Image: NicholasGuarino We’ve noted the dangerous emasculating tendencies of the keytar on the average male previously – but check this image out! “As he concludes his Keytar ballad, he emits a magical explosion.” If you’ve got any insight into this vesuvian eruption of keytar power, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Image: Mr. Biggs On his birthday, Mr. Biggs was treated to an awesome synthesizer cake: For my birthday on Monday, Sacha made The Coolest Cake EVER. It tastes as good as it looks. Preset: yum. I want a “yum” preset on my synths, too!
Image: DeenaOodles From a great set of keytar portraits.
Percussa has been given a Qwartz award, for coming up with the awesome AudioCubes. Says Qwartz: Qwartz Max Mathews rewards a genius invention: this year, we attribute the Qwartz Max Mathews to Bert Schiettecatte, of Percussa, for the invention of Audiocubes instruments. The aims of the Qwartz are to present and make heard the many… Read More AudioCubes Get Qwartz Award For Being Awesome
Imogen Heap wrote a track recently that was supposed to feature at the end of TV show. She wrote the song and recorded all the vocals, leaving the music for the composer who was writing the rest of the score. For one reason or another the song wasn’t used and so the track never got… Read More Remix Imogen Heap’s The Song That Never Was
We’ve been posting a lot lately – here’s a quick digest of the top posts from the last week, in case you missed them: Synthtopia Site Update: Media Temple FAILPosted on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 in Music News – Comments: (11)Synthtopia was unavailable for most of the weekend (Feb 28th + Mar 1) because of… Read More Synthesizer & Electronic Music Highlights For 2nd March – 8th March
Ambient/space music label AD Music has announced that it’s releasing all its albums as digital downloads. Here are the details: All releases from 2008 onwards are high quality MP3 format at 256kbps Stereo and come complete with artwork. Back catalogue titles are 160kbps and we are slowly upgrading these to the higher rate and to… Read More AD Music Announces Digital Album Downloads
This is a bizarre bit of news – researchers and psychiatrists are giving the notorious rave drug “ecstasy” to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and are asking the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand the program. Does this mean that the VA hospital is going to start looking like a rave hall? Not yet.… Read More Vets Being Given Ecstasy To Help With Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
Image: percussa Saturday Synth Porn: A sexy shot of the Percussa AudioCubes, from a Vancouver Workshop. via the Synthtopia Flickr Group – add your photos, too!
Image: SDP45 Saturday Synth Porn: A great shot of Keith Emerson & The World’s Deadliest Synthesizer. via the Synthtopia Flickr Group – add your photos, too!
