Years back
Our monthly shake-of-thehead at our younger selves’ news choices…
How do you make a hit record? It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves at some point, and we gamely attempted to provide an answer in October 2011 (
169) with a little help from DJ Fresh, Black Noise and Michael Woods. At the time, Fresh had just had a number one hit with
and he would soon repeat the trick with which featured a little-known singer by the name of Rita Ora. Whatever happened to her?
“We showed you how to “kick the 120bpm habit” with our ‘tempo mental’ feature”
In our CM Focus feature, meanwhile, we celebrated the rise of moombahton – inevitably, this quickly morphed into the likes of moombahcore and moombahsoul before being pronounced ‘dead’ by someone or other – and we showed you how to “kick the 120bpm habit” with our ‘tempo mental’ feature.
The burning question of the day was ‘what is linear phase EQ good for?’ – people just wouldn’t stop talking about it, honest – and one reader asked if a new technology known as Thunderbolt was one that musicians should care about. If you owned a Mac, the answer would turn out to be a resounding yes.