Robert Marlow is back with new material
Robert Marlow returns helped by Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke seems to be as productive as ever, we just received the news that a new album by his childhood friend Robert Marlow, “Inside/Outside” will be released in October.
Clarke once again helps him arrange and produce the album, which is the first album since “The Peter Pan Effect” that got quite some attention back in 1999 when Swedish label Energy made it available.
Marlow did a number of shows in Sweden during that time, including a small tour with Canadian band Rational Youth.
For those of you not familiar with Marlow’s past, please enjoy this old time classic of his:
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Depeche Mode: Tour of the Universe
Tour Of The Universe
The dates for the European leg of Depeche Mode’s upcoming tour, “Tour of The Universe 2009,” are now available! Tune in now to the LiveNation web site to view the Depeche Mode press conference, broadcasting LIVE from Berlin! We are announcing some exciting news for the upcoming year. If you miss it, don’t worry. The LiveNation link above will also be hosting replays of the press conference starting within one hour of the original web broadcast! We will also have a “highlights” video clip on the site within a few days.
All dates and cities are here >>
Arturia goes hardware
“We are extremely proud to be shipping Origin”, says Frédéric Brun, President of Arturia. “The project has taken much longer than we initially thought and, since we had announced the product early, Origin has been eagerly awaited by the market. In the end, taking more time has proven necessary to foster quality and details.”
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Loaded with modules extracted from the best synthesizers of all time, Origin lets you combine these modules and take advantage of the additional possibilities put onboard. The result: a new type of sound accessible through an extremely intuitive interface.
Listen to it:
Origin Audios
| Dub
by Arturia (JM & Vinx) |
This dub track has been entirely made with Origin, except the bass drum and the hi hat. Delay, chorus, phasing and short reverb effects all come from Origin. |
| Play it loud, I’m Origin and I’m proud
by Thomas Koot |
Progressive song entirely made with Origin, including drums. No external effects, compression or EQ-ing. Sidechaining effects made with sequencer driven envelopes. |
| Electro demo
by JMB Arturia |
A demo track based on the Multi “Dark Side 80s”. it originally uses 4 program playing in layering mode: 1 leads sound, a warm and fat bass sequence, an electro drum sequence, a complex dual percussive sequences program and a rich pad! The mix of this track has been done in real time using the Program’s volume MIDI CC controllers and the mod wheel opening the cutoff frequency of the pad sound’s filter. |
| Lake and Forest
by TJam |
A nice Jazz ambient soundscape using the “Jazz Guitar”, a “12 strings” Guitar, a warm and deep strings pad and a light lead sound. |
| Wes Montgomery Four on six
by JMB Arturia |
A jazz trio standard played by Origin. The jazz guitar and the double bass parts have been played with a Guitar MIDI controller to keep the guitar and bass intact feeling. The drum parts have been played with Drum Session thanks to a MIDI drum. |
New updates on Image Line's synths
Image Line just announced a series of minor updates to their core line of virtual synthesizers. To expand your sound palet Image Line offer a complete range of synths and effects like Sytrus, Morphine, Toxic Biohazard, Edison, Poizone, DirectWave, DrumSynth Live, SimSynth Live, DX-10, WASP
– fixed crashes/freezes when closing plugin in OSX
– fixed threading in Windows version
– fixed compatibility with the Toxic Biohazard installer in OSX
– better tablet pc / stylus support
– fixed polyphony issues in FL version
– several small changes
– fixed threading issues
– made it more stable
– better tablet pc / stylus support
– fixed polyphony issues in FL version
– fixed crash when changing presets on PPC macs
– several small changes and fixes
Toxic Biohazard 1.0.2 released
– fixed crashes when closing plugins in OSX
– threading-related fixes
– fixes on PPC macs
– fixed some crashes related to downloader in OSX
– several small changes and fixes
Marc Almond – with new material in the pipe
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September saw the release of a six-track Marc Almond EP, Brel Extras, which includes three new studio recordings, plus two remastered live recordings of “The Devil (Okay)” and “If You Go Away.” The limited edition disc also includes the 1984 fan club flexi version of “My Death.”
In October, fans can expect a DVD/CD package, Marc Almond in Bluegate Fields — Live at Wilton’s Music Hall. The DVD features a show recorded earlier this year along with bonus songs. The audio-only CD will include guest appearances by Little Annie and Baby Dee.
Almond has also confirmed new live dates for the UK, Serbia, Lithuania and Russia. Please follow the links for more information.
New version of Reaper available
REAPER Latest Version
before spending big bucks on a software package (or worse, pirating it), try Reaper – it’s fully operational straight away and you’re free to demo it for as long as you want, has features enough to rival a lot of commercial packages and only costs $40 if you decide to support it at some point by registering it.
| REAPER v2.51 – September 26, 2008 Download: 3.4 MB installer
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New cool album from my old guru – Hideki Matsutaki
Also known as Logic System 
「タンス・マトリックス」アルバム内容
収録曲
（※ ♪マーク付きの曲はページ下部で試聴できます）
1. Turning Point – Epilogue ( Comp : H.Matsutake )
2. Hypnotize ( lyrics : A.Muto , Comp : J.Irie )♪
3. Wandering On The Road ( Comp : A.Kosaka )
4. Digiphone ( Comp : K.Yamamoto)
5. 桜繚乱 ( lyrics : N.Oikawa , Comp : J.Irie )♪
6. THOUSAND KNIVES ( Comp : R.Sakamoto )♪
7. Sweet Memories ( lyrics : T.Matsumoto , Comp : M.Omura )
8. Nenkororo (MOSH) ( Comp : K.Hiro)
9. LEFT-HANDED WOMAN ( Comp : K. Omura )♪
10. LOVE ( lyrics : A.Muto , Comp : J.Irie )
11. Y.M.C.A. ( lyrics : Belolo Henri , Comp : Morali Jacques )♪
12. a long cool rain ( Comp : A.Kosaka )
13. Go!! Rise!! Cow!! ( Comp : K.Yamamoto )
14. Land of 1000 Dances ( lyrics & Comp : KENNER CHRIS )
15. Some Enchanted Evening ( lyrics :Hammerstein Oscar II , Comp : Rodgers Richard )
16. Turning Point – Prologue ( Comp : H.Matsutake )
Logic System is a musical project of Hideki Matsutake. Hideki started as an assistant for Isao Tomita in the 70’s and is well-known as the sequencer programmer and modular synthesizer operator for the Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), but he wasn’t a member of YMO. He worked on several of their albums and toured with his huge collection of synths. He also did sequencing work for numerous technopop albums for other artists, particularily in the early 80’s. In 1996 he performed in a big concert event organized by Isao Tomita and was also guest on Towa Tei albums. On his website is a huge number of MIDI files he released, with some of YMO’s original songs.
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