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Egyptian Lover shares his 5 favourite B-Sides (Electronic Beats TV)

Published on Jul 8, 2019 Telekom Electronic Beats

Pure 808 at 6:00, intro at 5:37. Love these, BTW. Great way to find some hidden gems.

"Greg Broussard a.k.a. Egyptian Lover is a pioneer of US electro and hip-hop. Since making history with his ‘80s singles, 'Egypt Egypt' and 'Freak-A-Holic,' Egyptian Lover has been tied with Roland’s TR-808 drum machine. Dig into Broussard’s record bag on this episode of B-Sides here on Telekom Electronic Beats TV.

Important Information:
„Due to media rights the song by Prince „Irresistible Bitch“ is blocked and can't be played on YouTube""

Toraiz Squid and the Polymath

Published on Jul 8, 2019 Sounds From The Shed

"Haven't done a Polymath video for a while so hooked it up to the Squid and Tweaked away :)"

Wonderment 2019 - Free Live Ambient and Downtempo Music Fest Set for August 3 - 4 in Victoria, BC

Published on Jul 8, 2019 Garden City Electronic Music Society BC

Note there is a night club event on August 2 listed below.

"The Garden City Electronic Music Society (GCEMS) presents

Wonderment 2019

FREE ALL-AGES OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3
1pm to 6pm: West Bridge Plaza
Pete Grove (Woodwork Recordings, YVR)
Jules Chaz (Wagon Repair, YYJ)
Psychic Pollution (Eat Glass Records, YYJ)
Mal/God (feat. OKPK's Dan Godlovitch & percussionis Colin Malloy)
Cascadia Sound (YYJ)
JVZ (YYJ)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4
1pm to 7pm: Banfield Park
Matt Thibideau (Obsolete Components, Deep Data, Cynosure, YYZ)
Segue (Silent Season, YVR)
Cindy Reichel (Patchwerks, SEA)
The SoLow (YAZ)
JP Meldrum (Formidable Licorice, YYJ)

NIGHT-TIME 19+ TICKETED EVENTS:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3
10:00pm to LATE: Studio Robazzo (2001 Douglas St)
"ARDOR" presented by Electric Dreams and GCEMS
Matt Thibideau (aka Altitude - LIVE Dub Techno Set)
Frivolous (LIVE Set)
with DJs Shane Lighter & Nick Karma
$20 Early Bird Tickets
https://ti.to/electric-dreams-events/...

NIGHT CLUB EVENTS:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 - Vila Presents
7:00pm to 10:45pm: Lucky Bar
w/ Golden Vessel, Instupendo, Tropic Harbour
$15

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 - Vibrate Victoria
10:00pm to 2:00am: Copper Owl
with DJs Chris Dammeyer, Sean Evans, Big Body, Jesse Campbell
$10

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 - Sunday Standard
10:00pm to 2:00am: Lucky Bar
with the Left Coast Crew

More info TBA."

Sequential In The Spotlight Interview with SCOTT CHESAK

You can find the interview on Sequential's website here.

"Scott Chesak is a Producer/Songwriter/Musician from Austin, Texas currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Recently, Scott worked with Panic! At The Disco on their platinum selling #1 album Pray for the Wicked. He produced and wrote the top 10 single “(F**k A) Silver Lining” and “The Overpass.”
His other production and writing credits include Weezer’s Grammy nominated White Album as well as many Film and TV soundtracks including Why Him? starring James Franco, Chicago Fire, and Toyota’s 2018 Winter Olympics campaign.

As a session keyboardist, guitarist, bassist, and background vocalist he has toured with artists such as The All-American Rejects, Adam Lambert, Christina Perri, Glee star Lea Michele, and My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way. We chatted with Scott on how he’s using the Prophet Rev2 in his music."

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You can find previous posts featuring Sequential's Spotlight series here.

The Mojave Desert Modular Experiment: Dustin & Takako

Published on Jul 8, 2019 Perfect Circuit

"In the Mojave Desert Modular Experiment, we worked with local artists to create modular systems suited to their own styles and workflows...despite the fact that none of them had ever used modular synths before. Each artist/group had two weeks to get to know their system and prepare a performance.

The second participants in the experiment were Dustin & Takako (Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa). These two have years of experience improvising together and often combine musical instruments like guitar and keyboards with more experimental sounds from effects and looper pedals used with found objects and other odd sound generators. We built a eurorack system with each of them, both featuring playable touch interfaces, while Dustin's system focused on FM synthesis, and Takako's on physical modeling.

Come by our showroom to try out these systems for yourself, and keep an eye out for more results from the experiment each Monday this month! Read more about Dustin & Takako’s system and get links to his music here: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal..."

Novation Bass Station 2 - 2019 Review - Midiverse - TV

Published on Jul 8, 2019 Midiverse - TV

"What's up everybody? Welcome to Midiverse - TV. Today we're going to be checking out the Novation Bass Station 2. The Bass Station 2 recently got a major software update, which added some new features and also a new mode. Let's go ahead and check it out.."

Midiverse - TV Novation Bass Station 2 - Exploring the Presets

ULTIMATE PATCHES for ARTURIA MINIBRUTE: VOLUMES 1+2 (2019)

Published on Jul 7, 2019 ULTIMATE PATCHES

"ULTIMATE PATCHES Presents ARTURIA MINIBRUTE ULTIMATE PATCHES (VOLUMES I+2)
Refresh your MiniBrute! This is the latest Ultimate Patches collection: brand new pro patches for the analog MiniBrute by Arturia. Loaded with 80 authentic 80's retro as well as modern and futuristic leads, basses, percussion, fx and more, this collection covers synthwave, cinematic, hip hop, trap, pop, dubstep, house, trance, future bass, retrocade and more!

80 Original High Quality Patches for the Arturia Minibrute! (2019)
SWEET SUMMER SALE Starting at $19.99 @ http://www.ultimatepatches.com"

MDB Window Recorder Update & Pic

See the update in this post from 2010.

Best Ambient Synth Shootout #73: Boehm Dynamic 4x9 - Song 1

Published on Jul 8, 2019 Christian's Sonic Spaces

"This is the first song with the Boehm Dynamic 4x9. It's a German FM-synthesizer from mid-80s that were only available as DIY project. It uses 12(!) Yamaha ICs of the type YM2203, which were commonly used in home computers from NEC as well as in arcade games until the early 90s. Each of the ICs has 3 FM-voices for an overall 36 voices 4-part polyphony.

I used for the recording the following FX for the song:
Sony DPS-V77 (for chorus only), Pigtronix Echolution 2 Deluxe, GFI System Specular Reverb 2. Depending on the recorded track some FX are deactivated.

The signal went through a Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 into the PC via USB for recording. To create the complete song I recorded consecutively several stereo tracks. The final song was then mastered with a bit EQ and compression on some tracks and some limiting on the master track."