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Get Inside the Musical Brain of Machinedrum [Free Ableton Downloads, Listening]
“Blah, blah, I use Acme MusicStation Pro because it sounds completely dope – I love that compressor.” Okay. Before we begin, you’re not alone. Yes, a lot of artist profile endorsements, even some...
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Diablo: New Machinedrum [Travis Stewart] Halloween Single [Free Listening]
Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart, has a track that fulfills all the needs of a Halloween special one-time single download release: 1. Your butt will move around in a shaking fashion. 2. It will make...
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Elektron Teases Its New Machine; In Music, Any Machine Will Do (Plus The...
I hesitate to give teaser/hype campaigns extra words, but there’s simply too much anticipation about whatever Swedish hardware maker Elektron is doing to ignore it. The makers of Machinedrum,...
View ArticleVideo: Machinedrum Meets Analog Four Effects with Dataline – And Yes,...
Elektron’s upcoming analog sequencer/synth is also an effects unit, and it was born to do the kind of rhythmic hands-on music manipulation you see here. In the latest video from Elektron superfan and...
View ArticleBreeding Beats: Pattern Mutation with Elektron Machinedrum + iPad
For all the variety in synths and control methods, patterns and sequencing often tend to be rather same-y. That’s why it’s wonderful to see things like this short video from Jakob Penca. In it,...
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Down with Sequencers: The Age of Glass Finger-Drums Through Their Beats, Live...
No kit – but no sequencer. Using the ZenDrum controller, musician Nick Froud (left) is one of a handful of growing artists using finger dexterity to trigger electronic sounds in an entirely human...
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An All-Hardware Elektron Set – and Chat – with Experimental Techno Maestro...
Bill Youngman, live at Krake Festival. Photo by Marco Microbi; courtesy the artist. With over a decade in experimental techno (working with the likes of Jamie Lidell and Cristian Vogel), and years more...
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A Sci-Fi Band and Music Made from Ozone Data: Elektron Drum Machine, Sax...
In a new touring piece by an electrified audiovisual band, the musical score is data. Space F!ght, off to tour London on Sunday, are a multi-media ensemble inspired by the greatest writers in science...
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New Elektron Coming Nov 23 to a Berlin Party; Listen to TM404 Live,...
Enough of the Web teaser campaigns, the press conferences with bottles of beer at exhibition centers, the trade show booths … let’s party instead. That’s how Elektron, the makers of Machinedrum, will...
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Roland Meditation: TM404′s Amazing 303s and Machine Live Sets [Video]
Acid techno is transformed into dub-y trance in the masterful hands of TM404, aka Andreas Tilliander, aka Mokira (under Type and Raster-Noton). In a beautiful video released this month, a lineup of...
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Getting Intuitive with Machines: Inside the Music of Lando and Machinedrum
Lando is an artist worth getting to know, breaking out in new productions following a long history of impressive releases and remixes. And joining Machinedrum, we get insight into making music tactile...
View ArticleElektron Opens Mystery Box, Revealing – An Analog Drum Machine with...
What’s in the box? Starting at an event in Berlin in the fall, the folks at Elektron have been teasing new hardware, hiding it inside a padlocked, frosted-plexiglass case. Today, they opened the case....
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Elektron’s Analog Rytm, Revealed: 8-Voice Analog Drum Machine, with Sample...
Apparently, this year is the Year of The New Drum Machine. But enough teasing. Elektron now has some actual details for us of their entry. Better still, they sound promising. You get an architecture...
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Elektron Analog Rytm Drum Machine: Specs, Pricing, Photos
It may lack every feature of the Octatrack or the digital drum workflows of Machinedrum. (At least that’s what some of you have told us – attached to your gear, perhaps?) But I’m betting for many,...
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Teenage Engineering to Make a $50 Drum Machine [Pictures, Teaser]
What if a drum machine were as small and appealing as those old Game & Watch portable Nintendo games? That’s the latest design challenge undertaken by the mad scientists at Teenage Engineering....
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Watch Elektron and Roland AIRA Sing, Live: Dark, Dubby Techno by Phelios...
There was a time when “live” or live PA meant “I’ve hauled a bunch of gear to this gig and made a mess of cables and I’m going to improvise live for you.” Now, too often, it means “I’m going to DJ...
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808 Site Found: Five Drum Machines Now Live In Your Browser
It’s finally happened. The 808 is now a tab in your browser. And it’s brought friends. Sure, they’re called “hip hop, house, electro, techno, and acoustic” but – you’re not fooling anyone. (Least of...
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Here’s what happens when artists meet up with Launchpad on iOS
We used to talk about the home studio. Then the bedroom producer. Then laptop music. Now it’s more like the everywhere studio – and the computer may be nowhere to be seen. Tools like Launchpad for iOS...
View ArticleElektron Opens Mystery Box, Revealing – An Analog Drum Machine with...
What’s in the box? Starting at an event in Berlin in the fall, the folks at Elektron have been teasing new hardware, hiding it inside a padlocked, frosted-plexiglass case. Today, they opened the case....
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Elektron’s Analog Rytm, Revealed: 8-Voice Analog Drum Machine, with Sample...
Apparently, this year is the Year of The New Drum Machine. But enough teasing. Elektron now has some actual details for us of their entry. Better still, they sound promising. You get an architecture...
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