Good evening fellas, here we go with a special preview gift. It’s a nifty broken beat, drum’n’bass remix made by us, well errmmm ;-)
To make this tune unique we vaporized the original voice and created all melodic spheres (pads, effects etc.) and percussion sounds out of it.
The tune is part of a remix compilation, that is gonna be released on iTunes in december 2012. Until then: enjoy this preview…
Special November Offer
Native Instruments just announced to give a rebate of 50% on their Vintave Compressors (VC 76, VC 2A, and VC 160) and Transient Master plugins.
The rebate is available via the Native Instruments Online Shop ONLY. The offer ends November 26th – so seven days to decide!
Demo Versions
For you, who wanna try-before-buy, check this link for the demo versions. Sadly some really annoying and thus workflow hindering limitation have been applied to the demos:
We really can’t imagine a scenario where a plugin or an instrument can be tested sufficiently within 30mins, but hmmm… still better than dongles for trial licenses…
Good morning fellas, today we present you a nice IDM, Ambient, Down-Tempo tune (made by us, errmmm) ;-)
Have a good start into the new week and enjoy the free download :-)
Guys this is really a nice finding by a friend of ours. The 2006 music documentary “What the Future Sounded Like” is a 27 min lasting australian short film about the british electronic music scene.
In contrast to many other documentaries, “What the Future Sounded Like”, covers the time between World War 2 and the 1970s, when computers where not available.
“It was a period of sweeping change and experimentation where art and culture participated in and reflected the wider social changes. In this atmosphere was born the Electronic Music Studios (EMS), a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who utilized technology and experimentation to compose a futuristic electronic sound-scape for the New Britain.” (Source)
Among many other places it has been screened in Berlin at the Musik-Film-Marathon in 2012. It is now available for everybody via Youtube.
Video here:
Unblocked Link
In case you got issues watching the documentary because of blockings or dictatorship-like censoring in your country, try this automized unblock link. Or try this manual link and copy/paste this address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkW8Ul7Q1I
Quoting Wikipedia:
A look at the history of British synthesizer-based electronic music. Featuring interviews with Richard H. Kirk, Bernard Sumner, Philip Oakey, Simon Reynolds, Wolfgang Flür, Andy McCluskey, Martyn Ware, Daniel Miller, Paul Humphreys, John Foxx, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Gary Numan, Susanne Sulley, Joanne Catherall, Martin Gore, Vince Clarke, Andrew Fletcher, Dave Ball, Alison Moyet, Midge Ure, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
Part 1: Alienated Synthesists
Focusing on the development of British synth music throughout the 1970s, from the wide exposure that synthesizers gained from their use in prog rock and the groundbreaking Clockwork Orange soundtrack, through the development of affordable synth keyboards and subsequent emergence of the first post-punk and industrial synth bands made up of working-class youths influenced by krautrock and punk music and dystopian science fiction literature by such authors as J.G. Ballard, to the formation of Mute Records and breakthrough success of synthpop towards the end of the decade, specifically “Are Friends Electric?” and “Cars” in 1979. Spotlighting Walter Carlos, Kraftwerk, The Clash, The Normal, The Human League, Giorgio Moroder, Cabaret Voltaire, OMD, Joy Division, Ultravox, Throbbing Gristle and Gary Numan.
Part 2: Construction Time Again
Focusing on the commodification of synthpop in the early 1980s, from the focal shift away from experimental post-punk towards the mainstream pop market, through the new-found popularity of previously unsuccessful bands and emergence of newly formed pop duos that juxtaposed cold synth instruments with warm soulful vocals, to the development of samplers such as the Mellotron and the E-mu Emulator, culminating in the birth of electronic dance music, specifically beginning with “Blue Monday” in 1983. Spotlighting Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17, Cabaret Voltaire, Soft Cell, Yazoo, OMD, Eurythmics, Ultravox, Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys and New Order.
Video here:
Alternative Link:
Well, this documentary might be blocked from certain countries. Try either this link to automatically unblock or this link to manually unblock and copy/paste this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Wjc6QYuKI into the unblocker instead…
Moog will create only 31 of these unique devices. 30 of these will be sold at a price of US$15,000 (!!!) and there are rumors that the last one might be a prize for a competition.
We really wonder who might need a 24 karats gold Moog, but hey: you’ll be putting on the uber-dog by carrying one of these on your Live-Act ;-)
More details to be found on Moog’s site…
Minimoog 10 Years Anniversary Video
Minimoog 10 Years Anniversary Pictures
We simply love broken beats. This is a mixture of tracks in the mood of trancey break beats, drum’n’bass, downbeats and liquid. Enjoy folks :-)
Now VST Support looks like having become fully integrated with integrated crash protection: when a VST plugin crashs the Bitwig will not crash aswell. Bitwig will instead allow to reload the crashed plugin or even to reload all plugins.
Watch here
Sample Screenshots here
For celebrating John Cage’s 100th birthday, the John Cage Trust just released an iOS and Android version of the CagePiano.
The John Cage Official Website says:
One of the many ingenious innovations of American composer/writer/artist John Cage was his creation of the “prepared piano”, in which he placed objects beneath and between the strings of a grand piano to create an entirely
new instrument.The sounds of John Cage’s Prepared Piano are now available for you to play on your portable device with this innovative app. Play meticulously sampled sounds of a piano prepared with the actual materials used by John Cage in the preparations for his Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) as sampled under the supervision of the John Cage Trust.
- Both paid and free versions allow you to your record your performance and share it via Facebook, Twitter and email.
- The paid tablet version features all 36 prepared notes, playable at once, plus the ability to save your performances locally, making dramatically unique ring tones possible.
- The free version offers 9 sampled notes on screen at a time, while a random shuffle button makes available other prepared notes.
Prices and Availability
The iPhone version is free. The iPad version is US$0.99.
The Android version is free aswell. But the Android tablet version is also US$0.99
The free version features only 9 tones at once. The paid version has all 36 notes playable at once.
