With a new EP out on Tresor Records, Irish producer Kerrie flexes her hardware muscles, musically connects to early Detroit heritage and questions how machines are impacting culture. We asked her to walk us through the new EP, Track by Track. A1. Machine Alliance The lead track and EP's title, ‘Machine Alliance,’ has two opposing but intersecting meanings. The first is based on the potential for machines to take over or replace humans. The second refers to my relationship with my machines. Created with Elektron's Analog Four, Analog Rytm, Digtakt and a Sequential (Dave Smith Instruments) OB6 ..read more

Electronic music continues to grow the IMS Business Report 2024 reports. As the sun sets on another electronic music get-together on 'the island,' the annual IMS Business Report has now been published. The main takeaways at a glance. The global electronic music industry grew by 17% in 2023 to reach a value of $11.8 billion. Combined, the 15 leading music companies have already increased revenues to almost double pre-pandemic levels, the fastest growth is still in live, but 2023 was also a boom year for recorded music. Fandom in 2023 belonged to electronic music, which grew fastest across ..read more

After a terrible car accident as a teenager left her in serious condition, Yulia Niko passed the time, absorbing everything and anything about dance music. A year later, she was playing her first gig, and she's just released her debut album, TWINSOUL. We asked her to sit through our long-standing Q&A series. If you weren't making music, what would you be doing? I would be a stand-up comedian. Or maybe a detective. Or a yoga teacher!  What's the best advice you’ve ever received? Never listen to anyone! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Attack Magazine (@attackmag) Best ..read more

With Spotify's new policy of demonetizing all tracks with under 1,000 streams, Attack has launched a playlist to help bring attention to music not getting heard. When Spotify announced its new demonetization policy on April 1st, it seemed like an April Fool's stunt. But it isn't, and the streaming behemoth had already demonetized all tracks under 1,000 streams. In a statement, the company announced the decision following a report published last year titled Modernising our royalty system. The report outlines that 99.5% of all streams on the platform "are of tracks that have above 1,000 st ..read more

One Shot Sampler, OSS, is a standalone plugin designed to "help you find the joy in your one shot collection". Song Athletics' first plugin, One Shot Sampler, allows you to access and trigger your samples quickly and easily. It's easy to use. Simply locate your samples, write a melody or hold a chord, and scan through your one shots, like presets on a synth. A neat feature is you can change the background image and the colour scheme to whatever you like.  One Shot Sample also includes a demo pack of one shots and background images. One Shot Sampler was engineered by John Howes aka  ..read more

Ten years since their last record, Frank & Tony return with 'Ethos.' We put them to task on our Q&A. Why music? Frank: One of a couple of reasons to get out of bed. Tony: When I was 18, it seemed like the funnest thing to do, and now I'm 40, and I'm still doing it. If you weren't making music, what would you be doing? Frank: Reading. Tony: Graphic design and art direction (which I do full-time these days). What's the best advice you’ve ever received? Frank: Never take a crosstown bus. Tony: Don’t take shortcuts in life. What inspires you? Frank: Animals. Tony: My wife and daughter, ph ..read more

'Bled El Fen' is an ambitious double vinyl release by IDRISS D that celebrates Arabic electronic music. 303, Roland, and 4x4 are all common elements in electronic music, but in this release, there is a distinct Arabic flavor honoring his Algerian homeland. We asked him to break it down Track by Track. “I've been working on the album for two and a half years. It's a very important project for me to elaborate the music of my beloved country Algeria, in an electronic key, introducing master Algerian artists such as Zineddine Bouchaala, Gasba Electrique, Leila Moon and Chazil to a wider audience ..read more

Hailing from Finland, LUMI's debut release, “Look The Other Way,” charted at #3 on Beatport’s Indie Dance charts. With her quick rise, we put her to task on our quick-fire Q&A. Why music? As cliche as it may be, it truly saved my life, and it can change my mood from a bad one to a good one in an instant. If you weren't making music, what would you be doing? Probably biohacking. What's the best advice you’ve ever received? Decrease the time between thought and action, and you will be more productive than 90% of people. What inspires you? Weird art. The feeling of awe in nature. Waterfalls ..read more

Along with welcome GUI updates, scales awareness, micro-tunings, sound-similarity search, and all-new instruments, Ableton Live 12 introduced a groundbreaking feature set with MIDI Tools, offering musicians and producers access to a wealth of new possibilities directly within the MIDI editor. LIVE 12 MIDI TOOLS Fully integrated with Live 12's scale awareness, MIDI Tools empower users to reshape phrases and fully generate new rhythms and melodies like never before. Think of them like a new plug-in format, designed specifically to act on MIDI and incorporated directly into Live's piano roll edi ..read more

As the Space Invaders competition draws to a close, it's time to announce the winners. Read on to find out if it's you. In competitive gaming, breaking barriers and setting new records always cause astonishment. Yet, amidst the virtual cosmos of the Space Invaders competition, a winning score of just shy of 160,000 was quite something. If we're being honest, such a feat has defied expectations. Not only is the score impressive, but it must have required intricate skill, strategy, and lightning-fast reflexes to achieve it. It's certainly not a score we achieved ourselves. So who are the winne ..read more