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:
Innervisions starts a new sweepstakes today and with a little bit of research you can win a lot of Innervisions stuff!
You might have seen the cover of our latest release The Machine “Fuse” and wondered who these people on the cover are. Radio Slave is the man behind The Machine and the name he chose for his new moniker inspired us to do this cover.
Every year the Royal Swedish Academy is honoring great inventors and scientists who contributed a lot to humanity with the Nobel Prize. Well – we are not Swedish nor do we have a lot of money to donate but this is our way to give some tribute to these outstanding originators.
So here is the question of the sweepstakes: Who are the 16 people on the cover of “Fuse”?
The one who can assign the most correct names to the faces shown on the cover will get the first prize. All following prizes will be given to those who can name the next amount of faces. Your last entry will count.
It might be pretty hard to identify the people – but don’t be shy. Even with 4 right answers you might win! As a little hint: to find the right answers, think of mixing gear inventors, computer pioneers, music and DJ equipment innovators, audio explorers …
Deadline for this competition is December 12th 2009.
And here are the prizes:
1. Prize: One free Innervisions Vinyl & CD Subscription Offer of 2009, which includes all of the records released by Innervisions this year plus one limited subscriber vinyl, limited subscriber t-shirt and the subscriber box that holds all 2009 Innervisions vinyl records.
2.-4. Prize: Limited edition hardcover version of our English translation of Tobias Rapp’s “Lost And Sound – Berlin, Techno And The Easyjet Set”.
5.-10. Prize: Limited Edition Vinyl that is only available with the 2009 subscription offer.
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.
There have been a couple of revivals from that decade in the last years, but most of the times it had been just a very sketchy one. Like I said with “Les Disques du Crepuscule ” it had been one of the most creative moments for popmusic. Dadaism, Performance Art and Minimalism found their way into the mainstream and the subculture was very spirited, too. Nowadays there are a couple of very passionated fans who are reclaiming these vivant undergound. Some years ago i stumbled across the great compilation “Lost Tapes – A Compilation of European Minimal Wave from ‘81-’86 ” at the rushour recordstore in amsterdam.
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:
Hiya all you Tits, Twats, Tweets, Followed One’s and Followers,
let’s pretend we’re all already Web 2.0.9. and the future has been sufficiently dealt with yesterday morning. This is my „microblog“ post about one of the most overrated media services on this planet called: Twitter.
In short: it’s a fricking one way road and because of that the most arrogant, self-indulgent ego-tripping platform to date. It’s digital dictatorship. You speak, we listen. You command, we obey. You say jump, but I won’t ask how high, because More … »
As i am not being a big fan of posting charts our admin really had to use all tricks to convince me to do this. It is a bit the same like posting dj mixes from clubs in the internet as i think there should be some myth left in what music a dj is playing and there should be a uniqueness in the moment to attend a certain clubnight. Anyway here are some current favourites of mine: More … »
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 …).
