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Articles by: Hamish Mackintosh

jon hopkins

Jon Hopkins: "I don’t really have any modular synths, drum machines or any of that stuff - it’s all really Ableton and source audio from random places"

By Hamish Mackintosh published

Best of 2021: The Grammy-nominated producer opens up about his ambient masterwork, Music For Psychedelic Therapy, going off-grid with Ableton, field recording in Ecuadorian caves and hanging speakers in trees

proc fiskal

Proc Fiskal: "I sort of play YouTube like an instrument [...] five of the tracks came about just by mashing the random start-points in a video"

By Hamish Mackintosh, Future Music published

"When I got into electronic music I just assumed that you had to have synths… I didn’t realise at that time that I could just do it all on my laptop there and then"

Steve Albini

Classic Interview: Steve Albini – "A lot of people in my position are opposed to the home-recording of music. They feel like it cheapens what happens in the studio, but I disagree"

By Hamish Mackintosh published

As Albini turns 60, we revisit our 2013 interview where he offers valuable advice and insight into audio engineering

Trentemøller talks latest album, plus compares studio and live setups

By Hamish Mackintosh published

Denmark’s premier purveyor of brooding electronica hones his craft to perfection on new release, Fixion

Tony Banks: the 10 records that changed my life

By Hamish Mackintosh published

The Genesis keyboard player discusses the songs and albums that blew his mind

Tony Banks talks new album A Chord Too Far and his favourite synthesizer of all time

By Hamish Mackintosh published

Genesis founding member chats about collating tracks for the 4CD boxset retrospective of his solo work

Guy Sigsworth on working with Madonna

By Hamish Mackintosh, Production Expo 2014 published

The UK production ace on the art of the pop collaboration

Yoad Nevo on hard work and making Waves

By Hamish Mackintosh, Production Expo 2014 published

A mastering master class from the mixer and plugin designer

Fraser T Smith talks MPCs, mics and minimalism

By Hamish Mackintosh, Production Expo 2014 published

The Adele man on producing chart toppers

Cenzo Townshend on how to diversify as a producer

By Hamish Mackintosh, Production Expo 2014 published

Plus! vintage gear and mixing for radio

Craig Smith, the globetrotting dance DJ

Craig Smith: gaining respect and residencies

By DJ Expo, Hamish Mackintosh published

Connecting the old school with the new

Noah Pred on the fundamentals of DJing

By Hamish Mackintosh, DJ Expo published

Curation, narration, and improvisation

The weird and wonderful world of Mr Scruff

By Hamish Mackintosh, DJ Expo published

The creative DJ talks endurance, vinyl and disco

Max Cooper talks tech, tools and tempo

By Hamish Mackintosh, DJ Expo published

Why music production will make you a better DJ

Gil Norton, pictured in Capitol Records studio in LA

Gil Norton lists his favourite studio gear

By Hamish Mackintosh, Production Expo published

Gear and recording knowledge from the great alt-producer

Inspiration matters more than gear to fast-rising star Flume

Flume: ARIA producer of the year 2013

By Hamish Mackintosh, Production Expo published

The newly crowned king on why he likes to work on the move

Rick Wakeman's 10 favourite prog-rock albums of all time

By Hamish Mackintosh published

The keyboard legend chooses his ultimate progressive opuses