Gary Numan talks about his influences, especially John Foxx & Ultravox, in the amazing Benge Studios.
Gary Numan On His Influences
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Category Archives: Electronic Musicians
Deadmau5 On Making It In The Music Business: Make A World For Your Fans
Deadmau5 shared some advice at his tumblr site for musicians wanting to make a career in the music business.
He offers three recommendations, whether you’re a musician with 10 fans or 10 million:
- You need to make a world. So you have a rollercoaster in your backyard. And it’ll be the hot thing in the neighborhood for about a week. But once everyone’s had a go… they’ll lose interest, go home n play Sega instead. What you need then, is a fuckin’ theme park… and you AND your music are the theme. People come into your theme park…..check out all this shit… buncha rides, no 2 the same, some merch here and there, special events, dolphins through hoops and all that whack shit. You want people to come to your theme park and feel like they’re a part of this world of yours.
- Don’t overkill 900 on the promotional shit. - I don’t read spammed to death fucking promo shit, so, the type of people i’d like to have in my theme park don’t either. Nor do i come blaring on the theme parks PA system every fucking 20 seconds hyping the same fucking ride over and over again. Also a bad look to take flyers to other peoples theme parks and start plastering posters all over the place.
- Avoid being invisible. Get out there and immerse yourself in the world you created, youll have fun, it’s your place for fuck’s sake. If you’re not having fun in the world you created, then you fucked something up and did it wrong. Go jump on a few rides with your fans.
When you find yourself spending $45 for a deck of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategy cards, you just bought a ticket to his theme park.
Check out Deadmau5 advice – and let us know what you think of it!
ADSR Interview w/ Jonti
In this episode of the ADSR series, via Toothsvideo, multi-instrumentalist Jonti talks about his synths, his music writing process and his favorite software.
KMS 25 – A Tribute To Detroit, May 27, 2012
If you’re anywhere near Detroit at the end of May, KMS 25 – Tribute To Detroit looks like the place to be.
Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Eddie Fowlkes, Carl Craig…..
The list goes on – but here’s the preview:
New All Buchla Album By Benge – Harmuna
Synthesist Benge has released a new all-Buchla album, Harmuna.
Harmuna is intended as a companion piece to the previous work by Benge entitled Abstraxa. The five compositions featured on Harmuna were similarly realised on the Buchla modular synthesiser.
Here’s what Benge has to say about the new album:
If Abstraxa was an exploration of the distant reaches of the sound universe, Harmuna is a journey in the opposite direction, inverting the mind’s eye and exploring the infinite space within
The Synthesiser was set up in such a way that harmonious tone-waves were layered upon themselves and rhythmic patterns built up to form the various pieces. The resulting tone poems can be experienced in various ways, for example as meditative deep-listening (i.e. with headphones) or in the background to serve as an ambient aural setting
You can preview Harmuna below.
Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch Dead At 47
The Beastie Boy’s Adam Yauch, known to many as MCA, is dead at age 47.
A Beastie Boys representative has confirmed that Yauch (August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012) ”passed away in his native New York City this morning, after a near-three-year battle with cancer.”
The Beastie Boys started in 1979 as a punk band, but transitioned to hip hop in the early 80′s and achieved mainstream success with their album Licensed To Ill.
Carl Craig’s Modular Pursuits
In April 2012, the producers of the upcoming documentary on modular synthesizers, I Dream of Wires, stopped by the studio of Detroit techno producer Carl Craig, to discuss his electronic music influences and production experiences, including his recent interest in Eurorack modular synthesis.
Craig’s experiments in modular synthesis are best heard on 2010′s Modular Pursuits 12-inch, released under his No Boundaries alias.
Electronic Musicians Celebrate Arbor Day With New Compilation
In celebration of Arbor Day on April 27th 2012, a group of artists have joined together to create an album to support the National Arbor Day Foundation.
The artists, including John Koch-Northrup, Ian Boddy, John Sherwood, Joe McMahon, HG Fortune, Inner Dreamer, Shane King, Groupthink, Mystified, Shane Morris, Jack Hertz and Crystal Dreams have donated their music to support the ‘Sound For Good’ project.
The compilation, Take To The Trees, is available for download with a donation of $1 or more. 100% of your donation goes to the National Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees.
Loom Concert To Feature Tangerine Dream’s Johannes Schmoelling and Jerome Froese
Producer Simon Iddol sent word of a pair of rare performances by Loom in Budapest, Sept 28-29th, 2012.
If you’re not familiar with Loom, it’s made up of Tangerine Dream alumni Johannes Schmoelling and Jerome Froese, and producer Robert Waters. The group plans to perform the best of their solo work, Tangerine Dream classics and new material.
The two concerts, presented by AudioPornCentral, will differ in that the first show will be for a standing audience and the second seated.
Tickets are discounted through the end of May. See the venue site for details on the Friday and Saturday shows.
Happy Birthday To Gary Wright, ‘The Dreamweaver’
It’s Gary Wright‘s 69th birthday today. While the sounds of his 1976 hits Dream Weaver & Love Is Alive may be familiar now, back in the day, this was some trippy-ass stuff.
If you were alive back then, you can let us know what you did while listening to Dream Weaver in the comments!