Why are there not enough organic, straight up producers like her? The build of Battles was surprisingly simple, but so to the point. 5 Stars; this girl rocks.

I already really liked her music. Then to find here she is so wonderfully unpretentious is even better. No bullshit, just talent and hard work. Respect.

absolutely adore this one ... Emika turned me onto other female electronic artists... i believe she is very underrated and sometimes thats just alright... definitely one of the most talented artists of the times (above and below)...

Dear FM, Please show more wide shots of these people's studios... as someone who is constantly tweaking my home studio arrangement, it is useful to see how others have their studios setup. Thanks!

I think Emika deserves a lot of respect both as a composer and producer. She is very professional producer and very talented composer (imho). I like her Klavirni piano album a lot

I've been producing since 04, not eh longest time but long enough to know that Ema rocks and is very good at her job. A true artist. While all you kids are playing around with Ableton Live's beat and note stealing features, she is creating original music. I don't understand the hate. She is everything a music producer should be, and more.

Wow she literally worked with the guy who created massive! So cool

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Her production is incredible! What a wall of sound

She has a pretty fresh sound. The percussion works really well with the spliced vocals. Totally agree that non-stop hats kind of kills the mood in some songs.

some people make products, other people make art. This girl is an artist.

Hands down the most inspiring woman in music right now for me. Holy fuck, what an intelligent and talented girl

Her music is creative and original... had no idea she's doing everything on her own. I respect and share her approach of having full control over the envisioned outcome even tho it's a struggle. Definitly skilled as a musician and a producer. Hopefully this is going to be an inspiration for many more women out there.

Some of these comments are fucking awful, criticising emika for no reason

Wow Emika is very talented..although i am not into this kind of music,i really like her style and ideas:)

When she pitched her vocals down - I was SHOCKED lol she described it beforehand and I still didn't expect it. AWESOME.

Never compromise your vision! Keep fighting.

The originality of her percussion loops is truly awesome! Great stuff!

OK. New Emika fan. She has concepts that drive these pieces a bit deeper than the sub basses within them. She is not afraid to program and experiment and she visibly loves what she is doing. Great clip FM!

The EXS24 sampler seems to be immortal like Highlander.

I need to live with someone like this for 6 months and do some intensive music course while surrounded by the sort of music I want to make.

I like the way she does things. Not as complex as others. Probably one of the best so far (I haven't watched them all)

I like her hi-hats comment. They really can kill the groove.

Love this vid. Her latest album is IMO the best she has put out, and that is an amazing feat. To see Emika explain her thought process for this work of art is a real treat. Thank you for the upload.

I like when you did wide shots of the artists working in the studio from behind. Made it feel like I was just standing behind them as they worked. Would be awesome to see a video shot mainly from this perspective.

Her music & lyrics, there's just such a true feeling and emotional 'human pulse'. I'm into it, big time!

first of all I love what she's saying !!!

Emika Im a local producer in Detroit,mi I started off wit hip hop but started producing all types of music,u have a keen mixing skill,and I love you have a lot of hardware to work with,when I started 20years ago that's all there was now to produce is a gem.Love the hihats also,i never sample nothing I create all my sounds im trying to get my music on youtube but being a single parent its hard balancing life and love for music.god bless love

Her hair is amazing! So healthy!

Loved the record and this video was really great as well, really nice to see how she works.

I love when producers make songs with a meaning behind

the percussion in this track is beyond dope!!!!

Kannte Emika vorher nicht, aber find die echt klasse! Scheint auch mächtig Ahnung zu haben von dem was sie tut! Danke FMM!

6:05 so im not the only one stealing at work... im a bank employee btw

Watching her at work, explaining how she composed Battles made me remember making music on the Music 2000 game on my Playstation.

God damn, why havent I heard about her before. So cool tracks, great voice as well..

I think I love her. Great music and techniques too...but, yeah I think I love her.

This was perfect. Like hanging out with your cool friend watching and seeing how they did their latest track. Such a refreshing change from seeing all of the other EDM peeps doing their thing, creating the same thing. :) Her music totally hits the right spot with my own sensibilities, so maybe I'm biased, but finally something I can relate to. Also big props to sticking with an older version of Logic. She is definitely one of those people that follows the "if it ain't broke" mantra. Go Emika :)

Ever since Sleeping Dogs I've loved EMIKA's music. Been hooked since then girl.

Have you ever considered the fact, negative commenters, that since there are less of us producing, that fact alone also means there are simply less of us creating crap. For every chick producing anything good or bad, there are legions upon legions of crap male producers. Who clearly shouldn't be anywhere a computer with ableton on it. Yet they do it anyway. And then their crap producer friends keep telling them how awesome those big room drops are. It's not a bunch of chicks to blame for the all the festival trap. My god, some of the stuff you guys invented and collectively decided is good really needs to be addressed.

You are a very strong woman with your own sound,I find your music desperately beautiful .I adore your sound and have to be careful when I listen,because when I start in an evening I cannot CANNOT stop! Seeing this video has helped me understand you and your hard work just a little more.Thankyou for taking time out to let us in behind your scenes and catch a glimpse of your raw talent at work xx

It's amazing that she does all that on her own. I love her sound. It will sound weird, but to me her music has Mozart-like quality : when you listen to it, it sounds so natural and so harmonical that you keep asking yourself why aren't there many artists like that? Why aren't there many people who came up with the same ideas? Why is there only one Mozart and only one Emika? To me it is a sign of a great gift, when a person is able to catch and create something so universal that afterwards (when produced) it looks like it always should have existed. It is so natural that you can't imagine it not existing. I hope she knows that she has real, serious talent. (Sorry, if my comment is messy, I'm not a native speaker)

Some really cool production techniques! I love these videos showing how lots of different people produce music. I also think the music Emika makes is really cool!

one thing i don't like about trying to record music especially my vocals is that i can't stand to hear my own voice, i immediately go "arhrrr"

Lol it's so fun to see woman's perspective in the studio. I took some aspects of workflow and expression of producers as universal whereas she shows completely different side of it, woman's side. Women should make more music, because the differences seem to be so pronounced it should probably be easier for a woman to make something fresh and original these days.

9:56 Prodigy - Climbatize

This was neat. Kinda refreshing after most of the usual FM stuff. I dig it. More of this kind of stuff please. Male, female, doesn't matter. Could you guys do more IDM, Psytrance kind of stuff, too?

I like that she still shows her female side: "I loved it and then I hated it".

yay, thanks for this video! It gets so lonely being a woman in this industry! It's nice seeing other ladies rocking it. ^_^

she is brilliant haters, don't know anything about talent

I`m sold. She`s amazing. I`m buying this album right away.

"when I worked at Native..."

Excellent video, will check out her music now!

Most impressive. Really enjoyed seeing how you construct your work and hearing of the inspiration for your work.. The cutting technique is very effective. Thanks for sharing with us.

I like her stuff, she reminds me that in the end music isn't about perfect mixing or technical skills with your daw, but about putting sounds together so it sounds well.

Awesome video. very inspiring to see her work. thank you guys for another "In The Studio" please please keep posting more. i love them. thank you again.

Love the piano part its like creepy but still cool with that grain into it Really she is awsome

I keep watching this because I have a tendency to use too many layers of synth in my tracks...I'm really surprised at how little there is going on here, and how big it sounds as a result. Just one pad and one bass sound from the Polar. I'm starting to see that the more layers there are in a track, the more of a nightmare it becomes to mix with all those frequencies masking each other.

Good for Emika. Hey, wish I was doing the whole 'creating music' thing. I just don't have the talent. And I like some of her tunes, beats, samples. Yeah, sure, she's figuring it out, wearing all the hats (entrepreneur, business owner, sourcer, musician, flex-time employee lol, producer, DJ, recruiter, collaborator, networker...oh man it goes on), so...let her get on with it :) Fair play to her. In my view, one word: Amazing. Many people struggle with their j.o.b. (just.over.broke.), whilst at least she's actually doing it. We don't have to like every beat producer out there (thank you for variety in life, dear universe), but these artists/musicians are just people who saw a vision, stumbled forward, and then started carving out their own versions of that dream (that inner calling) that so many of us have. Seriously. Chapeau a vous, Emika. Chapeau.

“I hope she becomes very famous” - Thom Yorke

Fuck yeah! Real Producer!! Real analog sounds!! Go Girl!!

OMG the synth at 10 mins ... :O no words to describe how he's nice. Really nice harmony between the voice and the drums this is awesome

Wicked Vocal mixing on that 'Battle' sample at the beginning. Just checked her cuts & she's good.

I really like her way of doing stuff. You can notice she really does know what she's talking about, and that she knows pretty advanced music theory (the chord sequences she does with the piano on the second track look like they move among different scales) yet she keeps the song quite simple and neat. Another proof that music may sound better by being more complex, but it really doesnt have to be so. Comparing this woman with avicii I noticed that she works in a passionate and personal way about her songs. Avicii prefers doing quick well-sounding songs but he doesnt give that much part from himself to them (his own synths and grooves). I aint sayin thats wrong, but if all of us made unique songs music nowadays would be awarded with outstanding variety, instead of having loads of equal sounding songs. Im sorry if my vocab wasnt accurate enough, i am not used to talking about music in english; never been taught so

finally a good and interesting musician on FM

the song's nice ...........i'm addicted......she's s elegant and different from other edm artists

It sounds 80's so I love it! Are you English Ema? Mozart would have liked your piano treatment I think.

holy shit so inspiring

5 mins in and I'm reading comments. For all the disgusting commenters, Amika helped Native Instruments bring Maschine to the masses, and had input in Massive. She knows her shit!

Geez, she got the coolest and powerful equipment in her studio))

Wow. Impressed.

Who gives a shit if it's a woman or a guy. It's about the music, the effort, the result. She is amazing.

this is kinda refreshing I've always been curious how women approach music productions i'm basically here to steal some tips.

i really liked that first song she played

DREI is incredible and emotional and this interview really upped my appreciation for it

Really digging her style. I think this may be my favorite FMM upload.

She is skilled and very artistic.

i never heard of this girl but her music OHMYGOD!! ( and she's pretty )

I Love her Sounding Voice and the Track !

you badass critics, she's done complete album all by herself in 2 weeks. what have you done in 2 weeks?

became a fan at 0:24 without having listened to her music solely due to the fact she's jamming on a D-1000.

Love or hate the hi hats, the speaker position, the harmonizer voice... In the end, this video got almost a quarter million views within a year. How many views got yours?

I love how he production tells a story, it gets you right in there, dope stuff!!!

Nice Monitors I got Events. Had them for over 20 years and still going

I wonder what she used to pitch down those vocals, sounded really smooth for a full octave pitch down.

Great songs. Refreshing to hear how she talks about the process of songwriting.

NOW THAT'S A REAL WOMAN !

14:37 i love this part without synth just bass drums its so epic...

So happy I bought a Virus TI keyboard. One of the most useful/powerful synths I have in the studio. Ultimate utility + great sounding stuff, shit, even the piano sounds pretty good. If you can't afford one of the keyboard versions, get yourself a Snow and use the VST, you will be very happy!

Thanks FM Magazine for this great interview! Congratulations Ema Jolly, pure talent, and skillfull woman ! I'm very happy to hear real human voice, real piano, and olschool mixers, using craftmanship method sound design, without using any chemical feeling synth samples...We can't compare with computer kids Nicky Romero, Martin Garrix, Avicii etc...Her way is very different, in future sure she can will be milestone like Depeche Mode.

shes an amazing producer

I appreciate seeing some different workflows. Although I'm not crazy about her tracks, what's great about this video is that she was asked to explain her production pipeline. Would be nice to see more *different* producers at work... FM, bring us forgotten future and ask him to explain his approach!

i have never heard of Emika but now your one of my favorite artists :)

dark sounds from the eighties, I love it!! Great work by Ema!

Cool. You don't see many female-producers, and singers that produce their own beats are rare too. She is doing both :D

Love the comment when she has just the kick and snare going , I love urban stuff and sounds pretty cool. LOL as.

love her as a person

Track at the end is so sick!

...the lead song Battles is just awesome... great job Emika ...!!!

Your music have depth and soul which is rarely found these days.