This is a video demo of IK Multimedia’s GrooveMaker Electro – a beatmaking app for the iPhone.

via ikmultimedia:

Hear the sounds of the new GrooveMaker Electro: mechanical and aggressive uptempo beats, weird and chemically altered sounds. A huge collection of phreaked out bass lines and alien noises. Includes 4 songs, plus 1 FREE song by registering, and a total of 315 loops in 85-98-100-120-135 BPM ranges for 215 MB of samples.

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.

via SuicideServer:

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

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.

via synthjunk:

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

Recorded using Ableton live with minimal overdubbing.

Robot featured is home made.

This video, Truckstop Gondolero, captures Kraftwerk in 1971, back when they were still groovy.

via BVM0Experim0Indus0TV:

Live studio performance, 1971.

Eric Archer, an electronics designer and musician who builds unique electronic sound generators, has posted a collection of samples made using one of his latest projects, the Mini Space Rocker drum machines.

Here’s a preview:

See also our earlier posts on Eric Archer and his Mini Space Rocker drum machines.

NSFW?

La Film Fabrique
Playboy’s Bend
Mefamo et le collectif Physalis

présentent
Production/ Jonas Luyckx
Réalisation et cadre/ Jonas Luyckx
Avec/ Caroline Dehareng
Amandine Bevalot
Marie Airo
Alice Piette
Emilie Hermans
pour le collectif Physalis
Estelle Bibbo
Ornella Vernica
Melody Willams

Montage/ John Pirard
DOP/ Shaban Krasniqi

Avec le soutien de Oxfam solidarité et de Jules Gazon

Guru Josh Project’s Infinity 2008 has received something like 64 billions views on YouTube – which I guess just goes to show you how much people have been waiting to hear some trance sax.

This is the video for Don Diablo’s Hooligans Never Surrender.

via selloutsessions:

The video was criticized on its violent character by the media long before the official release, after a set video had leaked on the internet.

Don Diablo responded on the criticism as presumptuous.

Don: ”I think this video gives a good representation of what goes on in my head when I am asleep, it’s like a drug free LSD trip for pros. Welcome to the future!”

This is a trailer for the documentary The Electro Wars, which features LMFAO, Pitbull, Chromeo, DJ Eclipse, DJ Qbert, Spankrock and others.

Hopefully the film’s audio is better than the trailers…..

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After posting the vintage footage of Kraftwerk performing Das Modell, Keep Werking’s John Shilcock sent me a link to this equally interesting historic performance in Russia of The Robots.

via rmfigue:

Originally Broadcasted by USSR TV at 1980

This is some fantastic vintage footage of a young Kraftwerk, in 1980, performing Das Modell on German TV. Make sure you check out the crowd shots!

Amazingly, their current performances are amazingly faithful, both sonicly and visually, to what’s captured here.

Can you imagine how this would have blown people’s minds thirty years ago?

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This is a promo for Kraftwerk’s The Catalogue, 2009 digitally remastered releases of their most important albums.

The albums include:

• Autobahn (1974)
• Radio-Activity – (German title: Radio-Aktivität) (1975)
• Trans-Europe Express – (German title: Trans-Europa Express) (1977)
• The Man-Machine – (German title: Die Mensch-Maschine) (1978)
• Computer World – (German title: Computerwelt) (1981)
• Electric Café (1986) – (here given its original name of Techno Pop)
• The Mix (1991)
• Tour de France Soundtracks (2003) – (now titled Tour de France)

Individual albums will be available Oct 5th, and the box set Nov 16th.

The Catalogue (German title: Der Katalog) will be available as a boxed set of eight albums by Kraftwerk that were released from 1974 to 2003. All albums were digitally remastered, with most of the cover art redesigned, including rare photographs in the liner notes that were not part of each album’s original release.

“We’ve been digitally transferring all of Kraftwerk’s original recordings and sound sources from our badly degrading master tapes while our engineers, Fritz and Henning, have been working in parallel to remaster our early albums for re-release. So for the first time, our recordings will be available in crisp, clear Kling Klang sound with all the fold-out covers and images our label at the time either messed up or wouldn’t pay for. There will be some alternate mixes of tracks and some unedited versions, but unfortunately we don’t have much unreleased material. We never recorded extra songs or twenty different versions of the same song. We would complete a song and then move forward, always keeping very focused on one Kling Klang project at a time.”

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Kelpe – Microscope Contents

via bangonsocialhub:

The official video for Kelpe single, ‘Microscope Contents’ from the album ‘Cambio Wechsel’ out on DC Recordings October 19th 09, an infectious bass-driven, electro melody pulsating over a evolving percussive groove.

Video directed by Kelpe.

This is a sneak preview of the Digitana Micro Punk Robot and Micro Step analog sequencer.

Digitana is a boutique UK synth maker.

via DigitanaUK:

Testing out the Micro Step sequencer with the MPR, the Micro Step is a small 8 step analogue sequencer. The Micro Step is being triggered by a Machinedrum, aside from the bass drum all the sounds are coming from the Micro Punk Robot. The MPR is being fed a CV from the Micro Step and a sine wave.The first batch of Micro Punk Robots are sold out, to order one from the next batch sign up to the mailing list at the website on the video, the Micro Step will be available from October.All Digitana products are completely hand made, and limited edition, see website for further info.

Pricing is £65GBP for Micro Punk Robot plus shipping at cost, Micro Step price is not confirmed as yet but should be under £175. We ship worldwide.Lots more new products coming soon!Thanks for watching!

mik300z makes a triumphant return to the Synthtopia Sunday Synth Jam with a Giorgio Moroder inspired electronic disco improv:

Based on “here to eternity”. This was all going swell until the ESQ1 drifted out of pitch near the end (not my bum notes for a change lol) Some Human league influence here too:)

It’s hard to overestimate the influence Moroder has had on electronic dance music, isn’t it?

Mi Amor, by Pro7.

This is the video for Peaches‘ latest track, Take You On.

It starts out relatively tastefully, at least for Peaches, but moves on to feature a bearded, cross-dressing Peaches engaging in an onanistic pantomime, on top of what looks to be an EMS Synthi.

It’s notable just for that – but watch for all sorts of classic synth gear flashing by in the background, too.

via XLRecordings

Denkitribe’s “ER-1 + Evolver” techno jam.

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This is a demo of Looptastic, a performance remix tool for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Looptastic is made in a variety editions, focusing on different styles of music.

via soundtrends

Sunday Synth Jam: This is a modular synth “space acid jam”, featuring the Future Retro XS analog synthesizer.

Patch details below.

via darenager:

Testing out the XS with the modular.

The Blacet Binary Zone is patched into the XS CV input, the clock output from the BZ is firing the Blacet EG which in turn is going to the gate input on the XS.

The XS is running through the Bel BD80 delay.

Great fun!