Kentaro Mashimo is a professional musician and producer specializing in bass guitar performance and production. He's currently based in the Boston area, a city renowned for its varied music culture and music institutions.  Mashimo previously studied at the city's leading music school: Berklee College of Music, and he has gone on to record bass for […]

Pre-party rituals, trips through the club, and echoes of nightlife that linger until the following day: nights out are a confluence of so many stimuli. Anz, a Manchester-based producer and DJ, incorporates these experiences throughout her work. “I always listen to garage before I go out,” she says at a Manchester pub, observing the amusing […]

As part of the current round of posthumous reissues, David Bowie's missing 2001 album Toy, which included new songs and updated renditions of lesser-known songs from 1964 to 1971, is getting an official release. Toy was described by Mark Plati, the album's co-producer, as "a moment in time captured in an amber of joy, fire, […]

Night has fallen outside, yet it is still a warm day inside. Strings of plastic flowers are strung from the ceiling and wrapped around the mixing console in this small venue. Arlo Parks, a 21-year-old poet and singer, received the Mercury Prize for her first album, the highly acclaimed Collapsed in Sunbeams, last week, beating […]

The title of ‘Producer’ isn't given out lightly by media professionals, and there's a good reason for that. The job requires an incredible amount of energy, ability, and professional stamina.  It's also a title that can mean many different things, and its associated responsibilities often vary from project to project, making it difficult to summarize […]

This article will discuss why do drummers have laptops in their bags. The subject matter of this post will be very broad, but I think it's worth talking about. It’s one of the few facets of music that hasn't been delved into in great detail, and I think that’s a shame. Drummers as individuals I […]