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In a strange way i like the approach of this over the top weird christmas composition in the middle of september. The female singer is probably Hatsune Miku, generated with Vocaloid 2. I think the video is meant to show off all the virtual instruments used in the song, but the Japanese anime puppets are intriguing me the most.
This august the MPC 5000 has been released. The reviews of the flagship machine were quite modest. The main improvement is the addition of a virtual analogue synth and the ability of hard disk recording. AKAI has tried to make a complete audio/midi workstation of the MPC, and that will most likely kill the successful formula of one of the most famous rhythm machines ever.
I think it would have been smarter to develop the sample and sequence abilities, instead of adding mediocre features which you don't really need.
I am still glad i never sold my mpc 2000xl from 1999. Althought Roger Linn wasn' t involed anymore with this machine, it still has the rock solid timing and great feel of its predecessors, the MPC 60 and 3000. So, today in Doc Tuesday, a little tribute to the old skool MPC with a short film on Current TV :
Tomorrow, tuesday september 9 at 19.00 (in the Netherlands), its time again for an Apple special event. Of course, and a bit to my disappointment, it will be all about iPods and iPhones again. Still no sign of breakthrough changes in their neglected computer department. Anyhow, good informed sources are predicting that iTunes 8 will be presented. An interesting rumor is that iTunes will get a new visualizer. It is called Magnetosphere and looks pretty cool:
When watching an american movie trailer, i always wondered who the man is behind the characteristic deep voice over. Wire to the Ear reports this week about the death of Don Lafontaine. The 'movie man' passed away on september the first, at the age of 68. On the website i watched the short documentary about Delafontaine. Now i finally know the man behind 5,000 movie trailers and over 350,000 television commercials, network promotions, and video game trailers.
The band Galactic played a show at the same stage as The Chemical Brothers. They took some interesting photos of the live gear of The Chemical Brothers. I have never imagined that their set up is so old school. Some instruments are at least 25 years old.
By the way: Biff investigated the instruments on the photos and put the complete gearlist in the comments on Music Thing:
Nord Modular: Used on Don't Fight Control (the primal scream cover): you can pretty much find it by the crazy noise near the end of the song, sort of an LFO induced arpeggio.
Roland Jupiter 6: Used on Sunshine Underground mainly, also used on Surface to Air in '05.
Roland Octapad: Triggers samples, used in the majority of songs.
Octave Cat: Used on Block Rockin Beats. The keys were probably broken because they've been using this synth at every show and a roadie is bound to drop something.
Korg MS-10: Yeah, they haven't started using the DS-10 game yet. This is used between the end of the show and the encore, creating a heavy booming noise.
Elektron Machinedrum: Used on Galvanize, All Rights Reversed, Star Guitar, and a really heavy bit-crushed "boom-boom" noise during the middle of believe.
Roland Juno-106: Their first synth, they've only used it for the riff on Hey Boy Hey Girl (and occasionally you hear the typical old Juno problems occurring) as well as running it through a distortion pedal for Chemical Beats, sounds pretty amazing at the end of the show before the encore, almost like someone (Tom) is bashing an electric guitar.
Elektron Monomachine: The center-piece of Saturate, which they say the song was pretty much made by this machine. They add a theremin-like effect.
Future Retro 777: This thing is used heavily on the tracks Do It Again and Under The Influence, giving both a good distorted riff, impossible to miss on the tracks.
DSI Poly-Evolver: Mainly used on Das Spiegel and A Modern Midnight Conversation for some arpeggios.
Octave Kitten: Tom plays a solo at the very end of the show in which he climbs up one of the rigs and starts tweaking this thing. It's technically broken, almost like they spilled some coffee on it and somehow the lfo tweaks everything. It'll definitely make you want for spend the money on a Kitten and break it.
Of course we all hope that Biff has a live also ;)
The strange Japanese gadget guy Daisuke strikes again. This time with the iPhone connected to the Stylophone, a music toy from the seventies which is rereleased. Never understand what he' s talking about, but always a pleasure to watch.
This one is definitely high on my wish list: the new Waldorf 
The strange Japanese gadget guy Daisuke strikes again. This time with the iPhone connected to the 