Techtorial: How to Create A Growling Mid-Range DnB Bass

For this tutorial, we show how you can create a growling mid-range bass in Ableton Live using a simple bass sound. The growling bass with lots of mid-range presence is used across a range of genres but is particularly popular in the realms of drum and bass, dubstep and EDM. In the video below, our expert lecturer Ali […]

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Track of the Week: Circa – ‘HP UP’

For this week’s Track of the Week, we’re spotlighting Circa’s new song, ‘HP UP’. Each week we will be sharing a track, album or mix which deserves your attention. Tune in below. Alaska by CircaCirca‘s Lethal blend of neo-grime and dubstep sets ‘HP UP’ ablaze, with growling sub-basses, glitchy Game Boy sounds and some fatal sword fx […]

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Track of the Week: JT The Goon & Moscow Legend – ‘Explosive Combo’

For this week’s Track of the Week, we’re spotlighting JT The Goon and Moscow Legend’s ruthless instrumental grime track, ‘Explosive Combo’. Each week we will be sharing a track, album or mix which deserves your attention. Tune in below. DO OR DIE EP by JT THE GOON & MOSCOW LEGENDToday,  JT The Goon and Moscow Legend […]

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7 Proven Ways to Get Better Bass

The bassline is often the most important part of a track although it rarely gets the recognition it deserves. A great bassline either holds the music together, combines with a kick to provide the backbone of the track, or even comes screaming out of your speakers to take the lead. But with such varied uses, […]

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Watch Gammer Breakdown His Epic Track ‘Out With The Old’

In our latest track breakdown Monstercat wonderboy Gammer is back to show us how he created his epic club track, ‘Out With The Old’. The “spiritual followup” to his previous hit, ‘The Drop’, ‘Out With The Old’ continues to embrace the producer and DJ’s trance roots and packs one hell of a punch. Crammed with euphoric strings, […]

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Watch a Masterclass on Making a Synth Lead in Sylenth1 with Stonebank (Monstercat)

Welcome back to another of our guest masterclasses. Following on from our recent session with Gammer, we’ve hit up another Monstercat artist in Stonebank, who covers pretty much all angles of the label’s output with Happy Hardcore, Electro and Dubstep all likely to emerge from the lab. Here, he describes how to make a lead […]

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Watch a Masterclass on Making a Synth Lead in Sylenth1 with Stonebank (Monstercat)

Welcome back to another of our guest masterclasses. Following on from our recent session with Gammer, we’ve hit up another Monstercat artist in Stonebank, who covers pretty much all angles of the label’s output with Happy Hardcore, Electro and Dubstep all likely to emerge from the lab. Here, he describes how to make a lead […]

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Gammer Masterclass – The Drop Deconstruction

For our latest deconstruction video, we were graced by the presence of Gammer – happy hardcore legend and a good friend of our very own DJ Ravine. Despite his background in the super-fast rave sounds (in which Ravine also made his name), he has recently been turning his attention to huge stadium-ready dubstep tracks. It is […]

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Gammer Masterclass – The Drop Deconstruction

For our latest deconstruction video, we were graced by the presence of Gammer – happy hardcore legend and a good friend of our very own DJ Ravine. Despite his background in the super-fast rave sounds (in which Ravine also made his name), he has recently been turning his attention to huge stadium-ready dubstep tracks. It is […]

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Constant Evolution: We Interview Grime Pioneer Flowdan at Native Sessions: Bars

Much like the harshly angular yet brutally beautiful architecture of the Barbican itself, there is an element of compelling juxtaposition about chatting with Flowdan, one of grime’s fiercest MCs and true veteran of hard-hitting UK music, in the arts centre’s eerily tropical conservatory. But here we are, tucked in a corner beside the kitchen, away […]

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