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This video, via AcePinter, explains creating glitch drums with Reason. Included: RV7000 Gating, Automation, Matrix offsetting, Filtering by gate, and Distortion.

 

Glitch is a genre of electronic music derived from a fascination with the sound of technology failing in interesting ways. While the music originated with musicians exploring things like CDs skipping, the sound of glitch has been absorbed into all types of electronic music, with musicians using glitch noises and effects within a rhythmic framework.
Here [...]

 


Erdem Helvacioglu – Altered Realities

Altered Realities is a new album electroacoustic guitar music by Turkish composer Erdem Helvacioglu. On the CD, Helvacioglu makes very interesting use of electronics, recording all the compositions in real time directly to tape. No overdubs or post-processing was used on the material, so the CD captures ideal live electroacoustic performances.
The music is a collection [...]

 

 
Defective Records Software has announced Major Malfunction version 1.5, a new version of its Mac OS X realtime audio plugin for Ableton Live. Major Malfunction is designed to let you “mangle, glitch and FSU”.
You can preview what MM’s FSU sounds like below; more examples at the Defective site.
Major Malfunction is US $15; a demo version [...]

 
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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 [...]

 

Circuit bending is the process of creatively short-circuiting cheap electronic devices such as guitar effects, children’s toys and synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators.
If you’re not familiar with it, you might want to check out this short preview for the circuit bending documentary by Derek Sajbel. The video features Q.R. Ghazala, Nebula [...]

 

An interesting blast of circuit bent glitchtronica from Thickshoe:

 
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Big Fish Audio has released Glitch Hop - a fusion of hip hop beats and clicky, digital tones.
Description:
Even when it’s beautiful, Glitch Hop is disturbing. It’s the wrinkle in the bedsheet, the sand in the vaseline. Artists like Prefuse 73,Telefon Tel Aviv, Matmos, Kid606, and others fuse hip hop beats with clicky, digital tones that [...]

 

Kreativ Sounds has released GNWeird Loops, the second bonus loops pack freely available for all their previous and future customers.
GNWeird stands for GLITCH, NOIZE and WEIRD and that’s exactly what this bonus contains: 8 bit and atari copycats, weird sounds, noisy drums, retro crazy bits and other ‘carefully’ destroyed loops.
Features:

50 original and royalty-free bass loops
Each [...]