As stated on their website Canadian based Dasz Instrument has been working on their new expandable platform for more than 3 years. Now at MusikMesse they are finally ready to go live with what they have been cooking up in their Vancouver basement and a sweet surprise it is. The interesting thing about this concept […]
So far it seems we are in for a meager output from this year’s MusikMesse in Frankfurt – Day 1 is running and very few press releases has appeared that will lift your eyebrow. Perhaps Superbooth16 killed all announcements we could’ve expected, paired with the releases presented at NAMM two months back in time. However, […]
A musician born and raised in East Germany and currently residing in Finland sparks some creative thoughts on what sort of music will emenate from this cultural legacy. AGF is an artist exploring the role of mathematics and evolution through her most intriguing ambient sound scapes, or as she puts it herself: More than iron, […]
The “Lost album” as it was sadly branded after its release back in 2003. When ex-Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos left the band, mainly due to his frustrations of being in a band that never released any new material, he engaged in many different projects, but never made any major splashes with his appearances. However, the album […]
Modular synthesizers always have a certain alure to them and guessing freely very few utilize the full potential of these machines in their music making, the number of modular geeks where building their rack tends to be a more important goal than music production is probably quite high. A nice exception to this self-made up […]
As smartphones and tablets continues to revolutionize the music industry when it comes to ‘create, share and consume’ we are now standing on the brink of the second wave of innovation in music creation. IoT or Internet of Things may well be the next big thing that will push the enevelope in music creation and […]
Every now and then new attempts are made to draw the ultimate genre map of music, and every now and then the attempts are worth sharing – like this one. To plot 1387 genres in one go will probably make you quite dizzy, but in this map you can quite easily jump back and forth. […]
Looking back, it is with a big “I told you so!” as we now in retrospect watched our friends trashing or selling of their vinyl collections, first in favor of the CD and as of lately in favor of streaming media channels like Deezer, Pandora, Spoitfy, Tidal etc, and now in recent years vinyls are clearly […]
Developer Yotaro Shuto apparently set out 6 years ago to realize a dream in modular beat creation – the result is now live on Kickstarter under the somewhat anonymous name 2020. What actually triggered Yotaro to develop perhaps the most complex next gen beat-machine ever, or at least the most crammed UI, is not fully […]
Frequency modulation is not a new thing and it has certainly been a major force in many classic synth tracks over the years. Most notably of course was Yamaha´s introduction of the DX7. Now in 2016 we are seeing a revived interest in FM synthesis and one of the most recent contributions in this area […]
Few songs have such a unique signature that if anyone would make an attempt to incorporate it into their own compositions it would immediately be recognized, not used by die hard fans but of most of the general listeners. Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby did this in their time and it is quite easy to […]
On April 29th The Ship arrives – a new 47 minutes long journey from the ambient- and electronic music pioneer Brian Eno. The album is a natural consequence of the experimental installations that Eno has been touring with for the past year. Touring through Nau, Nave and now Switzerland Eno´s is clearly following a contemporary […]
This article was originally just intended to let you know that there is a nice interview with Vladimir Kuzmin, the engineer behind the Polivoks Synthesizer, but as we read through the interview we also came to think of the much greater Russian synth legacy and some of the models that perhaps never saw the light […]
This amazing machine will easily blow your mind and start your grey little brain cells cheer of joy. Two thousand marbles are in use to create what you are about to listen to in this video. Here’s a message from the team behind it: The closer the machine gets to be finished the harder it […]
When one thinks of odd and unexpected collaborations in music most likely one of the first you will come to think of is when RUN-DMC made a video together with Aerosmith. Aerosmith was a then over-the-hill rock group who’d fallen out of the spotlight, while Run-DMC was the most prominent group in rap that had yet […]
Asegun Henry, a scientist at Georgia Tech, has applied for a National Science Foundation grant to create an educational app that catalogues unique musical signatures for every element in the periodic table. Setting the motions of molecules to musical signatures and even music can help identify hidden patterns in their data that might otherwise be too small, […]
Jean Michel Jarre has recently anounced the sequel of his Electronica project where he ambishously collaborates with the elite in electronic and contemporary music. Here at Stereoklang we took a deep dive into the previous album Electronica to get a sense of what we can expect from the upcoming album Electronica2 – The Heart of […]
As the modern saga of Kraftwerk continues in various spectacular venues around the world it is sometimes interesting to discover gems of the past. A great example is this interview with Florian Schneider done with a Japanese magazine at the time when all four robots were still touring the world and biking the streets of […]
Detroit’s legendary techno producer and DJ presents the Swedish premiere of his latest project, blurring the line between a club and a concert hall night. Jeff Mills has been a leading figure in the techno scene ever since his pioneering DJ mixes – as The Wizard – lit up the Detroit airwaves back in the […]
With an all-analog audio path, and rock-solid digital harmonic oscillators, the RMI Harmonic Synthesizer was the world’s first digital synthesizer. Produced in very limited quantities for a very short period in the mid-1970s. The synth is best known for its prominent role in Jean-Michel Jarre’s classic Oxygène, where it was used extensively (and usually through an […]
It is not every day we get the opportunity to listen to the sound of gravity and trust us it is worth listening to. Awesome sounds generated roughly 1 Billion years ago in a galaxy far far away, when two blach holes collided. Seriously considering incorporating these sounds into a tribute song, stay tuned and […]
Imagination is our window into the future. If you, like us, are the least interested in science fiction, life on other planets, or even a die hard reader of the book “The Elegant Universe” these posters are for you. “At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that […]
An infinite loop (or endless loop) is a sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops endlessly, either due to the loop having no terminating condition, having one that can never be met, or one that causes the loop to start over. In older operating systems with cooperative multitasking, infinite loops normally caused the […]
KEPLER-16B’s previous track Civilization II became fairly popular in the socal media channels among low-fi tronica fans, now it is time for som even more minimalist tunes as we embark on a journey on their latest track called Infinte loops. Minimal techno is a minimalist subgenre of techno.It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits […]