Awesome Music Store: Robotspeak in San Francisco

Found this cool little gem through Dave Smith Instruments.  It's a piece on CNET about Robotspeak, an electronic music store in San Francisco, California, specializing in analog gear and circuit bent instruments.  Here's a perfect little store for all the synth and sound lovers.  You'll find gear here you can't find at your local big box store.  Check out a full article here.

Queen of Hearts "Neon" [Lightwaves Remix]

 

  Queen of Hearts - Neon (Lightwaves Remix) by Lightwaves

Lightwaves has just released an awesome new remix of "Neon" by Queen of Hearts.  Things have been a little low-key on Lightwaves' end these days (I can assure you, he's hard at work on some great new music) so it's nice to see an appearance of a great remix.  Dig this dance-y tune on your Friday night.

Alphabeat Unveil New "Vacation" Video

Recent blog guests Alphabeat unveiled their new video for "Vacation", their newest single from their unnamed forthcoming album.  As expected, the video is incredibly stylish and colorful.  With all the dramatic videos of the day, it's nice to get back to the roots of happiness with such an upbeat track.  Be sure to check out the video, read the interview, and watch out for Alphabeat's new album.

Lifelike- April 2012 DJ Set

 

  LIFELIKE - NEW DJ SET // April 2012 // by LIFELIKE

Lifelike's new DJ Set was released on SoundCloud recently, and features some incredible new tunes and remixes.  Dig it.  My favorite included might be his unreleased mix of Visitor's "Coming Home".

Moog Teaches You How to Use the Minitaur with Ableton

Moog has posted the first video of a three part series on how to use your Minitaur with Ableton Live.  The video goes into detail about using your Minitaur with the VST plugin on your computer, and how to record one or multiple parts using the Minitaur.  This is great for newcomers who've taken advantage of the Minitaur's low price point to add analog sounds to their otherwise digital production setup, initiating them on how easy it is to record a hardware synth.  What's even more interesting is the VST is able to save presets for the Minitaur and recall them to the synth via MIDI, which is incredibly cool and useful.  You don't have to worry about the presets on the synth-- they're stored right in the DAW like virtual patches.  Be on the lookout for future videos, including one that's supposed to teach how to use the Minitaur as an external effects processor.  Cool!

Bonus video: A happy new Moog Minitaur user's sounds, via Richard Schimitt on Youtube.

Human Life - Don't Fade Away EP

 

  Human Life - Don't Fade Away by Vulture Music

If you can bear to pull yourself away from The Hunger Games books long enough to read this (and honestly, if you are reading them right now, you can't), you should check out the above EP by Human Life released last week, called "Don't Fade Away".  This is one of those releases where a minute and a half in, I went straight to iTunes and bought it-- it's that catchy and good.  Human Life is one of Vulture Music's artists on the rise-- I had never heard of him/them until this EP, but I'm blown away at the quality of some of the other tracks in their catalog-- an obvious choice for the awesome Vulture Music Label.  After you check out the title track, be sure to dig the Shook and Kartell Remixes.

Dragon Suplex

I'm loving my international submissions coming in these days.  Here's a duo from Zürich, Switzerland calling themselves Dragon Suplex.  Great tracks to put on with some great 80s/ nu-disco flair to them.  I'm particularly fond of the above track, "You're The One" which features those classic DX electric pianos and that funk bass.  It also helps that the video is some sort of Fox television screen capture complete with dancing roller skaters.  Rock on.