All you can eat gear video: AIRA Start – MX-1 (a short tutorial)
AIRA gear is intuitive and easy to learn. It’s part of what makes it so musically inspiring. But it also has a deep bag of tricks, and these can take time to discover and master. Whether you’re curious about what AIRA can do, or just wondering where to begin, these videos provide a strong base for further exploration.
This video is a short tutorial on the MX-1 Mix Performer. The MX-1 Mix Performer brings together your synths, drum machines, loops, DAW tracks, and more into a single performance-optimized mixing instrument. Combining elements of a mixer, control surface, audio interface, and step-based effector, the MX-1 is designed to be the nerve center of your electronic music rig. It’s a mixer you can play – and so much more.
More about
TR-8 : http://www.roland.com/products/mx-1/
AIRA : http://www.roland.com/aira
Dat Politics new video “Reptiloid”. New album “No Void” out 26/06/15 on Shitkatapult.
New track and video by Dat Politics. Excerpt from the new album NO VOID. Out june 26.2015 on Shitkatapult // Random Noize Musick.
Contact : datband@datpolitics.com
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R IS FOR ROLAND (Slices Special)
Electronic Beats TV presents a special Slices feature that presents the story behind R IS FOR ROLAND. Michal Matlak (aka Analog Roland Orchestra) served as the book’s central author, and alongside illustrator and photographer Tabita Hub he created an epic book dedicated to some of the classic Roland instruments that have played an integral role in shaping electronic music. Its collection of exclusive descriptions and photos, plus interviews and stories from the likes of Legowelt, Egyptian Lover, Jeff Mills, Mark Ernestus, Modeselektor, Lee Scratch Perry, Moby, Robert Hood, Mathew Jonson, make it clear that these machines can create emotional connections.
R IS FOR ROLAND is released on May 11th 2015, exclusively available here: http://www.roland-book.com/
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Duophonic Modular Synthesizer
2X TipTopAudio Z3000 Oscillators into The Harvestman Maglorithm being enveloped by Intellijel Dual ADSR into Malekko Borg Dual stereo. Synthesis Technology E350 into wave shaper FM on Z3000’s. Notes and envelopes controlled by Make Noise Pressure Points.
Just because it’s Thursday afternoon: Essence Of Mind – Escape
Official video for Essence Of Mind – Escape
Taken from the album “The Break Up!”
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Building up on the success received by the new sound approach they revealed on their recent “Indifference” album, Norway’s ESSENCE OF MIND strike back with this new “Escape” single announcing a much promising follow-up full length release.
Powerful, melodic and electronic with a touch of alternative pop rock and other dance music elements, this exciting new song confirms the band’s unique sound and faultless production maturity. Besides an astounding and epic club mix, the EP also features 2 additional remixes by electro-tech artist Henrik Bäckström as well as by the gritty electro dance label-mates of JUNKSISTA.
Video produced by Espen Geitsund
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AAAA on Bandcamp – Check it out
AAAA is the alias of GABO BARRANCO, a Paris-born producer who was raised in suburbs of Ciudad de México. During his relatively short career under his AAAA moniker, Barranco has already shared the stage with bands like Lucky Dragons or producers and DJs like Mouse On Mars, Developer and Tin Man. His performance at Mexico’s Mutek festival in 2014 was praised by critics and festival-goers alike and his appearance on Boiler Room Mexico was voted as one of the year’s best performances by Boiler Room’s editorial staff. In the autumn of 2014, AAAA released his debut album »Shiva Watts« as a small-run CD version on the Mexican imprint Maligna. ANTIME is proud to announce its re-release on vinyl. The release of »Shiva Watts« will coincide with a tour through Germany on which AAAA will join forces with his Brazilian label mate ˆL_ who currently has a new EP in the works.
Chances are there to be taken, but not to be missed. After ANTIME label founder Martin Steer had stumbled upon Barranco’s work in mid-2014, he immediately invited the Mexican producer to contribute a track to the third instalment of the Berlin-based label’s ongoing compilation series. The polyrhythmic frenzy of AAAA’s »Bennu« had not yet settled when AAAA announced his debut album »Shiva Watts«. After hearing the album Steer, who coincidentally happened to be in Mexico by that time, exchanged some messages with the other members of ANTIME and shortly thereafter met with Barranco in Ciudad de México. Hands were shaken and an agreement was made: ANTIME would release »Shiva Watts« on vinyl in Europe and send AAAA on a tour through the old world.
Gabo Barranco got into Jean-Michel Jarre when he was not more than six years old and started making tracks with FruityLoops and Reasons as a young teenager before attending raves and dancing to House and Techno. He cofounded DDA with some friends in high school and while the trio was still debating if their noisy style could be pigeonholed as Shoegaze, Post-Punk or even Post-Rock, they found themselves sharing big stages with bands like No Age and others. After DDA’s amicable split-up, Barranco concentrated on his solo work and following a long period of trial and error experimentation with his vast array of analogue hardware, he recorded the 16 tracks that make up »Shiva Watts«. It is an album which celebrates stylistic and emotional ambiguity.
For the vinyl release of »Shiva Watts« ANTIME’s in-house graphic designer Johann Steer developed a special new artwork in collaboration with Baranco. While Steer’s design still references the original which used circuit patterns by the renowned director and sculptor Theo Kamecke, it takes Barranco’s visions one step further. The former student of classical harmony and composition and trained audio engineer channels abstract visions of the future through his music, venturing into realms which are at once dystopian and filled with a sense of hope. »That’s what Electronic music is all about – the future. Imagining how human life might be like in one or two hundred years from now,« explains Barranco. »It’s all about envisaging the changes, different ideas, the new technology and the possibilities of applying this technology to our lives. I myself imagine dystopian worlds.« However, neither does Barranco consider all hope to be lost nor indulge his intense, acidic hardware jams in hopelessness and despair.
»Shiva Watts« is not so much a conceptualised album as rather the product of years of experimentation with different sounds and devices. After having produced music digitally for years, Barranco wilfully narrowed down his set-up and went fully analogue. »I get lost in the computer!«, he laughs. »If you have one thousand plug-ins, that just happens eventually. However, it is different when you work with an analogue synthesizer. You only have so many options and if you fail once, you have to start over from the beginning.« Hence »Shiva Watts« sounds both vivid and complex, as it captures the raw energy of AAAA’s globally praised live performances and at once is a direct result of tireless, disciplined experimentation.
The 16 tracks on »Shiva Watts« take their cues from a variety of musical styles, most notably Acid. However, Barranco does not confine himself to only one approach to the genre’s rich sound palette, quoting Richard Devine, Aphex Twin or even Boards Of Canada as examples of what Acid can sound like – if you dare giving it a twist. »Shiva Watts« combines elements of hard-hitting Techno, textural IDM, dry-but-funky Electro, trance-inducing House with lush Ambientleaning interludes. It is a striking example of what can happen if a visionary mind dedicates itself to the machines. The sound of a distant future or what will come after that.
New Propellerhead Reason and iOS Apps Demo
Gerry Bassermann from Propellerhead Software demonstrates how Reason DAW software can interact with Propellerhead’s apps for tablets and smartphones. After the video, click the link above for all the info on Propellerhead’s Reason software.
Checking out the new Rhythm Necklace App on iOS
Now available in the app store: appsto.re/i6L72ht
Rhythm necklaces are circular representations of repeating patterns. They’ve found application in fields as varied as Crystallography, Radio Astronomy, Nuclear Physics, and Ethnomusicology. When applied to musical rhythms, circular representations show the underlying geometric properties that make them enjoyable, such as the degrees of evenness and symmetry. Computer scientist Godfried Toussaint has found that analyzing rhythms geometrically reveals surprising relationships between rhythms the world over. In fact, Toussaint has shown how a core group of geometric algorithms can generate rhythms employed in African, Cuban, Balkan, and Spanish folk music, to name a few. The Rhythm Necklace iOS app is a musical sequencer for exploring the geometry of rhythm necklaces, and for experimenting with generating rhythms algorithmically.
Rhythm Necklace is made by Meara O’Reilly and Sam Tarakajian.
The Many Sounds of Analog Synthesis (CB’s DIY Modular Synthesizer)
A collection of patches that demonstrate the variety of sounds my synthesizer can make. All sounds are made by the synth except for a splash of spring reverb.
For more about this project:
http://cb.hopto.org/cbfishes/2015/05/…
Here is each patch from the video:
0:00 Shotgun-shell Light “Theremin”
0:41 Acid bass sequence
1:20 Tuned Noise
1:42 Weird Resistor Ladder Sequencing
2:09 Big Thick Drone
2:31 Playing my Stylophone-style Keyboard
2:51 Playing the keyboard with fingers instead
3:08 Cowbell!
3:29 Laser bass drums
3:45 10 step sequencer as oscillator
4:10 Manual and clocked arpeggios
Omnisphere 2 Demo #1 – keybdwizrd
Demo of factory presets included in the new Omnisphere 2 upgrade from Spectrasonics. The first version 2.0 of any Spectrasonics instrument, the updated Omnisphere features a host of new synthesis capabilities and includes thousands of new sounds.
For details on the new Omnisphere 2, see the Spectrasonics site.
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