This is part of a visualization for planned performances of The Patience Of A Saint I, by Carl Sagan’s Ghost.

Official – Mark Knight & D.Ramirez V Underworld – Downpipe

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The tallest building in Dublin city was wired up with two huge 100,000 Euro screens.

The combination of Underworld’s unmistakable talent for drawing on primal energies and Mark Knight and D.Ramirez’s unquestionable production skills and knowledge of the Dance Floor tells a powerful story that is ahead of the curve and pays off with a monster riff in the drop. An insanely infectious piece of music that has feeling and passion rushing through its veins, the combination of tech grooves and intense progressive-build nods heavily to the tight production skills of Mark Knight and D.Ramirez and sees a stunning return to international dance floors for one of electronic music’s most iconic voices Karl Hyde, for this, the much anticipated and long overdue follow up to the 2007 anthem Columbian Soul.

Having created a defining soundtrack to a chemical generation with the almighty Born Slippy and countless club crossover hits including the likes of Rez and Cowgirl, Underworld are highly regarded as one of the best in the business.
Take this heritage and legacy and combine it with one of the most prolific DJ production partnerships in the world right now and you have something very special indeed.
Directed By Eoghan Kidney Special Thanks to www.daft.ie/playhouse

This is too much fun not to share – Thriller (Saitone 8bit tribute), directed by Raquel Meyers.

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The video for Digitalism’s Jupiter Room is based around the idea of abstract light design and movement complimenting the music.

In this Native Instruments video, Jeremiah Savage, the creator of Sonic Fiction, explains the unusual concept and creation process of his science fiction-inspired software instrument.

Native Instruments’ Sonic Fiction is a new KORE-Powered instrument that combines field recording with advanced synthesis to create hundreds of otherworldly sounds.

Native Instruments Sonic Fiction retails for $79. Description:

Expanding on sound design paradigms established with Jeremiah Savage’s previous ACOUSTIC REFRACTIONS collection, the sounds in SONIC FICTION are inspired by imaginative Science Fiction scenarios and concepts. Unusual, complex acoustic sources ranging from volcanic mudpots to television static were carefully captured in extensive field recording sessions, and combined with the vast synthesis and sound processing capabilities of ABSYNTH, KONTAKT and KORE. The result is an array of previously unheard, charismatic instruments that are both alien and organic in their sonic character, but also highly playable and of profound musical value.

SONIC FICTION provides 100 KoreSounds with eight morphable Sound Variations each, resulting in 800 individual sounds. Concise parameter assignments allow for immediate, intuitive sound tweaking in KORE 2 and KORE PLAYER. Full musical metadata for all presets also makes SONIC FICTION integrate seamlessly with any individual collection of KORE-Powered instruments.

You can find out more about Sonic Fiction at the NI site.

The Casio CZ-1000 is a vintage (80s) Phase Distortion Synthesis synthesizer, that’s basically a CZ-101 with full-size keys.

It offers 8-voice polyphony and a 49-key full-size keyboard. A two oscillator per voice option lets you get thicker sounds, but reduces the polyphony to 4 voices.

The CZ’s aren’t true classic synths, but they are reliable and offer a great vintage synth value.

If you’ve used the Casio CZ-1000 synthesizer, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Resources:

• Casio CZ-1000 editor librarian at SoundQuest
  

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The Casio CZ-1000 is a digital synthesizer with the “phase distortion” synthesis. It came out 1985 and it was one of the first low cost synthesizers with MIDI multimode.

The CZ-1000 looks like something between Yamaha DX7 and Korg Poly-800. Like the Korg Poly-800, it can run with batteries. The CZ-101 is virtually the same, it just has small keys.

Casio had the idea to develop a digital synth with modern digital sounds, which is easy to program like an analog synth. Indeed, it uses similar terminology (DCO, DCW, DCA) – if you understand subtractive synthesis, the CZ will be also easy for you to understand.
Instead of real filters, you have the DCW – this is the unit, which distorts the phase of the DCO. Resonance is not available, but you can produce similar sounds with special DCO waveforms. There are 8 waveforms, two of them can be used at once.

It has portamento, monophonic / polyphonic modes and cartridge storage. Like the original DX7, the display is not backlit.

The Casio can produce digital and analog-style sounds. Great house organs can be produced. Some “filter sweep” sounds are interesting (the bass in the movie). But other analog-style sounds are a bit static and boring to my ears, I would recommend the Casio for digital sounds – not for the analog sounds. Analog sounds are better on the competitor Korg Poly-800.

The timing of the sound engine is not the best – a three notes chord causes a significant delay between notes (you can hear it in the movie). But okay, it was a small budget synth.

In the video I played the CZ-1000 with a Lexicon MPX 500 reverb.

Vince Clarke used to have one in the eighties.

Sunday Synth Jam: This track was done using only the Novation Launchpad and Ableton Live 8. Plugins used were Native Instruments Massive, Discovery DSP and ABL2.

It would have been nice to get an inset of the screen on this.

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The idea to this video came after someone asked me here on Youtube if i need all of my machines to make music – so you guys are the judge now Cheers

One Time We Lived, via Moby.

Here are some impressions of the September Tour 2009 that Klaus Schulze did together with Lisa Gerrard.

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Filmed by James L. Frachon – MyGale Films.Klaus will return live on the 20th and 21st of March 2010. Klaus will perform two nights Solo in Tokyo, Japan.

Atelic

Music by Guy Connelly

This is a motion control test film by DuckEye developed from ‘Iatrogenesis’ created for Rambert Dance Company’s ‘Season of New Choreography’.

Choreography Alexander Whitley
Dancers: Jonathan Goddard, Miguel Altunaga, Eryck Brahmania, Estela Merlos
Music: Guy Connelly

Directed by Duckeye
Produced by Rokkit

Director of Photography: Simon Paul
Gaffer: Jono Yates
Runner: Leonard Wilkinson

Shot using Canon D5 MKII with a manual 25mm Carl Zeiss lens.

This video, via synthjunk, is a celebration of all that is good – with an emphasis on the pure analog electronica power, using classic synths, sequencers and drum machines.

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Influenced by electronic music of the 70’s 80’s & 90’s.

Recorded using Ableton live with minimal overdubbing.

Robot featured is home made.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Relax has received the 2009 remix treatment.

Even without the remix treatment, though, Trevor Horn’s production sounds remarkably modern, even after 25 years.

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Kraftwerk’s The Bleep proves that everything sounds a lot naughtier when you censor it.

via commanderkrudge, who says “Even the Grandfathers of Electro Pop only had *bleep* on their mind when writing their classic song The Model.”

For Kraftwerk fun, see this earlier post 11 Unusual Covers Of Kraftwerk’s The Model.

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This video captures a little old-school style step sequencing with a Synthesizers.com modular synthesizer.

An analog delay module like the Blacet Time Machine would be the icing on this cake.

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Something to be thankful for – some Thanksgiving day acid.

This music video, Tenorance, features Yamaha Tenori On and Motif ES Rack.

Details below.

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This song has been created by me using the Yamaha Tenori-On. I used the Tenori to create the layers (patterns) using score mode and random mode. A total of 8 different layers have been created. Once the layers were created, I used the Tenori to control the Yamaha Motif ES Rack to produce the sounds (8 parts). Obviously, the Motif ES Rack can produce much better sounds than the Tenori’s internal sound processor.Have fun!

This video captures a session with the Korg Electribe EMX.

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Just a session with the Korg EMX what a wonderful little machine.

Vangelis’ “Live” version Of Chariots Of Fire

Laurent Garnier’s Pay TV

If you thought that simulated sex sounds went out of style in dance music back in 1975, think again.

Barbara Klein’s No Picnic, No Poets