Billboard reports that Daft Punk has been signed to score the soundtrack for Tron 2 (TR2N): Daft Punk, the French electronica duo known for their robot personas, have been tapped by Walt Disney Pictures to compose the score for “TR2N”, an update of the studio’s 1982 science fiction classic “Tron”, Billboard has confirmed. The film,… Read More Daft Punk To Score TR2N (Tron 2)
Virgin has announced plans to close all Virgin Music Megastores in the US by this summer: The remaining six Virgin Megastores in the United States will shut their doors this summer. To buck declining music sales, the chain broadened its offerings in the last few years to apparel, books and electronics. The six remaining stores… Read More Virgin Music Megastores Are History
Trent Reznor has announced upcoming NIN/JA tour dates…..
Live iPhone musical performance – Kids by MGMT played on iPhones and iPod Touches was uploaded by: mentalistsuk
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Synthtopia was unavailable for most of the weekend (Feb 28th + Mar 1) because of problems at Media Temple, our host. Basically, a large part of their infrastructure crashed and burned and it took them a couple of days to get things patched back up. We moved to Media Temple about a year ago, because… Read More Synthtopia Site Update: Media Temple FAIL
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: New Order Live, 1984, Blue MondayPosted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 in Music Videos – Comments: (6)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5uUZkcio8This video captures New Order live, back in 1984, doing Blue Monday at BBC Radio 1… Read More Synthesizer & Electronic Music Highlights For 23rd February – 1st March
Image: Cypher Photography Synth Porn Saturday: Here’s a little photographic treat for you – images of a DIY’d Moog modular synthesizer! This comes via the Synthtopia Flickr Group – check it out and add your images!
Official video for Happy Up Here, the first single from Röyksopp’s Junior. Directed by Reuben Sutherland royksopp.com/music/happy-up-here
This is a flyer for a circuit bending event, get (circuit) bent, being held in Austin, Texas tonight. No cover charge, and all-ages friendly. Map here. If you make it, takes some photos, upload them to Flickr and put a link here!
MoReVoX has released a new drum samples library, DRIVEDRUMS. DRIVEDRUMS has been developed by generating distortion through different kind of devices. Vacuum Tubes, Analog Tapes, Preamps are been used to create samples with light to aggressive and violent distorsion. The MoReVoX DRIVEDRUMS’s Samples have been divided into two categories: Drive Samples and Over Samples. The… Read More MoReVoX Releases DRIVEDRUMS Drum Sample Library
