Back in (blog-) business and back in sync! That’s what I wanted to be for a long time and what I try to be right now! After “years” of silence finally a new blog entry. I’m a bit sorry, but honestly: we worked hard! But no more excuses … here we go:
For a long time I talked to my friend Nicolas Chaix aka I-Cube about the good old “sync” business. It’s all about syncing the machines (mainly Roland X0X) and just start to jam and see what’s coming out of the boxes. No more sitting in front of a computer screen for hours. No more backache! Just more fun: running around in the studio. Pulling and plugging cables, playing some real keyboards, turning on the arpeggiator (in sync!), being annoyed if some connection failed, struggeling with some analog equipment that’s not in tune, many many technical compromises, etc etc. But at the end: a fantastic sound straight out of the box, very human, very intuative and very spontaneous!
Our soundtrack project is in its final throes. Last year we have been asked by the TimeWarp festival to take part in the 2010 Edition of the Jetztmusikfestival which precedes the TimeWarp party on saturday. In the past years Laurent Garnier, Mathew Jonson, Moritz von Oswald with Ricardo Villalobos and Chateau Flight dealt with this task. In co-operation with the Murnau Stiftung we got access to the digitalized version of the influential “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” by Robert Wiene. This silent film is very famous for its Expressionist style and set design and is considered as one of the first horror movies ever. Till today the true story behind the movie is not really revealed and clarified.
As a lot of you realised already, last week all the downloadshops offered the new Innervisions by Henrik Schwarz / Âme / Dixon with the wrong content. Due to a problem with the ISRC code (a code that identifies artist, producer, label and artwork of a music file) the tracks that were announced as the IV 26 were actually tracks from Dixon Mix CD “Temporary Secretary”.
The shops are putting up the new files now and here are some with correct links already:
You can also check the right versions here and here on our YouTube-Channel!
And before you all start to speculate:
1. No – that was not a strange marketing strategy to make people buy the vinyl.
2. No – we don’t want to confuse all the illegal download sites by spamming them with wrong files.
3. No – that was not our way to guide you all to the only shop with the right files!
It was simply a big mistake and we apologize for that!
2009 had been a good but also difficult year. Record sales still went down, some rumours about the dead of the MKII (which wasn’t true … thanks!) made it even more scary, people won’t go to clubs that much anymore due to personal financial crisis or whatever … let’s say: there had been some issues.
But still: we had many amazing parties this year in great clubs. We collected so many inspirations on our tour with A Critical Mass! And we had 8 releases that we are very proud of including our first artist album from Tokyo Black Star. We moved our office and we had some personnel changes: Matthias who was in charge for many many things at Innervisions left us in December (Thanks a lot to you for everything you did!)
After checkin the huge amount of answers to our little WINNERVISIONS quiz about all the heads on the cover of the FUSE EP we were totally overwhelmed about how many of you guys found right answers! There must be more nerds out there as we expected! And even if you had only a small number of correct answers:
Congratulations to all of you and thanks a lot for taking part at this!
After great response for the first article in this series (thanks to twitter …) here comes part 2. And this time Monsieur Cyril Etienne aka DJ Deepwho I met a few weeks ago at the ADE shows us some of his cheapest secrets. He mentioned that he would rather ask DJ Gregory for this but I think it’s quite interesting what he sent me as it’s a bit more DJ orientated … So here we go:
On my daily “waste of time internet search” I found this really interesting software from “Gleetchplug“. They have rebuild a nearly complete studio environment from the 50ies as a software. It’s called “Berna” and the video they posted on their site speaks for itself … and the price (around 10 Euros only) should prevent nobody to buy and try it! You got virtual oscillators, delays, tapes, mixers, noise generators etc. Looks like fun and (if it sounds good) it could be a very creative tool.
Hey everyone.
I’d like to start a little series here for all the producers out there who might be interested in the little helpers that some friends and I use for the daily productions in our studios. You might expect really expensive preamps or heavy rare to get monster synths. But we’re talking about the real bargains! For example a russian drum machine that you got for 80 Euros on a flea market. Or a delay that sounds so strange and unexpected that you use it more often than your top notch 2000 Euros multi effects processor? I’m often surprised how cheap it could be to get unique sounding tools.
That’s how it all started … just seen this (maybe already well known) video and having a lot of fun. Starring: Westbam, Jam-El-Mar (from Jam&Spoon and born in Karlsruhe by the way …), Snap, etc. It’s still “kind of” the same than today but see for yourself:
Oh my god (I’m not used to say that but in this case …): I NEED THIS ITEM!!! A fully portable turntable. Just what you need if you bought some new stuff at THE local record store and want to check it again before you gonna play it the night. You can even digitalize it immediatelly (if you really need this …).
