NAMM Celebrates Top 100 Global RetailersNAMM (www.namm.org/news), the world’s largest not-for-profit music trade organization representing the $17 billion music industry, announced its list of independent music product retailers to be honored at the Top 100 Dealer Awards taking place at The 2024 NAMM Show in January. The annual awards honor retailers from around the globe who demonstrated exceptional commitment to their stores, communities and customers and share in the vision of creating a more musical world through their localities.

Now in its 13th year, this year’s Top 100 list (which can be viewed here (namm.org/thenammshow/2024-top-100-dealers) includes nine first-time honorees and 11 international retailers representing Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Additionally, nearly half (48) of the companies have 10 or fewer store employees with 22 of those employing less than five full-time staffers.

The Top 100 Awards Show will be held on Wednesday, January 24 at The 2024 NAMM Show highlighting category winners, including:

Best Community Retail Store; Best Customer Service; Best Store Design; Innovation Award; Best Marketing and Sales Promotion; Best Online Engagement; Music Makes a Difference Award; with one store taking home the coveted NAMM Dealer of the Year Award.

Each submission for the Top 100 Award was evaluated by a panel of independent judges overseen by NAMM staffers.

For additional information about the Top 100 Awards, visit namm.org/thenammshow/attendee/namm-presents-2024-top-100-dealers.

Registration for The 2024 NAMM Show is now open with additional information available at namm.org/attend.

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Full Bucket Music Releases Free Ny Polyphonic Ensemble
Full Bucket Music released Ny, a freeware VST plugin emulating the KORG Lambda ES-50 Polyphonic Ensemble. Ny is yet another impressive hardware-inspired virtual instrument from Full Bucket Music. The developer has already turned numerous Korg instruments into highly convincing software emulations. The list includes classics like the Mono/Poly and some more obscure instruments like the [...]
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Full Bucket Music Ny Ny is a software instrument for Microsoft Windows (VST2/VST3/CLAP) and Apple macOS (VST2/VST3/CLAP/AU) simulating the classic KORG Lambda ES-50 Polyphonic Ensemble from 1979. It is written... Read More

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Music Tectonics reveals 10 strong music tech startup semi-finalistsThe upcoming Music Tectonics conference has named ten music tech startups as Swimming With Narwhals Pitch Competition 2023 semifinalists. Each will pitch during the September 13th Music Tectonics online pre-conference before a panel of. Continue reading
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What every songwriter needs to know about the BMI sale [Chris Castle]Musicians and other music professionals are understandably nervous about the likelihood of BMI being sold to venture capitalists. Attorney and artist advocate Chris Castle offers answers. by CHRIS CASTLE from. Continue reading
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On-demand audio is finally more popular than Radio, new study showsA recent Edison Weekly Insights report reveals important, but not surprising, changes in listening habits in the U.S. with on-demand streaming finally taking the lead over radio. by Bobby Owsinski. Continue reading
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“Now you can make anything perfect… you’re erasing yourself from the record”: James Ellis-Ford on Pro ToolsJames Ellis-Ford has spoken about how advanced, modern DAWs make it easier to over-perfect your music and essentially “erase yourself” from a project.

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Speaking to MusicRadar, the producer, who’s worked with Simian Mobile Disco, Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, and Gorillaz, and released his debut album in May, discusses his love for musical imperfections and the Korg Arp 2600 synth.
“The problem with something like [Avid] Pro Tools,” he says, “is that now you can fix and tweak and make anything perfect and you’re almost erasing yourself from the record.”
He expresses his preference for using Pro Tools as a “tape machine”, implying that he tries to avoid excessive editing and manipulation of recordings, keeping “editing to a minimum”.
“I spent all my time trying to make things sound worse, whatever worse means. With Pro Tools there’s just too much information there. We’re used to hearing all those records where there’s so much harmonic distortion and the bandwidth is so limited and it’s sometimes hard to remember that as you’re going through. I think it’s sometimes annoying to reverse engineer that on a computer and it’s better to use the gear that does it automatically.”

The producer moves on to his love for the Korg ARP 2600 synth, a classic analogue instrument launched in 1971. “Part of what makes it so cool is not the oscillators, it’s the way it distorts. For me, most of the new synths haven’t quite got how cranky that old gear actually is.”
Circling back to DAWs, Ellis-Ford goes on to say that Ableton Live is better than Pro Tools for MIDI programming, but Logic Pro is “slap-bang in the middle of the two”.
“I use Pro-Tools for everything. For MIDI programming, it’s streets ahead of Pro Tools, but I’m just really used to arranging and mixing in Pro Tools and I could never particularly get my head around finishing a track in Ableton in the same way.
“Same with Logic. I feel like Logic is slap‑bang in the middle of the other two. It’s probably better in terms of MIDI and its samplers and tools but the way I use Pro-Tools is pretty old-school like a tape‑machine. I’m so used to it that I don’t even have to think about it.”
This isn’t the first time Ellis-Ford has spoken out about his love for human imperfections in music. In March 2023, he told The Cue newsletter, “human-ness and that wonkiness is what I love to hear in records”.
Check out James Ellis-Ford’s debut album, Hum, via jamesellisford.com.
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Ukrainian-Russian producer Wyro on finding solace in production: “When you open Ableton, it chills you out”For Ukraine-born, Russia-raised producer, music mentor and label owner Wyro, music production isn’t just a creative act, but a place of safety and solitude – a brief escape from the tribulations of real life.

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Wyro – real name Kirill Kalashnikov – is now based in London. He says hello over Zoom, and tells us about the past few years, which have been nothing short of a whirlwind. He left Russia just before the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and lost his home. Instead of returning, he was forced to – in his words – “float around the planet like some rock in open space”, embarking on a nomadic adventure spanning countries such as Sri Lanka, Bali, Thailand, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, Vietnam, Turkey, Serbia, and beyond, leaving behind his synth-clad studio in St. Petersburg. This chapter, lasting 15 months, marked a period of both exploration and introspection, as he collaborated with various musicians and vocalists for the first time.
Wyro – Focus by Wyro
Making music on the move was not a massive change for him: “If I’m being completely honest, I always used a lot of software because that’s how I started.” He says. “It’s what I was accustomed to. For instance, I really love Xfer’s Serum because it’s incredibly fast and visually comfortable.”
In terms of modular gear, he has had to adopt a digital replacement, however, in the form of VCV Rack, using Mutable Instruments’ plugins such as Clouds and Braids. “It’s not quite the same,” he says, “given that you’re constantly working with headphones and a laptop, hunched over. It’s not as enjoyable as having a physical instrument.”
For Kirill, who wants to make music as quickly as possible and not spend hours making new drums and such, he’s keen to reveal his love for helpful Ableton Live templates It’s sped up his process and allowed him, he says, to focus on the other elements of the track that build emotion, so that the drums simply support this core element of the track.

“There’s about eight minutes of separate tracks for the kick, hi-hat, clap, and percussion – you know, all in different drum racks.” He explains. “I have my favourite stuff ready to make the process quick, you know? There’s a dedicated section for the kick, around eight minutes long, with a high-pass filter already applied. Why add a kick every time you start a track? Doing this every time got tiring, so I did it once, saved the template, and now I don’t start tracks with drums.”
We chat on and on about sticking with the ‘perfect’ kick drum and not worrying about over-using a drum if it works. However, there’s a more real elephant in the room that Wyro isn’t scared to address. He goes on to open up on the unique challenges he faces as someone with ties to both Ukraine and Russia and what it meant to lose his home.
“Many musicians lost studios and motivation”
“When you read the news, you don’t feel like creating.” He says. “I mean, you definitely don’t want to make dance music. Sometimes you lean towards ambient music, just to unwind. That’s been my approach lately. Escaping these thoughts, diving into sound work – it’s like meditation. Focusing on one thing, the sound, silencing the noise and random thoughts. When you open Ableton Live and start doing a new track, you just have one path. It chills you out for some time…. but once it ends, the weight returns.
Wyro performing live
“Many musicians lost studios and motivation,” Kirill says. Noticeably emotional, he tells us about how he still has friends in Russia and Ukraine whose only way of making money is through putting on parties. The risks are high and he doesn’t envy them, he says. Luckily for him, the dance music production school he teaches students at, Tramplin, can be operated remotely.
Using this platform, students can learn how to make a variety of dance music sub-genres, and Kirill can utilise his own diverse knowledge to help get ideas over the line. The most exciting moments, he says, are when students have big ideas “burning inside” and just need that small technical nudge to get them where they need to be. “That’s super inspiring”, he gleams.
Wyro making music using modular gear
We say our goodbyes and agree to go to a rave in the city together one day, having discovered a shared love for minimal electronic sounds. Kirill smiles. After a globe-trotting, chaotic two years of using music and technology to escape turbulent times, Wyro is finally happy and settled in one of the most music-rich cities in the world.
Listen to Wyro’s latest album, Focus, made during the past two years, out now on his own label Engineer, via Bandcamp.
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RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
Romantic dinner
Main artist name:
Faygoplexine
Release date:
6th Oct, 2023
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