Hexadeci – Alone In The Dark (8bit Amigacore / Vinyl 7″)
Potentially the best Amigacore music in the past 10 years
This music is some of the best Amigacore in the past 10 years – skirting between party music for the post-apocalyptic crowd and a nightmarish take on otherwise light-hearted themes. What’s most remarkable about these tunes isn’t necessarily Hexadeci’s programming expertise (he’s totally awesome), or the creative use of seemingly random samples (Shakira? A Swiss yodeler?). No, it’s how he manages to effectively tear down dance music to shape his own tastes *AND* create tunes that are actually MUSICAL, instead of slipping into the same tired traps of hardcore posturing. It’s a fun record and we promise you’ll get some seriously confused looks when you drop a Swiss Yodelcore track at your next house party. Try it. Film it. Send us the video.
It’s exciting, it’s loud, it’s flawed, it’s idea-driven and it’s how we like it. We know you will too.
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Mood Cube Quad Nand Synth
The 4093 is 4 cascaded oscillators. It has a voltage starve dial with an LDR in parrallel so the LEDs of the mood cube will modulate the oscillations. I didn’t expect when I first made the circuit that the mood cube LED circuit would affect the 4093, but it does. I added a voltage starve to the LEDs and a cycle rate dial.
Harlem Nights
New track, this time in the style of Bobby Orlando (the producer of early 80s disco tracks from Divine, the Flirts, Bobby O)
Drums: Korg Electribe SX (TR-808), Rhythm-55
Bass: Sequential Pro One, Korg Minikorg 700S
Strings: Crumar Performer
Brass, additional strings: Sequential Prophet VS
Lead: Korg Minikorg 700S
Stabs: Korg Polysix
Timbales: Kurzweil ME1
Shared by harlemnightsmusic
Transitions
Transitions is a package of sounds designed specifically to build trailer music, stinger sounds, musical transitions and epic buildups. Each product contains 110 sweeps, fade-ins, impacts and blended samples for a total of just over 375MB of content per product, which are meant to be blended into sequences which will work well for music producers, as well as producers of cinematic and broadcast media. Also included with each package is a set of 20 blended, or “mixed” samples, which have been created to show some ways that the samples can be used in musical/broadcast contexts.
Find them here and listen to some examples below:
Transitions by DNR Collaborative
The Cure and The Editors on new The Japanese Popstars album
The Japanese Popstars have assembled quite a strong line-up for their new album. The album includes guest performances by Robert Smith (The Cure), Tom Smith (The Editors), Morgan Kibby (M83) and James Vincent McMorrow next to Lisa Hannigan, Chicago house legend Green Velvet and Jon Spencer. Honestly we wonder a bit why this act has deserved this because their material so far could not impress us at all.
The Japanese Popstars are an electronic act from Derry, Northern Ireland, consisting of Declan McLaughlin aka Decky Hedrock, Gary Curran, and Gareth Donoghue. They are signed to indie label, Gung-Ho Recordings (Gus Gus, Zoo Brazil) in the UK, and Beatink in Japan (home of Underworld, Aphex Twin, and Cinematic Orchestra).
The band will release their new single “Song For Lisa” on Positiva/Virgin on 4 April 2011. The release features Mercury Prize-nominated Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan.
Waves under Water – Tomorrow
Tomorrow by Waves under Water, taken from the album “All of Your Light”.
Enjoy
A tribute to Spectralis
Made for fun, hope nobody is bothered by the videocrap, its about the music, just to improve my skills with this machine and to have more different sound examples of the Spectralis in the net, I think its a great workstation, with a lot of soundpotential, not easy to learn, but unmatched for complex rythms and pseudo hardsequencing, cheers make music rainmaindein
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Malström Graintable Synthesis
Time again for this weeks Reason tutorial:
If you think of last three weeks of Synth School as primary school, then this week we’re graduating up to Middle School. Don’t worry, though… there’s no detention or pop quizes. This week we’ll move onto the Malström Graintable Synthesizer which was introduced in Reason version 2.0.
I think you’ll be surprised with how comfortable you are switching to a new synth. You’ll be applying a lot of what you’ve learned already, like ADSR envelopes, oscillator pitch controls, etc. You’ll also be seeing new controls and knobs that come with the graintable synthesis territory, like Shift and Motion.
Roland GAIA SH-01 Demo with Daniel Fisher
This is a nice demo of the GAIA regardless whether you are a Sweetwater customer or not
Hear a bank of 64 patches for the Roland GAIA SH-01, available only at Sweetwater. The bank comes preinstalled with GAIA SH-01s purchased at Sweetwater ( visit http://www.sweetwater.com/SH01 ) and is available separately for those who already have a GAIA (visit http://www.sweetwater.com/SH01patches ).
Omnisphere Video Tutorials: Latch and Trigger Modes
There are several more on their site >>
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