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

Not for the faint-hearted, Go Hard or Go Harcore Vol 1 is the first of four separate EPs, bringing together producers pushing hard techno to its sonic limits. We asked the producers to explain how they made each track. Go Hard or Go Hardcore is a new platform for releases, events, mixes, and exclusive collaborations pioneered by Rebekah. Vol 1, which is out now, brings together five producers plus a Rebekah collaboration, who all share a similar vision of what hard techno is and could be. We caught up with the producers to ask them how they made their tracks. If you're looking for guidance on ..read more

Having arrived in Britain to pursue her music career, Jesabel's latest single, 'Control', is out now. We asked her to introduce herself. Who are you? Hey! I’m Jesabel. A DJ and producer. Where are you from? I’m originally from Sydney, Australia, but I moved to London in December 2022 to pursue my crazy passion. Now I’m not sure I see myself ever leaving!  What do you sound like? Emotive, impactful, and groovy. When people hear my music, I want them to have that goosebumps feeling with all of the nostalgia and even slightly melancholic. I've left all my family and friends and my existing ..read more

BEAM is a new interactive effects plugin with a highly visual GUI from Lunacy, the makers of the award winning CUBE. Los Angeles-based plugin developer Lunacy is announcing the release of its new interactive multi-effects engine, BEAM. In celebration of its release, BEAM is 40% off from now through April 24th. The newest installment in the growing Lunacy universe, BEAM gives users interactive granular sound design, textural convolution, and flexible parallel processing. You can transform any sound: sparkle your keys, spice up your vocals, reshape your drums, and launch your synths into outer ..read more

Marking his return to Armada Subjekt, the house pillar of Armada Music, Hands is a summer smash in the making. OFFAIAH has had a busy release schedule over the Winter with 'Headspace' via Mistier Music, a Harry Romero remix on Incorrect, and a collaboration with Layton Giordani and Eli Brown released on Drumcode. His latest release, Hands, is a good summation of what the house arm of Armada Music is about - dancefloor-filling, groovy house. At a run time of just 2.28 the track is designed to get the listener hooked early on. The main vocal hook 'Throw your hands' repeats and loops, opening t ..read more

Meld is a modulation monster. We dive into making metal-inspired riffs step by step and add Roar to the mix as well. We've had plenty of time to use Meld. It's actually a very simple, well-designed device that sounds good, too. But in our first attempts, we were not able to achieve the results we wanted. With a few more hours under our belts, we've found we're in better control of it but still unexpectedly making metal-inspired riffs with it. The idea for this feature was to make Blawan-style modulated basslines, but we ended up where we are, and hopefully, it shows you some helpful pointers ..read more

We've partnered with Digit Music to offer three fantastic prizes for the champions of an internet game inspired by Space Invaders with a music twist. Interested? Keep reading to discover how you can enter. In this month’s competition, Attack has teamed up with Digit Music to give three lucky winners a chance to win big prizes. What are the prizes? 1st Place: CMPSR MIDI Instrument, all Digit Sounds sample packs & The Secrets of Dance Music Production worth £899! 2nd Place: 15 x Digit Sounds Sample Packs* & The Producer's Manual (soft copy edition) worth £234.99! 3rd Place ..read more

Hot on the heels of Current, Flex Chorus, a "prismatic chorus effect," is Minimal Audio's latest plugin. Minimal Audio's new Flex Chorus has two algorithm modes: Glass mode for a "clean and modern" chorus and Smooth mode for more classic deep modulation. Both offer up to 24 voices. The GUI is in keeping with Minimal Audio's usual look and, like the name, is rather minimal. You have controls for delay time, feedback amount, and stereo width. You also have a modulation panel, where users can use the LFO to modulate depth, rate, and randomization.  There are also high and low pass filters ..read more