December 25, 2006
James Brown, Sampled to DeathRecipher @ 8:01 am
James Brown is a household name, one of the godfathers of funk and soul. He was admitted into the Emory Crawford Long Hospital with ‘severe pneumonia’ yesterday and passed away around 1:45 AM this morning. He was 73 years old. It is safe to say that James Brown rode the downward spiral in the last few decades. He was repeated arrested for drug possession and domestic abuse.
For example, did you know James Brown spent 3 years in prison for threatening pedestrians with firearms while high on PCP?
It’s the classic case of genius that self destructs into malignity. It’s easy to give respect when considering what he has done for music, but, in most cases his dark persona proceeds him.
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December 31, 2005
Submit Your Electronic Music to the Blue Distortion PodcastRecipher @ 6:43 am
Blue Distortion is now accepting submitted mp3s into the electronic music podcast! If you are interested in getting some exposure on our podcast, send us some information on the contact page. Be sure to include your name, artist name, website and a direct link to an mp3 file. We would prefer if they were already hosted on a server so we can just link directly to the .mp3 file, but, we can work something out if that isn’t possible. You can expect to get about 100 downloads of the file for the first week.
Of course, your information and website will be included in the podcast. If your mp3 is accepted and will be added to the podcast, we will send you an email a couple of days before we update the feed! We will not accept every file submitted. Please note that the submitted work must be produced by whomever is contacting us. Thank you for the oportunity and we look foward to hearing plenty of new songs.
In other news, Blue Distortion is now two years old! Stay tuned for more sound samples, music, artwork and photography in the upcoming year. Have a great new year!
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November 27, 2005
Alesis Micron Sound Samples and Photography PreviewRecipher @ 4:50 am
Sorry for the lack of updates in the last couple of months, our server got the Avian Flu. It’s got better, though. I got to sample an Alesis Micron a few weeks ago. The Micron is an 8 polyphony synthesizer which uses the ION analog-modeling sound engine. It has a nice lofi sound. The presets are a combination of Korg MS2000 style strings and techno drum arpeggiations. Nice little synth for the price, but, would prefer more knobs.
Here are a couple of sample packs which can also be found on the sound samples page. The first sample pack consists of edited drum hits from drum loops on the Micron. The second is a mix of dirty electronic growls.
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August 29, 2005
Buchla 200e Modular, Moog Synthesizer DemoRecipher @ 2:38 am
On this week’s podcast from Science Friday, Ira Flatow hosted a segment about Remembering Bob Moog. Check out the article or listen to the mp3 download. Some of the highlights are discussed below. The guest on the show was Lawrence Fritts, who is the director of the Electronic Music Studios at The University of Iowa.
He pointed out that there was actually simultaneous development of the first voltage controlled modular synthesizer at the same time as Bob Moog was working on the Moog Modular. On the other side of America, Don Buchla was busy with his own modular synth creation. Buchla and Moog had agreed to share credit for the development of the modular synth. A quick peak of Buchla’s site, I found this gem, the 200e Electric Music Box. The synth has modules such as the Triple Morphing Filter, Quad Dynamics Generator and even a MIDI Controller / Preset Manager. Very expensive though, with the 18 panel unit costing almost $20,000!
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August 22, 2005
We Will Miss You, Bob MoogRecipher @ 3:32 pm
Bob Moog, known as the “father of the synthesizer,” passed away at the age of 71 at his home in Asheville, N.C. yesterday evening. Moog was diagnosed with brain cancer this April and was undergoing radiation treatment and chemotherapy. News spread in late July about his battle with cancer.
You would be hard pressed to find an electronic musician who didn’t admire Bob Moog or respect everything he did not only for the electronic music community, but, music in general. Moog synthesizers have been used by very big artists including, but not limited to: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, Depeche Mode, Trent Reznor, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Phil Collins, Frank Zappa etc.
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July 10, 2005
Tampa Bay Drum and Bass, FlirtRecipher @ 3:38 am
Last night, I got to see a great show at Flirt night club in Ybor City, Florida. The night’s line up for the drum and bass room included 3 DJs (Alex M, Negative and Sicc:16) playing some of the nastiest and heaviest tunes. The live pa Error Router also played and rocked the house. Error Router is a group effort from Distilled and Koabra (formerly from Faded Nimbus).
Error Router and all of the DJs put on a fine show worthy of praise. Shouts to DFunkDamager, a very talented turntablist, who held it down upstairs with some funky breaks and hip hop.
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April 1, 2005
New Artist, TohuwabohuRecipher @ 5:28 am
We have added a dope new artist, Tohuwabohu. Styles ranges from downtempo to mashed up drum and bass. There are currently three new songs debuting on his page with more to be added soon.
I have always tried to do somewhat experimental stuff and if not that, always have strived to broaden my musical spectrum. So the next logical thing was to venture into computer-based compositions. Theres not really a style that I try to recreate with these songs, I just sit down and start messing around with beats and bass lines and create something that sounds good to me.
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