EinstÜrtzende Neubauten – News brief
Came across this little nice news update about our Neubauten friends…
After nigh on 30 years, the entity, nay the beast, known as Einstürzende Neubauten has evolved into an independent being without need for any conscious effort from the five multi-talented genial dilettantes that make up its core.
Release finds bassist and musical jack-of-all-trades Alexander Hacke in a fine mood, speaking about love and magic, and a band at its ultimate productive peak.
Joining the cult
In the name of objective journalism, let’s state the facts openly before we move on. It took me a while to sign up for Einstürzende Neubauten’s supporter project. The breaking point was in 2004, when I learned that the supporters of the second phase of this subscription service were invited to a special concert in the Palast der Republik, the bronze mirrored former East German Parliament building slated for demolition. I never got over that, and for the next phase, I jumped on the chance.
– That concert was a lot of fun, Alexander Hacke remembers. I’m sad to report that the Palast is almost gone now, there is just a steel skeleton left of it and they’re wasting millions and millions of euros to break it down.
Analog Synthesizer Tribute
Starting off the new week with a short tribute to analog synthesizers. Feel free to feast your eyes on this Moog close up or perhaps take an analog journey through this little link library of analog synth resources.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDW0cWc5wA]
But first a little analog poen I found while surfing the web 
What shreds your cones, makes wonderful drones, leaves digitoids in a fog?
What weighs a ton and is oodles of fun? It’s A– na– LOG! It’s Ana-LOG,
it’s Ana-LOG, it squashes your neighbor’s cat; It’s Ana-LOG, It’s Ana-LOG,
it’s better than thin, it’s FAT!
Links:
· Apache Synthesizer (Aaron Cram)
· casperelectronics (Peter Edwards’s site)
· CMS / DiscreteSynthesizers.com
· Data Sheets (WWW.ALLDATASHEET.COM)
· DOEPFER MUSIKELEKTRONIK GMBH
· Doug Frome’s Site Home of “Consciousness Connector”
· eDrum Site (Admir Salahovic’s Site)
· electro-music.com Sound Lab Forum
· Electronics with Graham Knott of CRC
· FlexiMusic – Music and Audio Software
· KA Electronics (1K tempcos & THAT ICs)
· Kevin Lightner’s Synthfool! Site
· Laurie Biddulph’s Elby Designs Site
· MACBETH STUDIO SYSTEMS analogue synthesizers
· “Manual Manor” by Mark Glinsky
· modcan
· Serge (Unofficially speaking…)
· Subscribe to Analog Heaven email
· Subscribe to Synth-DIY email
· Synthesis Technology, Home of Paul Schreiber’s MOTM
· Synthtopia Electronic Music Portal
· The Master Synthesizer Book List
· The New England Synthesizer Museum
· The Thomas Henry VCO-1 (Article on Scott Stites’ site)
· Wiard Synthesizer (Grant Richter’s) Site
A little Spacewalk from NASA
Christer Fuglesang wannabe
This link takes you to the top 10 spacewalks including images and video >>
http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2007/07/top-10-best-spacewalks-ever.html
Evening VW Käfer Tribute
Just blogging during a conference call at work
Enjoy!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MLmdM701_0]
Reason Refills and more
Just thought I´d share some of my sources for finding high quality Refills for Reason. I know there is an endless line of good sources, but at least this is a start
Ambition is to post the ones that have free refills, but sometimes they will ask you to buy the whole pack, but need not worry often they´ve posted a demo refill that works equally well – at least for starters.
In this post I´ve included the list of sources that I´ve posted today, but make sure to come back becuase I will keep this updated in the sidebar as well with new ones as they appear.
http://paranooyer.eigenstart.nl/
http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
http://www.powerfx.com/default.aspx
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
http://simplythebest.net/sounds/index.html
C=iao
Commodore 64 Audio
Fancy some good old C64 look-a-likes, well be inspired at:
Became especially fond of this guy, OK not all of it, but some of it was really nice and blippy
C=iao
Moogulator, Jean Michel Jarre & Crazy Adds
Well couldn´t help myself, needed to post all these things at once, see if you can find the common link – the red line
Listen to the Moogulator – its awesome!!
http://www.moogulator.com/moogulatorplayer2/fsmp3playerv15.swf
And who didn´t know this about Mr. Jarre….
And if you want to find more adds like this – don´t miss out on this site
As happy I am about Laibach…
…playing at ElectiXmas as cheezy I think it is to enroll OneTwo. OneTwo, who are close buddies with Erasure, still fall into that category of bands that does not have a unique style and expression, more than perhaps that they have a female singer (which is quite uncommon in the electro community).
Well I will still attend the event and definately so after Laibach came onboard however I will probably have a beer when OneTwo are playing – some kind of ugly mix of Erasure, Enigma and Kraftwerk look-a-like telephone calls – judging from their homepage at Myspace, hehe
Check everything out here:
And yes of course I give you LAIBACHHHHHHHH !!!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zSRcFxZVAA]
Cheers
Kraftwerk => Karl Bartos => Drummer boy
Need help with your percussions, why not be inspired by the masters and get yourself a real electro beat, LOL or perhaps not…
15 DUETS FOR SNARE DRUM
Between the records “TOUR DE FRANCE” (1984) and “ELECTRIC CAFE” (1986) work at the Kling Klang Studio – being a classically-trained percussionist he tied in with his studies at the Robert Schumann institute and started to compose several pieces for percussion instruments. In 1990 the “Fifteen exercises for two snare drums” were released by the renown publisher Zimmermann in Frankfurt, appearing in the series DUO FOR PERCUSSION.
These intermediate duets for snare drum contain fifteen studies, which include the use of frequent dynamic changes, all standard meters, embellishments, and rolls of varying duration.
Karl Bartos: “The purpose of this text is to provide the intermediate student with practical duets which will aid in developing the rhythmic discipline necessary for ensemble playing.”
Nitzer Ebb on the move
After 12 years of silence they are back – our good old EBM buddies Nitzer Ebb. According to sources they are recoding a new studio album as we speak and the good news you can here what it is gonna sound like already today. Follow the link and you can here a sample of their new song Payroll.
And it is pretty clear that they haven´t forgotten their roots either, sweet
http://www.artistsaddiction.com/Saw4Soundtrack.htm
From Soundtrack.net…
“When we were choosing songs for the ‘Saw IV’ soundtrack, we asked ourselves, ‘What kind of music would the ‘Saw’ characters Jigsaw and Amanda listen to?'” reveals Jonathan Scott Miller, principal of Artists’ Addiction Records, which will issue Saw IV Original Soundtrack on CD and as a digital release October 23, 2007; an extended digital release will follow in November. Miller served as soundtrack producer alongside Artists’ Addiction principals Jonathan Platt and Jonathan McHugh (“Saw IV” producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg are executive soundtrack producers).
The answer to this pivotal question, as any fan of the hit “Saw” film series would guess, are the dangerous, dramatic strains of hard rock, metal and industrial music. These sounds are represented on Saw IV Original Soundtrack by giants of those genres – Nitzer Ebb, who unveil highly anticipated new material with the hard-hitting “Payroll (JohnO Mix),” Ministry (“Life Is Good”), Skinny Puppy (“Spasmolytic [Deftones Remix (Habitual Mix)]),” “Saw” composer/Nine Inch Nails alum Charlie Clouser (“Just Begun”) and Sixx: A.M., fronted by Mötley Crüe bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx (“Tomorrow”) – as well as established bands who’ve been influenced by them, including Drowning Pool (“Shame”) and Avenged Sevenfold (“Eternal Rest”), and up-and-comers forging a similarly creative path like From Autumn to Ashes (“On the Offensive”) and Submersed (“Better Think Again”).
From the good old days:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fylf4kBRVE]
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