Southbank
440 City Road, next to the City Road stop on tram route 96.
Private lessons
Learn one-on-one
Lessons are booked around you and shaped around what you want to make. Bring your laptop, your unfinished tracks and your questions.
Production
Sound design, arrangement and finishing tracks, in the software you already use.
Ask about production lessons
DJ
Beatmatching, track selection and building a set that holds a room.
Ask about DJ lessons
Mixing and mastering
Get your own tracks sounding finished, and learn why the changes work.
Ask about mixing lessons- 01
Email us
Tell us what you want to learn and roughly when you are free.
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Pick a time
We reply with times that suit you.
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Start making
Work one-on-one on your music, at your pace.
Group classes are paused for now. We might pick them back up in 2027.
Lesson one
Make the music, don't read about it
Classes were short and practical: eight lessons over two months, or a single day if you wanted the crash course. Students left with an original track, mastered by the people who taught them. This is where every one of them started.
Tap a pad to add or remove a hit. It changes while it plays.
Courses
What we taught
Live channels can be booked now as private lessons. The rest are muted until group classes come back.
Production
- Ableton Live private
- Logic private
- Mixing and mastering private
- Production crash course 1 day
- NI Maschine crash course 1 day
- Masterclass series monthly
Performance
- DJ lessons private
- DJ crash course 1 day
- Vocal coaching paused
- Piano and keyboard paused
- Guitar paused
Your teacher
moodmachine
Joel Kino
Private lessons are one-on-one with Joel, who produces and DJs as MoodMachine. Bring the track you are stuck on, the set you want to tighten, or the software you want to finally understand, and work through it in the studio together.
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Where we taught
Mycelium Studios
Johnston Street, Abbotsford.