Jessica Vale sends word that her first single, Disco Libido, has climbed to #18 on the Billboard dance play charts, and is expected to climb higher. Synthtopia interviewed Jessica Vale last year when she released her indie debut, The Sex Album. ?€œStarting your own label to promote your own record is the music business equivalent… Read More Sex Update: Jessica Vale Hits Charts
Big Fish Audio has introduced several new sample CDs, including Breakbeat Jazz, Loungin House and Nu Jazz Funk. Breakbeat Jazz Description: If you are into that weed smoking, turntable culture of HipHop, then go right ahead, jump into the crate diggin sounds of Breakbeat Jazz. Original sounding breakbeats, mixed up with vinylstyle Rhodes chords, jazzy… Read More New Sample CDs from Big Fish Audio
Rephlektor inkorporated has announced the launch of Interference, a collaboration between DJ and producer, Sandra Collins, and acclaimed director/VJ Vello Virkhaus. According to Rephlektor’s announcement, Interference combines world class skills with superlative technology to create a complete aural and visual experience. It will forever change the way you think about clubbing. Interference integrates over 40… Read More Sandra Collins and Vello Virkhaus Present Interference Visual Music Collaboration
Eitan Shefer, an industrial designer fresh out of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, has published an interesting video of his graduation project. The project is for a music controller called the Samchillian, described as a musical instrument based on relativity. The instrument uses the concept of keys representing relative notes, rather then fixed… Read More New Music Controller Based on Relativity
TheAirtightGarage has announced the Shelia amplifier, an all-tube two channel amplifier in head format. Power output is 27 watts, which can be reduced to 16 watts via a back panel “low power” switch. A switched master volume control is front mounted. Channel one controls are volume, treble, middle, bass. Channel two controls are volume and… Read More TheAirtightGarage Intros Shelia Tube Amp
Korg has announced updated pricing and availability on its product line for 2006, featuring many products which recently debuted at the Winter NAMM Show. PRODUCT NAME U.S. PRICING AVAILABILITY
No Island Media and A N D Music have announced plans to create a video podcast of instructional and applied theory classes based around the Kurzweil 2661. The programme, titled simply Kurzweil 2661, begins production in April 06 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and marks the first time a music manufacturer has sought to fully exploit… Read More Video Podcast Series for the Kurzweil 2661 Announced
Precisionsound has released Carina Accordion for HALion/Kontakt/EXS24/Gigastudio & SoundFont. Carina Accordion is a Multisampled Swedish Hagström Accordion with 7 registers and a separate noise program. All registers has been sampled with belly in/out for all notes and with release samples. The library contains in total 666 24bit WAV files and 9 different programs. One program… Read More Precisionsound Releases Carina Accordion Sound Library
Emerald Suspension has created a CD of experimental music that plays the market – conceptual audio arrangements are structured based on patterns created by the stock market, economic indicators, algorithms, and other data sources. What’s it sound like? It’s definitely experimental, incorporating found audio, random elements and lots of creative weirdness. As one reviewer put… Read More New Music Plays the Market
The Electro-Harmonix 2880 offers the familiar control setup of a multitrack digital recorder while adding flexible looping capabilities and track manipulation control. Continuous looping, in stereo and mono, can be pitch-shifted, reversed, and manipulated on four recording tracks. These four tracks can then be moved to two mixdown tracks, freeing them up to be reused.… Read More Electro Harmonix Intros Looper
