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Deadmau5's ferrari 458 has been clocking in some serious miles lately! Hitting the road with the likes of Pharrell and Zedd to grab a few extra large double double coffees and talk life, music and everything in between on the way. But on the latest of the DJ/producer’s Coffee Run series, coffee has been spilled (cue batman voice) in the course of JUSTICE! It’s public knowledge that Deadmau5 is, along with anyone else with half a brain, very much against Flo Rida‘s latest venture in cutting edge technology ‘Beamz’. Going as far to create his own competitive device Bandz, Deadmau5 has taken the idiot’s ‘dream of becoming a star’ and did the only thing a sane man could do. Run it over with his car……in slow motion. The marketing department at Home Shopping Network are geniuses, I see it now. They’ve got this thing in front of them ok, this fisher price DJ play-time set that is so shit all you can do is laugh and in a Eureka moment they realised: the only way to sell this thing is to blow it up with the reliable help of the internet troll and then, these guys should get raises, they must’ve thought what would be the perfect spark to light it up? Flo ‘club can’t handle me right now’ Rida! Old mate must’ve taken the gig to pay for his bottle service habit. The only way Beamz makes money is ironic purchase, DJs looking to destroy the thing publicly and of course christmas presents from Grandma (the guy at the store swore Beamz was what all the kewl kids were using) So in closing I raise a glass to you Beamz team, bravo guys! Source: stoneyroads.com

monome, the iconic grid controller that launched them all, has always been a device tethered to a computer. Without a USB connection to your machine, it is an attractive but functionless box. The latest monome project, the result of a collaboration between Brian Crabtree and musician Ezra Buchla (yes, there’s a relation) is different. It is a computer, with all the functions that entails, but in a box designed for sound. It has: A brain: Two of them, in fact – a DSP chip (BF533 blackfin, 533 mHz with 64 MB SDRAM) and an AVR32 for control. Audio connections: 4 in, 4 out balanced 192k/24-bit. The first two inputs can be switched to instrument gain. A grayscale display: OLED, “beautifully low-res” (and thus sidestepping the problems that can come from supporting GUIs on Linux). Analog control voltage: 4 in, 4 out CV on 3.55mm 0-10V connections, compatible with eurorack. USB, expansion: Connect to a computer via USB, or host other USB devices – like the monome, natch, or any other class-compliant device (for HID or MIDI). There’s also an SD memory card slot and 1/4″ foot jacks. Curiously, there isn’t MIDI DIN, which seems unfortunate, though you can host one via the USB port. There’s also custom support planned for the Madrona Labs soundplane. Controls: “Very high resolution” optical encoders. And with this, you can do whatever you like. You can assign the encoders. You can assign and program the CV controls. You can run software to turn the box into a synth, or a sequencer, or an effects box, or a generative sound machine. Source: createdigitalmusic.com

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Future Music Festival have launched their line up in style, hosting an invite only event in which a mini-festival stage was constructed a stones throw away from the iconic Bondi Beach. With the likes of Deadmau5, Phoenix, Bauuer among others being confirmed as the headliners, the celebration was set as UK Drum N Bass collective Rudimental took to the stage to slam out a signature high energy set. The launch also heralded the newly established Future Music TV with episode 1 doing a run down of the event. Source: stoneyroads.com

A sneaky iTunes pre-sale has gifted us with Gesaffelsteins forthcoming ‘Aleph’ tracklisting which, although shared no features showed us there will be a stack of unreleased tracks from the Frenchman. His title track “Pursuit” does make the cut, of which the music video is equally thumping but 13 other originals tunes round out the highly anticipated release through Warner locally come October 28th. It has already been a busy year for Gesaff’ with a go at mixing I Love Techno’s latest compilation, a recent announce that he’ll be playing Future Music Festival 2014 and a hunch that he will feature on Brodinski’s own LP. Gesaffelstein – Aleph Tracklisting 1. Out Of Line 2. Pursuit 3. Nameless 4. Destinations 5. Obsession 6. Hellifornia 7. Aleph 8. Wall Of Memories 9. Duel 10. Piece Of Future 11. Hate Or Glory 12. Values 13. Trans 14. Perfection Source: stoneyroads.com

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Only 13 votes so far? Really?

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Welcome brah

I think they outweigh the costs with emergency services and law enforcement and the courts as a result of street violence

YOU'RE ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR YOURSELF DERP You don't think all the votes the other cunts have got are from mates that didn't even listen to the mixes?

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Back in the day, rhythm machines were push-button affairs, not elaborate step sequencers. Press a button, get a backing rhythm, play along. Just one problem: these old-school machines were huge and expensive. But they helped launch the electronic fortunes of companies like Korg and Roland, and were the predecessors of today’s far more programmable drum machines. And their peculiar canned sounds shaped some of the electronic rhythms of today. Well, no one saw this coming: Korg has brought the old-school machine back, with the hopes that “guitarists, bassists, pianists or any musician looking for easy rhythm accompaniment” will pick them up. It seems as though they almost literally shrunk the original. The retro style remains, but it’s in a tiny, pocket form, running on batteries and optionally playing via a built-in speaker. It also has more rhythms than the early models; Korg promises 60 “diverse” options across genres and even – gasp – multiple bars in a row. You can actually chain patterns together into songs. It seems ripe for musical abuse. (Circuit bending, perhaps, less so – it’s likely this stuff is all on integrated circuits that’d be too tough to bend.) Genres? 8 Beat, 16 Beat, Rock, Metal, Pop, R&B, Jazz, Latin, Dance, and User. In the missed opportunity file: No, there’s no sync of any kind. Okay, to be fair, that’s a feature well outside the obvious target audience for the device. On the other hand, it’s interesting to see how many people do want that here. There’s even a pedal switch for start/stop and fills, making it sound fairly feasible as a performance tool. US$79.99, ships in November – you know, for Hanukkah presents and stuffing in Christmas socks. Yep. Someone at Korg is huffing something that makes them suddenly see ways of making money. Please, um … keep doing that. http://www.korg.com/KRmini Source: createdigitalmusic.com

At 350 pounds (159 kg), the original Mellotron is not an easy instrument to acquire … or lift. But its 8-second tapes helped define a classic sound – Strawberry Fields, forever. Sample house UVI have been doing a lot of nice work lately – including some real rarities like the prepared piano at Paris research center IRCAM. They’re giving away their multi-sampled Mello emulation. It’s always tough to know how to best capture as a digital instrument something as idiosyncratic as the Mellotron; in this case, they’ve multi-sampled dozens of tapes on three different machines for the 28 sounds. It’s a massive 1.7 GB library. It’s a lovely instrument. There are some caveats to getting it for free. You have to follow UVI on Twitter or Like them (via an app) on Facebook. And you need an iLok in order to use the authorization; it’s a shame they didn’t just do an unlocked build, but if you already have an iLok sitting in a hub, you won’t care much. The Facebook app is also reasonable benign; it didn’t post anything to my account when I just tried it. Update: Some people are unhappy sharing data with the Coupon app on Facebook. You can instead choose to log in with Twitter; that automatically follows their Twitter account, but nothing else. Oh, and if you don’t own an iLok, you can get one sort of kind of for free. (You pay the full price, but get a US$78 voucher good toward UVI stuff): http://www.uvi.net/en/store/ilok-smart-key.html If you do jump through the hoops, it’s an exceptional giveaway. Features: * Pristine and comprehensive sample library from 3 original machines * Mixable key and mechanical noise for authentic experience * Switchable keyboard range (original or extended) * Stereo modes including custom unison * Switchable multimode filter with cutoff and resonance * ADSR envelopes for amplitude and filter with velocity sensitivity * 3-band EQ with sweepable mid frequency * Built-in SparkVerb * Analog-modeled tape delay It runs on Mac and Windows (every plug-in format) via either the free UVI Workstation or MOTU’s MachFive 3. Source: createdigitalmusic.com

Electronic instruments really are becoming like folk instruments. US$42 now buys you a small board that you can touch directly, one that’s immediate and from which anyone can coax sounds. You can jam with it, pocket it; it’s affordable and direct and playable. And it all fits in a plastic cassette tape box. The re-released Mixtape Alpha (the first run sold out) looks like a real gem. It’s a crowd-funded run this time – eschewing Kickstarter for the Portland-based Crowd Supply. An ATmega328p-powered 8-bit synth (that is, using the chip that’s also in the Arduino, among others), Mixtape Alpha has a surprising range of features: * “Stylophone-style” input (yes, you touch it and get continuous ribbon controls, or choose buttons for separate ntoes) * Four voices, five-note polyphony * Four effects * Record and playback looped phrases – in the video, combined with the effects, producing some rather pretty results It’s also open source hardware, and – in a nice change for a crowd-funded project – the schematics and code are already there, plus a little patch for the free software Pure Data (Pd) that generates wavetables. And yes, being based on the ATmega, it’s hackable. The project is a collaboration between Chicago, Illinois’ Open Music Labs and Jie Qi from the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab. http://wiki.openmusiclabs.com/wiki/MixtapeAlpha Crowd-funded run ends in about a month: http://www.crowdsupply.com/open-music-l ... tape-alpha Source: createdigitalmusic.com

Samples, No Computer: $99 Akai MPX8 Combines Pads, SD Card, MIDI and USB Port Sometimes, there are designs that seem almost impossibly like an answer to a specific need. Let us illustrate. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a box that you could play, independent of a computer, that just let you mess about with samples directly from an SD card? And wouldn’t it be nice if it had MIDI jacks on it, too, and not only USB, so that you didn’t need the computer handy? That’s the MPX8 from Akai Pro. It’s dead-simple, so you’ll do most of your sample manipulation away from the hardware. (There’s a free Mac and Windows sample editor for that.) The hardware itself only lets you adjust tuning and add reverb. But what you do get is a heads-up LCD display, and the ability to trigger up to eight sounds at once with eight pads with eight voices, all with velocity sensitivity. And you can call up those eight sounds from the SD card, so you’re limited only by the size of your SD card in how many samples you can have handy. There’s no arpeggiator or sequencer onboard – a “roll” function would certainly have been nice, and that’s even missing. But there is a MIDI in and out jack in addition to MIDI over USB, so you could use this alongside another sequencer. (MIDI DIN is provided via breakouts from 3.5mm / 1/8″ minijacks.) And, again, it’s only a hundred bucks. Weighs half a kg (1 pound), powered via USB, headphone jack and balanced stereo 1/4″ jack plugs. (There’s no separate power jack, only the USB power adapter, but one is included. Clarification: Let me say that again – there is a USB power adapter. Basically, this isn’t so different from any other device that requires a power dongle. The one thing that’s missing is battery power, but you don’t need a computer to provide power over USB.) Seems like a box that’s definitely not for everyone, but could be a godsend addition to some rigs for the people who want precisely this. http://www.akaipro.com/mpx8 Source: createdigitalmusic.com

Back to the future and back again. Like an endangered species brought back from the brink of extinction, the excitement around every “vinyl is back” statistic is beginning to sound like that which accompanies news of a panda pregnancy in Scotland. Only last week, we reported that Amazon UK’s wax sales were up 100% on last year, boosted in no small number by the record breaking popularity of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. On top of all the stats from Nielsen’s mid-term report and the unprecedented success of Record Store Day, the barrage of percentage signs can become somewhat overwhelming. Step up The Music Bed, who have condescend the ups and downs of the last 50 years of vinyl history into one handy infographic. Charting the various assaults of invasive species – the cassette, CD and MP3 – on our humble plastic panda, you can check out the eminently scrollable graphic below. Source: thevinylfactory.com

Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories isn’t just Amazon’s highest selling vinyl album of 2013. It’s the best-selling vinyl record since 1999, according to statistics from the online retailing giant. The album heads a list that includes Adele’s 21, Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (both the regular and 30th anniversary edition) and David Bowie’s 2013 comeback album The Next Day, which has outsold his 1972 concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars. It also topped Amazon.co.uk’s list of the best selling vinyl albums of 2013 so far, ahead of Bowie’s The Next Day, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Push The Sky Away, Black Sabbath’s 13 and ...Like Clockwork by Queens Of The Stone Age. Amazon.co.uk reports that vinyl sales have increased by 100 percent compared to the same time last year. It reaffirms a recent report by the Entertainment Retailers Association, which saw a 44 percent increase in vinyl sales in UK record stores in the first half of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. In Australia, 2012 vinyl sales were up 47 percent on the previous year. Interestingly, rock is the most popular genre among Amazon.co.uk vinyl buyers, accounting for more than 55 per cent sales in 2012. Top 10 Best Selling Albums Of All Time On Amazon.co.uk 1. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories 2. Adele – 21 3. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black 4. David Bowie – The Next Day 5. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon 6. David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars 7. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 8. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (30th Anniversary Edition) 9. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs 10. The Beatles – Love Me Do (50th Anniversary Limited Edition 7” Single) Top 10 Best Selling Albums Of 2013 On Amazon.co.uk 1. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories 2. David Bowie – The Next Day 3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away 4. Black Sabbath – 13 5. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork 6. Atoms for Peace – Amok 7. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City 8. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours 9. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave 10. Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day Author: Darren Levin

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