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This is a weighted display, based on the text of the last week’s posts at Synthtopia.
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Peter Gabriel has announced the launch of The Filter, a personalized discovery engine for digital entertainment content.
Its aim is to make sense of the overwhelming amount of digital content available on the web by filtering out the stuff that an individual probably wouldn’t be interested in and filtering in the stuff they would be [...]

Multiverse is a collection of psytrance tracks from Israel’s Atomic Pulse, aka Tamir Ozana. 
It’s a dual CD collection that’s made to order for fans of psychedelic trance. The first CD is Atomic Pulse’s take on tracks by Infected Mushroom, Skazi, Astrix, Protoculture, Fatali, Shanti, G.B.U and Pop Stream. Atomic Pulse’s production is first rate, and the [...]

Rifflet is a new site you can have some fun with those songs that you’ve never gotten around to finishing.
The concept involves the uploading of something called a “rifflet,” which is a piece of a song - like a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat, or something else altogether. Each rifflet must also [...]

If you’re one of the beautiful people, planning your trip to @#$# Ibiza on your iPhone, you may want to check out iPhoneIbiza.com - an iPhone guide to Ibiza.
It’s got info on:

Club tickets
Gas stations
Restaurants
Free WiFi Hotspots
Weather

Miniorgan is a fun site that features cool vintage music toys, mostly of the 70’s and 80’s.

Synth DIY is a site that collects together schematics and other information for building your own synth modules.
Information is organized by products and tags, with special pages for things like data sheets and owner’s manuals.
What really makes the site interesting, though, is that many of the component parts for the synth modules are cross-referenced with [...]

Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works.
There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall, and [...]

 

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Wired.com has a review of the Tonium Pacemaker Portable DJ Machine, and decides it’s cool, but an expensive toy:
The Tonium Pacemaker may be modeled after the idiot-proof iPod, but taking advantage of all the features on the Pacemaker requires an inordinate amount of button pushing. Fiddling around with it while sober requires a certain amount [...]

The Spotted Peccary label has been consistently putting out great ambient, space and synth music albums. Their latest release, Below The Mountain, by Craig Padilla, is no exception.
We’ve reviewed a couple of other albums by Padilla, The Light In The Shadow & Genesis. While his last two releases had more of an ambient or space [...]