Soniccouture VSt : special japenese tsunami appeal

 SPECIAL SONICCOUTURE OPERATION FOR JAPAN


http://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/g28-omnichord/

n Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument, introduced in 1981 and manufactured by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate, and buttons for major, minor, and diminished chords. The most basic method of playing the instrument is to press the chord buttons and swipe the touch plate with a finger or guitar pick in imitation of strumming a stringed instrument.
The Omnichord we have sampled here is a ‘System Two’, and it has a great synth tone, which sounds ‘cheap’ in all the right ways. You can mix two different tones, one straight, and one modulated with a basic LFO. While not sounding much like a plucked string, it does have a pure character all its own, which won it many fans, such as Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, to name but two.

Japanese Tsunami Appeal

This offer is only available until 31st April 2011 - 100% of all payments taken for the Omnichord instrument will be donated to the Red Cross Japanese Tsunami appeal.

http://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/g28-omnichord/

my week-end ambient pick #14 : Rosenqvist & Scott

 

A long progressive slow motion moment to quietly start your sunday with a few qigong moves maybe.

This actually is the soundtrack to a film by Juriaan Booij :  "The Conformists". The music was composed by Dag Rosenqvist and Simon Scott (Netherlands). The original track is about 20 minutes long, this is only an extract.
Whole project is available for streaming, downloading or buying (vynil) here : http://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/conformists
+ mind the gap ! at around 5'30, you might think the track is over. well, it's not.

my week-end ambient pick #13 : Daniel Lambert

The Great Lime Sphere by Daniel Lambert

This one is a very methodic composition. A beautiful work on beat lines and effects, a quite particular kind of instinctive sense of breaks and turns, very motivating to listen to as you never know where you're going to be led to.
Guy is from Australia and has a myspace page over here : http://www.myspace.com/lambertsound

new world percussion library

A new world percussion library with an amazing punch and depth (maybe a bit too much, really cinematic approach, see ?) has just been released by Evolution Series (www.evolutionseries.com).
It is definitely not cheap at all (600€). You do have a demo available for free here :
http://www.soundsondemand.com/free_sounds.asp/world_percussion_free/en/1
(it's a djembe full sample)

I don't know who's the first guy who used enormous sounding drums in an action movie but it's clear that he influenced the way instruments of that kind are recorded today. Still, if you're looking for the big striking one, well, the latest is just on now.

my week-end ambient pick #12 : Carbon Based Lifeforms

Pasting bio note here : Carbon Based Lifeforms is an ambient electronic music group made up of Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Ringström, in Gothenburg, Sweden. So now you know.

This is pure, simple relaxing time. The sun is back again this morning and we all may share some healing thoughts for Japan. peace / bruz

my week-end ambient pick #11 : KrackMonster

Hope you have some ironing to do at home because this one is more than 1 hour long ! If you have to go, check the first 10 minutes. Or at least the first 8 before the big bass drum comes in)
After those, you'll travel through different moods with a mixtape of minimal tech parts, soft piano or harder experimentation. I have no other info on that Monster person.

+ there's a 2nd one (1 hour too !) check this :
Ambient Cookbook Phase VI CD2 by Krackmonster

middleearth (ambient sky lapse)

my week-end ambient pick #10 : Nalepa

Very nice music to start a day with, especially on a sunday that has decided to be mainly, well ... rainy.
That Nalepa guy is from L.A, US and seems (from the bio) to be quite enormously famous in the fields of music technology. Well, we don't care at all if he's Mr Something or what; the thing is this track has amazing rhythm sequences and delicious sounds to my ear.

ambient work is here : http://soundcloud.com/nalepa/sets/ambient-32/ 

my week-end ambient pick #09 : Klimek

Very peculiar work by a particularly delicate artist. It's almost like chirurgical manipulation in a way, so meticulous are the details in the sounds and movements. I love his "dedications" series, check this on :
Site is : http://www.random-industries.com/
Myspace here : http://www.myspace.com/random666industries

Ombilicum IV. compass

note

Bandcamp is shut down for maintenance on march 6th / so some of the players on this page won't show for a few hours / only a matter of time, thanks/bruz

my week-end ambient pick #08 : Arteshe

Skyglow by Arteshe

Hard to pick up one from this Chicago based artist. His tunes are quite complex architectures of sounds woven with an amazing dexterity. Really awesome work, check more at : http://soundcloud.com/arteshe

my week-end ambient pick #07 : Aliquo

Another Blue World by Aliquo

A very pleasant evolving textured melodic line, to welcome the sun back.
The guys are from South London, UK and have released 2 albums, downloadable here : http://aliquo.bandcamp.com/album/another-blue-world