10 years back
Our monthly shake-of-thehead at our younger selves’ news choices…
What were you doing back in July 2011? If you were reading 166, you may have been learning how to make chillout, a genre that had already gained a bit of a reputation for naffness, thanks to its use as the soundtrack to endless home makeover shows. Maybe it’s time for a revival… or maybe we should all kick back and not bother.
More urgently, we asked if high-end music software was being dumbed-down
“We predicted that Android could soon be a rival for iOS in the music-making stakes”
– it has certainly gotten easier to use, which is a good thing, we’d argue – and we predicted that Android could soon be a rival for iOS in the music-making stakes. Let’s not dwell on that one any more than we have to...
Elsewhere, we gave you a guide to oldskool production techniques, which featured an interview with the muchmissed Godfather of house, Frankie Knuckles, who died in 2014. “Study the works and techniques of producers that were the top in their fields.,” he advised, and he certainly counted as one of those.