The long anticipated electronic music collaboration between AD Music’s David Wright and DiNs Ian Boddy has been confirmed as Shifting Sands and is set for release on 5th September 2009 at the Derby Music Festival.

There are 5 tracks: Comets, Shifting Sands, Still Motion, Endless Terrain and Halcyon.

Some of the album will be premiered during the Boddy, Hoffmann-Hoock & Wright evening performance at the event. The album is currently in post production and sound bites and more information will be available soon.

Description:

This is a library of 1,000 analogue drum, percussion and one-shot hits. However these are not taken from vintage drum machines (of which there is already plenty of content available elsewhere) but rather all the sounds are hand crafted by Boddy on vintage analogue synths and modular systems.

They run the full gamut from thunderous bass drums, crisp snares & hats through to abstract synth hits & FX and even weird glitchy & industrial sounds. The sounds are a mixture of mono and stereo samples and some have genuine analogue effects printed on them from spring reverbs, bucket brigade delays and phaser/flangers. This all adds up to a cornucopia of drum and percussion sounds that can be used in virtually any style of production.

The sounds are also mapped out in Kontakt 2 programs with a basic envelope and low-pass filter provided. The modulation wheel is set to turn the cut-off of the filter down as it is raised. These programs are presented in three different ways. The Audition programs present all the sounds per category with one sound per key starting at C1. The 18 Kit patches follow as closely as possible the General MIDI Percussion Key Map from B0 (Key35) to B2 (Key59) and provide a convenient way
of playing some of the sounds as “drum kits”. Finally there is a range of sounds key-mapped out in Patches. No other programming is included as the sounds themselves are “finished” and it is intended to give the customer the flexibility of adding their own effects and modulations if desired.

You can preview Drumalogue below:

Technical data

1000 samples at 44.1Khz, 24 bit in WAV format.
Mixture of stereo & mono samples.

Raw audio recorded from the following analogue synthesisers:

• Roland System 100-M
• Analogue Systems
• Doepfer A-100
• Analogue Solutions
• Livewire AFG
• VCS3
• Minimoog
• Metasonix TM-2 tube BP filter

Recorded directly into Apple Mac using RME Fireface 400 audio interface.

Samples edited in Bias Peak Pro 5.

Native Instruments Kontakt 2 support provided.

Recorded & produced by Ian Boddy December 2008 – March 2009.

Demo loops by Ian Boddy, Dean De Benedictis, Nigel Mullaney, Pat Mastelotto and
Bernhard Wöstheinrich.

This is a short video of Robert Rich and Ian Boddy, captured live at the Stars End 30th Anniversary Space Music Festival.

If any readers made it to the concert, please leave a comment with your thoughts!

AD Music has announced the relaunch of electronic music festivals in Derby, with the AD 2009 Electronic Music Festival:

It’s 20 years since AD Music was founded and so an electronic music festival seemed a suitable event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The midlands, and Derby in particular, is considered by many people to be the UK hub of electronic music and it is where our early concerts were held in 1993 and our first festival was held in 1996, so there is a nice symmetry. The excellent “Awakenings Evening” held every two months is doing a great job as the only regular electronic music event in the area, with the Hampshire Jam ensuring interest is kept bubbling in the South. In Europe there is the continued efforts of Groove’s e-live and e-day, while Germany is seeing renewed electronic music activity with the excellent electronic circus event in Beilefeld. So it’s our hope that this event will help rejuvenate interest in an annual all day electronic music festival and if the Derby event is a financial success, then it is AD Music’s intention to organize another next year.

So, if electronic music is your thing, which it probably is if you’re reading this, then support us in bringing back a Derby electronic music festival. Being a record label, we will always seek to have at least one of our acts on the bill. But as can be seen from the strong 2009 line up, it is not exclusively an AD Music artist festival, and it won’t be in the future either.

Here are the details:

Date: Saturday 5th September 2009

Venue:
The Guildhall, Derby.
Doors open; 13:00 hours
Ticket price: £25.00 (twenty five pounds)

Tickets also available from the Guildhall ticket office

About the venue: The Guildhall has seating for 240, of which 80 are in the balcony. The balcony seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis, so please book early to avoid disappointment if the balcony is your preference. There are coffee facilities and a bar at the venue. Food is available from the many local restaurants and cafes within walking distance of the Guildhall.

Radiophonica provides a library of sounds that recall the BBC Radiophonic Workshops early work on seminal TV programmes like Doctor Who; as such, they embrace those appealing analogue, organic, retro scifi sounding characteristics of early synthesiser soundtracks.

All 200 samples 24-bit/44.1kHz mono WAV, crossfade looped where appropriate were created using Boddy’s personal collection of old(er) and new(er) analogue synthesisers (Roland System 100-M, Analogue Systems RS Integrator, Doepfer A-100, Analogue Solutions Concussor, EMS VCS3, Moog Minimoog, Metasonix TM-2) and recorded directly into an Apple Mac running Logic Studio via an RME Fireface 400 FireWire audio interface with additional EQ or compression processing provided where appropriate using Audio Ease PeriScope, Waves Renaissance Compressor, and Waves L1 Ultramaximizer. All audible flanging, phasing, reverb, or echo effects are from the various analogue components of the modular systems themselves for absolute audio authenticity.

Native Instruments KONTAKT 2 patches with a basic envelope, low-pass filter, and modulation wheel assigned to filter cutoff are also provided for convenience for each program, allowing users to add effects and modulations to the finished sounds, as well as audition programs for all the sounds in a single category.

Ian Boddy Waveforms products are available from the following download stores, priced at £24.95 (including VAT):

• www.soundstosample.com
• www.timespace.com
• www.zero-g.co.uk

Zero-G has released 5 new titles in its SoundSense Series sample libraries:

• Street Beatz contains 1 Gb of brand new professional NYC hiphop at a bargain price. Full of Earth Shaking Beats, Dope Grooves, Cool Vibes and Full Phat Construction Kits from the streets of NYC.
• LA Drums for Songwriters – Top LA session player, engineer and programmer Jeremy Janeczko who has toured with many top stars including Sheryl Crow, Cypress Hill, The Eagles, Alanis Morissette and Michael Jackson brings you a collection of acoustic drumloops for use in all genres of music.
• Grime Scene contains 500Mb of loops, growling basses, raw beats, and big clash sounds and a generous portion of grimey strings, percussion and atmospheres, incorporating Ragga, Grime, Reggae, Dubstep and many other influences.
• Old Skool House – a collection of old skool house samples – folders packed full of construction kits, beats, basses, pianos, organs, percussion loops, drum kits, stabs, riffs and more.
• Elektroytic is the second sample library by Ian Boddy in the Zero-G SoundSense series. Best known for his love of all things analogue and his weird and wonderful atmospheres, he has taken this sense of exploration and discovery into the realms of beats & loops. But these aren’t “normal” rhythms rather they are beats that have been twisted and mangled using a huge arsenal of cutting edge digital techniques. The resultant loops and one-shots provide a unique library of sonic inspiration for beat driven music, especially dance music.

Each of these SoundSense Series products is available for a recommended retail price of $59.95 / 49 EUR / £29.95 GBP.

The new release, React, is a live collaboration with Ian Boddy. Here’s what Rich has to say about it:

React is the third collaboration between Robert Rich and British synthesist Ian Boddy. However, unlike their previous two studio outings on the DiN label, Outpost (2001) and Lithosphere (2005), this is a record of their first ever live performance at the Star’s End Radio Show 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert in Philadelphia in June 2007.

The duo forge a fascinating sonic collaboration that offers glimpses into each musician’s personality within the evolving musical landscape. Boddy is mainly responsible for the rhythmic content which he mutates and morphs from the sonic input of Rich’s MOTM modular system. Meanwhile Rich paints a tapestry of sound with hovering keyboards, flutes and his trademark gliss lap steel guitar voicing. The duo references two tracks from Outpost (Ice Fields and The Edge of Nowhere) and the title track of Lithosphere, but presents them in more energized and dynamic versions, in a set filled with improvisations and fresh material.

The music ebbs and flows from abstract soundscapes through gentle reveries to up tempo sections that combine thunderous analog bass and glitchy percussion overlain with a mesmerizing mix of keyboards, flutes and steel guitar. A truly unique performance.

Rich has also given his site a much needed overhaul. The new site is gorgeous and easy to navigate.

There are a few things he hasn’t moved over from his old site, though, so he’s kept an archive of the old site around, also.

The library is presented in Native Instruments Intakt format, which means that it’s a pain to register, but compatible with just about anything (it supports VST 2.0, DXi, ASIO, AU, RTAS, Mac & PC). It combines over 1,000 loops with the power of Intakt, letting you take Boddy’s loops and mangle them with downsampling, filtering, distortion, delay effects and more.

The library is described as “100% pure analogue.” It’s hard to tell what that means anymore, when you’ve got digital samples of analog synths running through digitally-modelled analog filters. Nevertheless, with Analogue Sequencer Loops, Boddy and Zero-G capture the essence of classic analog synthesis, with an emphasis on 70’s Berlin-school sequencer sounds.

About the Audio Library

According to Zero-G, Analogue Sequencer Loops is intended to complement Boddy’s Zero-G Morphology virtual instrument, which features Boddy doing his thing with atmospheric soundscapes and effects. We didn’t have a chance to work with Morphology, but A.S.L. is an interesting and flexible collection by itself.

Boddy uses classic analogue synths and hardware analogue sequencers, and they are captured exquisitely in 24-bit sound. The audio loops are broken down into seven categories: Analogue Drums, Bass Sequences, Electronic Percussion, FX Loops, Hi-Hat & Noise Loops, Melodic Sequences & Sine & Pure Sequences. Within each category, loops are organized by BMP, ranging from 90-150.

ASL doesn’t immediately wow you, like some sound libraries. Because of the limited capabilities of old-school sequencers, the loops are all fairly simple. But Boddy does a great job of providing starting points for creating music with that classic analog sound.

Take one of Boddy’s bass sequences and mangle it a bit, like modulating the cutoff with a slow LFO, add a little distortion and delay, and you’ve quickly got something with a lot of life and interest to it.

Zero-G provides a great Berlin-school demo using ASL that gives you a taste of one way the library could be used.

All-in-all, it’s a very nice sample libary. It doesn’t offer the instant gratification of effect laden loops or construction kits, but it instead provides you with some great building blocks, packaged in a powerful virtual instrument that lets you easily take the raw material and manipulate it to your will.

Gear List

Sound Sources :

• Moog IIIC (extended) modular
• Roland System 100M modular
• Doepfer A100 modular
• Analogue Systems modular
• Analogue Solutions Concussor percussion modules
• ARP 2600
• Minimoog
• Moog Voyager
• Oberheim Xpander
• VCS 3

Sequencing:

• Moog 960 sequential controller x 2
• Roland 100M 182 sequencer
• Roalnd 100M 184 polyphonic keyboard arpeggiator
• Analogue Systems RS-200 sequential controller
• Analogue Solutions CV8 – 8 step CV sequencer x 2
• Analogue Solutions GT8 – 8 step gate sequencer x 2
• Analogue Solutions MC01- Master Clock with clock dividers
• Analogue Solutions FS01 – Fill In / Quad Switcher
• Doepfer A100 – various Seq Switch/Clock Dividers/Clock Sequencers

Supported Interfaces:

• VST 2.0, DXi, ASIO, Audio Units, Core Audio, RTAS, Mac & PC

Recommended Retail Price

• $199.95 US Dollars / 169 Euros / £114.95 pounds sterling)

Minimum Requirements

• Windows XP, Pentium III/ Athlon 400 MHz, 256 MB RAM
• Mac OS 10.2.6 or higher, G3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM

Recommended System

• Windows XP, Pentium III/ Athlon 700 MHz, 512 MB
• Mac OS 10.2.6 or higher, G4 733, 512 MB

More information and sound samples are available at the Zero-G site.

Outer Limits

It features a four gigabyte core library of more than five hundred unique soundscapes. It is described as a “journey through dreams and nightmares, full of sounds beyond your imagination.”

Outer Limits is Ian Boddy’s follow-up to his Morphology Kompakt instrument. The sounds this instrument is capable range from shimmering pads, to mysterious drones, crystalline digital manipulations to dark distorted atmospheres, menacing mechanisms, evocative resonances, surreal sound effects, complex cascades, formant sheens, dark disturbing horror, analogue waves, amazing space textures, strange vocal synthesis and of course, sounds from the Outer Limits of space and time. Eight sounds can be layered to create incredibly complex soundscapes.

Categories include Ambient Loops, Analogue Waves, Chamber of Horrors, Click & Glitch, Deep Space, Dense Soundscapes, Digital Drones, Digital Manipulations, Distorted Views, Heavy Drones, Machine Dreams, Minimalism, One Shot Synth FX, Outer Limits, Surreal to Real, Transcendental, Twisted Pads, Vintage Synth Atmos, Vocal Transformations and White Noise Atmospheres.

The whole library is presented within NI’s Kompakt Instrument sampler interface, which makes no compromises in the playing and performing of sample-based instruments. Powerful multi-mode filters, envelopes, and LFOs give this library enormous flexibility and a wealth of creative possibilities. The integrated high-quality reverb, chorus, and delay effects can give each sample life and depth.

Ian Boddy is one of the UK’s most celebrated synthesists, and a veteran of the European electronic music scene since the late 1970s. Ian’s exclusive arsenal of vintage and modern synths and software plug-ins have been extensively plundered together with cutting edge sonic manipulations and the audio mangling of “real” environmental sounds to create the unique and inspiring new library that you will find within this powerful virtual instrument.

Supported Interfaces & Standards

VST 2.0, DXi, ASIO, Audio Units, Core Audio, RTAS, Mac & PC.

Minimum Requirements

• Windows XP, Pentium III/ Athlon 400 MHz, 256 MB RAM
• Mac OS 10.2.6 or higher, G3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM

Recommended Retail Price:

$199.95 US Dollars / 169 Euros / 114.95 pounds sterling.

More information is available at the Zero-G site.