The Stack

Welcome to The Stack, where UK electronic music heritage meets modern production.

We dig into the sounds, techniques, and stories that shaped house, garage, and techno from warehouse raves to worldwide dancefloors.
Expect deep dives on classic hardware, honest production advice, and cultural context that connects the dots between Chicago's underground and today's global scene.

No fluff, no clickbait, just knowledge from thirty years in the trenches, shared with producers worldwide who value authenticity over algorithms.

Casio CZ-101 wavetable synthesis and the UK rave organ sound in Serum 2

The Fingerprint of a Sound: What Wavetables Actually Do, and Why It Matters for Rave Production

A wavetable is not a sample. It is the oscilloscope fingerprint of a sound — the blueprint of how a piece of hardware vibrates — captured as a single waveform cycle and transplanted into a modern s...

Loudness and LUFS in electronic music, for club systems and streaming

Why Loudness Still Matters in EDM (How to Get It Right)

Right, let's get straight to it – louder is still better. I know that sounds simplistic, but after three decades working with electronic music, from the early house days right through to today's st...