Replay: In many respects sampling has made us rather complacent in the way we build up music. As a chance late-night rewatching of The Making of Dark Side of the Moon proves, back in the day creating ...

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In the Summer of 2001, Texas-born composer William Basinski decided to digitize some old tape loops he found lying around in the storage room of his Williamsburg, Brooklyn loft. When he picked a tape ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...

It goes without saying that not everyone has the same taste in music, and what sounds amazing to one person will be the next person’s noise. But even if you’re not into hip-hop and the whole DJ scene, ...

Constructing a tape loop is not easy. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong fiddling with a cassette’s plastic cogs and the delicate magnetic tape inside. Tape breaks or becomes unspooled, all ...

There was a time not so very long ago when analog tape machines were the\n\ bleeding edge of music ... Save this story Save this story There was a time not so very long ago when analog tape machines ...

For Christmas 1965, Paul McCartney presented his bandmates with a unique gift: a homemade record produced just for them, consisting of sampled songs, original sketches and avant-garde loops.

In the fall of 2013, Chris Walla was having a crisis of confidence. After 17 years as guitarist and producer for Death Cab for Cutie, he found himself disinterested in the music they were working on ...

Here's how to master one of music's most beloved effects boxes, used by dub producers and experimental electronic composers alike since the early ’70s When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

It should be obvious that technology has the power to dramatically change the face of music. The electric guitar gave birth to modern blues and rock and roll. Drum machines gave us hip hop and house.