A great walkthrough of arrangement decisions on this first rate club track.

Jonas Saalbach for (PML) Talks through his arrangement decisions (and those he makes generally) for this track that he has made which forms part of a PML course. Love everything I have seen of this guy both musically and instructionally. Highly informative, insightful and just real.

A clever Ableton Effects Chain including 3 delays and a reverb for lifting vocals.

Jules (Bound to Divide). This whole video is a live recording of Jules mixing in vocals into his track. The timestamp link goes to specifically where he adds a clever audio effects chain he creates with 3 delays and then a reverb that really adds something special. 

Polyrhythm Techno bassline (and 5 other, largely rolling basslines)

Kos:mo (Weltsound) goes over some basslines, fairly standard for techno. I link straight to the polyrhythm bassline that is interesting and kind of special. Check the rest out as well. Sound design in serum is also covered for each.

14 Key Mixing techniques

Will (EDM Tips). On point advice. In summary: (1) The importance of good headphones, (2a, 2b) Reference tracks - yup, use them! - also, a tip on its own - target 06dB prior to mastering, (3) Set up a mono switch to check your mix in mono easily, (4) Top down mixing - mix in order of importance (see my notes!), (5) Anchor the kick and level everything else around this, (6) Hi pass everthing apart from bass and kick, (7) Separate sub and bass, (8) Group (buss) kick and bass, (9) Sidechain compress - duck stuff to make other stuff sound clearer, (10) Saturation on the buss/group, (11) Check on multiple systems, (12) Mix for others!

Introducing your chord progression progressively

Oscar (Underdog Electronic School of Music). You have a chord progression and it is awesome, but how can you introduce that awesomeness gradually without giving it all away immediately? Oscar shows you how.

The absolute importance of getting the mid range correct

Jordan (Hardcore Music Studio) goes over the importance of focussing on mixing the mid range correctly. This is the range that will likely be heard on all speakers, and hence is key to get right so that your mix translates from your studio to everywhere else.

9 Ways to start a song

Luca (EDMProd) shows us a range of useful ways to get inspiration to start the scratch avoiding the tyranny of the blank DAW.

An introduction to the mastering chain

Oscar (Underdog Electronic School of Music). Oscar does his usual of breaking down what mastering is and why we do with the utmost clarity. This is an intro video (as Oscar says himself). After the theory he demos what he is talking about in Ableton.

Makes some tracks from scratch demoing the principals in my notes

Dilby (Dilby) always talks sense - sub him if you haven't yet - pure gold on his channel. He shows a great trick for taking some sample packs and dissecting them to determine the ingredients in a good drum track. He then produced on the fly some drum tracks demonstrating the principals in my notes really succinctly. 

Deep dive on why referencing is key

Oscar (Underdog Electronic School of Music). Really elaborates, in his awesome straightforward style, why referencing is so so useful, and demonstrates a great way to use this in your DAW.

11 HACKS to Start a Song and SMASH writers block forever 👊💥

Will (EDM Tips). If you are pretty stuck on any ideas for a new project, check out some ideas here to get you going

3 Key techniques for generating melodic rhythm tracks

Oscar (Underdog Electronic School of Music). Great example of what a (non drum / non percussive) melodic rhythmic track component is, and 3 nice techniques to create them.

Referencing in practice: The power of referencing throughout your production

Jules (Bound to Divide) makes this incredible track, quite heavily referencing the Innellea track. The outcome is quite different from the reference, but the development of the new track benefits from it significantly. One of the best examples of the power of referencing I have come across.

Awesome method for getting huge depth and interest to your melodies

Dilby (Dilby). Take your melody, duplicate across 2 to 3 tracks. Play different notes with different sounds. Simple and super effective. Essentially converts a melody into a set of melodic rhythm components. This video really shows how powerful this technique is.