Really loving this new plugin by Freakshow Industries, that’s basically a mangled tape/glitch plugin with outrageous design and a lot of playability.
It’s probably more exciting visually than aurally, but it’s a great combination of actual fun and interesting effects. And it’s a great thing to drag out when someone comes over to hear your latest bangin’ tunes, so you can freak them out.
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Today we’ve released a free sample pack, which features 3 Ableton Live instruments and an effects rack. The instruments are taken from lo-fi samples of a passing car, tuned and manipulated to be playable instruments, while the effects rack is a combination bit crusher, grain distortion and stereo widener – making a gritty, grainy distortion that still mixes in some of the original signal.
Been loving this plugin for a little while now, and it’s just got an update, so it’s a great time to check it out. SketchCassette does an incredibly good job of creating a warm, lo-fi tape sound that really gets the feel of C90 style cassettes right.
Really looking forward to what aberrant dsp will do next; this is such a great start! There’s something about these kind of boutique VSTs (when done well) that can really summon up audio magic.
So nice to see a positive news article about technology helping the environment rather than destroying it… Coral reefs can actually be brought back to life by playing the sounds of healthy coral reefs to the dead and dying reefs (with a combination of habitat restoration and conservation efforts as well, of course) :
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When the backing singers have to grip the microphones because the band’s dancing is making everything bounce around, you know you’re listening to a proper band. Not a single person on that stage is having any kind of bad time – but they’re also all in time and playing with each other, not over each other…
And does anyone still have the style and humour of ’70s and ’80s funkateers like Bootsy or George Clinton?
For no apparent reason, this song popped back into my head today. Maybe because it contains one of my favourite slang words – “wazzock”…
I actually remember sitting around with my (Yorkshire born) family laughing a lot at this when it came out. It got to number 3 in the UK singles chart in 1981!
It’s a shame that the novelty record doesn’t seem to be a thing any more. The innocent charm of Bernard Cribbins’ ‘Right Said Fred‘ and ‘Hole In The Ground‘, Arthur Askey’s ‘Bee Song‘, or Benny Hill’s oddly touching ‘Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)‘ just don’t have modern equivalents.
There can never be enough Guitar Wolf in the world. Somehow we missed their new album coming out in May. So here – belatedly – is the launch video for the album:
If you don’t know who Guitar Wolf are, go and find a copy of the cult Japanese zombie film Wild Zero immediately, and watch it on a loop until you have it memorised:
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Every now and again I get angry about how overlooked Maggie Holland is. I’ve been a fan of hers for about 25 years, when I heard her song ‘Salt of the Earth’ on an great obscure cassette compilation called ‘Jali House Rock‘ that I’d found in the bargain bin in a record store. This is my own small attempt to draw attention to her work, so I’ve put down as much information as I can for people who may be interested.
She’s a fantastic songwriter and musician, and at least these two songs of hers should be considered as alternative national anthems for England. Although she’s won folk awards and June Tabor’s cover of ‘A Place Called England’ got a lot of radio airplay, her work has not penetrated the national (or international) consciousness as much as it should have.
In my view, with these two songs alone, she should be championed alongside Billy Bragg, Crass, New Model Army, and the Levellers as a particularly English songwriter fighting for the common folk and resisting the greedy and the oppressive with passion and outrage and music. Because she’s seen (or marketed) as folk, she gets pigeonholed like so many other artists.
Continue reading Maggie Holland – two national anthems