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Beat combines competent hardware and software tests with dedicated reviews as well as reports and interviews from musicians and the music business. We will report on music production with the latest synthesizers and computers, introduce new trends in recording, and always have our finger on the pulse with up-to-date reports. Many well-known specialist report on the widespread music production solutions and experienced editors take care of the most important entertainment and scene topics. This magazine is a platform for musicians and contains a regular demo and MP3 section for readers as well as a download with high-quality sample and music files for creative musicians.

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Navigator: Best of Beat # 200

The Contest: 15 Second Emotion • BEAT celebrates its birthday and invites you to participate in our big Song Contest and win prizes worth a total of over 10,000 Euro! Find out how to enter here …

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Studioszene Mannheim 2022 • On August 30 and 31, the Studioszene will take place again at the Rosengarten in Mannheim-the largest live community event of the audio industry in the German-speaking region. On site, many manufacturers will show you their latest products and invite you to try them out. In addition, there will be plenty of opportunities to talk to like-minded people and to network with them. Last but not least, there will be master classes where you can expand and deepen your own production skills. Sascha Blach talked to the creators …

PRODUCER TIPS GIVE YOUR TRACKS WHAT THEY NEED 111 TRICKS FOR THE STUDIO • How much content does a track need? Am I investing too little time? Am I too cerebral in my approach? Why can‘t my sound keep up with Spotify and Beatport? These are questions that everyone has asked themselves at some point. But now there are answers! In this special, we‘ll give you concrete advice on what to consider when arranging, how to improve the quality of your tracks, and how to produce release-ready material. Extra-large collection of tips included!

Pretty Pink

Torsten Kanzler

Thomas Lizzara

Ronald Christoph

MAC-KEE

Andy’s Echo

Quick tips

11 producer tricks for Electro

Self-motivation techniques • Motivation usually originates within ourselves. But not always good words help, sometimes it needs harder bandages. Or practical techniques to convince the inner bastard.

11 tips for successful mixdowns

Between Theatre & Electronica • If you come across the name Moritz Fasbender, you probably assume it‘s a male artist, and you‘re very wrong, because it‘s one of the pseudonyms of the Leipzig based composer Friederike Bernhardt, who made a name for herself before the Moritz Fasbender album release „13 Rabbits“ with musical works for theater, radio plays and radio. The artist, born in 1986, crosses the boundaries between piano and electronic music and is also a passionate rabbit lover. In an interview with Friederike, we found out how all this is connected.

Discovered: WhoMadeWho • For UUUU, WhoMadeWho no longer wanted to chase the perfect song. Instead, the Danish trio focused on creating an expansive, trippy experience. The result is a work that flows and drifts gently, occasionally rising to soft peaks and dropping to warm troughs. And then a journalist comes along and gets it all wrong … or doesn‘t he? We spoke to bassist and singer Tomas Høffding about the unique creative process behind the project.

The end of history • 1997 was the year that hip-hop called for maximalism. It was the year of double albums, the year of epic concepts, the year of innovative beats and intricate rhymes. That year “Wu Tang Forever” was the biggest album in hip-hop. A classic - and even a little more than that: An album that changed the course of the entire industry so much that it is worth...