Siftables
Check out the audio app towards the end of the video. I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with the Kaossilator but there would be so many more possibilities with the Siftables.
Update: Video of the music sequencer without the other stuff.
Check out the audio app towards the end of the video. I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with the Kaossilator but there would be so many more possibilities with the Siftables.
Update: Video of the music sequencer without the other stuff.
It’s here! It feels like I’ve been waiting for this track for years and it finally got released on beatport two days ago. It’s something about those pitched 909 crashes that keeps me listening to this over and over again. Chris Liebing’s mix adds a choir synth and some effects to shake things up a bit, but since all you really need are the cymbals you might as well stick with the original.
This is a beatport exclusive for now, so you have to head on over to their new and improved website to grab it. A search for an artist and a track name still doesn’t come up with any results, but at least they’ve added a button so you can link straight to the page you’re on.
Josh Wink – Don’t Laugh (Acapella)
It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: mathematicians, having discovered a secret formula behind all good music, are able to produce powerful dancefloor destroyers using only mathematical calculations.
According to beatport.com Mat Cooper is using some clever mathematical formula to create the all the melodies on his EP called ‘Harmonisch Serie’, named after the mathematical modelling research projet he is involved in.
Usually I love this kind of stuff and I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s a mathematical formula behind the music, I just don’t understand why he decided to use the melodies his math project came up with to create techno? Why not “fluffy piano trance”? Or just a midi “piano”? When it comes to electronic music it is all about the sound and not the melodies, and if I understand this correctly, his math formula doesn’t choose drum samples for him. I doubt it picks compressors, effects or the EQ settings either. What I mean is, once you’ve come up with a melody for your track, you still have the other 90% left until it’s finished.
I’m not sure Mat Cooper is completely to blame though, he might just want to make electronic music and thought it would be fun doing it using the research he’s involved with. It could just be the first paragraph in the article on beatport which pisses me off.
Christmas and new years is over and I just came back from a crazy week in Sweden with nothing to show for it apart from a three day fever I came down with as soon as I got back to London. Three days in bed means three days wasted if you ask me, but at least I kept my head clear enough to crawl to the laptop, push play on winamp and make it back to bed again. What I’m trying to say is that I’m sorry for the lack of updates and I haven’t given up listening to music!
So, here’s one of my favorite producers, The Bulgarian. He’s got a quite identifiable crazy fidgety house sound, yet every one of his tracks seems so different from each other. Not sure how that works really, you better just listen for yourselves. Disfunktional Caterpillar is an all time favorite and the first of his tracks I heard. The bassline kills it!
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Larry Tee – I Love U (The Bulgarian Remix) [via FuckBadMusic.com]
Urban Monkeys – Disfunktional Caterpillar (The Bulgarian Remix)
the bug – run the place red (KiNK vs the bulgarian rerub)
konflict – messiah (le castle vania remix – the bulgarian 127 re-beat)
Being of the 8-bit generation I really love the retro chip music sound. I used to make chip tunes when I was still making music on trackers, but my tracks were nothing like the craziness they’re coming up with today. A few years ago I went to a club in Stockholm where they had a guy playing live on gameboys and some other retro 8-bit looking systems. Had a blast just sitting down and watching computer nerds dance next to trendy pop chicks, finding some common ground in the low-fi 8-bit music coming from the speakers. I have to go back next time I’m over there..
Bubblyfish creates her music mainly using gameboys with the nanoloop software, although in some of her tracks she’s adding effects and using a “real” sampler. I have no idea what the track at 08:30 in the video is called but I like it. And check out her sweet dreams remix at 05:15, or on her myspace.
Here’s a short video interview with her. And another interview for Wired from 2007. Get her latest album from retinascan.
[via synthtopia.com]
The only problem with trying to find chip music online without really knowing what to look for is that there’s so much of it! But this is some quality 8-bit madness from Atari-ST music collective dropdabomb. These two are from stu and you really should listen to more of his stuff on his site, his myspace or on the buy page for his Atari Solo album on retinascan. I especially love the those low bitrate samples and the small glitchy bits in chiprape.
stu – chiprape [get this!]
stu – Disco Ver Atari [preview only but a must listen nonetheless]
Check out the buy page on retinascan.de for more stu.