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".
Daniel Davies Daniel Davies is a Los Angeles-based composer, musician and producer who blends electronics with traditional orchestration. In his recent scoring work, he carves sonic worlds from a combination of vintage synthesizers and soft synths, guitars, and percussion.
Davies ha...
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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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Howie Weinberg With over thirty years experience as the head mastering engineer at the world renowned Masterdisk Studios in New York City, Howie Weinberg has created one of the most prolific careers in the music industry. With four Grammy nominations, four TEC Awards, over 3000 releases...
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Manny Marroquin Manny Marroquin amplifies, heightens, and intensifies emotion with every mix. His attention-to-detail, vision, and passion have cemented him as one of the music industry’s preeminent mixing engineers with eight Grammy Awards, cumulative sales of over 250 million records...
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John Hill Originally from Houston, Texas, John Hill is an LA-based producer & writer who first gained prominence by producing and co-writing Santigold’s debut album. His forward thinking, outside the box productions have led him to collaborate with a diverse array of artists, fr...
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Koen Heldens Koen Heldens, originally from the Netherlands, moved to Los Angeles at 19 to start a career in the music business. He is an international muliti-platinum, multi-billion times streamed and Billboard Music Award nominated mixing engineer. He began music school at the age of...
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X:144 Producer, mix & mastering engineer, dialogue supervisor/interactive speech specialist for games, and filmmaker. A list of titles like this sounds how it would be to describe most artists in the future. But the future starts somewhere, and that is the generation X:144 repr...
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Robert Venable Robert Venable is an award-winning record producer/mixer/engineer in Nashville, TN who has worked with GRAMMY-winning and multi-platinum recording artists including Megadeth, Kelly Clarkson, Twenty One Pilots, Kutless, Kim Burrell, Neal McCoy, and more. Known for his wor...
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