Attack Magazine

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Attack MagazineGearIs Private Equity Destroying Music Production? Native Instruments was only the tip of the iceberg. Private equity is pervasive in the music production industry, tied up with hardware, software and music distribution companies.

10.29

Attack MagazineGearThe Best Photos From CRSSD Festival Fall 2026 As the sun sets on another CRSSD Festival, enjoy the best photos from a weekend of house and techno. Photo: @itskinderella Photo: @imkeiki Photo: @fixationphotography Photo: @itskinderella Photo…

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Attack MagazineGearLars Huismann: “Instead Of Writing A Melody, I Use Filters” With System Collapse out now on Dax J’s Monnom Black, Berlin’s Lars Huismann shows us around the attic studio where it was made.

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Attack MagazineGearCreate Syncopated 2-Step Grooves Like A Pirate Inspired by the swung grooves that have travelled from home studios and pirate radio to global festivals, let’s see how to make tight, timeless 2-step beats.

10.20

Attack MagazineGearWho’s Buying All These Vibe-Coded Plugins? Vibe-coded plugins are everywhere but does that mean that they’re actually taking over the market? We look at the trend and speak with two developers working with AI as part of their process.

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Attack MagazineGearManifest Audio Release Sonification Tools V3 As VST3, AU, And CLAP Plugins The data-driven suite arrives as a cross-platform plug-in bundle with AU/CLAP/VST3 formats, plus an Ableton Live Extension.

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Attack MagazineGearBen Turner: “It’s A Thin Line Between True Curation And Gatekeeping” Ben Turner on why promoters have no excuse left, and why nurturing new talent is a long-term investment. Debates about representation in electronic music tend to get heated fast.

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Attack MagazineGearHow I Play Live: Active Systems Active Systems plays live with no laptop in sight: a Cirklon sequencer at the centre, four Intellijel Atlantix modules on bass duty and a 909 keeping time.

10.08

Attack MagazineGearBeatport Launches Indie Tech Genre Category Beatport has launched indie tech, a standalone genre category with its own Top 100 chart, separating it from indie dance.

10.06

Attack MagazineGearSynchro Arts VocAlign 7 Pro Review: Come Together VocAlign 7 is the latest version of the popular and long-running vocal alignment software. It’s as good as you expect, but does version seven bring enough new features to the table to make it worth…

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.