The first ever international academic conference on Kraftwerk will take place at Aston University on Jan 21-22, 2015. Kraftwerk specialists from Britain, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands and the US, will present papers dealing with the band’s music and the impact it has had on other artists. Details on the conference are available at the University’s… Read More First International Kraftwerk Conference Scheduled For Jan 2015
LEGO is running a poll at their IDEAS site to see if there’s enough interest to justify making Daft Punk minifigures. The IDEAS site lets LEGO fans submit ideas for new products. If an idea gets 10,000 votes, the company will consider the idea for development as a new product.
The Desktop Record Cutter (DRC), now under development as a Kickstarter project, that’s designed to let you cut your own vinyl.
Avid has announced that it has received approval to list its common stock on The NASDAQ Stock Market, effective with the open of trading on Monday, Dec 8 2014. Avid makes Pro Tools, Sibelius, Media Composer and many other tools for pro audio and video.
A Rainbow Kitten Christmas by Rainbow Kitten From the land of WTF comes the holiday cheer of Dr. Sunshine’s A Rainbow Kitten Christmas. The album offers Dr. Sunshine’s unique take on Christmas songs, featuring 8-bit chiptune sounds, lo fi vocoder goodness and a heaping helping of weirdness.
One of the frustrations of fans of synthesist Vangelis is the huge volume of his soundtrack work that remains unreleased. Blade Runner fans are still pining for a comprehensive soundtrack. The soundtracks to films like Missing, The Plague and The Bounty are only officially available in fragments. And then there’s his soundtracks for Cavafy, Francesco, Splendeur Sauvage and many… Read More Vangelis – The Tegos Tapes
Buchla Christmas by Warner Jepson Warner Jepson’s Buchla Christmas is a previously unreleased collection of electronic holiday music, created on a Buchla modular synthesizer in 1969. The music was created by Jepson at Mills College Electronic Music Studios in December 1969. It was created on the Buchla 100 analog modular synthesizer and recorded to Ampex PR-10 tape recorder.
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The BBC reports that vinyl record sales have hit an 18-year high: Earlier this month, Pink Floyd’s The Endless River became the fastest-selling vinyl release since 1997. UK’s Official Chart Company told the BBC it will soon launch a weekly vinyl chart. And we’ve seen a surge in electronic releases on vinyl, ranging from reissues of classics… Read More Open Mic: Is The Surge In Vinyl Sales ‘A Hipster Thing’?
Product developer Iman JL shared these two videos with us that demonstrate the Hypersynth Xenophone – an advanced analog mono synthesizer with 100% analog signal path. The Xenophone offers three oscillators, two subs, three ring modulators, one multimode VCF and analog distortion, all based on discrete analog circuits followed by a high quality stereo digital delay and reverb. In… Read More Hypersynth Xenophone Demo
