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Equipment for beginners in music production

Do you want to build your own home studio and don’t know how to start? Are you a beginner in music production or do you want to take on the challenge? Are you thinking of having a decent studio that doesn’t cost 500 euros to take your first steps in this world? Then you’re in luck! Today we are going to talk about how to build a low cost home studio step by step. Here I will explain all the details of the devices you will need, their price, features, links to buy them in different online shops, etc.

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The 10 most pathetic songs in history

Rubbing my hands together…

I imagine that some of the people who visit this blog every week (and judging by the seriousness and rigour I try to transmit in each text) will think that I have no bad opinions about certain types of music or that I don’t like to spill blood, but I think that in today’s case it is necessary to bring out the worst in me. I bring you the most repulsive, vomitous, pestilent and coronavirus-carrying songs that have given me the most embarrassment in my life.

Watch out because it’s intense and not for the faint-hearted. You will notice that most of the works I will mention are collaborations, which clearly shows us how delicate it is to bring two active minds together in the creative process, leaving aside some collaborations that especially smack of anxiety to obtain large amounts of money.

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Lithium hearts: the artist-public connection through banality

Humanities

Music has always adapted to the demands of society. While in the Renaissance motets and polyphonic chants with religious texts were composed for the church, in the Baroque period concerti grossi were composed for the wealthier classes, and in Classicism symphonies were composed for patrons of the arts. With the arrival of romanticism, symphonic poems and piano nocturnes began to be composed to entertain bourgeois audiences in theatres and salons, and in the 20th century the commercial model took a turn and protest and countercultural music began to be created by the lower classes criticising the system (a simplistic, arbitrary, Eurocentric, elitist and exclusive approach, just to understand each other ;P).

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Why has reggaeton supplanted house music?

Time flies…

Two days ago we were all listening to Sexy bitch by Guetta ft. Akon or I’m sexy and I know it LFMAO and now, reviewing the music that is currently playing in the clubs and that in turn has more plays on Youtube, Spotify, Itunes, Soundcloud etc. we have names like Becky G, Ozuna, J Balvin or Daddy Yankee. We woke up one morning and suddenly everything was different. Everything happened so fast…

But what has happened over the years? In this blog we will talk about how and why. And it is true that trap and reggaeton (especially the latter) have replaced and far surpassed the volume of consumption that could once be attributed to Anglo-Saxon genres such as house and some of its derivatives such as tech-house, synth pop, dance, EDM… the fact is that the new commercial genres have eaten the ground of the machineros/ poperos both on the main internet music platforms and in the dance spaces.

So what are the reasons why house music and its derivatives are no longer part of the mainstream genre circuit and mass consumption? I won’t beat around the bush: it’s all because the industry is looking for simplicity.

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