https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/genres/electronica/Latest entries for the tag ElectronicaenTue, 14 Jan 2025 09:43:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/jon-hopkins/Jon Hopkins’s music seems to have a life of its own. Even if you’ve heard one of his tracks a dozen times, you’re bound to notice something new the next time you listen. The complexity of his pieces, which are often constructed from hundreds of individual layers, make for a…Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:43:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/jon-hopkins/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/alan-sparhawk-i-made-this-beat/"I made this beat! Those words are coming out of me. It's for real. I'm ecstatic." You can tell Alan Sparhawk means it when he sings 'I Made This Beat' on his new album White Roses, My God. The lyrics are simply the song title, repeated as a mantra through…Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:28:40 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/alan-sparhawk-i-made-this-beat/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ben-lukas-boysen-overdoing-it-just-right/Ben Lukas Boysen's plan to study electronic music never materialized, but this turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Freed from academic constraints, he was able to explore and build his own worlds – and with considerable success, whether as a composer for films (The Collini Case, The Lazarus…Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:27:27 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ben-lukas-boysen-overdoing-it-just-right/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/lukid-on-re-sampling-sketches-and-getting-music-finished/Acclaimed leftfield beat producer Lukid talks about the art of re-sampling yourself and the quest to get music finished. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On the latest episode of Doing Music, Luke Blair talks to host Craig Shuftan about his archive of unfinished sketches and…Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:16:41 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/lukid-on-re-sampling-sketches-and-getting-music-finished/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/yushh-the-sound-of-forward-pressure/Bristol is a hotbed of left-field dance producers with ears for textured sound design and unconventional rhythm. One of the most promising stars rising from the city’s underground is Jennifer Hartley, who crafts dynamic tracks under the moniker Yushh. The Pressure Dome label boss sauntered into the club circuit in…Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:25:19 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/yushh-the-sound-of-forward-pressure/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zora-jones-on-learning-to-sing-to-sample-herself/Experimental bass music artist Zora Jones talks about learning to sing, producing for vocalists, designing AV spaces for clubbing utopia and fandom making the best music. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On this episode of Doing Music, Zora Jones talks to Craig Schuftan about the…Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:21:41 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/zora-jones-on-learning-to-sing-to-sample-herself/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drum-sampler-exploring-live-121s-new-device-with-ned-rush/Live 12.1 sees the introduction of Drum Sampler, a device designed for – but by no means limited to – playing and manipulating percussive sounds. Watch as Ned Rush explores everything Drum Sampler is capable of, by putting together a hyperactive, glitched-out track from just one short vocal sample. See…Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:19:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/drum-sampler-exploring-live-121s-new-device-with-ned-rush/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/flower-storm-techno-rhythms-with-samples-from-iran/Making music on impulse can be a lot of fun, but it’s a very different practice from developing a focused project with aims, rules and limitations. Before they came together as Flower Storm, Kasra Vaseghi and Sepehr Alimagham had rarely applied their club music craft to a specific concept, and…Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:36:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/flower-storm-techno-rhythms-with-samples-from-iran/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cavetown-on-home-fame-and-songwriting-as-therapy/Proudly DIY artist Cavetown describes the motivations behind his distinctive, disarmingly honest songs. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast platform. On the first episode of Doing Music, Robin Skinner talks to host Craig Schuftan about his open-hearted, vulnerable songwriting and production as Cavetown. Since breaking through on…Thu, 16 May 2024 12:51:37 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cavetown-on-home-fame-and-songwriting-as-therapy/Podcastshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/h31r-finding-headspace/After being encouraged to enroll on a music production course at high school, New Jersey producer JWords took to composing like a duck to water, joining a local band before recording her own music and debuting with numerous explorative EPs fusing electronic and hip hop. Searching for a vocalist to…Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:46:49 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/h31r-finding-headspace/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sextile-rocking-the-synths/Formed in 2015 by Brooklyn duo Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto, LA-based Sextile began life as an “occult-inspired” post-punk band, with the line-up quickly expanded through the addition of bassist Kenny Elkin and guitarist Eddie Wuebben. Initially compared to psychobilly surf rockers The Cramps, their album A Thousand Hands was…Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:26:30 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sextile-rocking-the-synths/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loraine-james-gentle-confrontation-and-forward-motion/Loraine James gets restless when she makes music. “Sometimes I get this spark. With an album I like to dedicate a few months to writing it and then move on. I don't like things sitting.” Perhaps this is why she’s been so active lately. The London producer has released three…Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:46:05 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loraine-james-gentle-confrontation-and-forward-motion/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/emeka-ogboh-the-city-is-the-composer/There’s been a lot of talk about Emeka Ogboh since he entered the music world. Following a move to Berlin, the Lagos, Nigeria-born sound and installation artist began listening back to old field recordings he’d amassed of his hometown and adding music to them. He shared some of these compositions…Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:59:35 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/emeka-ogboh-the-city-is-the-composer/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/complex-drum-programming-with-ned-rush/As Ned Rush explains in his latest tutorial video, one of the best things about electronic drums is the ability to modulate your percussive tones to create dynamic, morphing patterns. Starting with the Drum Synth devices, Rush creates a simple MIDI pattern with Chance applied to select notes, and then…Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:32:03 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/complex-drum-programming-with-ned-rush/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/marysia-osu-harp-jazz-angel-sound-and-beyond/The harp is having a moment. There’s new Warp signing Nala Sinephro who combines harp and modular synth, Chicago’s Brandee Younger who records with beat scientist and drummer Makaya McCraven, and now, Londoner Marysia Osu. The harpist-beatmaker is an embedded part of London’s producer-inspired jazz scene: she played with rising…Thu, 06 Jan 2022 11:21:17 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/marysia-osu-harp-jazz-angel-sound-and-beyond/Artists