The Knife Announce European Tour
Swedish synthpop maestros The Knife have today announced a 14-date European tour in support of their forthcoming fifth album Shaking The Habitual, out on April 8 via Brille. Their sole UK date will be at London’s Roundhouse on May 8 – pre-sale tickets will be available to mailing list subscribers on Wednesday, January 16, at 9am; subscribe here.
In the meantime, take a look at last month’s teaser trailer for the album below:
Music can be so meaningless.
We had to find lust.
We asked our friends and lovers to help us.
http://theknife.net
Teaser: New video “Decimal” from the upcoming OMD album
OMD let’s us know via their FB page:
We are delighted to announce our new album English Electric. It will be released on April 8th on CD, deluxe CD+DVD, heavyweight vinyl LP, collectors’ tin boxset as well as digitally.
The tracklist is as follows:
Please Remain Seated
Metroland
Night Café
The Future Will Be Silent
Helen of Troy
Our System
Kissing The Machine
Decimal
Stay With Me
Dresden
Atomic Ranch
Final Song
The first single will be Metroland, released 25th March. The video for Decimal is attached to this post.
The sequenced Metasonix R 54
Feedback connected Metasonix R-54 is controlled by MakeNoise Renè sequencer; there’s a short spoken phrase played by Phonogene and scrambled/mangled with Echophon. Two Doepfer A-111 Oscillators are used as Kick & Snare thru the wild Furio Rupeni’s tube Amp/Distortion unit.
Animoog with The Grateful Dead Expansion
A quick tune with Animoog and The Grateful Dead Expansion
Audiobus, iPolysix, iMS20, ReBirth, LiveFX, NLog Pro and Sunvox jamming together
Audiobus grows in importance, here’s a good example:
“in a previous video i did the main arpeggio from bliss on the IMS20 for iPad, now with Audiobus i added iPolysix, ReBirth and some effects with Nlog and Livefx, all in the same iPad, that was fun!!
…and expensive :S
if you like it subscribe and share :)”
Experimental arts: Binatone Galaxy
An installation for used cassette players which looks on their obsolescence not as an ending, but as an opportunity to reconsider their functional potential. Superseded as playback devices, they become instruments in their own right. Replacing the prerecorded content of each tape with a microphone gives us the chance to listen instead to the rhythmic and resonant properties of these once ubiquitous plastic shells. Binatone Galaxy brings the framework within which a generation purchased their favourite records to the centre of attention, revealing the acoustics of the cassette and the voices of the machines themselves.
The Yamaha CS-50 Part 2 – The Filter
Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the Yamaha CS-50’s filter section.
Moog Sub Phatty front panel image
That’s how it looks like, the front panel of the new Moog, the Sub Phatty. Looking at the image, we can see the new tilted panel is a sort of mixture between the Voyager and Little Phatty, with a one function-per-knob interface. The obvious guess here is that this Moog dumps the Little Phatty’s digital side, keeping only MIDI. Without the digital brain, Moog should hopefully be able to reduce the price, hopefully bringing this down. The new features mentioned before in the promo video are present– noise, multidrive, and sub oscillator.
TauCeti The Last Wave Drone
Background description below:
Sometime, when you are experimenting with EuroRack modules, you land on a self evolving patch that sings and molds and folds like a wave. Sometime, you have with you only a camera with a stereo mic… Drone is ipnotic, maybe this is not music, but is emotion.
Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus – “Vocode Me”
One of the coolest instruments out there. The vocoder shapes its envelope and filters by any sound source fed into it, your voice or even a drum loop can be used which is then applied to another sound source, typically a synth pad. This creates a very unique and famous robot-like sound.
Aside from the 10-band vocoder, the VP-330 added a string synth section, choir and a human-voice sound, both of which are quite excellent themselves. Its 3 sound sections offer a few different presets that can be slightly edited with de-tuning and vibrato. The VP-330 is one of the best Vocoder synths ever and although there are many other types of Vocoders, none sound as good as this!
Vintage keyboard demo track by RetroSound
“Vocode Me”
vocoder, human voice sounds & analog strings: Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus Mk 2 from the year 1979
digital drums: Yamaha DD-50
recording: multi-track without midi
fx: a little bit delay and reverb
more info: http://www.retrosound.de
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