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The Embraced records arrived today and they look, feel, and sound incredible! Embraced was structured and composed to be released specifically on vinyl with the beautiful gatefold artwork from Caspar Newbolt, the audiophile quality weight of 180 grams, along with the logo card and stickers with an order.

The record, like previous vinyl releases, sounds more aggressive with more of a bass response and smoother highs. I’m very pleased with how Shawn Hatfield dominated mastering and Roger Seibel produced incredible lacquers. You can read about the entire process of the creation of Embraced HERE.

I want to thank everyone for the support so far. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and I did not expect the music to connect with so many given how it lacks a proper genre specification and an associated record label. Again, thanks for the support and I’ll be giving out free download codes periodically on the Surachai Facebook page.

- Both Vinyl & Digital are available at Surachai Bandcamp
- Surachai Facebook

IMPREC podcast #3- “The Synthcast”

This weeks show will focus on the role of the analog synthesizer as a creative tool in the production of electronic music, modern composition, and sound art. This podcast highlights artists in the Important Records catalog that have made a connection with specific systems or instruments in the analog domain. Some artists have made momentary, inspired connections and managed to capture those results while others have spent decades exploring and mastering their given voltage-controlled instrument.

Each track represented in the podcast brings something unique and challenging to the table. This is not an attempt to fetishize or promote analog synthesis hardware; it is a snapshot of the results that are yielded by careful study, improvisation, and creative approaches to the technology available to artists at a given point in time. Although some may consider analog synthesis an archaic mode of expression, the tracks here attest to the opposite. There are three tracks featuring the EMS Synthi on this podcast but if you expect to hear something akin to “On The Run”, well…you’re in for a wild ride.

Track Listing:

Alessandro Cortini makes his Important Records debut with the track “Gloria” from the upcoming Forse 1 album. Alessandro created the Forse series of recordings using an original Buchla Music Easel. 2012

Pauline Oliveros- ‘A little Noise in the system’ (excerpt) from Reverberations (2012) was created on the Moog III modular system at UCSD in 1968.

Eleh- “Indictiva” from the Return LP. Eleh uses a custom Serge Modular. 2009

Jessica Rylan- ‘Phantasia’ (excerpt) from Interior Designs. Serge Modular feedback patch with home made electronics. 2006

Space Machine (Yamazaki Maso)- “Track D” from Space Machine 3. Maso uses multiple sound sources including the EMS VCS3, Arp Odyssey, Roland System 100M with various echo/tape delays. 2003

Christina Kubisch- ‘Ocigam Trazom’ from the Intorno al Flauto Magio exhibition, an interpretation of Mozart’s opera ‘The Magic Flute’. Performed on the EMS Synthi with processed field recordings. 1985

Astro (Hiroshi Hasegawa)- ‘Artificial Lake’ realized on an EMS Synthi with Tape Delay. From the album ‘The Echo From Purple Dawn’. 2008

Eliane Radigue- ‘Triptych Pt. 3′ created on the ARP 2500 in 1978. From the album ‘Triptych’.

Pouppee Frabrikk aka Henrik Bjorkk Nordvargr gets properly remixed by one of our TRASH_AUDIO crew, Justin McGrath aka Polyfuse. You can buy the entire EP below.

- Pouppee Fabrikk
- Polyfuse

If you’ve seen How To Destroy Angels live, you’ve heard a song a bit out of place, a little brighter, catchier, and if you’ve been following our site – familiar. The uniquely pitched snares, massive rolling bass, and pop song structure is a recurring theme in one of our member’s projects: Sonoio aka Alessandro Cortini. Sonoio gave How to Destroy Angels a proper remix and they have performed it live for the past few weeks.

- Sonoio

Jason Degelman is a regular in our community and his recent videos/patches are gorgeous!

- Kamagraph Records Profile
- Donaldcrunk Soundcloud
- Donaldcrunk Youtube Channel

More info soon…

Beginning this June, Important Records will be releasing a series of vinyl records and a subsequent cd box-set of Alessandro Cortini on the Buchla Music Easel. The first album, ‘Forse 1′, will be issued as a double LP. It will feature Alessandro playing an original Buchla Music Easel with a mastery and intimacy unlike anything previously released. It’s obvious from these recordings that Alessandro has spent a great deal of time exploring, experimenting, and pushing the Easel to its limits. I think the readers of your site will be really enthusiastic about these recordings as they showcase what the Easel is capable of, and the talents of Alessandro. We are very excited about these releases and pleased that they will coincide with the BEMI Music Easel reboot this June. The masters have been submitted and the artwork is being finalized as we speak.

A teaser video for the album will be available soon and a track from ‘Forse 1′ will be included in the next Important Records podcast on soundcloud.

Beautiful mind bending experiments from Carl Oliver to start off your week. More on his youtube channel linked below.

- Carl-Oliver.com
- Carl Oliver Youtube

ALM’s Acid Test – Patch from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

Test patch with the ALM Pamela’s workout module. :-) Using the ALM Pamela’s workout module as the main clock sending pulsing gates to two 4ms SCM with breakouts. Acid line via the Synthesis Tech E350 running through the MakeNoise MMG filter. Analog drums cwejman BLD, and TipTop modules.

Background
My parents are originally from Barbados, West Indies. They came to England in the 60′s, They lived in West Kensington London, I was born at Westminster Hospital in 1985, then my parents moved to the Borough of Ealing where I currently live.

My Biological father, he was a vinyl junkie, his friend Bobby and himself use to take me to every record store in London and they would be in there for hours, he also owns a akai reel to reel, the generation of today is very lucky with technology because in my father days when he wanted to listen to one of his favourite tunes he would have to fast forward or rewind the tape in order to find it, so one day he sat me in the corner with my fisher price turntable and he tracked down every song he wanted, he started cutting and splicing until he ended up with his very own mix tape. He passed away when I was 8 years old and my Step Dad Kenneth Knight came into my life when I was 10 years old.

He got me in the music orchestra in primary school, the clarinet was my weapon of choice, I did many solo performances at school plays, In 97 was first time I witness The Come to Daddy Music Video by Aphex Twin, I told my mom the following day that I wanted music from him, so she went to HMV and purchased the EP which I still have to this day. I was also getting into Hip Hop at the time and one of my best mate played to me Delarosa and Asora: Sleep Method Suite, I also came across Autechre: Chiastic Slide, my mind was blown.

As years went by I got into Japanese Animation, Classics like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost In The Shell, Paprika and etc, I always based my music around the concept of Anime. One of my best friends from Australia (Daniel Lambert) influence through out the years.

Favorite Hardware
My Technics turntables. I got into Scratching before I got into production, I still dab into scratching because It’s one of of my favourite pass time and I love the Rane mixers, I also hang out with The Community Skratch Games Crew in Ireland and Brighton. I recently purchased a Binaural Microphones / Earphones by Roland, A japanese friend of mine told me about the experience of capturing audio in 3D, I take those and my portable recorder everywhere I go and record random stuff.

Favorite Software
I use FL Studio from the get go back in 97 and 16 years on i’m still using it because it was the only program that I could afford at that time and I just grew with it, many people were shocked to know that I use that DAW but I made projects such as my first album Digital Ninja Lp (Global Vortex Records), Tales from A Gameboi EP (Briefcase Rockers), Subliminal Arrangements 12″ (Alkalinear Recordings), Sky Open to Those Who Have Wings LP and Unseen Intruders collab with Qebrus (Bedroom Research), a tape release along side ilkae (Onibaba Records), Fallen Innocence (Bunkai – Kei Records), Biomorph Demo for Glitchmachines, Remix Richard Devine track from Risp and A Fatherless Child EP 12″ dedicated to step dad who passed away last year (Detund).

I also have an iPad, a portable recorder and some of my father’s vinyl for samples.

Workspace and Environment
I mainly make all of my music in my bedroom or walking around my area recording sounds on the go. Where I live in Ealing is a very mysterious and quiet place, it’s like the whispers is louder than the shadows at times so I add that element to my music. My ideal creative location would be a japanese garden where I can capture a lot of inspiration with all the surroundings or hi jacking Ivo Ivanov aka Glitchmachines music gear :P.

I am a strong believer of the term less is more so I make everything in FL Studio, I gather a lot of sounds through my portable recorder as well as improv session with mom in Native Instruments Reaktor, she’s becoming a boss cat now as when she hears the slightest sounds she’ll be like valance get your recorder and iPad ha ha

Currently
I did a remix for a mate in Birmingham: Defunkt Dialekt, I’m also going to working on a EP with 3x World DJ Champion: Tigerstyle, Working on some tunes with Enabl.ed from Cyuild Apo, working on remixes for Detund and carry on Beta Testing for Inear Display (France) Mitchell Nordine (Australia) and VI-Sounds (Netherlands)

I’ll be debuting at The Community Skratch Games in Galway Ireland at the end of March and will be showcasing in Leeds with The Tomorrow People. I’m planning to make a trip to the states next year.

- Valance Drakes Facebook
- Soundcloud
- Twitter

MakeNoise – Creature III Patch Outtake from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

Third patch outtake from the Creature series. This patch was contrived completely using only these MakeNoise modules, Pressure Points, Rene, Optomix, Moddemix, Wooglebug, Maths, DPO (Dual Prismatic Oscillator), Echophon, and Phonogene. The patch was clocked using the Wooglebug as the main tempo, and then sent to 4 different sources. Trills courtesy of the Maths output then triggering sporadically the strike inputs on the Optomix. Rene CV plots the pitch inputs on the DPO and fluttering CV/Gate data to the Phonogene. Woogle stepped out controlling various parameters on Echophon, and Phonogene for extra animation. Reverb splashes by the Eventide Space pedal which was used on the Echophon feedback output and return. One output on pressure points to toggle on and off the freeze function on Echophon for the held feedback effects. This patch was inspired by Morton Subotnick’s “Sidewinder.”

- Make Noise Records