Jim Ottewill

Jim Ottewill

Jim Ottewill is an author and freelance music journalist with more than a decade of experience writing for the likes of Mixmag, FACT, Resident Advisor, Hyponik, Music Tech and MusicRadar. Alongside journalism, Jim's dalliances in dance music include partying everywhere from cutlery factories in South Yorkshire to warehouses in Portland Oregon. As a distinctly small-time DJ, he's played records to people in a variety of places stretching from Sheffield to Berlin, broadcast on Soho Radio and promoted early gigs from the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and more.

Latest articles by Jim Ottewill

audiopilz
The bad, the good and the ugly: How AudioPilz's meme-fuelled Bad Gear became YouTube's funniest music tech series

By Jim Ottewill Published

Florian Pilz joins us to talk about his rise to YouTube stardom and pick out five of his baddest bits of "bad gear"

Tech
nid tapes
How the hunt for a lost Moog in India unearthed a groundbreaking collection of '60s electronic music that was miles ahead of its time: "It blew everything wide open"

By Jim Ottewill Published

Artist and author Paul Purgas shines a light on an archive of visionary sounds recorded during a radical period of experimentation at Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design

Synths
andrew huang
Andrew Huang on AI, secret weapons in the studio and his new Baby Audio plugin: "Every new tech development arrives with a mixture of wonder and fear, but I’m optimistic we’ll hold on to our humanity"

By Jim Ottewill Published

We get up close and personal with the music tech phenomenon with over 40 albums and two million YouTube subscribers to his name

Synths
georgia
Georgia: “You can do so much with a computer, but I still love the aesthetic of my vintage gear”

By Jim Ottewill Published

From session drummer to Mercury Prize nominee, UK artist Georgia’s career continues its ascent. We took flight with her to chart the course of glorious new album Euphoric

Synths
cuckoo
Cuckoo: "Gear isn't the way I find inspiration. The gear isn’t what creates: it’s what’s on the inside that matters"

By Jim Ottewill Published

In this month's edition of Synthfluencers, we go behind the camera to meet one of the music tech world's most unique and beloved personalities

Synths
doug mckechnie
Doug McKechnie is the 81-year-old synth pioneer you've never heard of: "The history of electronic music needs a rewrite"

By Jim Ottewill Published

One of the first to experiment with the original Moog synthesizer, McKechnie was performing live with sequencers before Tangerine Dream. He tells us his acid-tinged story

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