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Hey everyone, and happy Friday! Whether you want to make beats at breakfast or get creative on your coffee break, there’s always time to enjoy a tasty bit of a BAM JAM. And today we have a bitesize BAM JAM served up by our headchef of music, Lucas! Using main ingredients of an iPad, an AKAI APC KEY25 MIDI controller...

Hi everyone, Happy 909 day! As announced in our last newsletter, we thought we’d take this opportunity to release our first teaser video for BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker, with a 909-centric groove built by Lucas in real-time. Click here to check out BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker in action! We hope you enjoy this ...

Time for another DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer Sound Design Tutorial! After a short break, Lucas is back to attack another classic track with his magical powers of sound design sorcery! Today we have DJ, producer, and prolific remixer; Tiga and his 2006 track 'You Gonna Want Me'. From a hippie family living in India ...

Welcome to one of the most anticipated weeks of the catholic calendar for the people of Braga, the city in which Imaginando HQ is based. You might know it as Easter weekend, but here we have ‘Holy Week’ and it’s kind of a big, big, (no really) big deal around here. Braga has some rich religious roots that run deep i...

Do you wanna sound like your 80’s idols? Well this week’s featured artist is literally an idol to everyone; Billy Idol! If you’re looking to recreate the sounds from ‘Eyes Without a Face’, then look no further, because DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer has got you covered. Dozens of YouTube copyright claims across our hu...

This week we took a trip into the colorful world of Alexandra Júpiter, more than just a tattoo artist, she is a master of many different mediums.  Alexandra welcomed us with a contagious smile, at an unusual place for a tattoo artist to practice the profession; inside a combined hair salon and tattoo studio. As soon...

Today we bring you a huge, fairly recent hit from a duo that’s sadly no longer a duo, but their music lives on in our memories: ‘Crystal Castles.’ If you’re around your 30s and you used to spend your afternoons scrolling through Tumblr, there’s a good chance that you might have listened to ‘Vanished’ on repeat while...

Are you ready for a brand-new DRC Sound Design Tutorial? We promise that this time will be fast as lightning, with a short tutorial recreating two sounds from the 2007 track ‘Night’ by Benga and Coki. Benga, born Adegbenga Adejumo, is a well-known face in the world of dubstep, being recognized as one of the pioneers...

Another DRC tutorial; another collaboration! This time we’re looking at the 2022 track ‘Strong’ by ‘Romy & Fred again..’ (Don’t worry, we don’t know why Fred has only two dots on the end of his artist name, either…) Romy is best known for being a member of the band ‘The xx’, helped no doubt by the group winning the ...

Eurodance is not dead!  Born at the tailend of the 80s, Eurodance broke through and invaded 90s electronic music with its punchy beats taking over the DJ booths and dance floors of European clubs and beyond.  A ‘four on the floor’ thumping kick, anywhere between 90 and 150 BPM, often featuring a female soulful vocal...

It’s hybrid heaven in this week’s 'FRMS From Scratch' tutorial, as our granular/FM monster synth samples the delights of everyone’s favorite ‘blowy-pipe, air-piano thingy’; the melodica! While some people may be unsure of how to correctly pronounce ‘FRMS’ (pro tip: it’s “frames”) the melodica suffers a slightly diff...

Welcome to the dance floor! This week we dance with Jordan Alexander AKA ‘Mall Grab’ to learn some sounds from his amazing electronic disco-house track ‘Liverpool Street In The Rain’ (2018). From Australia to the world, Mall Grab started DJing at (only!) 12 years old. Due to his father's record collection and also o...

Happy New Year!  With the new year comes new ambitions and goals, new dreams joining old ones, and new ways to challenge and better ourselves. As we push forward into 2023 with excitement and enthusiasm, it is with a slightly heavy heart that 2022 was the year that we said goodbye to one of our all-time heroes; Vang...

As the winter weather starts to turn bitterly cold in parts of the Northern hemisphere this week, we have a rather aptly named artist for today’s DRC Sound Design Tutorial. Today Lucas is taking on the 1983 electro track ‘I.O.U’ by the British group ‘Freeez’. Created by John Rocca and founded in London at the tail e...

Rock your body for today's musical class with Lucas and Bodyrox! Although the track today is by the artist Bodyrox, it was the enigmatic producer D. Ramirez who made it into worldwide smash with his remix of this song, which became an incredible success, with constant air time across radio stations for the radio edi...

“Holidays are coming” is a phrase now synonymous with Christmas celebrations, thanks to a certain manufacturer of carbonated cola drinks, who literally drive home the message each year with, dare we say it, their iconic advertising campaign. To many people, the reappearance of the big red truck on their television s...