A staple element in past and modern-day house & techno productions, the 909 kick has been the foundation of many underground dance records! With new, modern productions often being mastered to club system shattering levels, we now have the need and opportunity to beef up the old 909 kick to suit new, futuristic house & techno productions. In our example, we are using Ableton’s stock 909 drum kit focusing specifically on the kick drum. Listen to our before and after example he

by Malc Barry 1. Hi Beth, how are you? Great to be speaking with you today! Tell us a bit more about yourself, the music you play, inspirations, best gigs so far and how you got into DJing? Hi guys! Thanks for having me, I’m doing really well thanks, considering the circumstances! My name is Beth Mawer, which is also my artist name. I am 24 years old and I'm originally from a wee place called Lanark, roughly 40 minutes from Glasgow and still living here. I first found my pass

In 1988, techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson produced his futuristic ‘Just Want Another Chance’ track under his ‘Reese’ alias. The track’s distinct synth bass was then sampled for the hugely popular jungle anthem ‘Terrorist‘ by Renegade & Ray Keith in the mid-90s, and the sound quickly became an underground dance staple in many productions, cropping up in many jungle, hardcore and speed garage tracks. As drum and bass evolved, producers began manipulating the sound with distortio

Kerri Chandler is embarking on an project and we’re excited to see the results…. Kerri seems to be all over social media at the moment with his remix of Paul Mcartney’s classic, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five causing a stir online and even Mcartney himself taking the time to share it. He’s also embarking on a project to find out his fan’s most important and seminal house tracks. In a recent Facebook post he stated: ‘Hello everyone! I’m working on a very special project and

We interview two of the most forward thinking producers in Techno, Spektre. in 2017, our resident and CEO Stephen Kirkwood spent some time in the studio with Richard Wakley and Paul Maddox of Spektre and was blown away by their expertise and technical ability. The guys were really welcoming and were good enough to answer a few of our questions. We’re all big fans of Spektre here at SKapade and couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to speak with two of the most well respected an