Sunday Synth Jam: Dubit’s Ableton Live IDM jam.

Video a fine Promozionale per Performance Live Set
Genere: IDM|Experimental|Minimalist

Software:

• Ableton Live

Instruments:

• PC|Portable Toshiba
• M-Audio
• EMU X-Board 49
• BCF2000

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Ableton Live 8: Kamoni discusses his live performance approach on Phuq Radio.

He plays some breaks, DnB, Jungle and Dubstep then goes into detail about his Ableton Live programming techniques.

See the full interview on phuqradio.com.

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This is the music video for Lusine’s Two Dots.

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Britta Johnson (video director for Andrew Bird, among others) brings Lusines new single Two Dots to life, illustrating the songs relationships-as-trigonometry analogy in an intricately animated video.

In the clip, a pair of marbles—one blue, one yellow—engage in the timeless dance of seduction on a horizontal plain, mapping the ups and downs of a courtship through pencil-drawn geometric principles.

Like Two Dots, Johnsons video lives in the middle ground between technology and humanity, emotional immediacy and obsessive detail.

Dubspot Instructor Michael Hatsis shows the fundamentals of making an electronic dance music style build in Ableton Live 8.

Part 1 covers pitch effects and filter effects using the Simpler instrument.

You can download the sample set used in the video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Part 2 covers reverb, sidechain compression, and automation.

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The MLGI is a multi-laser gestural controller built and designed by Meason Wiley at California Institute of the Arts.

The controller uses Dan Overholt’s CUI interface along with an array of photocells and laser modules to send out control data, which can be converted to OSC or MIDI using various programming platforms such as ChucK and Processing.

This video demonstrates the MLGI working with ChucK, which is sending OSC to a custom built live instrument created using Native Instruments Reaktor Software. The controller is still in it’s development stages, but will be featured at the NIME conference at Carnegie Melon in June.

More info here.

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.

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Here’s a brief description of tracks:

01 – Intro
The analog warmth of a Doepfer and a Moog Voyager travels together the shiny frequencies of a digital Nord Modular G2X introducing you through this electronic journey.

02 – Ka’tun IV
The power of genetic polyrhythmed drums with a taste of acid basslines. The harshness of resonant filters used as solo instrument.

03 – The Prophecy
Dive yourself straight to the action with this soundtrack-style song. Acoustic orchestration and fat basslines are melted together. A rocking keyboard solo to fight the monster.

04 – Midnight Fog
Modeled dissonations, filter sweeps as melodic lines. Not for untrained ears.

05 – ZO-ology
An easy-to-listen electronic song.

06 – Back to A
How to play a radio transmission and enjoy your favorite soccer team.

07 – Ostreococcus OsV5
How a virus DNA will sound? Here it is. Bassline, distant echoed guitars and swinging percussions are all generated by a virus genome. Reaktor is the cure.

08 – Lame Walk
A jazzy walking bass meets a crazy automated breakbeat.

Gear used for Apocalypse Meow: Doepfer A-100, Moog Voyager, Clavia Nord Modular G2X, Metasonix TX-1, Roland TR-606, Native Instruments Reaktor 5, AAS Tassman, Logic Studio Pro, Ableton Live 7.

Ever wonder if your gear needs a vacation?

Kamoni takes his favorite drum machines on the road for a visual adventure in beats and blips, in this video - Would You Like to Tap My Box?

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A fun live improvisation by Micromattic involving heavy use of Step Sequencer, Wii Remote, Ableton Live, contact mic and a few hand made instruments.

In a move guaranteed to annoy people charging crazy money for Autechre goods, their latest 140 minutes of music will arrive as MP3 files only, first exclusively via bleep.com over a course of two weeks from May 19, either by subscribing to a pack or as individual track downloads. The music will then be made available from all major download services as an EP bundle a week later.

The least they could do is offer a $300 deluxe set!

Tracklist:

• The Plc ccc
  Perlence range 7
  Perlence Suns
  90101-51-6
  9013-2
  Tkakanren
  90101-51-19
  Perlence subrange 3
  chenc9-1dub
  9010171-121
  Perlence losid 2
  notwotwo
  Perlence subrange 6-36

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Autechre

Here are the upcoming dates:

April

• 08 Vancouver, British Columbia – Richards on Richards *
• 11 Chicago, IL – The Abbey *
• 12 Toronto, Ontario – Lees Palace *
• 13 Montreal, Quebec – Club Soda *
• 14 Cambridge, MA – Middle East Downstairs *
• 15 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg *
• 16 Philadelphia, PA – Transit *
• 17 Washington, DC – Black Cat *

If you’ve caught them live – let me know what you think. It’s hard to imagine how they’d transfer their music effectively to live performance.

The collection features melodic elements, beats, rhythmic pulsating textures and atmospheres, all presented in ACID / WAV format.

You can preview the library below.

Binary Code is currently available for 30 Euros as a download.

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.

Nnnj’s music falls into the broad downtempo category – but the tracks on Monkey Straddle are some of the most interesting examples of the genre that we’ve heard. Nnnj gets slow jazzy grooves going and then layers on samples, drones and spoken dialog.

Highlights of the CD include Fiji Geesus, a track that grows from an ambient beginning to a more melodic, world-music feel; the dubby title track; and Demeter’s Pupil, which creates an uneasy balance between a jazzy groove and ambient effects.

Throughout the CD, Nnnj is consistenty original and creative. Listening to it, you’re never quite sure where he’s going to go next. But Nnnj nicely balances his flow of new sounds and effects with song structures, so the CD is as listenable as it is creative.

Tracks:

• Goop Scoop – 4:05
• Close The Loop – 3:27
• Lush Lope – 4:12
• What’s The Weather Like Today? – 4:10
• Fiji Geesus – 3:04 play sample
• Monkey Straddle – 4:22 play sample
• What’s The Weather Like Tomorrow? – 5:15
• Uberamkin – 4:06
• – 3:29
• 1205-180a – 4:21
• Demeter’s Pupil – 4:19
• The Rinse – 1:25

Everest is establishing a reputation for fearless releases, and this is no exception. Expedition_2 ranges from IDM to bizarre experimental electronica.

If you’re into edgier, more experimental sounds, this compilation is a great introduction to a variety of artists that you’re not going to hear on the radio. On the other hand, if you’re into new age, this CD will be like a trip to the dentist to get your teeth drilled.

Expedition_2 is fill of interesting work and is guaranteed to clean out your ears properly. You can check out samples at the Everest site.

Tracks:

• alpha 5-04 | 4:52 | alphatronic
• la fin des usines | 4:57 | d’incise
• i should have fucked you | 4:52 | [sic]
• saint automatic | 3:24 | meienberg
• tölt | 5:17 | softland
• r”mm”ave | 4:15 | falls of mute
• d flat 9 | 3:51 | hopen
• 12_jo71 | 3:18 | jotta
• parallel universe | 4:34 | paral-lel
• qaqortoq akazehe | 3:35 | op rechts / matu
• qatw (vltkmx) | 5:37 | eakui
• senrei | 6:22 | tsuki
• schnitt (+.++) | 5:15 | steinbrüchel
• how to destroy a piano | 4:24 | uniform
• crosswinds | 3:01 | misel quitno

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.

On The Beeps, Yoko Solo explores experimental loop-based abstronica that sometimes borders on the danceable, but more often goes into IDM territory. Rhythms and grooves here are a tool for catching your ear so that that it can be taken on a new tangent. Beats jump in and out of the picture, while Yoko Solo drops in spoken world samples, noises or ambient effects, creating an aural collage.

The music has a very unfinished, punk feel to it that is frustrating, because it sometimes seems to go nowhere, but it is very fresh, too, because you never know where the music will go next.

Yoko Solo is brave enough to risk not satisfying your expectations, which is always interesting.

Tracks:

• Kluge (?!)
• Pigbucket Blam Blam
• Don’t Fall Asleep I’m Warning You Don’t Fall Asleep
• Infinite Collapse Pt. One: I Blew It (Infinite Undo)
• Infinite Collapse Pt. Two: Sickly Assassin
• Infinite Collapse Pt. Three: Bang U Up Dummy
• Krak V.2 “I Rebuke Thee”
• No Party, Wind/Vomit
• These Are The Beeps
• The Alarm (9øøø)
• Covered In Feces…Stronger Than You, Rotten
• Partial Collapse / Useless Control Systems (I’ve Got No Rights)
• noWave
• Cosmonaut Tragedy

The two-track EP is available for download in MP3 format and features quirky IDM instrumentals that lean towards glitch-core.

It’s available for download from the MIMI site.

Simbolin is a German by birth, but has lived in England since the age of nine. He’s been creating music for about twelve years.

The tracks on Aural Contraception are hard to categorize, but it’s easy to hear drum and bass, techno, and IDM influences.

Download free music and album art from the Simbolin site.

Tracks:

• UNDER THE INFLUENCE
• LIQUIFIED
• FEARCE
• PSYCHOTROPIC HEAD RESTRAINT
• DROWNING APHRODITE
• PULL THE REINS IN
• FALLING REIGN
• MELANCHOLY
• MDMA ANONYMOUS
• WALK ON WATER
• MEDIUM RISK
• HABITUAL LIAR