Media Creation Tools

Mechagen's Selection of FREE Open-source Media Creation Tools
There are no longer any excuses why you can’t make amazing high-quality art, media and communications. Years ago, you could say, “Well, I can’t afford all that expensive equipment and software, and the free and cheap options are horrible”. 
Today, That’s no longer the case, because

4 Communication Principles you Should Never Forget


TAILOR YOUR MESSAGE

The onus of a recipients understanding is with the communicator. If your message isn’t clear to who you’re sending it to, you’ve got to keep trying new ways to communicate it until they’ve got it. 
That means tailoring your message to them as much as possible, case in point; Would I give this lecture to you, the same way I would an 8 year old? 
Probably not. 
This means you’ve got a responsibility -as the communicator- to research your audience, the more you understand your audience, the better you can

Biography in: Sound


When it comes to making things, MECHAGEN is a machine. Literally.
Short for Machine Generation, the Australian born EDM artist has constructed a one-man assembly line for producing futuristic sounds welded with mechanical undertones. Meticulously engineered and dexterously crafted, he’s the

NEURA S.M.O.G’ AUTO-CURATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR HARMFUL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS


This brief research summary outlines a report proposing the development of a new deeper contextual filter for the identification of psychologically harmful media propaganda. Alerting impressionable minds, parents and children need to be concerned with the contextual importance and relevance of knowledge about the destructive impact of cultural dysfunctions transmitted in communications we take for granted, under the guise of

MECHAGEN Industry Newsletter 2016 #1

January 1st - April 30 2016,  MECHAGEN Machine Generation Activities.


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Getting in the way of an 88 tonne freight train going 300mph would be suicide and so with the gargantuan force and momentum MECHAGEN has amassed it’d be unthinkable to get in his way but we did manage to build up enough speed to ride along side his prolifically unstoppable Electronic Dance Music flow for a few seconds to find out exactly what mindbogglingly cool songs he’s been pumping out recently on his journey to

Roland Aira System 1m



“Explosively powerful mind-bendingly futuristic sound” 

MECHAGEN is pleased to announce the selection of Roland’s Aira System 1m semi-modular synthesizer for his live bass music ‘MECHARIG’!
Here’s what the sound designer and Electronic Dance Music producer had to say about using it:
“It’s easy to use yet you can go as deep as you want with it, I run it live with the Elektron Analog 4 sending GATE and CV to sequence and trig it. Suffice to say you can

Bringing The Future to the Present with State of the Art Technology


The Worlds First All Hi-Res Audio Electronic Dance Music Label

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Featured Interview

Mr. Paul Marks
Former A&R Representative, RCA Music, New York, USA. 1977-1981
Under the Leadership of;
Mr. Warren Schatz Vice President of A&R RCA Records & Tapes, New York, USA.


Blacklight Voodoo Publishing is pleased to announce High Resolution Downloads across our entire catalogue as standard.

Listeners are now able to

5 Costly Mistakes To Avoid When You Go Clubbing…

Rave On! Rave On…

With the festival and club season fast approaching DJ MECHAGEN gives us his top five hazards to avoid for a safe and sound live music experience (Pun intended);-)

1.) In Sickness and in Death

Stay hydrated, carry a water bottle and fill it regularly, there’s nothing like becoming more and more exhausted over the course of a gig only to miss the headline act because you were too busy nursing your dried out brain and throat, passing out next to the

The Complete Beginners Guide to MECHAGEN (Machine Generation) Part 1




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Part 1

It was about 10 Years ago, the early 2000’s that I was sick, tired and fed up working for a big international technology firm and quit my job, I quit it with no back up, no follow up and no plan. Despair had set in and the rat race was killing me, it outweighed the uncertainty and the threat of financial insecurity. As far as I was concerned I was hardly going to become a

The Complete Beginners Guide to MECHAGEN (Machine Generation) Part 2

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Continued from Part 1
The alarm rings, its that shitty iphone sonar pinging sound…
“Pop the kettle on” dad shouts across the apartment.
It’s 7 am and I get up for work.
“You’re up early” I respond, dragging my feet into the kitchen
“ Yeah, got some business to take care of” he responds
“Alright, well, have a good one” I jeered sarcastically short for anything constructive to say, wiping the sleep from my eyes, grumpy and tired after yet another exhausting night up late in the studio having had little sleep.

Dad understood the struggle of the