Watch Amp Live up side down
DJ and producer Amp Live was an early adopter of the Livid Ohm64.
It’s another installment from Zion I’s Amp Live delivering a definite dose of electric funk. Coming from a history of defying all boundaries when it comes to the contemporary sounds of music, this video is evidence that the mission lives on.
Prepare yourself as Amp Live plays the role of a electro-magnetic maestro as he guides you through an electric fairytale of injected images of breaking dancing, ninjas, & chickens (that’s right I said it). This video takes you on a muscle bond journey of beats that even I have a problem NOT moving too. Damn it, for being so catchy! ‘Chick Pop’ was recently featured on MTV’s Buried Life. You can get the track off of Amp Live’s recent solo album, “Murder At The Discotech”.
Bitstream sidestreamed
It appears that the Connor brothers from the glitchy electro act Bitstream have started recording again but now separately. Dave under the name Uexküll and Steve uses the moniker adapta. I’m very much looking forward following the progress of the Connor brothers respective projects.
And 4 tracks by adapta
Alice in Videoland are back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8S0zwOa0A
Swedish electro/punk group Alice in Videoland will release their fourth studio album, A Million Thoughts and They’re All About You, November 2 on Artoffact Records. The album, which features a cover of Neneh Cherry’s “Buffalo Stance,” will be available exclusively as a digital release.
New album from electro-poppers Celluloide
French electro-pop group Celluloide will release their fifth album, Hexagonal, November 5 on the BOREDOMproduct label. The album will be available in two versions: a standard edition and a limited edition packaged with a bonus EP, C8b, featuring two remixes each of the songs “Imprévisible” and “Coeur 8-Bit.”
Loopbased releases Deep Tech House Progressions and Dark Voice
Loopbased has announced two new sample packs featuring Deep Tech House and Dark Voice, here’s what they have to say about it:
Deep Tech House Progressions’ from Wolsfraektroes serves up 180 deep, atmospheric and progressive tech elements across ten chunky late-night mainroom construction kits featuring beats, basslines, synth progressions, FX-laden vocals, lush pads and more. These powerful kits feature a potent selection of kicks, snares, hats and percussion loops, deep chugging basslines, atmospheric synth patterns, driving chord stabs, tempo-linked modulations and FX-ed vocals for instant song-starting inspiration. Each kit contains a complete mix plus all component elements broken down (including drums) to give you complete creative control.
Each kit also contains a bonus folder of MIDI files for bass, chords and synth elements to help take your creativity to the next level. All kits are key and tempo labeled (127bpm).
This pack was produced by Stedd.
Price: € 19.95
http://www.loopbased.com/techno-minimal-loops/deep-tech-house-progressions.html
Dark Voice’ is a collection of over 175 one shot vocal samples suited to the dark Techno, Electro, Drum & Bass, minimal, Trance and more. These effected and tweaked out files are all royalty free, and ready to use in your personal or commercial projects. The ‘Dark Voice’ sample collection from Acid Records includes over 175 one shot and ‘robotic talk’ style Vocal Samples. In this unique pack you can expect to find vocoded and distorted, dry, reverbed, delayed and compressed vocals. These royalty-free WAVs are suitable for use in all compatible software.
Specifications:
– 44.1kHz / 16-bit quality
– 72 MB total size
– 175 vocal samples
– Includes bonus loops
Price: € 22.55
http://www.loopbased.com/electro-house-loops/dark-voice.html
Loopbased releases Beatluxe 4 for 2 Bundle
This is a Loopbased exclusive: 4 of the bestselling Beatluxe packs for the price of 2 – you save 50%. Included in this bundle are more than 900 loops and one-shot sounds for Tech-House, Minimal and Electro producers.
The Beatluxe bundle features all 4 releases
• Minimalistech
• Minimum
• House Technik
• Electro-Motion
totaling in more than 500MB and 900 loops and one-shot samples.
Price: 30 Euro
http://www.loopbased.com
http://www.loopbased.com/techno-minimal-loops/beatluxe-4-for-2-bundle.html
Mark mosher live at electro fest
Here is an excerpt of my performance of the song “First Orbit” from I Hear Your Signals at Electro-Music 2010. Thanks to Jeremy DePrisco for sharing this video with me. Audio is from camera mic. By the way, if you were at the show and have video or pics, contact me as I’d like to post more.
This song is performed using Percussa AudioCubes and a Novation Launchpad.
The first album after the OMD reunion, “The History of Modern”
The sleeve is designed by Peter Saville, the inhouse designer from old Factory Records.
The first album after the OMD reunion, “The History of Modern”, is scheduled for a September 20 release on 100% Records.
– The title felt appropriate, says Andy McCluskey When we started we were very conscious of trying to be modern in the future. But that was over thirty years ago. You were trying to do something that was modern and then the world changes and what you did use to do somehow has become historical.
Its seems to be a metaphor for the band, Andy thinks.
– Also, currently electronic music is very much in fashion. But again, a huge percentage of it to me is really a pastiche of something from thirty years ago. They are not really doing anything new. They’ve just bought a lot of old records and copied them. So it is just this idea of perception of what is modern and what the future is.
The first single and video pick will be “If You Want It” (September 6), released in a limited edition yellow 7″ vinyl with the B-side “Idea 1” and as digital download with another B-side, “Alone”.
There will be an album listening and launch party at Club 24 in London on the day of the single release (September 6), featuring a 30 minute performance by Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey. London is where Paul lives with his partner Claudia Brücken (ex-Propaganda). Andy has remained in Merseyside near Liverpool.
The new tour starts in Liverpool on October 2 where OMD will perform with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. UK, Germany, BeNeLux and France are the countries in question for the tour so far. Mirrors is the support act.
Trailer from Apoptygma Berzerk
The live DVD trailer for the upcoming live DVD/CD from Apoptygma Berzerk, “Imagine there’s no Lennon”. The live set will be released on 22 October 2010. Watch the rather promising trailer after the jump!
The band are currently adding more and more dates to their tour and will see their fans in the US, Canada and South America from September 5th to 18th. After that they will return to the European stages from November 13th on.
Kite are being stubborn
Swedish pop duo Kite stick to their decision to focus on EP:s rather than albums and of course, the classic five track EP is a good pop format.
In mid-September their third EP “III” will see the light of day, as usual on both CD and vinyl. The tracks are “Jonny Boy”, “If There’s an If in Us”, “A Little More Time”, “Hexx” and “Castle of Sand”.
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