Aidan Pryde

Random bits about synths, electronics & music in general

Amos - I can’t stop my feet

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Just press play and relax:

Link: Videolink

This is an astonishing fresh sound and the matching video. I like it and I can’t stop my feet ;-)

Here’s the Amos-Website

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Chicane does it on his own

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Chicane - Nick BracegirdleWell known and respected dance musician Chicane did not have an easy time lately, getting his creative output to the people and making a good living off of it: His album easy to assemble leaked online and was heavily pirated resulting in thousands of CD sales from which Nick never saw a dime. Now that he has produced his fourth album, he is hitting the musical universe again, this time all on his own with his newly founded label (Modena Records). [Read more →]

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Multitouch Screen Table

June 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

An astonishing new bit of technology will be available soon, look at this video:

It’ll be available in late 2007 at an amount of $5.000 to $10.000…

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Paul van Dyk & Paul Oakenfold live & loud in Berlin

April 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Last weekend we were at the Vandit Night at the Arena in Berlin (see the flyer below for more info) an this is what it looked like (at least most of the time…):

Vandit Night at the Arena Berlin with PvD & PO
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Life is much too analog sometimes

April 19th, 2007 · No Comments

8-bit-TieIf you love remembering good ol’ times with Commodore C64 computers and games like Giana Sisters or Turrican, you’ll probably be happy to hear that there finally is an 8-bit-tie for those of us who have to spend most of our day in a boring office and lots of meetings. This is the solution for connecting both worlds while looking great.

View 8-bit tie »

So if you do not have an appropriate X-mas present for me yet… ;-)

Update: unfortunately the tie seems to be out of stock at the moment, but there is a function to receive an email when it becomes available again. So, there’s no excuse left for you…

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Let the decibels rock your body

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments

There’s a music video that I find quite amusing and that could have been shot in any small town area. It’s a Thomas Bangalter edit of the track “Signatune” by DJ Mehdi:

Like the part where the big guy gives an autograph and so on…gotta watch that.

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Electro-acoustic music instrument with a tangible user interface

March 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Rectable Media has created an impressing technology to create sounds a very visual and haptic way. I wouldn’t go so far and call it the future synthesizer technology, but it’s definitely worth a look or two:

Rectable Synth Demo

You can find some videos with the technology in action in the Media Section of their site.

There’s also a YouTube profile with some video material:

via: ras’

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