Magnetic Magazine

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJJoey Daniel Explains Why Better Producers Listen Differently I think one of the easiest ways to limit yourself as a producer is to listen exclusively to the type of music you’re trying to make.

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJRelinquo Explains How He Developed His Cinematic Techno Sound I think one of the harder things about developing your own sound as an electronic music producer is figuring out which parts of your musical interests deserve to become permanent features of your…

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJemesh Takes Hypnotic Techno Into Spiritual Territory on Purkana Antonio Muñoz has spent decades exploring electronic music from several different perspectives. He began DJing in Spain during the late 1980s, eventually performing at Madrid venues including Mondo…

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJExile, Medicine and Emma Banner Take Vocal DnB Into Heavier Territory One of the things I appreciated about Medicine’s “Just Walk Away,” which I covered back in September, was how much room the production gave the vocal without sacrificing the percussion and bass that…

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJAudeze’s Black Friday Sale Drops Maxwell Below $200 All Images Courtesy Of Audeze I spend a considerable amount of time reviewing headphones, and one thing I’ve learned is that the price of a good pair can be difficult to justify when you’re already…

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJMahony Explains How To Send Better Demos I’ve been on the receiving end of enough demo submissions to know that getting your music heard shouldn’t require a complicated process.

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJInfluur Pulse 2.0 Wants to Replace Your Music Marketing Team One of the most frustrating parts of running an independent record label is how much time you spend on promotion before anyone actually hears the music.

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJXS Nightclub Enters a New Era: Inside the Reimagining of a Las Vegas Nightlife Icon (XS nightlife enters a bold new chapter. Credit: Robert Miller) This article was written by guest contributor Candese Charles XS Nightclub holds iconic EDM memories for people worldwide, and its…

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJKataria On Returning To Music On Her Own Terms I think one of the hardest parts of building a career in music is accepting that the amount of work you put into something doesn’t necessarily determine what happens afterward.

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJGlenn Davis Returns to Ascension on Wax With A New Day EP There’s something interesting about a label returning to the artist who started its catalog, particularly when that first release helped establish a recognizable musical direction.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.