IKWN, looking and sounding a bit like they got cut from Liquid Sky, do Poison.

In this video synth jam, elfferichfour pits the analog goodness of a vintage Yamaha CS-10 synthesizer against the Yamaha CS2X synth, a digital beast.

This is a preview/promo for Daedelus‘ Fin de Siècle, from the upcoming release, Righteous Fists of Harmony:

In this release, Daedelus presents a soundtrack-of-sorts to the Boxer Rebellion.

What, you ask, could make such ancient history an inspiration for modern electronics? Well, Daedelus has found a strange relevance to our modern malady in these epic events of long ago…

After seventy years of China’s opium-related subjugation by Queen Victoria and her allies, a force of resistance fighters — termed “Boxers” by the British — rose to the challenge in 1898. Calling themselves “The Righteous Fists of Harmony,” this secret society of martial artists felt they held magical powers: they believed themselves bulletproof, able to fly, and capable of raising the dead (who would then fight alongside them). And so began the brief Boxer Rebellion; three years later 100,000 Boxers had fallen, their magic helpless against the cutting-edge machinery of war. The British prevailed only to face ultimate defeat, as their empire rapidly declined.

Daedelus endeavors to compose a requiem for the end — of beliefs, of lives, and of an era. This elegy for a bygone battle sheds light on our own contemporary conundrum: will our faith in modernity be our downfall? Are we blinded by this age of wonders, doomed to be destroyed by our ingenious inventions? Although Daedelus’ music has always juxtaposed organic and electronic elements, they war as never before on “Righteous Fists of Harmony,” a portrait of a tumultuous era that came crashing to a close.

Gorgeous track and video, eh? Does anyone else hear echoes of early Tomita?

Daedelus‘ Righteous Fists of Harmony will be out March 23rd. Read more…

This SoundWorks Collection documentary looks at the sound design of James Cameron’s Avatar:

Bringing to life the sounds of Pandora include the talent of Skywalker Sound’s Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-recording Mixer, and Sound Designer Chris Boyes in this SoundWorks Collection sound for film exclusive profile.

This is an audio demo of the Sonic Core (Creamware) Prodyssey ASB – a hardware replica of the ARP Odyssey with an ARP and Minimoog filter. Read more…

This video, via Sam Square, covers the basics of Apple’s MainStage, including working with channel strips and the difference between the Concert, Set and Patch.

Topics covered include:

• Uses of MainStage
• Concert/set/patch and patch inspector area
• Preferences
• Create new channel strip
• Setting the default channel strip
• Creating a aux channel for shared effects
• Using Aliases
• The patch inspector
• Program Changes and reorganizing

Read more…

Pirate Bob Weigel looks at the Elka Panther organ, inside and out, and offers his maintenance tips:

This unit is actually going to be used by “The Like” and was purchased by Pete Thomas recently for the band his daughter plays drums in.

I love as I mention the construction, but, if you get one, plan on replacing all those 61 electrolytic capacitors and possibly the lamp for the tone decay (which is a decay envelope for the mixture tabs.)

via sounddoctorin:

This is the Arena arts interview with Brian Eno – a great new documentary that takes you into Eno’s studio and offers’ Eno’s own perspective on his work and his life.

via Alessandro Cortini

Roll The Dice’s The New Black. Read more…

This is syntesen’s Mortality Chorale, an original arranged in the switched on style. Read more…