Welle:Erdball single released on CD
German electro-pop act Welle:Erdball’s single, Ich Bin aus Plastik, is available now on CD. Originally released as a limited edition vinyl single, Ich Bin aus Plastik was first issued in April of this year and sold out immediately. The CD edition features four exclusive bonus tracks as well as two versions of the title track, but does not include the cover of Kraftwerk’s “Die Roboter” that was included on the vinyl version. Welle:Erdball are currently on tour in Germany; visit the links for more information.
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Puremagnetik Emissions for AudioCubes
“Emissions is a real-time soundscape generating instrument by Ableton Live content developer Puremagnetik (www.puremagnetik.com). It utilizes an array of textural ambiances, specifically designed for use with Percussa’s AudioCubes. It will morph, react and evolve depending on what the user (and the cubes!) decide to do.
AudioCubes are a tangible interface for creating music and sound. They interface seamlessly with your existing audio software giving you hands-on control in creating elements for music production, sound design and live performance.”
System Requirements:
- Ableton Live 7
- one or more Percussa AudioCubes
- latest update of MIDIBridge software for AudioCubes
- 100 MB of free hard disk space and 500 MB of physical RAM
Get the latest AudioCubes software from:
Promote your music: Jeuce
Jeuce
Listen here >> 01-young-touch 03-the-flashlight-and-the-fall-rework Web site/MySpace : www.myspace.com/jeuceuk Contact info: jeuce@hotmail.co.uk
Music production tool/s: Not mentioned
Well this makes me soooo happy, this clearly is a band that knows what they are doing – in my words a serious live act that I would not have anything against watching. Really really nice going and if I were a label I wouldn´t hesitate on signing you guys.
However, this is of course a review section as well, and as such we are forced to be fairly critical as well – providing, hopefully, some useful feedback. The main thing I tend to get somewhat disturbed about is the somewaht overloaded music image you provide at times, especially so in Young touch, not that it isn’t sounds that fit in, but they tend to give you a cascade of sounds at once. I would trim down the sound effects here and there, so not to clutter the overall experience which is great.
From an electro perspective I would be very intrigued to see what would happen if you exchanged, to what I think is a live drum set, some of the drum beats, with some more electro heavy basses – just to give it a second twist or perhaps have someone make an electro remix of the tracks.
From a vocals perspective I believe this is definately the best vocals performance I have heard so far in this promote section, and I have listened to quite a few by now. Only minor thing would be that the vocals at times tend to take over the entire listening space.
Worth listening to? DEFINATELY
In there own words:
We write, record and produce all of our own material – as well as playing live and DJ’ing (Jeuce Joyriders) around Southeast England for the past year or so. Weve just finished our move up to Leeds and trying to get as many shows booked as possible.
A short breakdown of our past endeavors consists of:
– Two official E.P releases on our own label, Get Sound Sexy Records (roughly 3750 sold worldwide)
– Official remix work (either Released or pre production) with Hadouken! (Declaration Of War – Atlantic), Shit Disco (I Know Kung Fu – Fierce Panda), The Whip, Devils Gun, The Raid, Fluid Lines, Goose, Trash Fashion., Charli xox…
– Supported such bands/DJ’s as Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip, Kid Acne, Graham Gold, Kate Nash, Trash Fashion, The Super Mario Brothers, Diverted etc
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Takashi Murakami – high five :-)
Saw a great documentary yesterday about the japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami and once a again I was reminded on how great his work is. So although not electro stuff I just had to throw something in here about him 
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About (from Wiki):
Takashi Murakami (村上 隆, Murakami Takashi), born 1 February 1962 in Tokyo, Kantō region), is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, and then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, “Superflat” paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.
Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, initially studying more traditionalist Japanese art. He pursued a doctorate in Nihonga, a mixture of Western and Eastern styles dating back to the late 19th century. However, due to the mass popularity of anime and manga, Japanese styles of animation and comic graphic stories, Murakami became disillusioned with Nihonga, and became fixated on otaku culture, which he felt was more representative of modern day Japanese life.
This resulted in Superflat, the style that Murakami is credited with starting. It developed from Poku, (Pop + otaku). Murakami has written that he aims to represent Poku culture because he expects that animation and otaku might create a new culture. This new culture being a rejuvenation of the contemporary Japanese art scene. This is what it is all about to Murakami; he has expressed in several interviews in the last five or six years the frustration that his art has risen from. It is a frustration rooted in the lack of a reliable and sustainable art market in post-war Japan, and the general view of Japanese art in and outside the country as having a low art status. He is quoted as saying that the market is nothing but “a shallow appropriation of Western trends”. His first reaction was to make art in non-fine arts media, but decided instead to focus on the market sustainability of art and promote himself first overseas. This marks the birth of KaiKai Kiki, LLC.
In 2008, Takashi Murakami made Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People list, and was the only visual artist to do so.
Klangstabil releasing new concept album in October
German band Klangstabil are set to release a new album, Math and Emotion, October 31 on Ant-Zen and MHz Records. The concept album about chess will be available as a standard CD and as a special edition, featuring a chess game, T-shirt and fine art print. The band have scheduled several live German dates, including a release party in Leipzig on December 5. Please follow the links for more information.
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About:
klangstabil was founded in 1994 by maurizio blanco and boris may. maurizio blanco and boris may met in 1994. before then, maurizio blanco had already spent most of his life experimenting with electronic music and expressing his own ideas, however boris may had only been listening to music up to that point in time. both of them soon realised that they were communicating on the same level. soon, a new vision was formed: to make people see music in a different way by employing new techniques and ideas. the name, klangstabil, more or less came off the top of their heads, but it fit quite well for both of them. they started producing without ever having the intention of having anything released; in their opinion, they were merely researching personal expression. their main inspiration was and is still kraftwerk. not after long, they were performing in small live-acts which resulted in a record-label showing interest in them. their first production was released on vinyl, and you can expect to see more of the same in the future.
klangstabil’s work ethic can be accurately defined as: one step back, two steps forward. with this attitude, klangstabil is creating their own niche by taking principal elements of the very beginning of electronic music and relating these elements to the modern times today. in order to understand what surrounds us day by day, one has to see things from the perspective of creation. as more progress is made, more questions arise. to put it simply: how does a tune get created, what is its meaning and what is its sound there for? in order to understand, one has to go and live through the decades of a wide musical spectrum. klangstabil continues to give an acoustic answer to the question: “what’s next?”
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Free plug'ins for all MAC fans out there
Blue Cat Audio has announced that they’ll be making their large plugin library available, finally, for Mac OS X.
 We are happy to announce that we will be releasing Mac versions of our plugins before the end of the year. The public beta program for our free VSTs started today, while the Audio Units versions are still in work. These releases will also include updates for the PC versions.
We plan to release our freeware plugins first, and our commercial plugins will then follow, most of them being expected before Christmas. |
The first release — available now — will be a collection of the Blue Bat Audio Freeware plugs, meaning the first OS X plugin bundle will also be freeware, i.e. it’ll be downloadable at no charge.
Of course, this freeware taste is only a precursor to the “professional” plugins that Blue Cat has announced will be coming in the first quarter of 2009. “Professional” in this context means, of course, that they will be charging for them.
The Freeware Bundle will include a veritable litter of decent plugins:
- Blue Cat’s Chorus
- Blue Cat’s Digital Peak Meter
- Blue Cat’s Flanger
- Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst
- Blue Cat’s Gain Suite
- Blue Cat’s Phaser
- Blue Cat’s Stereo Chorus
- Blue Cat’s Stereo Flanger
- Blue Cat’s Triple EQ
Not too bad I would say – go get it here >>
New stuff to download from the Refill master
eXode is definately one of my favorite Refill guys I am equally thrilled every time something new pops out from this guy, and you wont be disapointed this time around either. I have had these two refills for a couple of weeks now and they have really come to use.
Make sure to download them for free at CombinatorHQ >>
Marketing pitch from HQs below:
We are so lucky to have not one… but two offerings at once from one of the more prominent programmers of the Reason Community… eXode! These two refills are both full of Thor patches ready to be added to your latest creation. We know you’ll get a lot out of these producitons.
Voltage Controlled Vol.3. is the latest free offering from eXode! A pack of 60 high quality patches programmed for Thor exclusively. This pack contains everything from hard solid basses to epic leads and soaring pads and the sounds range from old-school analogue style to new modern digital sonic wizardry!
The eXode Moog Tribute ReFill is a FREE ReFill that was made using only Thor. A total of 50 patches that were made to stay as true as possible in design to the original Model D minimoog! This ReFill was made as a tribute to Dr Bob Moog, the minimoog synth and the impact they had on the music world.
New Steelberry Clones album available at iTunes
Hi all
Two good announcements:
1. This blog has now passed 100.000 unique vistors
2. A brand new Steelberry Clones album is out – Dig’it.
For those of you familiar with us would most liekly describe it as pure electro ambient synthpop. Make sure to check it out on iTunes and hopefully you will enjoy it enough to sponsor it.
Cheers Ola
Don´t miss the Propellerhead battle
Got funk? Got bass? For a chance to win astonishing prizes, enter the Propellerhead 2008 Bassline Battle. Fire up Reason and put together the funkiest, illest, baddest bassline and drum beat combination possible.
The Bassline Battle is just about that – creating the grooviest, dirtiest and downright funkiest 8 bars of bass and drums possible. If your creation makes it through the public and grand jury rating, you may be the lucky winner of an outstanding Grand Prize from Focusrite, KRK and Novation.
The Grand Prize consists of:
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
Brand new FireWire audio interface featuring 8 of Focusrite’s legendary mic pre-amps. - Novation Remote 25SL Compact
Advanced MIDI controller featuring a 25 key keyboard, a huge LCD display as well as loads of knobs, faders, buttons and pads that will effortlessly hook up to your Reason rack using Novation’s automap feature. - KRK Rokit 5 G2 (x2) and KRK S10
The Rokit series of monitors have long been a favorite in project studios all over the world, and with the self-powered G2 version offered here, you’ll get instant great sounding monitoring for your Reason rack. Add to that the KRK S10 sub-woofer and you have a fantastic full-range system that will let your hear your productions in great detail.
The Bassline Battle opens today, October 15th, and you have until November 24th to submit your bassline masterpieces. Learn all the details about the contest, the Grand Prize and follow-up prizes by going to the Bassline Battle page.
New from Reaktor – really good stuff
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REAKTOR ANIMATED CIRCUITS provides a world of new sounds from the outer reaches of the sonic universe. Based on five exceptional REAKTOR 5 ensembles including the unique, new Spiral sequencer, this KORE SOUNDPACK explores the world of endless, self-generating ambient soundscapes, textures and rhythms. Perfect for various electronic music styles, movie and game scoring, art projects, and more, REAKTOR ANIMATED CIRCUITS invokes a future that ranges from dystopian paranoia to abstract, meditative electronic states.
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