If you ever wanted to roll like Snoop Dogg and make Johnny Cash roll over in his grave, here’s your chance!
ACIDplanet.com has announced a new remix contest, featuring Johnny Cash’s debut single Cry, Cry, Cry, later included on Cash’s debut album, His Hot and Blue Guitar.
The winner of the contest will have his or her [...]

Time + Space has introduced Action Drums: Taiko Edition, Japanese taiko drums in the REX, Stylus RMX, ACID wav and Apple Loop formats.
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Recorded in a concert hall with microphones from stage to balcony, Action Drums: Taiko Edition captures the energy resonating from every strike, boom and cinematic blow. With suite names like Alley Sprinter, War [...]

NAMM 2006 Winter Show: Sony Media Software announced ACID Pro 6, a significant upgrade to its professional loop-based music creation and production software.
This new release includes several major development enhancements to the recording and MIDI capabilities of the program, transforming version 6 into a full-featured professional digital audio and MIDI workstation. ACID Pro 6 is [...]

Future-Retro has announced that The Revolution, an innovative new analog synthesizer, is now in production.
The Revolution is Future-Retro’s latest “concept synthesizer”. Future-Retro is best known for its killer 777 synthesizer.
According to FR’s Jered Flickinger, The Revolution provides “an intuitive interface which we feel most accurately represents the principles of time and music. From ancient sundials [...]

Following the response to their last remix contest, electronic music artist Cirrus has teamed up with Sony Pictures and ACIDplanet.com for the latest competition. The new single Get Loose is currently on the chopping block at ACIDplanet.com.
Months before the official street release date, fans and music-producer hopefuls are getting a chance to create their own [...]

Sony has updated its Loops for ACID libraries as the Sony Sound Series: Loops & Samples line. The new versions now feature three tiers: Premium Collection, Standards Collection and Classics Collection.
The three new categories of loops and samples offer increased depth, flexibility and variety not only for the music creation and production community, but also [...]

Sony has introduced ACID Pro 5 software, the latest upgrade to its loop-based music creation tool.
Enhancements include two new patent-pending technologies: The Media Manager is a new technology for browsing and tagging media assets that greatly enhances the user’s ability to track, label and store media files including loops, video and stills. Additionally, the unique [...]

Named after Greater London’s own circular autobahn, the M25, central to the early Rave scene and party network in the South East of England during the halcyon ‘daze’ of Acid House, Orbital is made up of brothers Phil (born 09 Jan 64) and Paul Hartnoll (born 19 May 68).
From their beginnings producing simple but infectious [...]

After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their forthcoming LP, The Blue Album, will be their last. Paul Hartnoll explains how their latest CD came together, and why it will be their last.
“Orbital has run its course,” explains Paul. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And [...]

After 15 years working together as Orbital, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have announced that their upcoming recording, The Blue Album, will be their last.
“I think we feel that Orbital has run it’s course,” says Paul Hartnoll. “We’re both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we’ve been sat, as brothers, in the same room for [...]