From the studio
What separates the genres, how the records get made, how to mix them. Written from the Ableton session, not from theory.
AI·
Where AI music generators actually fit, from someone who writes every track in Ableton and works with real singers. Including the part most articles skip: what the lawsuits mean for independent artists rather than for major labels.
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AI·
Copilot, LIA and Feater can now drive your session by conversation. Where the line actually sits between a tool that does the work and a tool that decides what the work is, plus the one job I genuinely hand over.
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Production·
A full walkthrough from empty session to finished record, using Ableton stock devices, Serum, Valhalla and Kickstart. Kick tuning, band split sidechain, gated leads, reverb architecture and the arrangement discipline the genre actually runs on.
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DJing·
He is a tech house DJ, not a melodic techno one, and mixes at roughly the opposite speed to us. That is exactly why his cue, loop and EQ work is worth studying, and here is which parts of it survive at 122 BPM.
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Production·
In melodic techno the bassline is not the foundation, it is the heartbeat. Layering sub with mid bass, filter envelopes, saturation and sidechain, using Chain Reaction as the worked example.
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DJing·
Long sweeping transitions that run one to three minutes, harmonic mixing on the Camelot wheel, and using filters and reverb to hold tension across a set. Written by a producer, for the people who play the records.
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Genres·
Festival lineups and Beatport pages are full of subgenres. Here is what actually separates techno, tech house and melodic techno: the vibe, the tempo, and the sound.
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Chain Reaction
Melodic