Sound on Sound

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

Already movers and shakers in Melbourne/Naarm’s musical underground, producer Kuya Neil and rapper Teether began collaborating in late 2020. Describing themselves as “raised by the Internet” and their sound as “future‑focused rap”, the duo draw on a combination of experimental sound art and various modern club styles, not to mention the influence of African electronic subgenre gqom.

3 weeks ago | soundonsound.com | Sam Inglis

SSL have chosen not to build mic preamps into their new Alpha 8 ADAT expander — but they have included a whole heap of other features. Over the last few years, Solid State Logic’s product designers have displayed two admirable features: a focus on innovation, and joined‑up thinking. Recent products of theirs have stood out from the crowd, whilst at the same time fitting neatly into a wider ecosystem.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | Sam Inglis

In the early years of this century, it seemed as though a different major studio was closing down every week. It was also a lean time for the manufacturers of high‑end mixers and rackmounting gear. The ‘project studios’ that were pushing aside traditional recording spaces didn’t need or want large‑format consoles, or racks of hardware effects. The expectation in many quarters was that this trend would continue more or less indefinitely.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

Synthesist and producer Julien Guillot started his project Stazma The Junglechrist back in 2008, in his words at “the super violent and punk end” of the breakcore scene, before breaking out into more experimental territory. Alongside his prolific output as an artist and a busy schedule as a mixing and mastering engineer at his own Electric Voyage Studio, he also teaches sound synthesis at Lyon’s venerable Les Escales Buissonnières.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

Colombian‑born Ela Minus was studying jazz performance as a drummer at Berklee College Of Music when she got a taste for electronic music. “I loved synths,” the artist and producer says. “I saw there was another major called Music Synthesis. But I never really wanted to produce, to be honest, but I loved synthesis, so I did a double major.” She subsequently landed a job building synthesizers with Critter & Guitari, where she contributed to the design of the celebrated Organelle synth.