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“We were running around the studio with as many things plugged in as possible just doing the worst sounds, trying to find the ugliest things”: How Charli XCX's producers ran a jam session through an AI sampling plugin to make No One Lasts Forever

AG Cook and Finn Keane appeared on the Tape Notes podcast with Charli to talk through the making of three tracks from new project Music, Fashion, Film

MusicRadar · Jul 23

“She’s the best engineer I’ve ever worked with, period. I’ve made all my albums with Laura pretty much since I started”: Jack Antonoff on the “genius” engineer behind Taylor Swift's biggest albums

Antonoff has consistently drawn on the talents of longtime collaborator Laura Sisk in his work with Swift, Lorde, Lana del Rey, Sabrina Carpenter and many more

MusicRadar · Jun 8

“It’s boring to know what you’re doing in the studio – once you know what you’re doing, the magic leaves”: Jack Antonoff on why music production "expertise" is overrated

The three-time Producer of the Year winner argues that the less you know, the better

MusicRadar · Jun 5

“I don’t use presets that much, but this one just felt like, ‘yeah, let’s just throw this one in just to offset everything’, you know?”: Hyperpop producer AG Cook on his favourite plugins and how he used them on recent track Lucifer

Arturia, NI and Sonic Charge software all gets a look in

MusicRadar · Aug 8, 2024

"That's why I'm sitting here - that's why I'm allowed to put out records, because I understand how to do that bit of it": Four Tet on his strongest skill as a producer

Kieran Hebden explores his approach to arrangement in the Tape Notes podcast

MusicRadar · Jul 30, 2024

“I pretty much only use presets… I'm not doing any sound design type of stuff”: Four Tet goes deep on presets, Ableton and producing one of his biggest tracks in bed on laptop speakers

“There's no compressors on anything, there's no distortion, there's no effects. It's just a few raw sounds, a few presets and a little bit of EQ”

MusicRadar · Jul 18, 2024

Diplo reveals his favourite soft synths and the "quintessential" Ableton stock plugin that's "fundamental" to his productions: "That's where all my sounds started from"

The Grammy-winning producer talks soft synths and TB-303s in a recently published excerpt from the Tape Notes podcast

MusicRadar · Feb 23, 2024