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CV005 – Control Voltage for March 23, 2010

ctrlvoltage — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:56:40 +0000

Title: This Is Not an Experiment
Artist: ehskeh
Release: n/a
Label: n/a
ehskeh, AKA Uriel Salas, checks in this week with a great upbeat danceable piece. Give ehskeh some digital love over on the SoundCloud!
Title: Who Are You / Poo on You
Artist: Lost Systems
Release: n/a
Label: n/a
Great IDM stuff from Bright Star and Tar of Lost Systems. They list this as a piece in progress, but I think it’s perfect as is. Grab it from the Cloud of Sounds!
Title: Dual Mimicry
Artist: Ryan Chittick
Release: n/a
Label: n/a
I absolutely love this song. Completely reminds me of the extended synth sequences on early Genesis albums. Really amazing stuff from Ryan Chittick (with help from Lilly Nguyen and Josh Gumiela, according to his spartan website). Grab the track from Soundcloud and favorite that mofo!
Title: Allure
Artist: Kenetik
Release: And Sun
Label: n/a
Nice chill Electronica with a great acoustic guitar hook. Plug in the headphones and float, people! Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Kenetik is an unsigned part time musician playing keys and strings in addition to being a software developer. Aren’t we all? The whole release is available on Soundcloud, so while you’re there for the track, pick it up!
Title: Cool Westernly
Artist: coLEmanmusicproject
Release: n/a
Label: n/a
Love the initial groove on this track. According to coLEmanmusicproject, if you have ridden a camel, you already know the groove. Nice chilled-out ambient piece here, with a little Spaghetti Western thrown in around the 2/3 mark for good measure. Fun piece! Grab it, of course, from the Condensed Water Vapors of Atmospheric Pressure and Rarefaction.
Title: Around the Old Man’s House
Artist: JM Simpson
Release: Knowtion
Label: n/a
This amazing chill out piece features spoken word poetry over ambient synths and a field recording by CV featured artist Specta Cierra. JM Simpson has a cool thing going: all of his (her?) releases are done vlog-style via YouTube playlists. Grab this track through SoundCloud, and be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel!

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CV004 – Control Voltage for March 20, 2010

ctrlvoltage — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:30:47 +0000

Title: 50K Watts of Bass
Artist: DJ Sean Timothy
Release: N/A
Label: N/A
DJ Sean Timothy has been a DJ since 1997 and a producer since 2002. This is an awesome electro/breakbeat tune he put up on his Soundcloud. Grab it for free, and if you dig it, throw him some scratch for the tune over on Beats Digital. If I wasn’t so damn broke, I sure would…
Title: An Hero Must Not Cry
Artist: Old Comics Heroes
Release: N/A
Label: N/A
Old Comics Heroes is an Italian duo consisting of Daniele Balzano (Live Performer) and Antonio Santoro (DJ/Producer). They say their sound is part vintage, part alternative, and I have to agree. All of their music is done with physical instruments such as the Korg MS2000, Microkorg Xl, Korg Electribe Sx & Mx. You can grab this one from Soundcloud.
Title: Digital Love (Quantazellified Mix)
Artist: Daft Punk
Release: N/A
Label: Subvariant
Another great unreleased track by Quantazelle. This time she remixes Daft Punk, and it’s absolutely brilliant. Check out her live mix at Subterranean for more awesomeness (including this track), or grab the track individually from Soundcloud.
Title: Spiral
Artist: William Orbit
Release: Hello Waveform
Label: Sanctuary Records
We all know who William Orbit is. He put up this tune to promote his “Hello Waveforms” release on Sanctuary Records. Grab it free from his website. Looks like it worked.
Title: Without You (feat. Megaga)
Artist: RJ Chevalier
Release: N/A
Label: N/A
RJ Chevalier, aka Russell Knight, delivers this week with a short but sweet eletropop tune, with beautiful vocals by Megaga. Check out the tune on Soundcloud.
Title: Cauliflower Clouds
Artist: DJ Arclight (aka Zaxus)
Release: N/A
Label: N/A
Well, I thought I’d finally feature myself on my podcast. It won’t happen often, I promise. This is an experimental remix of a piano track done for CCMixter. Just put the headphones on, close your eyes, and let go. Grab the tune from CCMixter.

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Dynamic Range Day – SHOUT OUT against the Loudness Wars

ctrlvoltage — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:48:27 +0000

Join with us and protest the Loudness Wars!

Check out more info at the blog, or a great explanation of the Loudness Wars in the YouTube video below.

Wax Cylinders for the New Millenium

ctrlvoltage — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:29:27 +0000

In an interesting take on the old wax cylinder, hotchk155 has developed a cylindrical hand-cranked MIDI sequencer using a baked beans can, some magnets, some Technics Lego bricks, and an electronics breadboard.

From the horse’s mouth:

One empty baked bean tin, some lego and a stack of little magnets… stick magnets on the tin and slide them about to ‘program’ the sequencer, then grab hold of the ‘transport control’ and crank away…. The breadboard contains 5 hall-effect switches and a PIC16F688 to generate MIDI note on/off information. This is piped to Reason in the first half of the clip and to a Dave Smith Mopho synth in the second half.

I reckon with a baked bean tin about 16ft in diameter and about 25,000 magnets you could dump your sequencer software.. and you’d be getting some good aerobic exercise to boot )

Found on Synthtopia.

Favorite Song from CV003?

ctrlvoltage — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:08:34 +0000

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CV003 – Control Voltage for March 9, 2010

ctrlvoltage — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:56:09 +0000

Title: Pattern of the Music
Artist: Tom Cosm
Release: N/A
Label: N/A

Tom Cosm is a certified Ableton Live trainer and all around cool guy. He puts lots of his music online for free, and gives away the Ableton Live sets in the hopes that someone can learn from them. This track is one of his few psy tunes.
Title: Haiti Wail
Artist: Darage Bang
Release: N/A
Label: N/A

Darage Bang is a project by Frank Meyer, a 40 year old graphic designer at an advertising company in Germany. He got his name from Apple’s Garage Band, however he has now moved on to Logic for his musical creations. The track is full of great synth lines, and is his tribute to the earthquake victims in Haiti. Check out his blog for a broader explanation of his feelings on the topic, as well as lots of other tracks for download.
Title: Wintertime
Artist: Alex Brandmeyer
Release: N/A
Label: N/A

Not much to be found about Alex Brandmeyer, but this song is a winner. Check out his rather spartan website, also this video of a killer live performance rig test.
Title: Calculus
Artist: Stretta
Release: N/A
Label: N/A

“Welcome to what it sounds like inside my head.” Stretta’s description of this amazing piece is fitting. It’s like a dream you can’t quite remember, or something you saw out of the corner of your eye, but you turned to look and it was gone. Very, very cool.
Title: Marzo
Artist: Oo-ray
Release: N/A
Label: LuvSound

Oo-ray, also known as Ted Laderas, calls himself a shoegazer cellist, but I just call it cool. He layers his cello over itself doing live droning improvisations. This track is the first piece I had heard from him, and I just had to include it on the podcast. He says he’ll be downgrading his Soundcloud account and removing a bunch of stuff soon, so get it while it lasts.
Title: Sky Pulse
Artist: Watson
Release: Haiti 2010
Label: N/A

Watson is a monome based electronic musician out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. I ran across this track on the Monome Community’s Haiti 2010 charity album, which has now been released for free on Bandcamp. You can check out more from Watson at MySpace, and on his Vimeo channel.

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Groovy Korg EMX-1 Track

ctrlvoltage — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:07:37 +0000

Nice percussion track done live on a Korg EMX-1. Looks to me like he’s recording it in Ableton live (on the computer in the background). Take a listen:

Yet another one with no download so I can’t feature it on the podcast.

Amazing “Almost All Analog” Tune On Youtube

ctrlvoltage — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:00:34 +0000

This is a great song. Wish I could find a download or website so I could feature it on the podcast, but check out the youtube below:

Great Free Tune from William Orbit

ctrlvoltage — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:52:26 +0000

Check out Spirals from William Orbit for free! Great stuff from the guy who did Water From a Vine Leaf and Madonna’s Ray of Light.

The track can be downloaded from his website.

Favorite track from CV002?

ctrlvoltage — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:50:37 +0000

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