by Chad Glenn

Making beats on your mobile device is now a potent reality for Apple’s Iphone. Intua (featured above) has developed a music creation platform called Beatmaker, which appears to be a beatbox, loop sampler and sequencer all-in-one package. This is the most robust beat-making package I’ve seen for any mobile device. [...]

by Chad Glenn
A glitch can be defined as a minor malfunction, mishap, technical problem or snag.  When manufactured intentionally in the digital realm and replicated over several musical bars while being processed through distortions, decimators, manglers, sample granulation, spectral analysis, morphing, resynthesis and cross synthesis, you have an art form.  Made popular by names such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, [...]

by DJ Lutris
Hip hop is the blood line of our musical culture. It circulates our energy and keeps our ears and souls alive and on fire! Hip hop beats are raw and rugged and reflect the most human side of us. My goal is to show you how to make a hip hop beat of [...]

By Jason Kowalchuk
From its humble beginnings on the london rave scene in the early 90’s, when breaks were innocently looped instead of sequenced, and vocals pitched up instead of timestrecthed, to the present day, it has always been at the cutting edge of electronic musical innovation. Much of the scene’s early output was characterised by [...]

 by chad glenn
Making beats is not necessarily genre specific.  From hip hop to drum and bass to experimental glitch music, the fundamentals of beat making can be used to create solid foundations in any electronic music genre.  Here are 5 tips to get you started:
1) Sequencing Software
You have many options here.  In general, the thing [...]