New DVD out with Gary Numan
Finally, Gary Numan’s stunning 1984 Berserker tour comes to life in this full length concert DVD entitled ‘Cold Warning’.
This is the complete and uninterrupted version of this classic 1984 Berserker tour concert, seen for the first time ever as an official release including the previously unseen Berserker concert intro.
The concert, shot at the Hammersmith Apollo, features all of Gary’s worldwide hits and classic album tracks from his massively successful previous 5 years at the top.
Other updated features include a stunning unseen photo gallery and a 2007 updated Gary Numan interview.
The track listing is as follows:
Intro
Berserker
Metal
Me, I Disconnect From You
Remind Me To Smile
Sister Surprise
Music For Chameleons
The Iceman Comes
Cold Warning
Down In The Park
This Prison Moon
I Die:You Die
My Dying Machine
Cars
We Take Mystery (To Bed)
We Are Glass
This Is New Love
My Shadow In Vain
Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
And of course a weekend treat from the good old days:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuzvWHwmoVs]
Do you enjoy fat EBM drums…
….than check out this guys. A couple of really nice tracks and an excellent debut album was released last year.
Click the image below to go to their website:
Vintage drums – Tape 808 and 909
Don´t miss out on Goldbaby’s new free stuff. Their commercial products include Tape 808 and Tape 909 (Vintage drum machine into valve Ampex 1/2″ tape machine, into 24bit samples), a range of old Roland drum machines sampled onto a MPC60, then re-sampled) and Vintage Home Keyboard Breaks which is classic breakbeats replayed on old casio keyboards. In the exceptionally fine Free Stuff section, you’ll find a 606 which has been through the Ampex treatment, an 808 recorded on cassette and various impulse responses (including an MPC60)…
Also check out some other free stuff >>
Electronic download pack for a nice price (4.99€)
Glitch Gumbo Vol 1 is a new download pack featuring electronic breaks and percussion loops. It is aimed at adventurous producers of breaks, IDM, techno and other electronic music styles. Glitch Gumbo Vol 1 is available in PC and Mac loop formats at the introductory price of 4.99 EUR.
The emphasis of this download pack is on experimental breaks and beats, while retaining a good dose of funk and groove. The loops build on ideas from IDM, techno and hip-hop to create an original collection of warped percussive sounds. The consistent use of timestretching, granular synthesis and programmed beat deconstruction techniques makes for a futuristic sounding download pack.
The loops are ideal for layering on top of other beats and textures. For the more experimental producers, they also lend themselves nicely to beat slicing, pitch shifting and other DSP trickery. Lastly, the beats can be used for spicing up hip-hop rhythms with a touch of glitch. All loops contain a convenient BPM tempo indication in the track title.
The Atypical Audio website provides previews of the loops as well as a Glitch Gumbo free download pack. This pack contains similar sounding loops made during the production of Glitch Gumbo Vol 1. Separate sounds are also made available for free in the form of two kits for Native Instruments’ Battery. All files can be downloaded from the Atypical Audio website.
– Glitch Gumbo Vol 1
– Electronic breaks and percussion loops
– Instant Download Pack of 66 loops
– Acid Loops & Apple Loops formats
– 16 bit / 44.1 kHz
– Royalty free
– Available from January 2008 on the Atypical Audio website
– Introductory price of 4.99 EUR until April 2008
– Website: www.atypicalaudio.com
Atypical Audio
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New single with Welle:Erdball due in February
Rumors has it that it will be released on Feb 23rd and it is called “Ich bin aus Plastik”. You can see the cover of the upcoming single here and if you are strong in german, feel free to follow the text and links below 
Zwar gibt es leider noch kein offizielles Releasedatum für die neue Welle: Erdball – Single “Ich bin aus Plastik” (ausser das es irgendwann im Februar diesen Jahres sein wird), dafür aber schon folgende Infos über die enthaltenen Gimmicks: Eine Spühschablone, eine Autogrammkarte und ein 3D-Wackelbild. Die limitierte Vinylversion wird zudem in rosa Farbe(!) erscheinen.
Erste Eindrücke des fertigen Coverartworks könnt Ihr hier bewundern: http://www.welle-erdball.de/plastik/
Jean Michel Jarre on tour in Scandinavia…
…and best of all, he will not go with his more recent ambient electro stuff, but rather make a show covering the gross part of the Oxygene album :-). Which in my mind is one of his best, after Zoolook I stopped purchasing his later stuff, which I believe was noteven close to his previous work.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYQiJJ3mJ8k]
The tour dates (in swedish, sorry):
Tillsammans med tre musiker och femtio synthesizers kommer franske Jean Michel Jarre till Sverige för en konsert. Den legendariske pionjären inom den elektroniska musiken ska framföra hela repertoaren från albumet “Oxygene” på Cirkus i Stockholm den 4 april.
Jean Michel Jarre är just nu aktuell med en nyinspelning av albumet som har 30 år på nacken och sålt i drygt 12 miljoner exemplar sedan det kom ut 1977. Fransmannen började sin musikkarriär på 1970-talet och hans första fullängsalbum “Deserted Palace” kom ut 1972.
Han är känd för sina stora utomhuskonserter och hans senaste spelningar i Sverige hölls 1997.
Den 4 februari släpps biljetterna till Cirkuskonserten.
Novation Nocturn
Novation unveils a new USB controller called Nocturn. Featuring the latest Automap Universal 2.0 software, exclusive to Novation controllers, Nocturn provides automatic, instant and intelligent control of all automatable plug-ins within every major sequencer, including Pro Tools.
Features :
– 8 touch-sensitive rotary encoders, each equipped with a bright eleven-LED ring
– 8 user-assignable illuminated buttons
– smooth, professional 45mm cross-fader
– Novation’s unique ‘speed dial’; a touch-sensitive rotary encoder that instantly takes control of whatever your mouse is focused on!
Probably the most interesting aspect of this controller is bundled software that features a “heads-up transparent control GUI” that places a “transparent control map across your computer screen, to be recalled or hidden at will.” Simply boot up the plug-in, and you’ll see at a glance how the parameters are automatically assigned to each of Nocturn’s controls. An instant click and control ‘learn’ function is also available for quick re-assigning of controls, or for creating your own controller map in seconds. Multiple page options mean that you can assign a potentially infinite number of parameters for each plug-in.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9B7oPhy20w]
In search for an old Kraftwerk Reason Refill I´ve lost…
… I came across this intriguing and inspiring site.
Some years ago I had quite a nice Kraftwerk refill that I lost in transfer between laptops 
and searching through the old sources I soon realized that refill was nowhere to be found, but to my great surpirise I came acroos the original author again and actually managed to download some of those refills again and being such a nice person I of course would like to share it with all of you guys
Take a look at this Kraftwerk/Apple/Widgets/VST multimedia artist and enjoy…
Depeche Mode – back in the studio
The band met earlier this month, and agreed to hit the studio in March.
Martin’s been writing songs, and has already taken his new compositions into pre-production (ie. not just demos), working with Sie Medway-Smith in Martin’s home studio in Santa Barbara.
Dave has also been writing, although details of his progress are scarce.
EMI in Spain let slip that Mute are hoping to have the album ready at the end of this fiscal year, in time for Christmas. A tentative date of “late November” was circulated to retailers and media in Spain, via the IFPI owned operation Promusicae. Sources close to the band tells us to expect a tour to be announced some time in the early fall of 2008, with tickets going on sale in September or October. A tour would probably not start till early 2009, however.
80's nostalgia…
…remeber these old chaps
Yes it’s Freur, performing Doot Doot LOL
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