Made in Ableton Live: K. Hart
Learn how to create a glitchy, future garage-inspired track with K. Hart using Live's generative, granular, and spectral tools.
Posts tagged with Electronica
Purelink: Maintaining The Bliss
Named after Ableton’s Link feature, ambient electronica rising stars Purelink share a free downloadable Live Set of a new exclusive track. Plus, they discuss the trio’s origin and development leading up to the release of their highly praised new album Faith.
Rival Consoles: Making Landscape from Memory
Check out our Rival Consoles documentary and learn how the renowned Erased Tapes artist recovered from burn-out to make his latest album Landscape from Memory. Plus, watch a complete Ableton Live breakdown of his track "Known Shape" as well as exclusive video from a recent live performance.
Lullahush: Irish Trad Rewired
We talked to Ivor Novello Rising Star-nominee Daniel McIntyre about his Lullahush project which fuses Irish folk tradition with provocative contemporary electronic production to offer a compelling vision for how Irish music can be modernised without being diminished. Plus, he shares a free download of loops and samples from his latest album.
Lechuga Zafiro: A Story Behind Every Sound
Uruguay-born, Barcelona-based producer Lechuga Zafiro reflects on years spent gathering field recordings and absorbing rhythms from across Latin America in order to compose his acclaimed and truly unique take on techno. He also shares a free custom-made Drum Rack of idiosyncratic yet very punchy percussion sounds.
Jon Hopkins: No Comfort Without Discomfort
An in-depth interview with Jon Hopkins as he breaks down and isolates component parts of his immersive album Ritual, plus discussion of his favorite hardware, software and Ableton Live features.
Alan Sparhawk: I Made This Beat
Alan Sparhawk of US indie legends Low talks about branching out into uncharted electronic territory on his debut solo album White Roses, My God.
Ben Lukas Boysen: Overdoing It Just Right
Erased Tapes artist Ben Lukas Boysen (aka Hecq) breaks down the gear, techniques and intention behind every track of his album Alta Ripa. Plus he shares the track “Quasar” as a free Ableton Live Project complete with audio stems.
Lukid on Re-Sampling Sketches and Getting Music Finished
Lukid talks about the art of re-sampling yourself and the quest to get music finished.
Yushh: The Sound of Forward Pressure
Bristol-based leftfield dance music producer Yushh breaks down her production process and shares a number of free devices for Live 12.
Zora Jones on Learning to Sing to Sample Herself
Zora Jones talks about learning to sing, producing for vocalists, designing clubbing utopia and the value of fandom on the Doing Music podcast.
Drum Sampler: Exploring Live 12.1’s New Device with Ned Rush
Test the limits of Live 12.1’s new Drum Sampler and build a track from a single sample with Ned Rush.
Flower Storm: Techno Rhythms with Samples from Iran
Kasra V and Sepehr are Flower Storm, a duo exploring the dual influence of their Iranian heritage and years immersed in club music. Processing samples from the rich tradition of Persian music and creating their own unique library of sounds, the London-New York duo talk about the ideas that feed into their project and share a selection of their custom creations for you to experiment with in your own music.
Cavetown on Home, Fame and Songwriting as Therapy
Proudly DIY YouTube sensation Cavetown describes the motivations behind his distinctive, disarmingly honest songs.
H31R: Finding HeadSpace
JWords of experimental electronic hip-hop duo H31R details the evolution of the group’s unique sound and shares some of the production techniques behind their album HeadSpace.
Sextile: Rocking the Synths
LA synth-dance-punks Sextile discuss fusing elements of trance, cold wave, and drum and bass with irresistible pop hooks for their infectious, high-energy sound.
Loraine James: Gentle Confrontation and Forward Motion
Loraine James discusses the wide-ranging inspirations, processes, and tools that went into the making of her new album Gentle Confrontation.
Emeka Ogboh: The City is the Composer
Renowned sound artist Emeka Ogboh talks about how he sampled the sounds of Lagos, Nigeria to fashion his rhythmically hypnotic compositions.