If you’re looking for an easy way to inject something new into your Reason tracks, Zero-G’s The Big Reason may be the answer. The Big Reason is a gargantuan package of over 6500 samples – over 4Gb of material. The collection is programmed for Propellerhead’s Reason as REX2, NN-19, NN-XT, Re-Drum, Malstrom, Subtractor and WAV… Read More Review: Zero-G’s The Big Reason
Catherine Duc’s Visions and Dreams is a melodic new age CD in the vein of groups like Deep Forest, Enigma and Enya. Her music combines elements of world music, with a Celtic vibe and the use of sampled “world music” instrumentation. “Fusing world music with electronica has become quite popular,” Duc said. “Often artists choose… Read More Catherine Duc – Visions and Dreams
Music Player Network has partnered with Reality Digital, a software development company, to launch MyMusicPlayerTV.com, a user-generated content site for music players of all skill levels, all instruments and all genres. Musicians can upload video clips of themselves or their bands, share the clips with friends and family, create a user network, and meet and… Read More New Site Wants To Be YouTube For Musicians
Elevations, the latest release on the Spotted Peccary label by Erik Wøllo, is a chilled collection of ambient electronica. Wøllo is a guitarist, synthesist and composer. His music on Elevations features atmospheric guitar placed in ambient or downtempo electronic contexts. His guitar style brings to mind the work of Terje Rypdal and Robert Rich –… Read More Erik Wøllo – Elevations
The Music of Kraftwerk, by the a group of lo-fi groups collectively known as the 8-Bit Operators, is more fun than any CD we’ve heard in ages. 8-Bit music is a fairly obscure genre of electronica. The 8-Bit operators, though, made a smart move, organizing many of the most influential 8-bit musicians together to create… Read More 8-Bit Operators – The Music Of Kraftwerk
Monkey Straddle, the debut CD of Nnnj (“inch”) on The Agriculture records, is an interesting downtempo blend of influences ranging from ambient to jazz to IDM to world music. Nnnj’s music falls into the broad downtempo category – but the tracks on Monkey Straddle are some of the most interesting examples of the genre that… Read More Nnnj – Monkey Straddle
Synk Audio‘s Musicbed DV is a unique Macintosh application that lets you take royalty-free stock music and customize it to create scores for videos or background music for podcasts and other productions. What makes Musicbed interesting, though, is that it isn’t a standard collection of stock music, but an application that lets you generate music… Read More Synk Musicbed DV Helps Mac Users Score
Bitnotic’s VX-323 Vocal Synthesizer is a free software instrument for the Macintosh that plays synthesized speech. Here’s an example of the VX-323 in action (MP3) The app is currently in beta testing, so the instrument has a built-in expiration date, but it seems stable. VX-323 lets you play synthesized speech with your Mac using your… Read More Synthesize Speech With Your Mac!
bMuze.com has announced the public availability of a free, unlimited, and easy to use music hosting service. Using bMuze.com, musicians can upload unlimited songs, allow listeners to stream or download their music, and embed the bMuze audio player into their website, blog, or forum. Based on an open, DRM-free infrastructure, bMuze.com is already home to… Read More bMuze.com Intros Free Unlimited Music Hosting Service
Brainchips, the latest release by German sound artist Robert Schroeder, is a collection of accessible synth music that ranges from quirky instrumentals to R’n’B influenced vocal tracks. Schroeder was discovered in the seventies by Klaus Schulze, and had a successful first album, Harmonic Ascendant. Since then, he’s released both solo CDs and work as Double… Read More Robert Schroeder – Brainchips
