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I Love the 70s: Complete Issues of Synapse Mag, A Look at Electronic Music’s...
“Everything old is new again” certainly could be no more true than in electronic music, in which futuristic possibility is constantly expanded by our history, a tradition in finding alien, new sounds....
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Synths Versus Real Primates: So Easy, a Monkey Can Play Them? A Zoo Finds Out
Synths meet monkeys. Photo: Andreas Tilliander. Composer and Swedish dance music maestro Håkan Libdo has been a constant source of experimentation. But his latest project yields zoo-like new...
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In the Studio: Barker “Like an Animal” EP, Sam Barker + nd_baumecker [Stream...
Surrounded by a whirlwind of gear, Sam Barker has been collecting musical tools – vintage and otherwise – since his first track, produced at age 13. Believe it or not, this is his old studio – the new...
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Vintage Clap Trap Synth, Now a Unitasker iOS App; I Love the 80s
Here’s an iOS app antidote to those desktop plug-ins that do everything, to elaborate virtual synths with eighteen separate modulation envelopes. It’s an app that just … makes clap sounds. And it...
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Of Bees and Oscillators: Bioni Samp’s EP Full of Eco-Influences, Homebrewed...
A new EP looks to bees for sound and inspiration, as well as a hive full of original gear and software patches. From the liner notes, track 2 – Today’s Skyline Graphic by M.King. If electronic music...
View ArticleGotye to Queen to Radiohead, The Songs of Hard Drives, Robotics, and Retro Gear
Beyond the viral-ready novelty, listen to the serenades of defunct hard drives, flatbed scanners, and garage sale-rescue computers and you might just hear a sense of urgency. As the discs whir, the...
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Shiny Robot-Jamming Gear Pr0n, Cassette Labels: The Future Is What It Used To...
Yep, this is about to get as awesome as you think it is. Time for some Belgian bots banging beats. Disappointed our electronic music present didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to when it was still...
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Create (Really) Analog Music: Music Video Made on Historic Edison Wax Cylinder
The miracle of recording is somehow no less extraordinary in this digital age – the ability to capture sound, the revolution that transformed music making worldwide, for better and for worse. In fact,...
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Classic KORG Polysix, Reimagined for iPad, Becomes All-in-One Workstation
In designing for Apple’s mobiles, KORG has again turned to equipment from their past. Having reinterpreted the ElecTribe and MS-20, their newest target is the versatile, classic Polysix. The 1981...
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Tested: MS-20 Mini versus Original MS-20, in the Studio [Discussion, Audio,...
MS-20 mini, on the left, next to the original, on the right. Photos: Peter Kirn and Benjamin Weiss for CDM and DE:BUG. It’s the news collectors of vintage synths on eBay probably didn’t want to hear....
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What NI Was Teasing: Monark Minimoog-Modeling Synth, Remade Battery, in New...
What you can see: something that looks a lot like a Minimoog. What you can’t: this decades-old synth was actually recreated using fairly new, cutting-edge digital filter research. Images courtesy NI....
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Fract, Synth Studio as Game, Looks Better, Sounds Better, Wants Your Vote...
Believe it or not, this colorful 3D world represents “setting up the polyphonic pad pattern sequencer.” Synths, reimagined as 3D game. Image courtesy the developers. Amidst its future-arcade, glowing...
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Retro Mobile Music: What Vintage Palm and Windows Mobile Did, How to Use Them...
Newer, faster, thinner … better? One technology follows another in dizzying cycles. But how is it that something that was once an amazing engineering marvel ceases to be so? If it really works as a...
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We Travel The Space Ways: Hear Erika’s Stellar, Synth-y, Space-y Solo Debut...
What if you would strip away the latest fashions, the murky layers of effects and gimmicks, and just get out to the otherworldly pleasure of listening to machines transport you into outer-space...
View ArticleDancing Nomads and Afro Futurism: Fhloston Paradigm Chasing Rainbows Video,...
Chasing Rainbows (Festival Edit) – Fhloston Paradigm from King Britt on Vimeo. Fhloston Paradigm is King Britt’s project from last year on Kode9′s Hyperdub label, dripping with all-analog sound and...
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Armin van Buuren DJ Boombox a Pale Imitation of the 80s; A Look Back at Real...
Reasonably stylish, definitely portable, interesting concept – and, unfortunately, not terribly practical. But on the bright side, we can use this opportunity to reminisce about 80s “ghettoblasters” as...
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Reconnect with Electronic Music’s Revolutionary Roots, in Stunning Images...
Evgeny Sholpo, 1932. His Variophone was a kind of optical computer for sound. “On a western device, you push a button and get a result. On a Soviet instrument, you push a button and get something.”...
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Roland’s Four AIRA Instruments: Now We Know a Lot – Keyboard, Component...
AIRA – maybe you’ll just want to use it in the dark, or on a table designed by Stanley Kubrick. Roland’s AIRA will be public this month, and you can bet CDM will have all the details we can get from...
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See the Max Patch Robert Henke Built Before Ableton Live; Hear the Music it Made
This is what a Monolake live set sounded like in 1999. And in the days before Ableton Live was a finished product, running patterns was a job for self-built software in Max. Robert describes the music...
View ArticleRoland Could Make AIRA Sync Box; New Directions at Company
AIRA, the lineup that now includes a bassline/sequencer, drum machine, synth, and vocal processor, has in just a few months changed the way a lot of people think about Roland. At Musikmesse in...
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