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‘Ghosts V-VI’ is available as a free download from the band’s website. The record, which has been made available as a free download from their website, combines both albums Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts into one collected project. The instrumental album is split into two sets: Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts and is available now […]

Out of the blue – New album from NIN

26 Mar, 2020 in Music tagged NIN / Nine Inch Nails by admin

Aa many of us are staying home due to ‘you know what’, why not make something useful out of it – like making music. And it appears that many leading music production suppliers think the same. Earlier this week both Korg and Moog enabled free download of two popular iOS […]

Stay home and make music with free stuff

18 Mar, 2020 in Music Production / Synthesizers tagged Android / Eventide / iOS / KORG / Modular synthesizers / Moog by admin

A tribe on Facebook called Electronically Yours set out with a challenge to its team members – create a glitch track in one hour. Those who undertook the challenge had to make the song, mix and master within the timeframe and then send it to the gamemaster, who in this […]

Making a complete glitch album in one hour

10 Mar, 2020 in Experimental / Music / Music Production tagged Experimental / Glitch / Ryoji Ikeda / Stereoklang / TEGEL by admin

If you don’t think you are able to find what you are looking for with the music retailers, then it is perhaps time to think about building your own. DIY allows you to craft according to your specs and Electrosmith are hear to help you accomplish just that. Audio electronics […]

Daisy – a Raspberry Pi type tech only for music ...

5 Mar, 2020 in Experimental / Music Production / Synthesizers tagged ::vtol:: / Daisy / DIY / Electrosmith / Music production / Raspberry Pi / Synthesizer by admin

For the first time we are able to enjoy the visuals from Alva Noto’s UNIQEAV show in streaming format. Back in 2018 Alva Noto, aka Carsten Nicolai, released UNIEQAV, the third in his Uni- series of dancefloor-orientated releases inspired by the Tokyo club UNIT. For live performances of the album, the artist drew inspiration from mathematics, […]

The colors of Alva Noto

27 Feb, 2020 in Concerts / Experimental / Music / Science tagged Alva Noto by admin

A mere 5 seconds, that is what it takes for an AI to clone your voice. The clone wars have begun and soon we may not know who’s singing your favorite tune – real or an AI. Check this out: According to John P Shea there are examples of entire […]

Clone wars’ here – AI voice tech

12 Feb, 2020 in Experimental / Science tagged AI / Google / Tacotron / Voice / WaveNet by admin

This year´s CTM has just ended so why not take the opportunity to look back on what we saw or missed, in case you weren’t there to enjoy it. Entitled “Liminal,” CTM 2020 throws itself into limbo in hopes of stimulating a critical discussion of our present and possible futures. […]

CTM Festival 2020 highlights

6 Feb, 2020 in Art / Concerts / Experimental / Music / Science tagged Berlin / CTM 2020 by admin

Scandinavia’s main event for experimental and electronic music is back with this year’s lineup and we are pretty convinced there will be something for everyone. Midori Takada, SØS Gunver Ryberg, Ian William Craig, Oli XL, Tomaga and Selvhenter are amongst the live acts confirmed to play this year’s event, while […]

Strong lineup at Intonal 2020

29 Jan, 2020 in Art / Concerts / Experimental / Music tagged Ian William Craig / INTONAL / Midori Takada / OKO DJ / Oli XL / SØS Gunver Ryberg / Tomaga / TSVI by admin

Famous for catching tunes, countless #1 hits and love of machines Calvin Harris is releasing new material under his alias Love Regenerator. He’s unveils a new alias influenced by 90’s breaks and acid. The new two-track EP under his alias, Love Regenerator featuring the essence of the underground. ‘Hypnagogic (I […]

Mr. Pop goes rave – new EP from Calvin Harris ...

24 Jan, 2020 in DJ / Music tagged Acid / Calvin Harris / EDM / Love Regenerator / Rave / Techno by admin

Juan Atkins and Wolfgang Flür will come together on the former’s forthcoming Cybotron album. Details of a new Cybotron album, the first from the project since 1995’s Cyber Ghetto, have emerged. Juan Atkins is known as the “Originator” and one of the legendary Belleville Three, alongside Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. […]

New Cybotron album with a Kraftwerk gloria shimmering on top

15 Jan, 2020 in Music tagged Cybotron / Juan Atkins / Kraftwerk / Wolfgang Flür by admin

Time again for the big event and we can be sure that exciting news will pour in as NAMM opens its doors to the world of music production. KORG is one of the first ones out. They have unveiled their newest synthesizer, the Wavestate, a completely reimagined version of their […]

A new Wavestate has emerged at NAMM

8 Jan, 2020 in Music Production / Synthesizers tagged Keyboard / KORG / NAMM / Synthesizer / Wavestate by admin

So what is it that KORG has in store for us? Check out the newly release teaser from KORG below. The Japanese manufacturer has also been busy on the soft side of things with their newly launched Triton software, all the details lined up. Visa det här inlägget på Instagram […]

Teasing from KORG and Triton goes soft

2 Jan, 2020 in Synthesizers tagged KORG / Synthesizer / Teaser / Triton / Workstation by admin

We have all seen numerous quirky instruments over the years and now it’s time for yet another experimental gadget for music creation. Artiphon originally made a splash with the Instrument 1, a futuristic-looking MIDI controller that raised well over $1,000,000 on Kickstarter. It took a lot of inspiration from the guitar but incorporated […]

Perhaps an Orba for Xmas?

19 Dec, 2019 in Experimental / Music Production tagged Experimental / Music creation / Orba by admin

The year of the synth is coming to an end and as can be expected it has been an exciting one. Euroracks continues to go strong but the traditional machines have also gotten their place in the limelight. Reverb magazine has published an overview of the top sellers in 2019, […]

Top selling machines in 2019

11 Dec, 2019 in Music Production / Synthesizers tagged Hardware / Synthesizer by admin

We have reported before on field recordings and the growing popularity of using these recordings in music productions. Now we may see an ever growing library of natural sounds as Australia pulls off an ambitious project. The A2O will transform environmental science and assessment in Australia, and foster cross-disciplinary research […]

The Acoustic Observatory – Monitoring the unheard

4 Dec, 2019 in Experimental / Music Production / Science tagged A20 / Astronomy / Australia / Experimental / Field recording / NASA / Science by admin

Stroboscopic Artefacts founder Lucy, aka producer Luca Mortellaro, continues to celebrate 10 years of the label with a new remix EP. Lucy Reworks sees the producer putting his own spin on tracks that represent “significant and deeply personal moments” in the history of the label, including Donato Dozzy’s ‘Sotto Ma Sotto’, Lucy and Ben […]

Stroboscopic Artefacts

29 Nov, 2019 in Experimental / Music tagged Ben Klock / Caterina Barbieri / Lucy / Stroboscopic Artefacts by admin

After a 5 year abatement English electronic musician Tom Jenkinson, better known as Squarepusher is back with a new album “Be Up A Hello”, out on the 31st of January. Fans can enjoy a taster as the double-A side 12” Vortrack will be released on the 6th of December, featuring Squarepusher’s Fracture […]

Five years of silence has ended – Squarepusher’s back

21 Nov, 2019 in Music tagged Album / Be Up A Hello / Electro / Electronic music / Squarepusher / Synthesizer / Techno / Trance by admin

Just like Brian Eno Jean Michel Jarre has the urge to release something innovative on the iOS platform in the shape of a new generative music app. To what extent it adds something to what’s already out there remains to be seen, but in case you are a JM Jarre […]

Jarre goes Eno – The generative music quest continues

15 Nov, 2019 in Experimental / Movie / Science tagged Application / Brian Eno / Generative music / iOS / Jean Michel Jarre by admin

Komputer, the Mute artists who joined the influential label in 1984 as I Start Counting, are rebooting for a live show in London. I Start Counting was somewhat of a gamechanger when they first appeared back in the days and theirjoyful tunes were allplaying well in the electro community of the time. The […]

Komputer is back at TEC 006

6 Nov, 2019 in Concerts / Music tagged Depeche Mode / Electronic music / Electronica / I Start Counting / Komputer / Kraftwerk / Synth music by admin

The short video below, created by Erik Righetti & Device, animates a portion of synthesist and sound designer Richard Devine‘s speech at Sónar 2019. For those who don’t know about Richard he’s an Electronic Artist and Sound Designer specializing in Musical composition, sonic mnemonics, field recording, sound effects, and sound design specific for […]

Richard Devine at Sónar 2019 – Synthesis and Sound Design

24 Oct, 2019 in Art / Experimental / Music Production / Science / Synthesizers tagged Richard Devine / Sound creation / Synthesis / Virtual Reality by admin

Are you stuck in your chase for alternative rhythms and beats? Does your loop library bore you to death, then perhaps Accusonus new AI powered tool that promises to let you do more with your grooves. Accusonus, known for the nice beat separation tool Regroover, has today expanded its beats […]

Creative beats with AI powered Rhythmic

16 Oct, 2019 in Music Production tagged Accusonus / AI / Artificial Intelligence / Drum machine / Loops / Rhythms by admin

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto have announced a recorded version of ‘TWO’, the collaborative live show the duo performed at various venues, including Berlin’s Funkhaus and London’s Barbican Centre, throughout 2018. TWO captures their performance at the Sydney Opera House, which features a mixture of live improvisation and renditions of pieces taken from their […]

Two is here

9 Oct, 2019 in Music tagged Alva Noto / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Yellow Magic Orchestra by admin

The Store X The Vinyl Factory will present a new exhibition by United Visual Artists called Other Spaces at 180 The Strand this autumn, in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. Other Spaces features three large-scale installations by the multi-disciplinary collective UVA – Our Time, The Great Animal Orchestra and Vanishing Point. Vanishing Point is an […]

Other Spaces – immersive experiences feat. Massive Attack and James ...

3 Oct, 2019 in Art / Experimental / Music / Science tagged Audiovisual art / Experimental / Installation / James Blake / Massive Attack by admin

Few has the back catalogue of Richie Hawtin and even fewer keep pushing the boundaries like he do, perhaps with the exception of Björk and Prydz (as we have reported on earlier). Now it is time for an audiovisual treat that manifest his progressive thinking. Richie Hawtin announces the next […]

An audiovisual treat from Richie Hawtin

25 Sep, 2019 in Concerts / DJ / Music tagged Concert / Experimental / Richie Hawtin / Techno by admin