Arturia visited Portishead's Adrian Utley in his studio so he could check out their new MiniBrute synth. The result was two great videos. In the first he spends 25 minutes messing around with the impressive sounding MiniBrute. And in the second he showes off his collection of (mostly) vintage synths.
If you're a fan of Portishead you will love watching him coax huge sounds out of this tiny synth.
Angelo Badalamenti describes composing 'Love Theme' while sharing a piano stool with David Lynch.
what you're seeing / hearing here is a monorocket mx-6 case (i.e. the lovingly-monikered "voight-kampff machine") chock full of digital & analogue eurorack synthesizer modules (360hp of designs by the harvestman, makenoise, intellijel, cwejman, synthesis technology, doepfer, tiptop, plan b, dave jones, 4ms, bubblesound, and division6) fed through a radial stereo direct inject box into a pair of old/busted event studio monitors (replicating the average club / gallery pa system, right on down to the "busted")
Awesome.
Mark Fell of snd made a mix for the Cyrk series ‘Pattern Compulsions’. Surprise #1? It contains a Tegan and Sara track. Surprise #2? I like the Tegan and Sara track.
For the 2011 music portion of it's annual Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative Rolex paired Brian Eno with Icelandic musician Ben Frost.
Brian never, ever directly answers a question. He always comes back with another question, and I love that about him. He never solves anything for me or proposes anything or gives a straight answer – it’s always about creating a dialogue.
What an opportunity.
Read the full article, or watch the video.
The ‘bedrock’ of OPN’s sound comes from a Roland Juno 60 that Lopatin’s dad bought in the early eighties.
Interview with Mike Powell of Resident Advisor:
It was my dad’s. He bought it in 1983, when I was one year old. He bought the Juno because he couldn’t afford the Yamaha DX-7, which was like the pop synth at the time. I think I can attest a lot of my happiness with my own music to the fact that I’m in a marriage with this one machine. For better or worse, I “get” it, and that closeness and history yields a lot of interesting results—but also, people get used to it and it starts sounding like OPN instead of a Juno, which I think is also kind of interesting.
The new Oneohtrix Point Never album Replica is out now.
Don't know how I missed it, but Modeselektor is releasing their third record "Monkeytown" on Sept 30th.
The first track "Blue Clouds" sounds awesome. Preview the reset of Monkeytown here.
Wire ran a cover article on Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo, Luomo) last month with some shots of his awesome studio.
Interviews have been scarce, so it was very interesting to see how reliant his music is on hardware. If you're familiar with him there's bunch of stuff you would expect to see, a Nord, Space Echo, and bank of MoogerFoogers. But I have to wonder what he's doing with that fish finder on his desk.
Check out the other photos here, here, here, and a larger version of the cover. If you've never heard Vladislav Delay check out the first track from 'The Four Quarters' [2005]. Download it for free here.
