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DARK TO LOFI AMBIENT & DRONES CHILL-HOP, PSYBIENT & DEEP TECHNO HOW TO CREATE RELAXED TRACKS • As one of the most timeless music genres, ambient has always kept a firm place in the flood of electronic styles. Thanks to inspiration from other styles of music, several successful subgenres have emerged, such as drones and psybient. Look forward to our big special where we‘ll go through the most important varieties of ambient and show you how to produce tracks in the style of Suduaya, Deepbass, Align as well as DJ Shadow. Finally, genre pioneers like Ian Boddy and Banco de Gaia as well as current innovators like Solar Fields and Carbon Based Lifeforms give exciting insights into their creative process at the round table.

Beat Constructor: Heavy Listening Chillstep à la DJ Shadow • It feels like he has always been there. Like only a few artists, DJ Shadow manages to move musically permanently on the height of time, to reinvent himself continuously, without turning his back on his loyal fans. On his album „The Mountain Will Fall“ there are also two candidates between experimental tracks that are perfect examples for the currently popular chillstep sound. Let‘s get inspired …

Portrait: Röyksopp Mysteries and longevity

Discovered: Yann Tiersen Don‘t try to express anything! • Yann Tiersen, once known as the-guy-who-scored-Amélie, has become a leading voice in electronic music. On his latest, cryptically titled album, 11 5 18 2 5 18, the sequencers are chirping as synthesizers are sprinkled across pastoral fields of bizarre beauty. No wonder even Tiersen himself can‘t say exactly who he is as an artist anymore.

Digital culture: streaming & musicians‘ rights The kraken is back • Streaming is no longer the future. Streaming is the now. But the problems created by a shift to streaming are by no means a thing of the past. Rather, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezr and Tidal have given labels more power over their music than ever before. Maybe it had to be like this. But can it go on like this?

Software Highlight: Apogee Soft Limit Highend limiter with crunch • Our software highlight this month replicates, in detail, the soft limit circuitry familiar from Apogee‘s A/D converters and audio interfaces; in addition to transparent dynamic limiting, it also allows high-end sound coloring. With only three controls, the effect plug-in allows limiting from subtle to drastic. It also allows hearty distortion with an analog sound character. We‘ll show you how to use it musically!

Power Producer: FL Studio Efficiency in the piano roll • The piano roll is probably one of the places we find ourselves most often in FL Studio. But what to do when you simply lack inspiration for melodies or music theory knowledge for more complex chord progressions. Here‘s how to make the piano roll work for you, not against you, in these situations …

Power Producer: Ableton Live Classics for sound optimization • Sound design and mixing have many pitfalls. Often, no matter what you try, it just won‘t sound right: The kick in the drum loop doesn‘t get...