“LODGE” album now on Bandcamp.
It’s the tenth anniversary of this album I did with Bill Laswell.
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Breaks & Beats Podcast #21
New DJ mix is up. DLs are enabled.
Please do me a favor and share it if you like it.
DJ BOOKINGS: fanu@fanumusic.com for rates and availability.
As always, it’s my pleasure and duty to expose you to amazing breaks and beats of the bass music world.
Jungle, footwork, halftempo, drum and bass…that’s the name of the game.
80–170 BPM breaks and beats and bass music.
• BREAKS & BEATS PODCAST #21 •
Aeon Four – Transient [Boomsha Recordings forthcoming]
Aeon Four – Water Margin [Boomsha Recordings forthcoming]
Fanu / FatGyver – Machinedrummachine [Defrostatica]
J Majik – Hidden Menace [Reinforced]
Detboi – Ice Cold Blood On The Drums [Metalheadz]
Graham Greenleaf – Time [Rupture]
Dillinja – One For The Trouble [Deep Jungle]
6Blocc & Shamanga & Calculon – Call Out [Defrostatica Records]
Dak – Murot On Loppu (Bandcamp)
DISSIDENT – Cocosmos [Microfunk]
Lewis James – Searchtower [none60]
Nucleus – Raw Delux [Rupture]
Out Of Fuel – Dead Light [Din Is Noise]
Om Unit & Sam Binga – Never Been to Berghain [Bunit]
Balatron – Zout [Sublimate]
Balatron – Dat Paper Crunch [Sublimate]
Nuendo – Numbers Station [dub]
Glyphic & Kolanek – Breakpoint [dub]
Announcing music production tuition / “help service”
I’m launching a music production tuition / “help service”.
CONTACT: fanu@fanumusic.com
See an example of what I do: a beatmaking session video on Youtube.
What is that exactly?
I’m an electronic music production professional with 25+ years of electronic music production experience (Fanu / FatGyver) – I started around 1992 and have been at it since.
I’ve also founded a successful music mixing and mastering business with a wide international client base, which is now my day job that pays for my living (Mastering and Mixing by Fanu).
Also, I’m officially Ableton Certified, meaning I’m an Ableton pro. I mostly do tuition as one-to-one sessions in my home and do a few workshops per year in my area. I just made Skype work for that nicely, too.
Producers contact me with Qs relating to these three things on the regular, almost daily now, with Continue reading Announcing music production tuition / “help service”
[VIDEO] Ex Tempore Beatmaking Session #1
Ex tempore studio sesh #1 VIDEO is here!
I’ve been meaning to do these for a long time, and here, finally, is the first sesh.
I want to do one-hour sessions working on a beat in Ableton Live, mostly unprepared, just to see where it goes and to cover some of the techniques and plugins I use in my music production as well as mixing and mastering (see bottom of the post for a list of what’s included). Just doing whatever comes to mind and keeping it realistic!
The beat in this one sure isn’t trying to be *good music* Continue reading [VIDEO] Ex Tempore Beatmaking Session #1
Plugin recommendation: Gullfoss EQ
I’m amazed by this Gullfoss EQ plugin by Soundtheoryltd.
It’s an automatic corrective EQ that can tame and boost things.
Working on a 20-song album today where some songs need a little bit of clarity but where EQing isn’t breathing what I want to the sound.
I’ve been using it here and there recently; I’ve mostly used it Continue reading Plugin recommendation: Gullfoss EQ
New series: plugin recommendations
I’m going to start a new plugin nerdery series: Fanu’s plugin recommendations.
Because there’s a ton of dope plugins I use all the time, and I get asked a lot what I use.
So here’s the first one.
UAD LA3A and LA-2A – my favorite vocal compressors in mixing (I don’t use these on the master bus). I use these a lot to control the dynamic range of recorded vocals. When I get a vocal track Continue reading New series: plugin recommendations