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Levon Vincent is not short of confidence. Not afraid of hard graft, years of gigging and bedroom based production has built up a steady resilience to negativity. But at the same time, he’s also a deep thinker, somebody who makes a conscientious effort to remain grounded and humble. When working for an engineer of St...

If given the impossible task of describing Anika Schnabel aka German DJ Bebetta in just one word, we’d probably go with ‘charming’. With neon pink hair and a penchant for pyjamas, wherever Anika plays, she radiates positive vibes and above all else fun. From big stage festivals and inner city clubs to the most intim...

The origin stories of creative collaboration partnerships are most commonly fueled by love. A shared love and passion for each other's work can easily plant the seed of thought about working together. Brought together by fate, at some point the creation of a common goal gives birth to a vision, a mission, and the st...

Classical music and electronic dance music were once worlds apart, the two genres attracting polar opposite audience demographics. In terms of culture and society, the enjoyment and understanding of classical music and a desire to learn to play it at a high standard, has largely been the pursuit of the wealthy and u...

If you make electronic dance music, specifically instrumental tracks, how do you come up with each track's title? Do you sit down (or stand!) at your DAW already armed with a name in your head, based on a particular idea or inspiration, the motivation that made you want to create something, before you even start hit...

Continuous improvement. It’s a kind of mini-mantra here at Imaginando, and indeed the human race as a whole. Powered by the motivation of a ‘what if?’ mindset, we just can’t help but tinker, tune and change all manner of things, if we think the end result is going to be something special, and it’s going to be becaus...

‘A German DJ and a Mexican DJ walk into a recording studio’ - don’t worry, this is not the setup to a corny joke, rather it is the story of the creation of tech-house duo ‘Pachanga Boys’. The German half being ‘Superpitcher’ Aksel Schaufler, and the Mexican half being ‘Rebolledo’ Mauricio Rebolledo. Together for jus...

In the world of pop music, a little bit of controversy can generate a lot of publicity. No stranger to flirting with the provocative, Madonna has certainly leveraged her fair share of attention grabbing behavior across her metamorphic career. An artist who has reinvented herself so many times that the process has be...

Jean-Michel Jarre - where do we begin?! Often referred to as the ‘Godfather of electronic music’, it’s hard to think of any other single person who has contributed so much to the field of electronic music. A composer and performer committed to pushing the limits of technology and art through a passion for innovation...

If you fancy recreating the sounds of Maceo Plex, and you don’t mind travelling to Spain, you can now get hands on with some of the actual hardware that Eric used to create hits such as ‘Solitary daze’ and ‘Solar Detroit’, if you become a member of Bridge 48 Studios that is. The America tech house and techno titan, ...

Putting out a regular tutorial series, week in week out, it’s always nice to hear from viewers, to both validate the quality of our content and also steer us in the right direction. Whether it’s a YouTube comment, social media post or just part of a live chat with us, your suggestions and feedback are always welcome...

Under the umbrella of ‘electronic music’ there will always be a constant evolution of genre and subgenre classification. Aside from pleasing the more obsessive music enthusiast, the main benefit to categorisation is of course practicality. Unless you fancy listening to every single new vinyl in a record shop, browsi...

With only a single letter differentiating his name from an alias of Batman, DJ and Producer Mark Knight could be described as a superhero of house. With his sidekick and sibling Stuart by his side, and a garden shed as his Batcave, the ‘Kent crusader’ hatched a plan to create a record label ‘run by DJs, for DJs’, an...

It’s fair to say that most electronic music producers would love to leave their mark on the dancefloors of history, by releasing a track so popular that it becomes accepted as a genuine classic. A tried and tested tune guaranteed to earn the approval of any audience, a real crowd pleaser. The perils of popularity pr...

It’s no secret that we love the deeper and darker side of today’s melodic techno and house offerings, achieving an almost meditative state from minimal and moody mixes. Sometimes however, we want our minds to be moved on a path of more positive musical emotion; something dare we say ‘euphoric’. At the risk of showi...