Electronically Yours, featuring Joakim Montelius (Covenant), PAGE, Diskodiktator and more, in the media
As reported on earlier, the electronica project ‘Electronically Yours’, is now being covered across several leading electronic music magazines, below are a couple of links, and if you are in Sweden on Dec 15th make sure to watch their live performance at ElectriXmas 
It is a secret group on Facebook called Electronically Yours that has released an album featuring classic 70′s songs and remixed to fit an electronic audience of the 21st century. And it is not an anonymous bunch of musicians on this album – among the secret members you will find Joakim Montelius (Covenant) under his alter ego Tectonic Knights, Eddie Bengtsson with PAGE, Diskodiktator, computer and Steelberry Clones, to name but a few.
Side-Line reports:
You might know, or might not know that Joakim Montelius (Covenant) is a member of a secret society called Electronically Yours, a bunch of (mostly) Swedish geeks and electronic music aficionados. Some are famous, some are merely notorious. A few of them are both.
Sinzine reports:
Joakim Montelius (Covenant) and others featured on charity compilation ‘Friends of Electronically Yours – The Seventies Revisited’
And for those of you who know Swedish there are two more in depth articles at HD and Zero Music Magazine:
http://hd.se/noje/2012/12/04/facebook-forenade-15-musiker/
Page, Diskodiktator, Compute, Covenant-Joakim och ett flertal andra kreativa artister på en och samma skiva? Elektroniska nytolkningar av sjuttiotalshits från bland andra Deep Purple, Sweet, Neil Young och Curtis Mayfield? Ett välgörenhetsprojekt som stöder världens barn? Samlingen Friends of Electronically Yours – The Seventies Revisited sprudlar av nytänkande och värmer frusna hjärtan i vinterkylan. Zero har pratat med Facebookgruppen bakom verket.
http://www.zeromagazine.nu/art.asp?id=359
Listen to snippets of the full length album by clicking the album cover in the right hand column >>>>>>>
How To Destroy Angels – Ice age
Out now is the newest How To Destroy Angels video “Ice age”. How To Destroy Angels features Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, his wife Mariqueen Maandig, Atticus Ross and Rob Sheridan (who is also the group’s art director).The group is named after a 1984 Coil single of the same name.
Ice age. Directed by John Hillcoat. From An omen EP_ available at http://store.destroyangels.com and on iTunes at http://smarturl.it/htdaanomenep
Music video by How To Destroy Angels performing Ice age. (C) 2012 HTDA, LLC
12 days of Modular 2012 – Day 3 – Track and Hold
Day 3: A look at Track and Hold.Video series of 12 different scenes from the Modular World of Raul’s World of Synths.Sound and Video by Raul Pena.©Raul Pena 2012
The Hobbit – Far Over Misty Mountains – Commodore 64 8bit Remix
A song that Aizerowe has worked on tor a while in CyberTracker 1.01 It’s a cover and a personal interpertation of the theme music in the Hobbit. Witch a touch of chiptune 😉
Bong-Ra beats on Noisepad
Taking the Bong-Ra samples for a spin.
Dubstep
Drum & Bass
Hardcore
All used samples are available in the in-app store.
The Wablet – physics based synthesiser and noise toy
Robert Tubb has introduced The Wablet, a “physics based synthesiser and noise toy”.
An animated mesh of springs can be vibrated with the fingers. A path around this mesh is read as into an audio waveform, and hence your gestures are turned into sound. Complex evolving drones, chiptunes bleeps or full on noise can be produced, and beautiful undulating patterns created. The physical properties of the mesh can be changed using the sliders, new sound-paths can be drawn onto the Mesh and the App comes with a Max/MSP patch for wireless MIDI control and more in depth adjustable parameters. The Wablet scans the current state of the interactive mass-spring network and uses that waveshape as an oscillator cycle for synthesizing sound.
The Wablet – being triggered via MIDI over a wireless network. No two loops are quite the same.
Drum and Bass “Catching Sound Waves” with vintage Instruments
Pearl Drum-X ( Kick, Snare, Tom ), Roland TR-808 ( open/close Hihat ), Roland TR-707 ( Master Clock ), Oberheim OB-1 ( Noise ), OSCar ( Bassline ), OSCar ( Funny Sound ), Roland Juno-60 + RE-201 ( Pad ), Elka Synthex ( Pad + Space Sound ), Minimoog ( Space Sound ), Roland Jupiter-4 ( Space Sound ), Fender Rhodes + Yamaha NE-1 + Electro Harmonix vintage Bass Micro Synthesizer playing ” Catching Sound Waves ” :-))
NORD Vocoder action – Alpha Rain
The movie shows an improvisation in Carlos Alpha tuning system recorded while playing a Nord Modular G2 and my “alternative MIDI controller”.
The only melodic/harmonic sound source for this piece is the G2 retuned to Carlos Alpha with LMSO by X.J.Scott. The rhythmic track was created with Omnisphere Stylus RMX.
Read my blog for details: http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/c46d0a7ca80368e67afd7f2aadb46297-162.html
CASIO SK-1 (Upright) by S-CAT (Circuit Bent)
Here’s a new video of nice circuit bent Casio SK-1, details below:
Running through a Mackie mixer, Drawmer Compressor, Bel BD-80 delay and a Roland DEP-3 Reverb.
2 4 – M O D I F I C A T I O N S
Tone / Rhythm Glitch. 14 Toggle Matrix.All mods create the classic SK-style glitches and drones on the keyboard as well as creating rhythm fills and variations.
Tone Glitch. 5 Toggles that exclusively effect the tones and voices.
Rhythm Mods. 1. Volume 2. Boost 3. Filter 4. Punch
Plus 1. Pitch Down (Affects Rhythms and Voices) 2. Reset (For when things get too much)
Andy Hagerty – Neon Lights
Big budget promo video for Andy Hagerty’s cover of the Kraftwerk classic ‘Neon Lights’. Rumours that it was directed by JJ Abrams have not been confirmed, but Industrial Light and Magic were definitely not responsible for the effects!
Buy this cover version from iTunes at the link below.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/my-electronic-heart/id547453702
Robots, Daleks, Knightrider, and a Ghost from PacMan. What is there not to like about this video!!
Technical details:
- Smoog
- Borg
- iSynth
DATAMASKIN
