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Noise Soft has released Break Filter, an industrial / breakcore filter effect plug-in for Windows.

They describe it as a custom stereo “all band” filter effect, with noise-based distortion that can take your sound from natural gain to frequency and phase shifted chaos.

Break Filter is available now as a Windows VST for $29. Read more…

Here’s another Sunday Synth Jam for you – this time a electro breakdance chillout freakout via Torley, who takes a moment along the way to show you how relaxing synth jamming can be. Read more…

Apocalypse Meow is the second release of sound designer/idm artist Luca Capozzi, features eight tracks of exciting electronic music.

It’s available as a free download from Jamendo, and has the best cover of the year.

Details on the release below. Read more…

Abstrakt Breaks 2 is the next installment of Soniccouture’s hi-tech drum loop series. Ideal for producers of Electronica, IDM, Glitch, D’n'B, Industrial and Film soundtracks.

Each of the 253 Loops is sorted into one of 47 grooves. Kicks, snares, percussion, hats, glitches – all are available as a separate loop allowing you to break down a loop within your track, or to mix and match different elements of different grooves to form original combinations.

Abstrakt Breaks2 has been fully processed into Rex Files and Apple Loops as well as WAV format, giving full drag and drop compatibility with all major sequencing packages and samplers.

Features:

• Formats: WAV, Rex, Apple Loops
• 253 24-bit 44.1 Loops
• 530 MB Library (all 3 formats 1.3 GB)
• Grooves spilt into ’stackable’ parts which can be mixed and matched to give huge numbers of original combinations
• Fully Produced and Mastered at 24-bit Resolution
• License-free loops

The collection is priced at GBP £30. Audio demos are available at the Sonic Couture site.

UK-based IDM/breakbeat artists Dogmixer offers some sample-laced techno on Bong 93, an EP on Replicant Society.

The music is straight-ahead techno/big-beat, with some tasty sci-fi oriented samples from the likes of The Prisoner & Dune. The samples are ear-catching on first listen, but after several listenings one wonders if the songs could work even better without the emphasis on the vocal samples.

The tracks themselves have an driving, aggressive quality that wouldn’t be out of place in a Matrix film, or maybe a video-game soundtrack.

The EP has limited release, but you can check it out at CD Baby. You can also find out more about Dogmixer at his MySpace site.