Kitik launches FREE no frills sampler Chop Chop!
Kitik just launched Chop Chop!, which is a free sampler for macOS and Windows in AU and VST3 formats. The plugin is available via a ‘name a fair price’ model, and you can grab it for zero dollars or more.  Kitik describes Chop Chop as a creative sampler. The guide for using it is quite [...]
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Paying To Get on Spotify Playlists Legally?This week, Ari speaks with Dorian Perron, co-founder of Groover, who shares how artists can get their work in front of industry curators.

Producer Fabio Aguilar Signs Publishing Deal With Position MusicPresident and CEO Tyler Bacon announced that Fabio Aguilar has signed a worldwide publishing deal with Position Music in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Keanu Beats. On September 5, Aguilar won a BMI Hip-Hop Award for his songwriting on “HOTEL LOBBY (Unc & Phew)” by Quavo and Takeoff, which he also co-produced.

Aguilar is a 22-year-old producer, loop specialist, beatmaker, and multi-instrumentalist. In late 2018, Aguilar sent his beats and loops to Keanu Beats through Instagram and the two quickly began collaborating. Since then, Aguilar has had cuts with Lil Baby, Jack Harlow, NLE Choppa, Roddy Ricch, Denzel Curry, Logic, and more - collectively garnering over 1.3 billion streams.

“Working with Position Music felt natural because they truly get the vision. I’m confident that with their support, I’ll continue to grow and explore new creative avenues,” says Aguilar.

"Position Music’s vision and approach align perfectly with what I see in Fabio,” says Keanu Beats. “He’s an exceptional producer with a unique ability to cross genres effortlessly. I’m confident that with Mike [Torres], Delmar [Powell], and Mark [Chipello]’s support, we’ll elevate his career to new heights and continue to create groundbreaking music together."

Aguilar joins a Position music publishing roster that includes Tinashe, Cannons, Audien, Jack LaFrantz, ¿Téo?, Austin Powerz, Brandyn Burnette, Dru “Falconry” DeCaro, Evalyn, John “Feldy” Feldman, Judah & the Lion, Alex “A-Bomb” Fernandez, KANNER, No Love For The Middle Child, Erik Ron, Yonatan Watts, and more.

"Fabio Aguilar is an exceptionally talented producer who has so much maturity and skill at such a young age. At just 22, he’s already had songs with a range of artists like Quavo, Jack Harlow, Kid LAROI, X Ambassadors, and many more. This is just the beginning for Fabio and he’s off to a nuclear start!” says Mike Torres, A&R at Position Music.

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Digital Chamber calls for Congress to address SEC actions against NFTsThe CEO of OpenSea reported receiving a Wells notice from the SEC in August, suggesting that the commission could be taking a new regulatory approach to NFTs.

Neurode wants to treat and track ADHD symptoms through a wearable headbandSydney-based Neurode has come up with a novel way to offer some relief to people with ADHD: a wearable headband that can track and treat ADHD symptoms. And you only have to wear it for 20 minutes a day.
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Why have Seven Segments When You Can Have 21?IO user [monte] was pointed towards an 1898 display patent issued to a [George Mason] and liked the look of the ‘creepy’ font it defined. The layout used no less than 21 discrete segments to display the complete roman alphabet and numerals, which is definitely not possible with the mere seven segments we are all familiar with. [monte] then did the decent thing and created a demonstration digit using modern parts.
For the implementation, [monte] created a simple PCB by hand (with an obvious mistake) and 3D-printed an enclosure and diffuser to match. After a little debugging, a better PCB was ordered from one of the usual overseas factories. There isn’t a schematic yet, but they mention using a CH32V003 Risc-V micro, which can be seen sitting on the rear of the PCB.
Maximum flexibility is ensured by storing every glyph as a 32-bit integer, with each LED corresponding to a single bit. It’s interesting to note the display incorporates serifs, which are definitely optional, although you could display sans-serif style glyphs if you wanted to. There is now a bit of a job to work out how to map character codes to glyph codes, but you can have a go at that yourself here. It’s still early doors on this project, but it has some real potential for a unique-looking display.
We love displays—every kind. Here’s a layout reminiscent of a VFD digit but done purely mechanically. And if you must limit yourself to seven digits, what about this unique thing?

Who owns K-pop giant HYBE?HYBE founder Bang Si-hyuk remains the largest shareholder, but Scooter Braun and BTS own a significant chunk as well
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4 ways to find inspiration with sampling
From recording yourself to adding motion with chops, here are four powerful ways to find inspiration with sampling.

Concord Label Group merges Fantasy Records with Concord Records; combined brand led by Co-Presidents Margi Cheske and Mark WilliamsCheske and Williams are based in Los Angeles and report to Concord Label Group Chief Executive Tom Becci
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Mobile Coffee Table Uses Legs to Get AroundFor getting around on most surfaces, it’s hard to beat the utility of the wheel. Versatile, inexpensive, and able to be made from a wide array of materials has led to this being a cornerstone technology for the past ten thousand years or so. But with that much history it can seem a little bit played out. To change up the locomotion game, you might want to consider using robotic legs instead. That’s what [Giliam] designed into this mobile coffee table which uses custom linkages to move its legs and get itself from place to place around the living room.

The process to build this mobile coffee table started years ago, when [Giliam] was designing walking mechanisms in software. A genetic algorithm was used to develop improved versions of various mechanisms, with the best ones going on to develop successive generations of the designs. Originally this just started out as a software project, but [Giliam] also developed some woodworking skills in the meantime which led to the actual construction of this coffee table.

From there the design was moved to Fusion 360, where it could then be sent to a CNC machine to create all of the parts for the 12-legged table. An Arduino Nano controls the leg movements, with power to the legs’ crankshafts provided by 24 V brushless motors. Finally, a Bluetooth module is included to allow the table to receive commands from a modified Nintendo Wii “Nunchuk” — itself an impressive project that we covered back in 2020.
This project took an incredible amount of work not just to design the leg mechanisms but CNC machine them out of bamboo, glue everything together, and finish it into what would be an excellent example of woodworking even without the capability of moving the table from the wall to the middle of the room and back as needed. We can’t really say we’ve seen a mobile coffee table before either, wheeled or otherwise, but if you need the tabletop instead to rotate and position itself at arbitrary angles we have seen one which was designed to be used for metalworking.

ENGL introduce E658 Steve Morse Signature 20 ENGL's latest collaboration with Steve Morse is said to be ideal for players seeking out the precise and clear tone that the guitarist is renowned for. 

Man drives car into Berlin nightclub after being denied entryA man denied entry into the Berlin nightclub Sisyphos appears to have taken rather drastic revenge by driving a car into the venue.
Not all the details are known yet, but Berliner Zeitung is reporting that the suspect is thought to have been rejected entry into the club at around 5:50am on Sunday morning (8 September). Two security guards, aged 26 and 41, are said to have turned him away, and he left peacefully thereafter.

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However, he’s then thought to have returned to the techno club in a rented Audi car before “deliberately” driving into the club’s gated entry. According to the newspaper, he attempted this twice.
It’s thought that both security guards were targeted as the suspect drove in the direction of both, but neither were injured as both were able to move out of the way. The man is then thought to have driven into the nightclub’s wall, reversed into the gate, and then driven off towards Ostkreuz, one of the city’s busiest train stations.
While no action has been taken at the time of writing, police have launched an investigation and are searching for the suspect.

Sisyphos is one of the most important clubs in Berlin, and is hosted inside a former dog biscuit factory near the River Spree in the borough of Treptow. It opens non-stop from Friday night to Monday morning for weekend-long parties, and like many clubs in the city, it can be difficult to get into.
Meanwhile, techno in Berlin was officially added to the UNESCO cultural heritage list in March. Clubcommission, a network of techno clubs and musicians in the city, called it “another milestone for Berlin techno producers, artists, club operators and event organisers”. And last year, Berlin announced a €947 million culture fund to support new clubs and cultural spaces.
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NIVA and Bandsintown partner to support ‘Live Independent’ venuesThe National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) and leading live music discovery platform Bandsintown have partnered to launch Live Independent.
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Spotify Countdown Pages: A Quick Guide for Musicians & Music MarketersIf you’re an artist on the hunt for a new way to hype up your upcoming release, Spotify’s Countdown Page feature could be just the trick you’re looking for. Here’s how this. Continue reading
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Release Music on Vinyl: Why It’s Hard for ArtistsStruggling to press and release music on vinyl? Discover the key challenges artists face and why this classic format remains elusive for many in today’s industry.
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