Demo: old school reunion
old school reunion
Web site/MySpace : oldschoolreunion.blogspot.com / myspace.com/oldschoolreunion Contact info: banthedrummer@hotmail.co.uk Music production tool/s:Logic pro, garage band
old school reunion is really what I would call old school electro hip hop and to my best judgment they are doing a good job doing so as well 
I think it is very refreshing to here how “osr” so successfully incorporate the traditional sounds of the 80’s and 90’s into their songs, which is not very common in today´s hip hop sounds. However, what disturbs me a little is that the drums does not really stand out in the mix – you do not get that really juicy damped sound of the bass drums, they feel a little to sterile
Conclusively, I like the vocals and the overall sound scape that “osr” has put into their mix, but I would give a little more love to the drum loops, both in terms of choice of sounds and its variation over the mix, some sounds does not feel as they belong their.
Worth listening to: Definitly, if you’re into hip hop
Going to Germany in April?? Well perhaps you should…
…in April Steve Naghavi and the rest of the And One crew will head for a short German tour visiting 6 cities.
The first big news from these guys since the so and so OK album release Bodypop.
Special guest during this tour will be Alexander Marcus, let’s see how the ebm grufties will receive him… Visit www.alexander-marcus.de to hear some tunes.
Here are the confirmed dates:
- 04.04.2008 Leipzig, Anker
- 05.04.2008 Dresden, Straße E
- 11.04.2008 Hannover, Capitol
- 12.04.2008 Duisburg, Pulp
- 18.04.2008 Berlin, Columbiahalle
- 26.04.2008 Hamburg, Docks
And One, the popular synth-pop band from Germany, formed in 1989 after Chris Ruiz and Steve Naghavi met in a Berlin disco. They were both fans of Belgian EBM music, so they decided to play together, using only a drum machine and two keyboards, like their musical idols Depeche Mode had. Working together they compiled a demo tape that producer Jor, who was planning on starting a sub-label off of Modern Music, happened to like. The duo met success rather quickly after that, as they were the first signed band to Machinery Records. In 1990 they released their first single, «Metalhammer».
Native Instruments: Free KORE Player Download!
Native Instruments: Free KORE Player Download! 
KORE PLAYER is a free software instrument designed for use with KORE SOUNDPACKS.
Built on the same principles as the flagship KORE 2 Super Instrument, KORE
PLAYER includes six Native Instruments sound engines under the hood and provides
ready-to-play sounds that can be browsed and tweaked via the ultra-intuitive
KORE PLAYER interface. Features
- Free and intuitive sound module, instantly expandable with KORE SOUNDPACKS
- Based on KORE 2, offering all features to load and play KORE SOUNDPACKS
- Includes six NI sound engines*: KONTAKT, REAKTOR, MASSIVE, GUITAR RIG, FM8, ABSYNTH
- Selection of premium sounds included (300 MB)
- KoreSound® Browser finds any sound by the desired musical characteristics
- Consolidated user interface with unified operation for all sound engines
- 8 knobs and 8 buttons make complex tweaking actions a breeze
- Up to 8 sound variations per sound with unique sound morphing
- Automation and Total Recall in the audio host/sequencer
- Knobs and buttons can be controlled via any MIDI controller box
Audio input for Reason – Introducing Hammer
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For those of you who have not come across Hammer before
Hammer is an audio input tool for Propellerhead’s Reason. It finally lets you route ASIO audio inputs into Reason rack for live processing: just adding a reverb, doing cool voice vocoding or guitar distorsion. |
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Technically speaking, Hammer is a standard ReWire application. |
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Here are two sample files recorded using Hammer and some effect patches included in the Hammer ReFill… Check them out! |
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Nice Atari demo on Milky Tracker – check it out here
If you haven’t come across Milky Tracker make sure to check it out
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ZPnWI3P0I]
Download Milky Tracker here >>
Features:
Milkytracker offers accurate module playability based on Fast Tracker 2 (XM) and Protracker (MOD) engines... . . . 
OS X (Universal & PowerPC) Windows CE (ARM/MIPS/x86 Pocket & Handheld PC, Gizmondo) Windows (Unicode NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista) Windows (ANSI 9x/Me) Linux (x86, x86_64, PowerPC, ARM Zaurus, GP2X) FreeBSD (x86) Amiga OS 4 Solaris 9 & 10 (SPARC)
669, AMS, AMF, DBM, CBA, DIGI, DSM, FAR, GMC, GDM, IMF, IT, MOD MDL, MTM, MXM, OKT, PLM, PSM, PTM, S3M, STM, ULT, UNI and X
XM, MOD and WAV
WAV, IFF / XI, PAT
- # Very accurate .XM replay compared to FT2
- # ProTracker 2/3 playback modes for playing and editing .MOD files
- # Choose between a modern and a true-to-FT2 editing scheme / keyboard layout
- # Powerful sample editor featuring waveform generators
- # Powerful instrument editor featuring envelope zooming and scaling
- # Low latency audio driver support
- # MIDI In support
- # Module optimizer
- # Internal file browser option
- # Various font sizes for improved visibility of pattern data
- # Prospective pattern view option
- # Play and edit simultaneously
New album from Colony 5
An album clearly worth checking out, especially since we have not been treated with much new stuff from these two guys in ages, apart from a hardly worth purchasing remix album – unless you are truly hooked
Free listening and download (pay) >>
The first single taken from the album – “Knives” – made it to #10 on the German Alternative Chart [DAC] in a very short time. On “Knives” Colony 5 presents a track that is much harder than we are used to from the band. Sure enough, “Buried Again” presents you with some harder tracks such as “Knives” and “Get Off My Back”.
But old fans should not despair! “Buried Again” is a varied album bringing you everything from EBM-inspired tracks to more danceable futurepop with dynamic and powerful refrains in tracks like “Pills” and “Ghost” and the beautiful downtempo track “Imaginary Girl”– the way we are used to from earlier Colony 5 releases.
One of my old favorite tracks:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Yijn12xKM]
Music Messe 08: Melodyne Direct Note Access
Can´t wait to buy it
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCjv4_jqAY]
Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.
Take a stereo (or mono) track of polyphonic audio – piano, string quartet or whatever and then through some kind of wizardry, explode this into the separate individual notes and edit to taste as you would with monophonic audio within Melodyne.
C=iao :-)la
New nice Reason Refill from Travis Huckins
Travis Huckins once again has provided CombinatorHQ the ability to display his wonderful talent for sound design in his newest refill “Alien Music Factory”.
This refill is packed with Combinators clearly organized for easy navigation such as Bass, Pads, Organs, Leads, Arps and many more. It stays amzingly true to it’s theme having Pads sounding spacey, Drums being synthetic and mechanical and Strings awkwardly eerie and sometimes serene.
This is a very pleasureable and meaty refill at just over 200MB!
Beware!! The new Toxic Biohazard is here (v4)
Toxic Biohazard is the 4th generation in the line of Toxic synthesizers. Toxic Bio distills the best features from the previous 3 versions to deliver our most concentrated Toxic ever. Beware!
Toxic Biohazard features a hybrid synthesis engine, combining the best of FM and Subtractive synthesis. With the addition of a warm, analog-modeled filter and set of built-in effects, the Toxic concept remains one of convenience, simplicity, and superb sound quality.
What’s new?
- Improved sound quality
- “Physical Envelopes” that allow you to model how sounds in real world decay & resonate etc…
- Integrated effects such as tube-like distortion, to warm stereo delay, reverb, flanger, and phaser.
- A hybrid synth engine combining FM and subtractive synthesis
- A complete rebuilt FM engine adding warmth
- Alias-free oscillators with low CPU consumptom
- An integrated simple sequencer (64 steps, which can be divided into two independent, 32 step modules to allow double-polyphonic patterns. Using our own “Smart Sequencer” technology, when a chord is played, the module defines that chord, and tunes the pattern accordingly.)
Visit http://www.image-line.com/documents/toxicbio.html to learn more, download a free demo, and listen to samples songs created with Toxic Biohazard.
Teaser from Steelberry Clones upcoming album
It’s the song Kickflip in a remix version, enjoy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avKnFKmW0PA]
C=iao
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