Kevorkian in London
After three days in London and getting back to Sweden at 1AM I am still trying to recover from a hectic time in the big city. Long days of working and joining parties paired with long nights together with the new R4 has hopefully resulted in something nice.
I have sent out my new song Kevorkian out for review and hopefully I will be able to post it here in a couple of days. As expected the RPG-8 is nice tool, however I haven´t really figured out yet how to make the most of the ReGroove-machine – not so intuitive as many of the other Reason tools, hmm will see
Btw saw that Emmon was lined up together with Thermostatic for the Xmas event, should be OK I think
Ciao
Into the Darkness DVD, tempting, but I think I will skip it this time as well
Apart from the cover this could be an interesting DVD to purchase, some really good acts are presented in this fifth edition of the Into the Darkness series, to be honest I haven´t purchased any of the previous, but I did no they were available out there, LOL. This 100 minute video holds eight live clips, nine promo videos, artist greetings – and interviews with Front Line Assembly and Melotron.
Input from Magazine: The live clips are: Nitzer Ebb: “Murderous” (Hamburg 2006), Front Line Assembly: “Maniacal” (Hamburg 2007), Sono: “Open the Door” (Hamburg 2006), Frozen Plasma: “Irony” (Hamburg 2006), Skinny Puppy: “Testure” (Hildesheim 2005), Grendel: “Soilbleed” (Hamburg 2005), Covenant: “The Men” (Hamburg 2006), Combichrist: “Today I Woke the Rain of Blood” (Hildesheim 2005).
The videos are: And One: “So Klingt Liebe”, Eisbrecher: “Vergissmeinnicht”, Client: “Lights Go out”, Vive La Fete: “Noir Desir”, IAMX: “President”, Ladytron: “Destroy Everything You Touch”, Purwien mit Witt: “Alle Fehler”, Formula Redux: “Stormy Grace”, Deathstars: “Blitzkrieg”.
Symbian – what´s the big deal
Sitting in the lounch of a chabby hotel in London trying to figure out what really is the big hype about Open OS? Yeahh, you can download stuff, but who really cares if everything is done by the book on the phone – like my kid he just want to be able to listen to music, and especially doing so on a SEMC Walkman phone, in this case he´s is willing to pay a lot, just to make sure it is a SEMC phone – he doesn´t care whether it is an open OS or not.
Well m to be honest I can see some benefits, they are good at downloading stuff and they are easy to re-program – to get what you really want, LOL, on the phone. I am not sure it is an iPhone i would like to have but it sure comes pretty close. From a music perspective, as being a person enjoying a lot of music, I would adore getting hold of a phone that really matches up to the expectations – that is, can make a fight with the MP3 players out there, so far I have seen quite few that really have the sound encoding that can come up to par with some of the best MP3 players out there.
Well I´m off top grab some Indian food now before hitting the sack
Have a good one, sorry if this input doesn´t make any sense, but I am sick and tired of the way my Open OS phone is working when it comes to playing really good electro music
Cheers
KidRobot – Finally, someone who takes children seriously
These are must haves if you are going, e.g. to your summer cottage, and have your kids play with something meaningful, while you are out taking care of garden duties
And btw why not join any of the upcoming Ninja signing events 
http://www.kidrobot.com/content.cfm?section=madninja
Cheers and have a great weekend – Thor some Reason I think I will stay up till 4 this evening….
The Beatles – in one hour
I believe this must be the coolest thing,
maybe something for a range of artists out there….
anyone else sitting on a giant back catalogue – Dylan, Bowie, Depeche – go for it !!
All The Beatles UK LP releases compressed at 800% into a one-hour MP3.
Here’s the album list (all the UK LPs):
Please Please Me
With the Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night
Beatles for Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles (White Album)
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
For once I feel lost in space – Kenji Siratori
I must admit to everyone that I had never heard of this dude before (until today), when I saw that Wreathy (a new swedish elctro act) had a quote from this guy in one of their new songs. Below you find a description of him taken from myspace:
Kenji Siratori: a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over
linear narrative and character development. With unparalleled stylistic terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack. An unprovoked assault on the senses. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David Bowie.
However, I do have some rumors about this guy – that it isn´t actually one guy, but a collective of people. Not sure if this is true, but it would certainly explain the quantity of “bullshit” eminating from this source
Find out more here:
http://www.myspace.com/kenjisiratori
Grendel to electriXmas :-)
Big stomping EBM, mmmmmmmmm me like
Find out more at electrixmas.org/
Although it really sucks that they play at the same time as Laibach at KB
Star Trek and ADS 100 = cool stuff, LOL
The ADS system comprised a dual-manual splittable keyboard, a video display for envelopes, a ‘control cube’ the size of a filing cabinet for disk drives and computer hardware, and a rainbow-buttoned front panel for 64-oscillator additive synthesis and real-time sequencing that would have looked at home on the Starship Enterprise of the Star Trek of your choice. The analogy is apt, in fact – the ADS 100’s most notable public appearance was in the sound effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. No price was given when the ADS 100 was introduced, but it sure looked expensive.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwivz3gECus]
Cheers
"Glitch Bleep IDM" Reason Refill
The “Glitch Bleep IDM” Reason Refill is the first refill catering to the leftfield electronica music maker.
Highlights include:
- Over 2500 individual hits, including Kicks, snares, bleeps, buzzes, hisses, clicks, clangs and glitched out stereo effects. Each sample has been level matched for ease of use and many have been micro edited for maximum impact.
- Over 400 IDM oriented rex files including baselines beats and effects loops
- Over 200 combinator patches including Drum Kits, multi layered Synth patches and Effects. Note that unlike some sound collections every knob and button on each combinator patch has been routed to something interesting for maximum tweakability.
- Over 150 Malstrom patches, 100 Subtractor patches and 90 ReDrum Kits.
While designed for IDM and leftfield electronica many house/techno, Hip Hop and industrial producers will find this refill a great addition to their sonic arsenal
- Listen to some of the demos (1) (2) (3) (4) using some loops and sounds from the refill.
- Download a 26mb demo of “Glitch Bleep IDM”
Eurovision Song Contest – Melodifestivalen
For those of you living in Sweden, you probably haven´t been able to miss the swedish nomination for the Euorpean Song Contest (the call for entries closed a couple of weeks ago). I must say that given that there are 3200 entries (some record in entries again I think) for the contest and that 32 will be selected for the finals – I can bet my hat that this long haired dude Thomas G:son will most likely score his usual with another 8 out of 32 entries (just look at last years finals) – does this mean that he is out competing the gross part of all of new talented composers in all of Sweden. Personally I think this competition sucks, if only the “elite” (wow and what an elite it is, ) is able to enter why make it an open competition in the first place (not to forget this horrible lyrics writer “Pling” Forssman, who also seems to have struck a good deal with “Music Sweden”). Make sure to make this a true competition this year.
DATAMASKIN
