My norwegian favs are back – APOP
And yes, as some you have already heard, there will be a new album and it has a name already now, the new album will be called ROCKET SCIENCE! You can see ROCKET SCIENCE LIVE with a great new show, some hidden treasures and instant classics
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fq4SxdI_AU]
Portion Control back with retrospective album in May
And for those of you who don’t know who these guys are, here’s a sample:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=mzBY1qL7Eyg]
There new album is called Slug
Portion Control are a British electronic and industrial band formed in London in 1980. The band calls its music style electropunk or hard rhythmic electronics. They are one of the most famous obscure electronic music acts in the world and have been honoured and name checked by the likes of Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, NiN & Orbital
Having made a stylish return to the electronic underground with the album Wellcome in 2004, industrial act Portion Control now delivers a timely retrospective box set for collectors. Here we find 5 CDs of which appears to be the vast majority of their vinyl back catalogue work – plus extras – for the first time available in digital format. The material includes the bands early albums and EPs spread over the first 4 discs, with a limited edition bonus CD including high quality MP3s of everything included on the initial 4 discs, plus a remix of the track Refugee Rebuild by Rhys Fulber and 135 past & present related images of the band.
Pure eye-candy this time…
…the Arturia Origin synthesizer
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1qVB4p8BDk]
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Loaded with modules extracted from the best synthesizers of all time (Moog Modular, ARP 2600, CS-80, minimoog and Prophet VS) Origin lets you combine these modules and benefit from the additional possibilities put onboard. The result: a new type of sound accessible through an extremely intuitive interface.
Nostalgia – Indochine, the first ever synthpop record I've bought
Started playing some old vinyls of mine and it caught me that this record was the first ever synthpop album I’ve ever bought – the start of an era 
I am not claiming it to be the best ever conceived but clearly something still worth listening to. Of course I had already explored some Depeche and Kraftwerk stuff on the radio, but this record was really something. I remember that you could buy the vinyl in different colors and that this extended single had a couple of nice bonus tracks. I never continued to listen to Indochine after that but I at least wanted to share with you a moment of truth – that kicked off my career in the electro space.
Cheers and have a great weekend
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJK8aVOUm9o]
Denki Groove – Japanese guys back from the caves
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIZapZNh_Q]
Denki Groove, have resurfaced after a long stop in releasing new songs.
Their first new single in eight years, a catchy crowdpleaser called “Shonen Young”, is accompanied by a fabulous and decidedly 80:s-flavoured video available on You Tube. The album “J-pop” is a feast of classic synthesizer sounds and beats and is already out in Japan.
Denki Groove celebrate their 20th anniversary next year.
About section from Wiki:
Denki Groove (Japanese: 電気グルーヴ, denki gurūvu, lit. “electric groove”) is a Japanese techno–pop group influenced by Kraftwerk and YMO, founded in 1989. It is a part of Sony Music Japan‘s Ki/oon Records sublabel. Current members are Fumitoshi Ishino (Takkyu Ishino) and Masanori Taki (Pierre Taki). Former members are Yoshinori Sunahara and Jun Kitagawa.
Its works are particularly popular in Germany, where a handful of singles as well as solo releases from Ishino have been published, and Denki Groove is regularly booked for live performances and DJ sets for the Mayday festival. The duo performed in front of 15,000 people dancing in the rain on the Green Stage (mainstage) at the 2006 Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba, Niigata.
Early works have a focus more on pop sensibilities. With later releases the style evolved through several types of electronic dance music, though often with many asides in unrelated genres. Recent work has largely been composed of German-style techno. The group’s lyrics are often tongue-in-cheek and sometimes quite bizarre. They did the opening theme, “Mononoke Dance” (モノノケダンス/Mononoke Dansu) for Hakaba Kitaroh, the new version of GeGeGe no Kitaro.
Their popularity and recognition of their work increased significantly after 2006, when one of their songs was selected as the ending song for the award-winning anime, Eureka Seven. The song, “Rainbow”, is one of several reasons why the anime has gained a cult following throughout the world, and is featured on the official soundtrack for the show.
Freeware: Groove Analogizer – audio controlled drum synthesizer
Groove Analogizer is an “audio controlled drum synthesizer”, it means that like a vintage electronic drum tone generator (e.g. Simmons) the percussion sound is triggered by an audio input, not by a MIDI message. This also means that you must not load, in the host, Groove Analogizer as a VST instrument, it loads as a VST effect, usually in an insert slot.
But it’s really a synth: the sound of three oscillators is triggered and shaped by the audio input in many ways.Groove Analogizer is an “audio controlled drum synthesizer” or a drum tone generator triggered by an audio input rather than a MIDI message.
Groove Analogizer must load as a VST effect, even though it’s actually a closer to a synth. Sounds of three oscillators are triggered and shaped by your audio in. Here’s how triggering works:
Any sort of percussive (meaning anything with a fast attack and moderate to fast decay / release) sound can be triggered in mono or stereo as a .wav file or VST instrument. Three generators each allow you to select left, right or left+right inputs before a band pass filter defines which frequency range will work as the trigger.
This allows you to create different patterns from a single audio source by separating the hi, mid and low tones. You can also use a Pre-Listening feature to monitor your trigger. The Sensitivity control more precisely selects the loudest triggers so that you can take or leave ghost notes as triggers.
If you want to move beyond the 128 presets, you’re afforded ample control:
- Sound Controls For each generator:
- Release time: amplitude and pitch envelope time
- Bending: positive or negative pitch envelope amount
- Offset : pitch base
- Timbre: from pure tone to noise, with FM option. New: overtone mode
- Output Controls For each generator:
- Effect: send to internal stereo delay
- Pan: stereo image
- Volume: output level
- Master Controls:
- FM: global amount
- Smooth: slope time for all envelopes
- Delay effect controls
- Dry: output of the trigger (source audio)
- Master : output level of all three generators
New album from Alice in Videoland
Make sure to check it out, and in the mean time here’s an old favorite of mine
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=PwzYTS_jkZA]
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“Maiden voyage” was released 2003
“Maiden voyage” was released 2003
Today´s synth porn :-)
Came across this bautiful video clip today showing the famous Buchla synth – its a MUST see for all you geeks out there, hehe. Clic the picture to watch – re-directs to a friendly site
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This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970’s Buchla Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla’s 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly from Charles’ mixing board.
All of the photography and editing was produced by Alex Tyson, a sound and video artist from Pennsylvania. The film was shot in 16:9 720p High Definition format, using the Letus35 Extreme and a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL.
Client remix collection out now
Synthpop trio Client’s new remix album, simply called Untitled Remix, is available now from Metropolis Records in the USA and Out of Line Music in Europe. Untitled Remix features techno mixes of the group’s most popular songs by such acts as Eyerer and Namoto, Rich Samuels and Boosta, plus a collaboration with Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy and a cover of Die Krupps’ “Der Amboss,” featuring guest appearances by members of Die Krupps. Visit the links for more information about this release.
Ableton Live Special Edition with Music Tech Magazine
MusicTech Magazine has created a 132-page special edition that concentrates purely on Ableton Live and features. It contains brand new Live 7 tutorials, interviews with power users, 9 classic Live 6 workshops, full Live 7 review, free DVD with workshop resources and 20 Ableton video tutorials. This is available online and at local bookstores.
If you are new to Live this is a must have. Its a comprehensive guide to all the features of Live + a number of in-depth tutorials, make sure to check it out.
The very first Music Tech Focus edition goes on sale Thursday 6 March. This 132-page special edition magazine concentrates purely on Ableton Live and features:
- Over 50 pages of brand new Live 7 tutorials
- Interviews with 7 key power users
- 9 classic Live 6 workshops
- Full Live 7 review
- Free DVD with workshop resources and 20 Ableton video tutorials
- Plus the story of Ableton Live
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