Funkagenda is a DJ/Producer/Engineer from the UK. He produces mainly house, tech house, techno and a sprig of minimal. "I started producing back when massive workstations like the Korg 01W and the Yamaha SY99 stalked the earth. My father and grandfather used to have a club act doing rock and 60s/70s covers and went to amazing lengths to make their backing sequences sound like the originals. I used to help them out, playing a few notes here and there and got involved in trying to make patches. My love for sequencing came really from that. Every instrument I got after that I wanted to know how to push to its limit!"
Funkagenda started making house music in the early 'Noughties' and over the last four years, he has carved a bit of a name for himself. More recently, he teamed up with Toolroom Records boss and DJ/Producer Mark Knight and last year our cover of Laurent Garnier's 'Man With The Red Face' was an absolute monster... "Even I got sick of it!", says Funkagenda. Currently, he's working on a barrage of new material, plus the first installment of a sample CD range.
"I found out about FabFilter when I first got my Mac G5 and was auditioning filter plug-ins. I came across FabFilter Volcano and its potential just blew me away. Since then I have used all of the plugins on a regular basis."
"One of my favourites is FabFilter Twin. This is quite possibly the nastiest synth known to man. When you REALLY get involved with programming on this badboy, you can produce sounds that would shatter magma or rip your Nan in half. It's SO essential I have 3 instances of it already assigned on my Logic + Ableton templates".
"Then FabFilter Simplon: This is AWESOME. It's just a filter... simple... but probably the best sounding filter I have ever used. And its SOOOOO smooth. I like the sound of this to the old Mutronics Mutator... the rez is fat and the low pass 24hz setting on the filter can shake a donkey's teeth loose".
Omar Hakim Omar Hakim is a drummer, producer/engineer, composer, educator and entrepreneur. His work spans many genres of music, and he has worked with some wonderful artists throughout his career, like Daft Punk, David Bowie, Sting, Madonna, Foo Fighters, Marcus Miller, Miles Davi...
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Matt Schaeffer Matt was born and raised in LA. During high school he started interning in a studio after recording a demo there with his band. He went to Berklee College of Music where he did a dual major in film scoring/music production and engineering. He moved back to LA in 2012 and ...
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Daniel Shores Daniel Shores is a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer based in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Working primarily in classical and new music, Daniel has spent his career focussing on surround sound and immersive audio. With over 35 immersive audio re...
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Erik 'Blu2th' Griggs Erik "Blu2th" Griggs has worked with many artists, from playing bass and keys for Aretha Franklin to singing with Take 6, to producing and writing with Babyface and Dr Dre. His discography includes No Air (Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown), The Dreamgirls soundtrack, and Com...
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Mike Cave Mike Cave is a multi platinum award-winning mix engineer. He has built a strong reputation working with artists as diverse as Professor Green, Lewis Capaldi, CamelPhat, JP Cooper, KRS-One, Riton, The Coral, Elvis Costello, James Vincent McMorrow, Fatboy Slim, Rufus Wainwr...
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Charlie Crown Building on the success of his previous moniker, Charlie Crown (f.k.a. Flapo) has returned with a bold, new sound. Rooted in the same emotionality and technical ability that first endeared him to the EDM community, he is intent this time on proving himself on a global sta...
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Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson is a songwriter, musician and film composer. Robertson is best known for his work as lead guitarist and primary songwriter for The Band. Robbie has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of The Ba...
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The National Four years have passed since the release of Trouble Will Find Me, and to the outside world it might have seemed like the members of the National spent that long interim working on everything but new National songs. But in September 2014, two months before the band headlin...
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Modeselektor Modeselektor have been shaping the electronic music scene since the early 2000s with their flamboyant DJ sets and genre-melding productions. The duo of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary formed in the early 90s.
Modeselektor’s first record „In Loving Memory” was r...
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