Weekend synth power coming your way…
with Freakangel 
September 2010 Directed by: Elina Kasesalu Camera: Elina Kasesalu Editing: Elina & Indrek Kasesalu Special effects: Elina & Indrek Kasesalu www.freakangel.org
The band has released the “My Darling Bullet” video and it has to be said, it’s damn professional. Directed and filmed by by Elina Kasesalu with additional editing and special effects by Indrek Kasesalu it is an example of how great videos can be made for this scene.
A synthpop tune and a robot
The successor of the TAL-Elek7ro
It’s time for a latest soft synth released by Patrick Kunz (Togu Audio Line): NoiseMaker. It’s an improved version of previously released TAL-Elek7ro and, according to official notes, has a completely new synth engine and a lot of improvements in sound and usability. There are 2 Oscillators + one sub oscillator. The synth also includes a small effect section with a reverb, chorus and a simple bit crusher effect. There are 128 factory presets included. Just like most TAL plugins, NoiseMaker is available both for PC and MAC and is low CPU hungry. Good freebie.
Download: TAL-NoiseMaker
Erasure on the move
Although I have pretty much gone tired of Erasure, I am still a bit curious if Vince has managed to re-invent the band, probably not, but I am still hoping.
Vince Clarke and Andy Bell have finished work on the rough versions of the new Erasure songs. The material has now been sent to Mute Records for input from Daniel Miller. Andy Bell has followed the post parcel and is now also back in the UK. The duo have however already been planning the next phase of the process that will see them turn the rough versions into finished tracks.
Today’s in-depth synth – MFOS
The MFOS sequencer is driving the MFOS Ultimate.
VCO 1and VCO 2 are patched to the Expander Multi-mode filter, the band pass out is patched to the Expander signal mixer.
VCO3 and Noise are mixed on the Ultimate mixer and routed to the Ultimate low pass filter and filter output is routed to the Ultimate VCA
Ultimate AR envelope is modulating low pass filter and Ultimate VCA
Ultimate VCA is patched to the Expander Signal Mixer
LFO1 is modulating the Cutoff frequency of the Band pass filter
LFO2 is modulating the VCO3 Pulse Width
Expander Signal Mixer is routed to the Epxander VCA who is modulated by Expander ADSR. The VCA is routed to the audio output.
Bella Lune introduces Synesthesia
Phoenix based Synthpop/Electro/Indie band Bella Lune just returned from a Japanese and US West Coast tour, and are releasing their second full length album “Synesthesia” this month. To welcome the new CD release, they are hosting a www.ChildHelp.org charity benefit show on July 24th in Scottsdale, Arizona. All proceeds from the door and a celebrity auction will go to help save child abuse victims. Also contributing to the auction is Skinny Puppy, Collide, Opal Moon Designs, The Birthday Massacre, Regenerator and more. Bella Lune is also accepting donations for the charity and pre-orders for the new CD on www.BellaLune.net .
New material from Rotersand
Germany’s Rotersand announces a new nine track EP which will clock in at nearly one hour. The title track “Waiting to Be Born” is taken from the album “Randon Is Resistance” and appears in a reworked and a full version alongside remixes and exclusive tracks, among them a cover of Peter Murphy’s “A Strange Kind of Love”. The release date is September 28.
For synth and EBM fans only !!
On 26th June 2010 the most stunning electro festival of the year is going to conquer the German Capital Berlin. The E-tropolis Festival comprises a wide range of different electronic styles in a unique, electrifying event, featuring classic EBM, harsh Industrial- & Cyberelectro, Synth-Pop- and alternative dance acts in one pulsating stream of synthetic music.
Tickets for the E-tropolis Festival 2010 are on pre-sale now! Original tickets, as well as the most popular 5+1 group tickets are exclusively available at the Amphi Ticketshop under: https://ssl.webpack.de/synotec-newmedia.de/amphishop/welcome.html . You can also buy festival tickets online on www.dark-ticket.de, by phone on +49 (0)1805- 568200 (0,14 /min. from German fixed network), and at all nationwide CTS/EVENTIM, Kartenhaus and Ticket-Online box offices.
New material from Deine Lakainen
On Septembr 17, the German wave electro act Deine Lakaien will release their newest album “Indicator” on their own label Chrom Records again. Ernst Horn and Alexander Veljanov will collaborate with the Berlin label Ministry Of Sound in a distribution by Warner. This first studio album from the band in 5 years will be released both as a normal and limited edition with various bonus tracks. A single will be released on September 3. The release of the album will be followed by a tour.
Space storms – the sun synth
Space Storms can sometimes go a bit crazy, and can cause all sorts of havoc on earth, like destroying electronics, killing power grids and wrecking satellites. NASA claims that we should experience such a storm sometime around 2013.
The scientists translated measurements the vibrations into sound (as the sound itself cannot travel through the near-vacuum of space), and sped up the resulting waveforms to put them into the range of human hearing. Other than just producing some pretty amazing sounds, “sun music” has other uses as well. Professor Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, head of the solar physics research group at Sheffield University, said:
Studying the “music of the sun” would provide new ways of understanding and predicting solar flares before they happen.
Here’s a sample of what the SunSynth sounds like:
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