Ableton Forum

If you want to use control vinyl then Serato is a great choice, I've been using my SL3 interface with 1200's for 3 years and never had a single issue. The only reason I would consider Traktor is if I wanted to be able to DJ without a mixer for any reason as it's not possible with Scratch Live. In th...

Rough Fields http://soundcloud.com/red-moth-music/rough-fields-manila-mp3 http://soundcloud.com/red-moth-music/sets/rough-fields/ amanaplan http://soundcloud.com/amanaplan/sets His ep just dropped a week ago http://amanaplan.bandcamp.com/ also Machinedrum has been killing it recently, loads of diffe...

I think the term glitch hop tends to be used for heavily edited instrumental hiphop, I'm not sure if Flying Lotus and Brainfeeder crew can really be described like that. It's sometimes called 'wonky hiphop' because of the use of unusual timing and groove. If you're after the more edited sound then y...

The Night Slugs camp take influences from lots of styles like house, garage, UK funky and grime, Bok Bok particularly has a lot of grime elements to his sound. I would say the main thing in terms of sound that connects their music to grime is the rhythmic patterns, if you listen to the snare drums i...

Dubstep was born in Croydon, London around 2000-2001ish but didn't actually get the name until a bit later. It was related to garage but incorporated production techniques from dub and jungle to give the 2-step style beats more atmosphere and depth. It has evolved into a lot of styles and subgenres ...