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Music from Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and The Weeknd is returning to TikTok, thanks to a “multi-dimensional licensing agreement” with Universal

The companies say that they’ll work together to protect “human artistry” from the threat of AI-generated content

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"He transformed a piece of samba-flecked elevator music into one of the hardest hip-hop tracks of all time": 10 genius moments in hip-hop sampling history, featuring J Dilla, DJ Premier and more

We spin the record back on ten hip-hop tracks that show samplists at the peak of their powers

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Duane Eddy: “Our echo chamber was actually a 2,000-gallon water tank. We went down to the Salt River, visited a junkyard there... and we yelled into tanks”

Classic Interview: The rock 'n' roll icon on tone, hit-making and Hazelwood

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“It’s a silly name for a non-silly thing": Tributes paid to "Sultan of Twang", Duane Eddy, who has died aged 86

Rebel Rouser instrumentalist was massively influential founding father of rock 'n' roll

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Mr piano mule: Man jailed for attempting to smuggle £4.2m illicit stash into the UK in the back of an upright piano

Authorities were quick to lift the lid on his deception and crack the case

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“An exploration of China's rich musical heritage”: Arturia’s Augmented Yangtze puts a contemporary spin on 6 classic instruments

Bass Dizi, Xiao, Pipa, Guqin, Yangqin and Erhu multisamples meet multiple synth engines

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Song Athletics releases its first plugin, a sampler "designed to help you find the joy in your one shot collection"

Simplicity is key in OSS, the debut plugin from ex-Spitfire Audio head Will Evans' recently launched Song Athletics brand

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"We have a huge vision for our software. Our dream is to change how people create music digitally": Modalics on their pizza-inspired, polyrhythmic beatmaking plugin

We sat down with the brains behind Beat Scholar, EON-Arp and the new Time-Oddity Chorus

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“One second you speak to the driver, and next, you are up there in the air”: It’s ‘Jean-Michel flying car’ as the French electronic music pioneer becomes the world’s first passenger in the KleinVision AirCar

Watch him taking a ride in Air Force Oxygene

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"Most DAWs include some form of vocoder plugin, so why not use what you already have?": How to use the vocoder in Logic Pro

We walk you through how to nail vocal processing using Logic's EVOC-20 Vocoder

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"This is when you need to get serious": Signing a music contract? Here are 5 things you really need to look out for

A very quick primer on some key considerations before signing on the dotted line

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“The absolute best ambiences we’ve ever made”: Run two reverbs at once with Strymon’s feature-packed BigSky MX

The BigSky MX looks every inch the ultimate reverb pedal. It features expanded IR functionality, stereo panning, all made possible by a super-powerful tri-core 800 MHz ARM processor

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“A luxurious and refined take on a classic circuit”: KittycasterFX reimagines the Muff with the Mohair Fuzzstortion, pairing fuzz with a treble booster circuit for super-versatile performance

KittycasterFX mastermind Howard Gee is not a fan of Muff-style fuzz but he has made one anyway, with the Mohair spiking a silicon fuzz circuit with some Rangemaster inspired hot sauce

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YouTuber recreates Paramore’s iconic Misery Business snare drum sound from scratch without using samples, "Drum production was not the same post-Misery Business"

Eli Green shows how to get one of rock's best-loved snare drum sounds using a Pearl Vinnie Paul snare, some affordable microphones and a whole lotta compression

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"Plugins help you get ideas out quickly. By the time you’ve patched a hardware synth, found the right cable, turned it on and tuned it – you’ve lost the idea": Catching Flies

Manipulating samples into abstract new forms, Catching Flies has emerged with a creative identity all of his own. We sat down with the producer to find out more about his latest release, Tides

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“Hearing David Bowie’s Blackstar for the first time with Tony Visconti in the room and just working out the magic in that record. It was a pretty crazy, surreal experience”: Mastering maestro Joe LaPorta talks loudness, AI and being “very much a vibe guy”

“It’s just knowing how far you can push something before it loses its musicality,” says the man who finessed Miley Cyrus’s Flowers

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How to work with effected vocals in your mix: "Vocoders generally react well to signals that have heavy transients"

Knowing where to use vocal processing could make or break your track. We take a look at where you might choose to add some electronic vocal colour

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“She wanted the authenticity and the push and pull of the music. I thought, ‘We're going to need to do this live’”: Dan Nigro on recording Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS

The Grammy-nominated producer explains how he and Olivia Rodrigo developed GUTS' in-your-face sound

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GForce's Oberheim DMX recreates the sound of the drum machine behind New Order's Blue Monday and Run-DMC's It's Like That

The company's latest software emulation brings the DMX to your DAW and beefs it up with extra controls and effects

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“Enhance the low-end tightness, along with adding top-end bite without harshness”: Seymour Duncan launches alt.metal Blackout humbucker – the ultimate mod for low-end riffmongers?

Available for six or seven-string guitars, the alt.metal Blackout is literally built to chug, for players who tune to C# or lower

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Classic vocal effects, explained: "Contrary to many people’s assumptions, the vocoder itself is not actually a synthesizer"

Never mind AI, we’re getting the robots involved in production, as we demystify vocoders, talkboxes, hard-tuning and harmonisers!

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"I know me and I know my playing... and then there's Rain": The Beatles' greatest b-side was ahead of its time, but it also exposed a difference of perspective between Lennon and McCartney

Rain features some of the greatest individual performances by the four Beatles while sounding like it was beamed from the future

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“Legendary tone”: Behringer has officially released Vintage, its free VST synth plugin (yes, really this time)

The company says it’s worth $99, but you can have it for nothing

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"His piano playing and composition style has influenced both my development as a musician and, more significantly, music as a whole": A pro keyboardist gives you 5 ways to play like Bruce Hornsby

"Many years ago, I met Bruce as a wide-eyed 13 year-old," says Jeff Babko. "When his first record was released and exploded on the radio airwaves, I felt as if I’d brushed up against Superman"

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Slipknot just played their first show with their new drummer, and we all know it's Eloy Casagrande

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