Thursday 30 August 2012
Wednesday 22 August 2012
Benge - Minertua
Theres another new Benge album up on bandcamp. Heres the info:
Minertua - Deep Listening Gallery
A further study in sustained electronic tonalities complimenting Benge's previous two recordings, Abstraxa and Harmuna
1 - Ento (10.08)
2 - Urba (9.04)
3 - Osto (3.14)
4 - Kapt (8.09)
Tuta Dauro (30.34)
Track one - Elka X705 electronic organ, Buchla modular synthesiser, Roland R880 Digital Reverberation System, Ibanez AD150 analog delay, MXR 126 Flanger/Doubler
Track two - Buchla modular synthesiser, Roland R880, Ibanez AD150, MXR 126
Track three - Yamaha YC45D electronic organ, Roland 201 Space Echo
Track four - Buchla modular synthesiser, Roland R880
Recorded at Benge Studios, London, August 2012
All Music and Design by Benge (c)2012 Ben Edwards
All Rights Reserved
Cover photo of video feedback by Benge
Video content by Benge using Hameg oscilloscope, Philips V100 analog video camera
www.bengestudios.com
www.expandingrecords.com
Released 22nd August 2012
Here is a video to accompany the release:
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Karin and Kjetil
Also Karen Park and her friend Kjetil came in yesterday to play on some synths. I had set the big moog up to play a sequence, triggered by the DR55. Heres a test sketch I did:
String Thing
Friday 17 August 2012
Wayne's World
WAYNE Hayes, a middle-aged sales executive from Carlisle, has expressed regrets about the Olympics closing ceremony beamed directly from his brain. Hayes, who organisers deemed to be the most typical man in Britain, curated the ceremony via special electrodes attached to his head which fed details of everything he likes into a giant computer. This information was then transmitted into the Olympic Park in the form of incredibly lifelike holograms. Hayes said: “I thought that everyone loves a bit of Annie Lennox and Oasis to get themselves in the party mood but judging by the four hundred thousand death threats on my Twitter feed this morning, apparently not. All I wanted was to recreate the brilliant spectacle of an early 1990s Brit Awards show and I tried to do that by free associating acts with the first words that came into my head, hence Fatboy Slim/octopus, and Annie Lennox/Viking boat.” Many of the performances last night were clipped versions of well known songs, mainly because Hayes could not remember all of the words, and the only modern acts were the ones he last heard blasting out of his daughter’s bedroom. Hayes’ wife has asked him to explain why he is so obsessed with Jessie J, a constant feature of the concert who remained in the corner of the viewers’ screen like somebody signing the program for the deaf had decided to abandon waving their hands about and start shouting along instead. Other baffling performances included Kaiser Chiefs singing The Who, because Hayes remembered liking the group but couldn’t remember how any of their songs went, and a recreation of an Only Fools & Horse scene because he had their DVD on in the background at the time. Hayes said: “This is just what music concerts look like in my mind, although admittedly the last one I actually went to was Travis at the Birmingham NEC in 1999. Oh, why didn’t I have Travis on instead of the Spice Girls? That’s a shame.”
Thursday 16 August 2012
Monday 13 August 2012
Hammer Synth
Sunday 12 August 2012
Traces
Saturday 11 August 2012
Bonus Skor
Holy Ground
I bought a little 8 channel mixer on ebay exactly a year ago and I've got it set up at home just in case I need to suddenly mix something. It sounds really cool this mixer, it's got a big edgy character and I like working with it's quirks and limitations. It came from the Holyground studio, one of england's seminal 1970s recording labels. I mixed all the new tracks on the Evidence album (see previous post) on it last week
Here is a picture of it in 1975 from it's previous owner:
New Evidence
JOHN FOXX AND THE MATHS - EVIDENCE
Out on 10 September, 2012
01. Personal Magnetism
02. Evidence (Featuring The Soft Moon)
03. That Sudden Switch (Featuring Xeno & Oaklander)
04. Talk (Beneath Your Dreams) (Featuring Matthew Dear)
05. Neon Vertigo
06. Changelings (Featuring Gazelle Twin)
07. My Town
08. Have A Cigar
09. A Falling Star (Featuring Gazelle Twin)
10. Cloud Choreography
11. Shadow Memory
12. Walk
13. Myriads
14. Only Lovers Left Alive
BONUS TRACK
15. Talk (I Speak Machine Mix) (Featuring Tara Busch)
Cover design by Jonathan Barnbrook
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