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Monday, December 29, 2014

New MultiTracks App


Mate, Roger O'Donnell (The Cure, Thompson Twins, Psychedelic Furs, 99x/10) is featured in a new app, MultiTracks. If you listen closely you can hear a bit of my synth and drum programming in there as well!

Roger O'Donnell's MultiTracks releases from "The Truth In Me" and "Songs From The Silver Box", each song delivered as eight synchronized stereo tracks in a mixer format. You can solo, mute, and adjust the volume on every instrument and vocal track! Only with the MultiTracks App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

MultiTracks App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch for FREE here: http://bit.ly/1kbjGYW

MultiTracks App: http://multitracksapp.com/

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The Synthi Group Volumes I, II, III

In 2009-10, I was fortunate to have been involved with the Synthi Group, a collection of vintage EMS analog synthesizer owners that came together for a series of collaborative releases via Clinical Archives label. Now permanently archived at the Internet Archive site, these releases will hopefully last as long as the instruments that made the tracks...

Formed in 1969, Electronic Music Studios (EMS) quickly became innovators for the recording, production and advancement of electronic music. The ideas and designs that bubbled forth out of the ingenuitive minds of Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, David Cockerell and others, led to the creation of some of the most wildly original musical/sound design equipment ever conceived. The VCS3, Synthi A + AKS, Synthi 100, Synthi E, Synthi Logik and the Soundbeam are among these, almost unworldly, devices.

It is often said EMS gear has attained cult status, reaching a fervor of near worship among its users. The Synthi Group is an example and collection of such users. United through the Synthi blog and forum (www.thesynthi.de) and located throughout the world, the group's members have come together for a planned series of compilation volume releases where the individuality and approach of each member towards their EMS instrument is showcased and broadcasted for all to experience. The listener will hear wildly different examples of styles and sounds that this original, and oft times, vintage equipment can create.

EMS were true pioneers from the very beginning, always looking beyond the culture and times they were surrounded and seemingly trapped in. Still around today, thanks to Robin Wood and Ludwig Rehberg, they are one of the few companies involved with electronic instrument production that have had a continued run since their inception. The Synthi Group have honed the original pioneering spirit and DIY ethic of EMS with their Volume series, a collection of sounds encompassing beautiful dreamscapes, synaesthetic visions, dark ambience, aural abstractions, sonic absurdities, pulsating analog, glitch, ring modulators, and envelope shapers generating trapezoidal geometry. Beginning with Volume 1, the Synthi Group compilations aim to ensure the story of EMS continues well into the future of electronic music production. (alka 2009)




Monday, December 22, 2014

MONSTER MOVIE remix

Excited to have recently finished up a remix for "dream pop" specialists, Monster Movie which is of course comprised of Sean Hewson and Christian Savill (also of Slowdive). Their pastoral track Left has always been a favorite of mine and it was kind of them to allow me free reign with the original isolated tracks. I coincidentally had Halsey Shelton's (Young Werewolves/Full Blown Cherry) Moog MG-1 that I had just repaired sitting in my studio so I experimented dropping it into the mix... things went a little strange after that.

If all goes as planned the remix will be included in a deluxe remastered reissue edition of their 2004 mini-LP, Transistor out on Graveface Records early in 2016. Stay tuned...