Free Music Friday: Reader Don Tyler let us know about a new ambient work that he’s released under his Phase47 moniker. Mercury is a single-flow long-form piece at (51:44), Tyler describes it as “solarclash ambience for sunrise or sunset.” Mercury is available at “name your own price” including free, from Bandcamp. You can preview it above.
Over the years, we’ve had a couple of designers contact us to say “I love your site……but here’s a new masthead.” We figure that’s the nice way of saying that the current masthead looks like it was state of the art for the 80’s. The first proposed masthead, above, was created by reader Roland Onodi. The… Read More Should Synthtopia Update Its Masthead, Or Have A ‘Makeover Monday’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aByN5H-OeSY At the 2012 NAMM Show, I had the opportunity to talk with composers Amin Bhatia and Dave Gross about a project that they were starting – a surround sound version of Bhatia’s orchestral electronica classic, The Interstellar Suite. Bhatia is probably best known for his soundtrack work for television, film and iMax projects, including Flashpoint,… Read More Interstellar Suite Getting 25th Anniversary Surround Sound Mix & More
Free Music Friday: Musician and developer Chris Randal (Micronaut, Audio Damage) has released a new 5-track EP, an existing paradigm. The EP is a “collection of various experiments in electronic music done over the course of 2012.” It’s available on Bandcamp with a ‘name your price’ model. See Randall’s site for more info on the release.
Reader Marc Mitchell let us know that Beatport is running a Giorgio Moroder remix contest. Mitchell notes that, whether or not you enter the contest, ” the parts to ‘from here to eternity’ are worth having.” You can get the details on the contest, or just download the original parts, at Beatport.
Moogfest organizers today announced additions to the artist lineup today: First up is hip hop icon Nas, performing with his Moog-ed out nine-piece band. Moogfest alums Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) join us for their debut U.S. collaborative performance. New York’s Buke & Gase (formerly Buke & Gass) will bring their… Read More Moogfest 2012 Lineup Additions Announced, Morton Subotnick To Blow Some Minds
Korg updated its site today, adding this teaser image for a ‘major announcement’. They aren’t giving anything away about what the announcement will be, just saying that they will be live streaming it on 9/4. What do you think the ‘major announcement’ will be?
Sound For Good – a record label that publishes and promote new music as a means to support good causes – has released a new album, Oceans. Oceans features 60 tracks, by a variety of electronic music artists, and is available for digital download for $1 or more. The artists have donated their work, all… Read More Sound for Good Releases Oceans Benefit Album, Get 60 Tracks For $1 Or More
Moog Music has released an update to Animoog for iPad that fixes a problem with the previous version that was causing the app to crash and lose users patches. Version 1.1.1 does not offer new features, but just fixes a problem with the 1.1.0 release. New in 1.1.0: Preset Categories MIDI CC Mapping Recording time… Read More Moog Animoog Update Fixes Crash Issue
Loophunter has released a free sample library, featuring the work of Studio Wormbone: STUDIO WORMBONE FREE BUNDLE is a pack in which we got together all free sample packs from the whole product of our STUDIO WORMBONE producer; with over than 300 samples and loops, you will be able to get an idea of the… Read More Free Audio Sample Library
