Video Synthesizers usually refer to analog devices from the early ’70s driven by oscillators, similar to analog audio synthesizers. They create and modify video in realtime. Audio Visualizers features information on video synths and related items and technologies.
Deep and hard, Nude Tempo One delivers house music with the sexy style that Naked Music has down to a science. Miguel Migs DJ’s this set of deep house tracks that brings together a tasteful collection of instrumental and vocal dance tracks. The collection serves up a tasty mix of well-known and new talent, all… Read More Various – Nude Tempo One
Stronger is a polished set of dance/trance tunes from the divalicious Kate Ryan. If this set doesn’t breathe some life into the vocal trance genre, the category may need defibrillation! Stronger has everything going for it. The tracks are well-crafted trance/dance tracks with more hooks than a bait shop. Ryan’s got a strong voice and model good… Read More Kate Ryan – Stronger
Israel isn’t well known for it’s trance. However, if Loud Frequency, a compilation CD from Drugless Records, is representative, this may soon change. Drugless is a full-on psychedelic trance album that brings together tracks from nine artists. The tracks are all fairly long, with the shortest, Alive Substance, at nearly seven minutes. The track lengths… Read More Various – Loud Frequency
Hammock is an interesting collection of downbeat dub grooves from Synergetic Records. Compiled by Swhe Dagon and Dub’Acan, the CD features 9 previously unreleased tracks. Dub’ Acan is better known as DJ Acan, a Vienna dj best known in the psy-trance area, and who is also the head honch at Synergetic Records. On Hammock, the… Read More Various – Hammock
Billed as “new tunes out of DJ Acan’s recordbag”, Freeride is an great collection of previously unreleased trance electronica. The CD is an eclectic set, but it leans towards straight-ahead instrumental trance and psy-trance. DJ Acan is a popular Vienna-based DJ best known for his work in the psy-trance genre. In addition to playing around… Read More Various – Freeride
We recently received a package of CDs from the Spotted Peccary label that included a collection of great ambient and new age music. One of these CDs was Craig Padilla’s Genesis, a gorgeous set of ambient space music. If you’re familiar with American ambient classics like Michael Stearn’s Planetary Unfolding or Kevin Braheny’s The Way… Read More Craig Padilla – Genesis
Squeezytunes is an interesting new blog that covers electromechanical and mechanical keyboard instruments (ie. not modern synthesisers), including all types of organs, squeezeboxes, pianos, even Ondiolines (see photo, right). No synth coverage, but interesting pre-synth stuff and oddball weirdness, too.
NAMM: Roland is tipping its hat to the past with the new Juno-G. But while its looks may be retro, its synth architecture has little to do with classic Juno synths. Description: Sharing the same high-powered processor as Roland’s famous Fantom-X series, the JUNO-G puts a world of first-class sound and performance features under musicians’… Read More Roland Juno-G Synthesizer
BT’s soundtrack to Stealth, an action movie about 3 top gun pilots that have to deal with a robotic fighter plane gone bad, seems promising, because it provides BT with the opportunity to mix his trademark hyperkinetic production style with full-on orchestral power. Unfortunately, the soundtrack CD is a bit of a disappointment. While there… Read More BT-Stealth
