Music Yves Tumor’s ‘Gospel For A New Century’ proves he’s in a league of his own by James Peppercorn With music this confronting, this powerful, and this awe-inspiring, Yves Tumor has carved out a musical niche solely his own. After knocking down the doors…
News Pro Audio Get some vintage warmth with Native Instruments’ LO-FI GLOW by Josh Davies Native Instruments have released two new products designed for all your lo-fi needs. Native Instruments’ LO-FI GLOW is a Kontakt instrument, released as part of…
News Download hundreds of royalty-free ambient underwater sounds by Sarah Gillard Die-hard nature sounds lover Marcel Gnauk has returned with his second royalty-free collection of underwater sound recordings, collected from all over the world. Once again,…
Features Pro Audio The imitation game: recording live instruments vs using software by Happy Recording any live instrument takes time: finding a musician (if you can’t play the instrument yourself), setting up microphones, recording and post-recording editing requires a…
Features Looking through four of the most astonishing plunderphonics records of the past 16 years by Guy Steinbeck It’s been a long (looong loooooooong) 16 years, but The Avalanches have finally dropped their highly anticipated sophomore album, Wildflower. This followed up their 2000…
Interviews The Laurels talk samples, their new direction, and maybe putting on their own festival by Nick Stillman Fresh from releasing their brilliantly weird new single Zodiac K, Sydney psych rockers The Laurels talk the art of samples, their new direction as a…
Music Introducing: Panda Bear by Shayen de Silva I’m not gonna lie, panda bears are probably the cutest things in existence and anyone who thinks otherwise is dead inside. Are they black? Are…
Music Machine Translations – The Bright Door by Shayen de Silva I’m bound to lose a lot of my cool muso journo cred with this following statement: I’ve never listened to vinyl before*. That is until today….
Music Team Cat Food by Happy Band names can be confusing. Sometimes, they’re spot on, like in the case of deathgrind bands Pig Destroyer and Circle of Dead Children. Upon discovering…