re after shimmering drones, FM beasts, or just want to see what the community’s cooking up for nothing, this is the synthetic street parade you don’t want to miss. And yes—there’s a challenge for you, too.
You think your stereo width knob is magic? TheCosmicAcademy is here to smash that illusion with a sledgehammer. In a few brisk minutes, this video dismantles the lazy assumptions behind width controls, shows why copying and panning isn’t a shortcut to wide mixes, and delivers the real chaos behind stereo tricks. If your mix sounds flat, this is the street lesson you didn’t know you needed—served up fast, sharp, and with a couple of teeth missing.
Erae Sound is embodme’s bold answer to dedicated, MPE-driven software synthesis, built specifically for the Erae 2 controller. This video tutorial delivers a comprehensive walk-through of the synthesizer’s core workflow, from its dual sound generators and flexible routing to a modulation matrix that’s genuinely performance-centric. The integration with Erae Lab and dynamic project management creates a unique interplay between hardware and software, putting expressive control at the player’s fingertips. We explore what’s shown—and what remains to be seen in deeper workflow contexts.
Let’s face it – samplers are wicked fun, but sound design on them can feel like sculpting with a plastic spoon. Sunwarper, LA’s king of dusty textures, takes a hard look at this creative gap and throws an iPad into the mix. No endless plugin menus, no DAW-induced existential crisis – just one tablet, a clever MIDI controller, and a workflow that lets you keep your hands dirty. If you’re tired of your sampler’s limits but allergic to boring screens, this is the hack you need.
