Boost your electronic Xmas feelings with Erasure’s Make It Wonderful video
‘Make It Wonderful’ is the second single to be taken from the new Erasure album ‘Snow Globe’ and will be released in February 2014.
The ‘Snow Globe’ album is out now and can be purchased from the links below.
‘Snow Globe’ features brand new Erasure songs alongside classic seasonal favourites including Silent Night, Bells of Love (Isabelle’s of Love), White Christmas and Silver Bells.
Make it wonderful this Christmas!
Snow Globe is available now:
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BUY ‘SNOW GLOBE’ ON ITUNES
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Magneticring – “Burning Plastic” (MS-20 mini / Fairlight CVI)
Magneticring rips the new Korg MS-20 Mini with Fairlight CVI.
Celebrate Christmas in Commodore 64 style :-)
Sing Along With Your Favorite Christmas Carols
Here’s a great way for you and your family to have fun with your Commodore 64™ or Commodore 128™ this Christmas. Our exciting Christmas Carols disk features 18 of your favorite holiday songs, with professionally-arranged music and entertaining graphics. For sing along fun, the lyrics appear in easy-to-read verse on your TV or monitor. Play just your favorite song or set your computer to play them all.
SONGS INCLUDE:
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Deck the Hall
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• Away in a Manger
• The First Noel
• God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• O Holy Night
• It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
• Jingle Bells
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• We Three Kings of Orient Are
• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
• Joy to the World
• O Christmas Tree
• Silent Night
• What Child is This?
• Up on the Housetop”
An exciting year from an electronic music perspective – Electricity Club reports
The on line magazine The Electricity Report has made a nice wrap up on what has been going on in the electronic music scene during 2013, below is an excerpt from the article:
The year started appropriately enough with an electronic number ‘2013’ by Belgian duo METROLAND. For the first six or seven months of 2013, it proved to be one of the most productive periods in electronic pop music. Not since the Autumn of 1981 when THE HUMAN LEAGUE ‘Dare’, GARY NUMAN ‘Dance’, ULTRAVOX ‘Rage In Eden’, DEPECHE MODE ‘Speak & Spell’, SOFT CELL ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’, HEAVEN 17 ‘Penthouse & Pavement’, SIMPLE MINDS ‘Sons & Fascination’, NEW ORDER ‘Movement’, JAPAN ‘Tin Drum’ and OMD ‘Architecture & Morality’ all came out had so many significant releases coincided. Interestingly from that list, only JAPAN and SOFT CELL are missing as currently performing entities although MARC ALMOND himself made a number of concert and theatrical appearances during the year.
OMD got back to their Kling Klang roots with their best album in 30 years entitled ‘English Electric’. Although enthusiasts of the band’s pioneering work were satisfied, fans of OMD’s pop phase were confused as to why Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys had recorded an electronic album influenced by KRAFTWERK! This was an indicator of how the band have mutated and been perceived over the years. But that was nothing compared with DEPECHE MODE whose single ‘Soothe My Soul’ was remixed by ZZ TOP’s Billy F Gibbons… although recognisably reworked, listeners could barely notice the join, thus fully confirming DM’s development into the world’s premiere stadium electro blues combo. Their album ‘Delta Machine’ was a big improvement on 2009’s ‘Sounds Of The Universe’ but it was no ‘English Electric’.
Easel Envelope Detecting
Just a simple tutorial on the Buchla Music Easel Envelope Detector
Vintage demo: Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev 3.3
One of the first fully programmable polyphonic analog synths, the Prophet 5 is the most classic synthesizer of the eighties! It is capable of a delightful analog sound unique to Sequential’s Prophet series in which the P5 was King! Five voice polyphony – two oscillators per voice and a white noise generator. The analog filters, envelope and LFO all sound great and are extremely flexible. The P5 had patch memory storage as well, which scanned and memorized every knob setting for storing and recalling your sounds – a desperately needed feature at the time!
The P5 lacked MIDI (a feature that came later on the P5 spin-off, the Prophet 600). But it is still loved even today for its great string sounds, analog effects, and punchy analog basses. Unfortunately the P5 is not immune to the dark side of vintage synths – it has its fair share of analog synth problems such as unstable tuning, it’s difficult to repair, lacks MIDI, etc.
There are basically three versions of the Prophet 5:
Rev 1 P5s are pretty unreliable, if you find one; they’re also quite rare. These were all hand-assembled in the ‘garage stage’ of the company.
Rev 2 uses SSM chips, and has some differences in its control logic capabilities from the final version. It can’t be retrofitted for MIDI, but is considered by most to be the better-sounding of the two ‘common’ P5s.
Rev 3 is the final version, and subsequent Rev 3.1, Rev 3.2 and Rev 3.3 each are capable of taking a MIDI retrofit. They’re also capable of microtonal tuning. The audio quality of the Rev 3 is different, however, as it uses Curtis chips instead of Rev 2’s SSMs; many people think the Rev 3 units sound ‘thinner’. The Rev 3, however, is considered the most reliable of all of the different versions and they had 120 memory patches.
Background video description:
All sounds are coming from the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev 3.3 Synthesizer. You can also see the Rev 2 Prophet in the video but it will be another video…Composed and Played by Mr Firechild.
Look-Ahead Looper in Ableton Live (with Maschine and MIDI Designer)
The look-ahead looper is a mythical device which allows for incredible looping creativity. With a REGULAR LOOPER, you press “loop” and then you play something brilliant. That’s stressful and error-prone. With a LOOK-AHEAD LOOPER, you play something brilliant and then hit the loop button. Or you can wait. The looper is always ready to loop the last 2 bars (or 4, or 8, or whatever you’ve set up).
In this video, Dan Rosenstark, Author & CEO of MIDI Designer, shows you how to set up the simplest kind of look-ahead looper in Ableton Live. This is the first video on Look-Ahead Loopers… there are more complex variations to come.
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EDM Sylenth Kings – collection of 65 patches for the Sylenth1 synthesizer
Diginoiz has announced the release of EDM Sylenth Kings, a collection of 65 patches for the Sylenth1 synthesizer instrument by Lennar Digital.
Inspired by the greatest Edm artists like: Hardwell, Avicii, Nicky Romero, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto , Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia, Afrojack and many more. Made to give You full possibility of creating Your own melodies, sounds and songs!
All You need is the most popular and probably best vst instrument – Sylenth1, Your creativity and our ‘Edm Sylenth Kings’ package! You will find here 65 great sounding Sylenth1 prests in one fxb file, ready to be imported to Your Sylenth instrument. All in the EDM genre, ready to create the best tracks in You carrier!
EDM Sylenth Kings features
- 65 presets for Sylenth1 by Lennar Digital.
- Includes Bass Synths (14), Chords (10), Drum (5), Fx Sounds (6), Leads (15), Plucks (15).
- Requires Sylenth1 v 2.21 or higher.
The soundset costs 20 EUR.
Deconstructing Dad – The Music, Magic and Mystery of Raymond Scott
Director Stan Warnow has released his expanded Deluxe Edition of his award-winning documentary on his father, bandleader, composer and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.
The Deluxe Edition of Deconstructing Dad – The Music, Machines & Mystery Of Raymond Scott includes all the content from the original release, plus:
- A progress report on the Electronium restoration going on in Portland, Oregon by engineer Darren Davison. This includes views of the inner components of the machine and Davison explaining in some detail how things worked.
- An interview with John Cool, an electrical engineer who formed a company with Raymond Scott in the early 1970′s. The company was meant to manufacture some of my dad?s many ideas for music related electronic devices. He had fascinating tales to tell about Raymond Scott and the mixed results of their business venture, hosting him for Christmas and listening to him compose one tune after another instantly at the piano (kind of like the human Electronium).
- Directors Commentary by Stan Warnow.
Electro Saturday brings you CODE SAMPLERS – Endless Passion
Code Samplers new track is a classic electronica tune with fast beats and slick lead sounds from classic synths, such as the KORG MS20, Kawai 5000, paired with softsynths found in Reason DAW.
Code Samplers proudly follows in the tradition of many of the big synth bands of the 80’s and 90’s, but with fresh modern sounds.
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