
From that classic four on the floor pumping you hear on tracks like Daft Punk’s “One More Time” and countless other house classics to the swung, off-kilter sidechaining heard on many releases associated with Los Angeles’s beat scene (as heard on Brainfeeder, Alpha Pup, et al.), sidechain compression is, in the adept music producer’s arsenal, both a helpful mixing technique and a great sound design tool. Sidechain compression has, for a long time, been closely associated with EDM, house, techno, and other styles of electronic music production.
