Berlin

The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago today – which is pretty amazing – or ancient history if you’re not a Gen X’er or older.

The fall of the Berlin Wall led to profound political changes, but also profound cultural changes, especially in the world of music.

Ueberschall – the samplemeisters of Germany – has put together a new sample library that tries to distill down the influential electronic sounds of the city – Sounds Of Berlin.

Description:

With the release Sounds of Berlin Ueberschall covers the different sub-genres of minimal sound — from 120 BPM Afterhour-House to 130 BPM Dancefloor-Techno — and is oriented around labels and themes such as “Kompakt”, “Mobilee”, “Vakant”, “Boxer” and “Cocoon”. The 1 GB content is built for professional club sound needs. 1258 Loops & Samples provide enough material to be invited to countless sessions and hours of inspiration and creativity.

Each of the 75 construction kits is broken down into its single lines, each kit offers bass loops, synth loops and drum and percussion loops which can be integrated easily into every live set, thanks to Elastik. For your own groove creation you can use the single drumsounds which provide the low-end treatment and high frequency sizzle for the right punch in every club. All material is preprogrammed and ready to roll out thanks to the bundled Elastik interface. Elastik has many features which complement the electro genre nicely: filters per note, hi quality transposition, granulation effects, volume settings per note and easy mixing with additional Elastik libraries.

Specs:

• 1 GB, 75 Construction Kits, 1258 Berlin Loops and Samples
• Elastik Soundbank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS/StandAlone
• Elastik Player included – no sampler required

Sounds of Berlin retails for 99 Euro.

See the Ueberschall site for audio demos. Read more…

This is a trailer for Yellow’s new Touch Yello virtual concert and their new album, Touch Yello.

Yello is a Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank, best known for their 80’s hit Oh, Yeah, which was featured in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

via lightosphere:

Trailer for the new Touch YELLO Virtual concert, which premiered Oct. 1st in Berlin at Kino International.

CloudPost is a new App for Mac OS X that’s designed to make it easier to upload a set of tracks to SoundCloud.

CloudPost was built in close collaboration with the wonderful SoundCloud team and is maintained by Christian Stropp.

The uploader grew out of Music Hackday Berlin.

This official Ableton Live video looks at drum processing with Depeche Mode. Read more…

This series of videos offers a sneak preview of Bazille, the Berlin Modular System.

The release date has not been announced. Read more…