Digital Groove Online · Mark Reynolds
Learn how to make
the tracks you
love.
20 years producing, and here's what I've learned — you already know what you love, you just can't hear why it works yet. So once a month I take a Beatport charting track and recreate it in the style of your favourite artists, live, and every week we meet to fix whatever you're stuck on. An hour every week, plus a breakdown that runs as long as it takes — and every session recorded.
20+
Years producing
House, trance and techno — still releasing.
5
Live sessions a month
Four weekly calls, one deep dive.
60+
Sessions a year
Every one recorded and chaptered.
What you get
Every week, not just
once a month.
A call every week for whatever you're stuck on right now, and one long breakdown a month that goes properly deep. Both live, both recorded, both included.
Every week · one hour, plus questions
The group coaching call
Bring anything music related. Nothing is too basic and nothing is off-topic.
Share something unreleased and get honest feedback on it — from me and from the room.
Or put your track forward and I'll open it up and fix it live while you watch, then take questions until we're done. That's usually where the penny drops.
Every month · the deep dive
The track breakdown
We take a Beatport charting track and recreate it in the style of your favourite artists — drums, bass, FX chains, arrangement, all rebuilt from scratch.
Then we use what we found to start something original in the same lane.
Hours of recorded material, split into chapters. Watch it back at your own pace, as many times as you need.
That's five live sessions a month — four hour-long calls and a deep dive with no clock on it — plus everything already sitting in the archive.
Inside the monthly breakdown
We dig into the tracks
that actually chart.
We pick a Beatport charting track and recreate it in the style of your favourite artists — piece by piece, rebuilt from scratch. You don't walk away with a copy. You walk away with the craft.
01
Pick the track
A Beatport charting track — something you've heard on a big system, in a mix, or on the charts. One track. We start there.
02
Tear it apart
Structure, sound design, arrangement, mix translation. We rebuild it from scratch in the style of your favourite artists — drums, bass, FX chains — until you can hear exactly what gives it its teeth. Live, in the DAW, no script.
03
Make it yours
We take the palette and the blueprint and build something original — new ideas, same energy, your name on it. Techniques you can use in your own tracks that same week.
Anyone can copy a track. Reference Lab teaches you why it works — so you can make the next one.
What's included
Everything in the membership
A group call every week
An hour live, every week. Anything music related, nothing off-topic — and I stay on afterwards until the questions run out.
The monthly breakdown
Each month, a Beatport charting track recreated in the style of your favourite artists — how it was built, and how to build like that yourself. However long it takes.
Your track fixed, live
Put your unreleased music forward and I'll open it up and work on it while you watch. Honest feedback, in front of the room.
Every session recorded
Weekly calls and monthly breakdowns, all archived and chaptered. Miss one, watch it back. Rewind as often as you need.
Ableton templates
Distilled from each breakdown — 100% original sounds, built from scratch in the Lab, ready to shape into your own releases.
The room, and me
A focused private community on Skool — house, trance and techno producers who are serious about it. Ask me anything, any time.
The producer
Built in the booth.
Everything here comes from tracks I've actually made, mixed, and played out — not theory.
I'm Mark Reynolds — recording and releasing as Ryen on Stress Records, formerly of Walsh McAuley. I spent two decades working out why certain records make rooms move.
I walked away from an IT job I'd been in for 18 years because I'd rather make music and help people get good at it. That's the whole reason this exists.
- Released on Stress Records as Ryen
- Wrote for Chicane · Nadia Ali
- Collaborated with Giuseppe Ottaviani
- DJed alongside Paul van Dyk · Paul Oakenfold · Above & Beyond
- 20 years in house · trance · techno
Founding membership
Simple pricing.
No nonsense.
$19 /mo
Locked in for as long as you stay. Five live sessions a month — a weekly hour plus the monthly deep dive — and the full archive.
Rising to $59/mo after the first 50 founding members.
An hour with me in the studio is £65. This is about £14 a month — and I'm in there with you five times. Billed in USD because that's how Skool works. £ figures are approximate.
- A group coaching call every week, live
- A full track breakdown every month
- Your unreleased music opened up and fixed live
- Every session recorded, chaptered and archived
- Ableton templates from every breakdown
- The private community, and direct access to me
Cancel any time, from inside Skool.