techno
Articles about techno:
PAiA Fatman Analog Synthesizer Jam/Test
via DigitalExtremist:
Simple jam session, testing out the PAiA Fatman Analog Synthesizer.
The drums are from a Korg drum machine.
The PAiA Fatman is a DIY Analog Synthesizer kit. It arrives in a thousand pieces, and you build it. The included instructions are excellent, and this was a very fun build.
Juno Reactor: Gods & Monsters
Gods & Monsters, the seventh release from Juno Reactor, sees Ben Watkins stretching a bit, but not straying too far from the Reactor formula of mixing techno and world music influences.
While it’s great to see techno getting bent and adapted, not all off Juno Reactor’s attempts to push its range are successful.
The first track on Gods & Monsters, Inca Steppa, starts out promising, with a driving synth bassline. It quickly turns into a vocal number, though, marred by weak lyrics. The music is all over the place, too, with spy/surf guitar, theremin-style synth warbles and a bit of a reggae feel. I don’t know where this track was going, but it doesn’t seem to have arrived in one piece.
The second track, Tokyo Dub, is a slow number that sounds less dub than soul. Despite great sounds and production and a fantastic singer, the track feels too long after 30 seconds, with lame lyrics again the culprit. The track might have been interesting if Reactor had actually done some bizarro dub tricks and effects, but instead the track just goes on and on.
While the first two tracks aren’t particularly promising, somewhere in the third track, Las Vegas Future Past, Reactor seems to find their groove. Read more…
I think I need one of these bad boys. Especially when the feedback loop kicks in. And it can change its polarity 60 times per second!
The interactive machine International Dance Party is a complete plug ‘n’ play party in a box.
The machine comes as a large, non-suspicious looking flightcase. Internally, it is equipped with cutting edge radar sensing technology, an ear blasting state of the art 600W sound system, tons of psychedelic light and laser effects, and even a professional grade fog machine.
Through its dance activity radar, the International Dance Party detects and evaluates motion input from surrounding people in realtime. Several sophisticated transforming mechanisms let the flightcase turn into a powerful and boosting party machine, once the visitors start to dance within the machine’s range of perception.
The audience controls the complexity of the generated music and the intensity of the light effects directly by the energy of its dance action. When there is no audience, or when the audience is not active enough, the machine stops its performance and transforms back into a transport crate.
You Can’t Ignore My Techno
Bikini girls, Muscle Beach, the Moog, and a naked guy are featured prominently in this synth-beat, electro piece Synthesizer.
Electric Six are also the guys behind the videos Improper Dancing, I Buy The Drugs and Gay Bar.
via Matrix
