How To Make Tech House - Zip It with Vangelis Kostoxenakis

Tutorial 01 - Intro and Playthrough

Annie Mac favourite and house music virtuoso, Vangelis Kostoxenakis drops an amazing course on Sonic Academy this week building his track ‘Zip It’ from scratch.

Hailing from the southside of Athens, Greece VK is a machine when it comes to production. With an expansive career in the business, and has developed a deep musical background through various styles releasing unconventional but club friendly tracks on today’s top labels such as Kling Klong, Suara, Snatch!, Stereo Productions and Toolroom. He can also be found regularly sitting atop of the traxsource and Beatport charts.

In this How To Make Tech House - 'Zip It' we get an insanely intimate look into VK, his studio and production secrets. Building this chunky Tech House track from the ground up using both software and hardware to create his unique sound.

From the initial creation of the kick to adding percussive elements and designed synth fills, through to arranging, automating, and edits, finishing with mastering the track, this course has it all, and we get to watch as VK has tons fun letting his imagination and creative urges loose in the studio!

As owner of record label Talk of the Town Vangelis has included the stems and resources of this track for you guys to work your magic and submit your own remix of this monster track!
If yours is chosen you could be in with the chance of getting a release on VK's label and turn heads the same way VK's been doing for years! An opportunity not to be missed and exclusive here at Sonic Academy.

We know you guys can smash it, and ourselves and Vangelis are super excited to check out your remixes so it's over to you to bag yourself a release and some wicked prizes.

Just click the 'Enter Remix Comp' button above to find out more! This competition is open to all Sonic Academy registered users.

Contest ends - 11 May 2018 07:00:00 UTC