http://www.bluedistortion.com Underground Art and Electronica Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:42:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I am back sooner than expected with even more Waldorf Microwave XT Samples, a continuation from the previous entry. I have been getting some great sounds out of it lately, working the XT much like a an old school analog modular synth. Digital, strange and evil sounds have been ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2007/07/22/more-waldorf-microwave-xt-sound-samples/ Well, it's been quite a while since there has been new samples uploaded to Blue Distortion. As much as I would like to keep up with this site, it unfortunately sits on the back burner for long periods of time. I do apologize for that.More importantly, I would like to ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2007/07/17/waldorf-microwave-xt-samples/ 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 ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2006/12/25/james-brown-samples/ It's been a while since there has been a post on Blue Distortion, so, I decided to upload a pack of sound effects that were made specifically for Gaim, a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. These can also be used for Trillian, Miranda ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2006/09/05/gaim-sound-effects/ There is a random assortment of Macro Photography taken in the last few months which you can find on the art section here on Blue Distortion. Enjoy! You can also click the picture to the left! more… http://www.bluedistortion.com/2006/06/24/macro-photography/ At Blue Distortion, we've gone frog crazy! Here is a small tribute of electronic media to our little green friends. First, we have some sound samples packs. The first is of a plethora of frogs going through random rhythms. This was sampled in the late summer of 2005. The second ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2006/04/10/frog-sound-samples-and-photography/ 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 ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2005/12/31/submit-your-electronic-music/ 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 ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2005/11/27/alesis-micron-sound-samples/ We came across an interesting found sound that resembles the tone and harmonics of the Lightsaber, every geek's favorite weapon. The Lightsaber sound was one of the first Ben Burtt (sound designer of Star Wars) made for the famous sci-fi series. The original sound effect was created using a mix ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2005/09/17/lightsaber-sound-effect/ Propellerheads Software has released ReBirth for free! You can download this program at the ReBirth Museum, a website setup to illustrate the history, community and development of ReBirth. It looks like Propellerheads will be focusing on Reason now. On September 1, 2005, Propellerhead Software annouced that the era or ReBirth had ... http://www.bluedistortion.com/2005/09/02/propellerheads-rebirth-free-download-torrent/