Moog goodies to drool for - or to drool on!

Moog just came out with newest additions to their product range. I'm definitely a fan!

Again, it seems to be very Moogish. Cool but too expensive to justify it...

Shady Marketing

This is totally unrelated to music, but I was reading the instructions on the car seat we have, and the front page is either mistake in marketing, or there's just something really wrong with me...

P.S. As labels I put totally unrelated search words, same that someone google-searched and arrived to my page. Go figure...

Writing Music on iPad with Modular Tabletop

CDM provides an in-depth article on Tabletop, a modular approach to making music with iPad. This looks very promising, as it leaves the old preconceptions of a workflow, and uses the strengths of what the iPad can offer.

Our Universe May Be a 'Multiverse,' Scientists Say

This has already been said in a different universe, but new evidence has been found that supports the idea of the multiverse.

Inside Turntable.fm

Good and lengthy review of the Turntable.fm from my favorite news source ArsTechnica. I have to say that the idea of the service sounds quite appealing, except when not being able to see the crowd reaction aside from people leaving the room, it feels that there would be a barrier between DJ and the listeners.

How The Internet Transformed The American Rave Scene

A great article from NPR delves into the transformation of rave scene and the changes internet brought. Oh the times of BBSs, and the high telephone bills for the Europeans who had to pay for short distance calls too..!

How to master music at home

If you're on a budget, and need some beginners tips for mastering your own tracks, here is a website that provides easy short tutorials on what to do. I like the simple layout and organized structure of the site. The information can obviously be found in hundred pages around the net.

My Early Musical Influences

OP:L Bastards' Scorpius has all that Moog induced goodness and hypnotic sounds that made it the first track to ever be in my DJ collection. It doesn't seem to get old, either, so there it remains.

Ableton Resource: Everything Ableton

Here's a great site for your bookmarks. Everything Ableton is full of useful information and links on Ableton. The layout is soothingly gray, too...

Url2la

You are listening to Los Angeles mixes ambient music from Soundcloud with pre-recorded police radio streams. You can choose between LA, NY, SFO, Chicago or Montreal, and you have the possibility to mix the volumes as you wish, or skip the track. Not that you really want to, though. This is excellent background ambience for anyone looking for Blade Runner feeling.

Greek Government Set to Decriminalize Drug Use

According to a Greek newspaper Ekathimerini the Greek government is set to decriminalize drug use, although other offenses such as possession would remain punishable. Similar ideas have been stated elsewhere in Europe as well, as chasing users is big burden on the police.

My early electronic musical influences.

A video with a track from Front 242. I still remember the first time I saw this demo and was all "ZOMG!". Thanks to @jasonswe for getting Front 242 in my head again! I recently listened to them in Spotify just to find how current they still sound. I think I need to go in search for Modern Angels and that other remix album if they could be discovered somewhere...



Oh, and the vid starts at around 30sec in.

The positive effects of XTC

Maastricht University has approved a grant for a study examining the positive effects on Ecstasy. Given the fact that it was invented as a tool for psychologists (or is it psychiatrists?) the conclusion should be quite evident. Perhaps extensive field studies are required...

UK to legalize private copying of CDs

UK to legalize private copying of CDs.

In related news, the amount of criminals in UK collapsed.

Physicists find hints of a light Higgs boson in LHC data

Physicists haven't found the Higgs boson quite yet, but they have pretty much calculated the area where it doesn't exist, which basically tells where it can be found. It is uncertain how long the discovery will take, but it will be a great day for science.

BBC News - How engineers create artificial sounds to fool us

BBC News - How engineers create artificial sounds to fool us.

"Many of the sounds we hear every day are entirely fabricated by engineers to persuade us to buy things." A great little BBC article on sound engineering.

MTV Launch AUGUST 1st , 1981

Music Television turns 30, and to celebrate the occasion here's the very beginning. Now, could someone please explain what happened to the Music?

Music Documentaries, Rock Docs, Concert Films

Musicdocs.com provides access to different music documentaries, which can be browsed by genre or artist. The site seems great, but the copyright issues seem a bit iffy to me, so be quick, your favourite one might disappear...

Could Finnish invention hold key to CO2 reduction?

A Finnish nuclear physicist has patented a method to neutralize and dissolve CO2 emissions from power plants while creating valuable compounds as side process. First purification facilities are to be built in Africa.

Drug use and nightlife: More than just dance music

Here's a link to a study that came to the shocking conclusion that there are generally more amphetamine-based drugs such as MDMA used in the club culture. I would have never thought that tracks like "Lick the Rainbow", "Ecstasy" or "Let's Take Drugs" could have relevance in the use of illegal substances...