At the 2008 Grammy Awards, the Chemical Brothers scored a win for the Best Electronic/Dance Album of the year for We Are The Night. Other nominees were: D.A.N.C.E. – Justice Sound Of Silver – LCD Soundsystem We Are Pilots – Shiny Toy Guns Elements Of Life – Tiësto When I reviewed We Are The Night,… Read More Best Electronic Dance Album: We Are The Night
Image: thingstocomerecords Things to Come Records’ Oliver Chesler has uploaded a variety of synth related ads to Flickr. Hot eoWave, huh?
Image: Heath Finnie Heath Finnie has uploaded a great set of photos to flickr that include this EMS Synthi AKS, in great condition, and a variety of other synths.
Blu Gruv has released Prophanity, a freeware Windows VST version of the Prophet 5. Features: Oscillator A: Frequency, Osc Waveform (Saw/Square), Pulse Width, Sync. Oscillator B: Frequency, Fine, Osc Waveform (Saw/Triangle/Square), Pulse Width, Low Freq, Keyboard. Mixer: Osc A, Osc B, Noise. Poly-Mod: Sources – Filter envelope, Osc B; Desinations – Freq A, PW A, Filter.… Read More Free Prophet V VST – Prophanity
Analog Industries’ Chris Randall is looking for help creating a new genre of house music – Grindhouse. Here are his 10 Commandments of Grindhouse to help get you going: Thou Shalt Have A Monster Foot. Thou Shalt Eschew Chord Progressions. Thou Shalt Lovingly Embrace Distortion. Thou Shalt Beat An MC About The Head And Shoulders… Read More Ten Commandments Of Grindhouse
A new book about electronic music legend Klaus Schulze is scheduled to be published in April. Klaus Schulze: Electronic Music Legend is a book celebrating the magnificent and pioneering career of German electronic music legend Klaus Schulze. It chronicles Schulze’s career in great detail and contains full length reviews by Greg Allen of close to… Read More New Book – Klaus Schulze: Electronic Music Legend
Remember when I noted Roland’s V-Accordion as one of the the NAMM Show highlights? You probably were wondering WHO would do WHAT with a MIDI accordion. Here you go: Uwe Steger presents his extensions for the Roland V-Accordion. via MusicThing
There’s a new holiday coming to town – Record Store Day. My type of holiday! On this day, indie music stores across America are uniting with the purpose of celebrating the culture and unique place that they occupy both in their local communities and nationally. Organizers have enlisted the help of musicians to raise awareness of… Read More New Holiday: Record Store Day
We’ve seen some strange musical instruments in our days, but this probably takes the prize. United States patent 5163447 is for a Force-Sensitive, Sound-Playing Condom – aka, the musical condom. The musical condom looks and acts like a traditional condom but it incorporates “a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer (18) which plays a melody or voiced… Read More Musical Condom Opens New Worlds Of Musical Expression
Moby has announced that he’s hosting a fundraiser for the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in NYC. The Beastie Boys will be performing. Here are the details:BEASTIE BOYS TO HEADLINE SPECIAL BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC AND NEUROLOGIC FUNCTION MARCH 4, 2008 AT TERMINAL 5 IN NEW YORK CITY (New York, NY)-… Read More Moby Hosting Fundraiser Institute For Music & Neurologic Function
