Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | yesterday
YouTube via mik300z "Always wanted to do a TD cover, so here it goes! Also my first time blending software (ableton live 7) with hardware. loads of bum notes and crappy playing as usual:) The only soft synth I used was the bassline , everything else from my trusted friends...the Junos Microkorg and ESQ"
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | yesterday
the most interesting thing i learned this week is that the french translation of krautrock (rock choucroute) is something along the lines of rock and roll sauerkraut. i’m hoping this is true. if not i’ll lessen the disappointment with guinness and the new e.p. from turzi. it’s the usual composer oomph followed by listener oof. [...]
Said the Gramophone (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Tangerine Dream - "The Dream is Always the Same" I'm getting ready for a fight. I'm taping up my hands, and chalking up my hands. I'm splashing cold water on my face and I'm in a basement locker room. Where the paint on the concrete is so thick it's all smooth and soft looking. I'm looking in the mirror and I'm telling myself not to be scared. For some reason I know it's a two-way mirror,...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Wayward son Tony Coulter here, reporting for duty. In August of this year, after 19 years of DJing on FMU, I teleported myself, and all my crap, from Brooklyn, NY, to Portland, OR. I currently have no plans to do...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
YouTube via retrosound72 "vintage synth demo by RetroSound Oberheim OB-X 8 Voice Analog Synthesizer from the year 1979. The OB-X was available with 4, 6 or 8 discrete voice cards. part1: some self-made classic OB-X sounds (pads, brass, bass, sync- and crossmodulation sounds and more) part2: the features of the OB-X (coming soon) The Oberheim OB-X is one of the best analog poly-synths ever. A classic!...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
the xx, Friendly Fires, Holly Miranda The xx's songs are still and spacious things. The guitars and bass recall early New Order (when they still sounded hollowed out by the loss of Ian Curtis); the beats are muted, bedroom-bred stuff. But the sensual, often sexual tension in covocalists Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim's close-quartered, whisper-soft boy/girl duets fills their album's latent spaces...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
This weekend was all about Emptyset : Check out the track "Awake" on their Myspace account. That track is representative of the dou's (James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas) general approach to sound design—severe, minimal, and architectural. But in the middle of these dust, digital, artificial, micro constructions, there sometimes appears a funky house beat. When the two meet (funky beat...
Soviet Panda (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I've watched the recent BBC 4 documentaries, Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany and Synth Britannia , twice each. Both are well done and incredibly inspirational. Stream Krautrock below, or search for it on Google or your favorite torrent site to watch. Krautrock explores the social and political climate in post-war Germany during the 60's and 70's that led musicians to explore truly new music, with...
THE GOODNESS (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
After releasing his Panesian Nights and The Explorers EPs earlier this year to much acclaim from both critics and dance floors, CFCF is unleashing his highly anticipated debut album, Continent , on Paper Bag Recordings. CFCF: "For the songs on this album I usually started with an idea in mind of a specific atmosphere I wanted to convey. That atmosphere, whether it was something hazy, nostalgic,...
I.E. Lester (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I write most of my short stories, articles and reviews whilst music is playing. It helps me relax. It removes the rest of the distractions of the world and let's me get on with things. Or at least it does most of the time. I'm sitting here now wanting to get some writing done and am having the most amazing difficulty finding music I can allow to flow over me - to just fill in the background. It happens...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn uneasy dreamer Daniel Lopatin, a/k/a Oneohtrix Point Never, is an electronics mutila...
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
EMERALDS / Solar Bridge CD / Hanson Records / 2007 Keyboard/synthesizer/guitar drone that is often as shimmering and beautiful as listening to waves on a beach. Great for spacing out to with a fine pair of headphones and some herbal enhancement (burning sage, of course). SOUNDS LIKE: FAUST, BRIAN ENO, TANGERINE DREAM SUGGESTED TRACK: 2 “The Quaking Mass” (ambient in [...]
Ready for the House (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Long Beach Lefts: Borge Mogensen Hunting Chair frame, oak, Frederica 1950/Tangerine Dream belly board, single fin with gnarly glassed on handles/1960's America-Peace flag, you don't see these too often/Railway destination board roll, London/1950's Cheerleader threads. Related.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
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Spacerock Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
I don’t know much about Marc Hans Rummig, other than that he lives in Lakewood, Washington, USA is influenced by Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre and Tim Blake, amongst others, has been playing synthesisers since the mid-70s, and, based on these instrumental tracks here, has an interest in Star Trek and a passion for making well-played and nicely quirky spacerock music. Alien Hymns , I believe,...
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barry | 08/17/2008
On this album three modern jazz musicians, Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary and Americans Kenny Wollesen on drums and Jamie Saft on synthesizer, try to fuse the music of those musicians who first explored electronic possibilities in music with more current musical ideas and jazz. Mark O'Leary mentions his admiration for musicians such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Rick Wakeman and Tangerine Dream. But don't let...
barry | 08/11/2008
The Synth Show with Mark O'Leary on guitar/sound, Jamie Saft on Synths and Kenny Wollesen on drums has just been released on Leo Records. Recorded in Brooklyn New York, it features synth based improv/synthscapes/synthpop. Harking back to the 70's Synth glory days of Zawinul, Jarre, Wakeman, Tangerine Dream, early Kraftwerk and Hamer. It has all of that and a little vaudeville meets BBC radiophonic...
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