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Music Licensing Tips: Protect and Monetize Your Music
As a music producer, you invest countless hours crafting beats, melodies, and soundscapes. But are you protecting your creations and unlocking their full earning potential? Music licensing is the key to safeguarding your intellectual property and ensuring you get paid for your work. Whether you're an aspiring producer or a seasoned professional, understanding the ins and outs of music licensing...
Creating Harmonies: A Guide to Adding Depth to Your Music
Why Harmonies Matter in Underground Music Harmonies are more than just an additional layer in your track—they're a powerful tool to shape mood, build tension, and elevate your productions. In club and underground genres like Techno, House, and EDM, harmonies can add emotional depth and keep listeners engaged on the dancefloor. Think of iconic tracks by producers like Tale...
Distribute Your Music: A Guide to Getting Your Tracks Out There
In today’s digital era, music distribution has become the cornerstone of an artist’s success. Whether you’re an independent musician or an emerging producer, ensuring your tracks reach a wide audience is essential for building a sustainable career in the music industry. With countless platforms and tools at your disposal, distributing music is no longer limited to big record labels. This...
Music Distribution Platforms: Compare and Choose the Best for You
The digital music industry has opened up unprecedented opportunities for independent artists and producers. One of the key tools driving this transformation is the music distribution platform. These platforms act as bridges, connecting your music to streaming services, online stores, and even physical outlets, ensuring your tracks reach a global audience. Music distribution platforms are essential for independent...
Transform Your Beats: How Smart Tools Are Changing Drumming Forever
Drumming is at the core of many musical genres, from electronic beats to live acoustic sessions. For both aspiring and seasoned drummers, access to the right tools can make the difference between struggling with technique and mastering your craft. That’s where UPBEAT STUDIO’s apps, Drum Coach and Drum Notes, step in to revolutionize the way drummers learn, practice, and compose....
Popular Chord Progressions and How to Use Them in EDM, Techno, and More
Chord progressions are the backbone of emotional storytelling in music. They provide the foundation upon which melodies, basslines, and rhythms are built, creating a cohesive structure for a track. In electronic music genres like Techno, EDM, House, and Trap, chord progressions play a pivotal role in defining the mood and energy of a piece. A hypnotic progression can drive the...
How to Make a Trap Song
Do you want to know the tricks to make a great trap beat? This is the right place for you!
Hip-Hop is still one of the most popular music genres in the world
In a semi-annual report by Nielsen Music, it was concluded that Hip-hop/trap artists claimed 8 of the Top 10 in terms of total album-equivalent consumption measures sales of albums and songs, as well as on-demand streams.
Artist Interview: Samuel Dan
We had a nice talk with Samuel Dan about his carrier and his last sample pack made for us! It was a pleasure spend some time with an artist like him! He told us a big amount of his studio secrets!
Best Techno Sample Packs for Professional Music Production
As a music producer, coming up with your own sounds from scratch can be a real headache, especially in a genre like techno where there is hardly any room for even the slightest of errors. We here at Samplesound have come up with a list of top 6 Techno sample packs to help you through your selection crisis.
5 of the Best Tech House Sample Packs in 2020
2020 may have been a year of confinement in our homes, but that doesn’t mean the party stopped! Let’s end this year with a bang by producing some of the finest music from the best 5 tech house samples of 2020!
How To Make Afro House Music
In order to understand how to make Afro House music, we first need to come to grips with exactly what it is. So, what is Afro House music? Well, simply put, Afro House music is a subgenre of house music.It contains a wide range of variations from tribal house, deep house, and the beautiful sounds of soulful music.
Great Tape Emulations from Retro to Sci-Fi
For all of the convenience and flexibility of digital recording, there remains a solid contingent of die-hard fans of tape. Few of them will claim to enjoy the aspects of tape recording that make it an inherently slower process, but the sonic qualities that tape imparts are enough to justify endless rewinds
Common Mix Issues that are Actually Musical Issues
Digital music production offers a vast array of tools to tweak sounds in ways that were once imaginable. Better still, the internet is a treasure trove of resources for those who are searching for better ways to use those tools to make stronger mixes and tighter tracks.
Artist Interview: Funk cartel
Could you tell us about your background?Hi Samplesound, we were born in London raised in Kent, our family has always had close ties to dance music and in particular all things House. Our Uncles threw acid house raves in London back in the 80s and ran a record label, being surrounded by the music growing up it was only natural...
