10 Revenue Streams every Musician needs to know aboutEvery musician needs to know ten essential revenue streams to maximize their income. Learn the strategies to diversify your earnings and advance your music career. by Chris Robley of Reverbnation. Continue reading
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RIAA’s past statements undermine current AI lawsuit claims, says Mike MasnickMike Masnick of Tech Dirt says that the RIAA’s previous statements contradict their stance on AI, potentially unraveling their latest legal battles.  Op-ed Mike Masnick of Tech Dirt There have. Continue reading
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AudioScape’s new MAP D.AM-27 dual preamp AudioScape have announced a modern relaunch of Modular Audio Products, and the first release to sport the name is a dual-channel preamp based on Melcor’s AM-27. 

“If I could play bass like that, I would!”: Dua Lipa producer on Don’t Start Now basslineIan Kirkpatrick, the producer of Dua Lipa’s 2019 hit song Don’t Start Now, has dived into the making of the track’s iconic funky bassline.
“The bassline is a little Bee Gees and a little Daft Punk,” Kirkpatrick told Music Week [via Music Radar]. “It’s a little bit Alan Braxe and Fred Falke, if anyone knows those DJs – those old Eurohouse kind of classy basslines.”

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“It was the sum of me listening to awesome basslines for 10 years and trying to emulate that, so I’m glad people like it.”
Since its release, the song has spawned countless bass covers, with the most popular racking up an impressive 14 million views on YouTube. But did you know that no bass guitars were actually involved in the original track?
“It’s MIDI, don’t get mad at me!” Kirkpatrick said. “But it’s programmed responsibly, so people can actually play it. It’s meant to sound real and it might as well be. If I could play bass like that, I would!”

Elsewhere, the producer also spoke about how Don’t Start Now — written by Emily Warren, Caroline Ailin, Kirkpatrick, and Dua Lipa herself — was conceived during a songwriting session in Warren’s Wyoming cabin.
“The lyrical concept started in January and the vibe came from the night before,” Kirkpatrick recalled. “We’d gone out to this random bar in the middle of Jackson Hole and it was disco night, and Don’t Start Now came the next day.”
Kirkpatrick previously revealed during a Sound on Sound interview that he used the Scarbee MM-Bass plugin for the song’s main bass sound.
“I played the main part on the keyboard, and then edited it afterwards. There’s a sub bass underneath it, and it’s blended with slaps in the drop, which is from a [Spectrasonics] Trilian bass patch, plus there’s a thumb bass,” he said.

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Tonnes of music tech gear is discounted at Thomann for the first 10 days of July – here are the best dealsThomann is celebrating a massive 70 years in business in 2024, and it’s doing so in style. During the first 10 days of every month of the year, the German music retail giant is offering discounts on tonnes of music tech gear, and we’ve sifted through July’s haul – which features over 100 discounted products – to bring you the very best deals.
First up is the Native Instruments Maschine +, now only €879 down from €1,199. This standalone groove box features 16 velocity-sensitive pads, machine effects and plugins, swing, pad link, note repeat and step sequencer functions and even vintage sampler emulation.

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Or if you’re in the market for a new toy for your audio collection that won’t break the bank, the Flamma FS01 Looper/Drum Machine is discounted from €85 down to €69 for the first 10 days of July.
This pedal-based looper and drum machine features 20 minutes of recording capacity, 11 different groove styles with multiple time signature and tempo variations, three modes: Looper, Drum Machine and Mix, and a visible looper recording bar to support loop recording.
There’s also a killer deal to be had on the Native Instruments Traktor X1 MK3 modular USB DJ controller: now only €225 down from €299, there’s €74 to be saved here.
Built for seamless integration into Native Instruments’ Traktor software, the Traktor X1 MK3 features five OLED displays for remaining track time, track names, selected effects and effect parameters, 34 backlit buttons, a light-based system for visual feedback, four Endless rotary encoders, eight rotary potentiometers, as well as an integrated three-port USB hub.
There’s over 100 products discounted for the first 10 days of July, so head to Thomann now to browse them for yourself.
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RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
ULTRAAVX
Main artist name:
Plexine
Release date:
5th Jul, 2024
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Gradient Synth App from Soulyft Audio Gradient Synth takes a novel approach to sound creation and allows users to create soundscapes by interacting with a colour palette rather than more traditional sets of controls. 

Live Review of Draag in SeattleThe Neptune Theatre  Seattle, WA 

Contact: draag1985@gmail.com 

Web: draagband.com

Players: Adrian Acosta, guitar, vocals, synth, drum machine, samples; Jessica Huang, synth, vocals, samples; Ray Montes, guitar; Nick Kelley, bass, noise, modular analog percussion synthesizer; Eric Fabbro, drums

Material: Based in the shadows of Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Mountains, Draag is a doomwave band that injects bits of industrial rock and black metalized beats into luxuriant glo-fi soundscapes. Their melodies channel the subversive musings of My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep” and Slowdive’s “Star Roving.” At the same time, their spacey instrumentals gravitate toward the soaring atmospherics found in Sigur Ros’ “Rembihnutur” and Boards of Canada’s “Dayvan Cowboy.” Throbbing Gristle-like snippets—including recordings of obscure voices, hums, buzzes, and other sonic abnormalities—appear throughout the band’s waved-out harmonies, while eerie lyrics recollect surviving childhood religious trauma, the darker sides of spirituality, and feelings of isolation. 

Musicianship: Draag steadies their swells of sound with solid musicianship. The intertwined voices of co-leads Acosta (a trained mariachi singer) and Huang effortlessly slip under swathes of echo-flanged guitars and stunning synths in songs like “the day has come,” but also soar above as separate entities in “Mitsuwa.” 

Performance: Opening for the indie country-gaze band Wednesday, Draag started their sweetly aggressive set with two songs that aptly showcased their dissonant musical stylings: the swirling sonics of “Midnight Paradise,” followed by the fast-paced avant-garde distortion of “Demonbird.” The L.A. Valley quintuplet soon transitioned into songs that emphasized their capacity to embrace more industrialized tones exemplified in “Recharge,” complete with blips and samples reminiscent of NIN’s remix intro to “Where is Everybody?”  

Summary: Draag is a captivatingly dark and dreamy band. The quintet crafts haunting lyrics that complement their fusion of dark-meets-coldwave soundscapes. The band shines best when they readily push their creativity by pursuing adjacent genres such as industrial goth and electrocore, and if streamlined, could forge a distinctive sound for all to admire. Make sure to check out Draag opening for Wednesday and their recent releases, 2023’s Dark Fire Heresy and 2024’s Actually, the quiet is nice.The post Live Review of Draag in Seattle first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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Did Bitcoin Runes already peak?Tokens on the Runes Protocol are down from their peak, but don't count them out yet. The protocol is less than three months old — and it's just getting started.

An Open XBOX Modchip Enters The SceneIf you’ve ever bought a modchip that adds features to your game console, you might have noticed sanded-off IC markings, epoxy blobs, or just obscure chips with unknown source code. It’s ironic – these modchips are a shining example of hacking, and yet they don’t represent hacking culture one bit. Usually, they are more of a black box than the console they’re tapping into. This problem has plagued the original XBOX hacking community, having them rely on inconsistent suppliers of obscure boards that would regularly fall off the radar as each crucial part went to end of life. Now, a group of hackers have come up with a solution, and [Macho Nacho Productions] on YouTube tells us its story – it’s an open-source modchip with an open firmware, ModXO.
Like many modern modchips and adapters, ModXO is based on an RP2040, and it’s got a lot of potential – it already works for feeding a BIOS to your console, it’s quite easy to install, and it’s only going to get better. [Macho Nacho Productions] shows us the modchip install process in the video, tells us about the hackers involved, and gives us a sneak peek at the upcoming features, including, possibly, support for the Prometheos project that equips your Xbox with an entire service menu. Plus, with open-source firmware and hardware, you can add tons more flashy and useful stuff, like small LCD/OLED screens for status display and LED strips of all sorts!
If you’re looking to add a modchip to your OG XBOX, it looks like the proprietary options aren’t much worth considering anymore. XBOX hacking has a strong community behind it for historical reasons and has spawned entire projects like XBMC that outgrew the community. There’s even an amazing book about how its security got hacked. If you would like to read it, it’s free and worth your time. As for open-source modchips, they rule, and it’s not the first one we see [Macho Nacho Productions] tell us about – here’s an open GameCube modchip that shook the scene, also with a RP2040!

A Vintage AC Bridge TeardownIf you ever encounter a British engineer of a certain age, the chances are that even if they use a modern DMM they’ll have a big boxy multimeter in their possession. This is the famous Avo 8, in its day the analogue multimeter to have. Of course it wasn’t the only AVO product, and [Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU] is here with another black box sporting an AVO logo. This one’s an AC bridge, one of a series of models manufactured from the 1930s through to the late 1940s, and he treats us to a teardown and restoration of it.
Most readers will probably be familiar with the operation of a DC Wheatstone Bridge in which two resistances can be compared, and an AC bridge is the same idea but using an AC source. A component under test is attached to one set of terminals while one with a known value is put on the other, and the device can then be adjusted for a minimum reading on its meter to achieve a state of balance. The amount by which it is adjusted can then be used as a measure of the difference between the two parts, and thus the value of an unknown part can be deduced.
In the case of this AVO the AC is the 50Hz (remembering that this is a British instrument) mains frequency, and the reading from the bridge is taken via a single tube amplifier to a rectifier circuit and the meter. Inside it’s a treasure trove of vintage parts with an electrolytic capacitor that looks as though it might not be original, with a selenium rectifier and a copper oxide signal diode in particular catching our eye. This last part is responsible for some reading anomalies, but after cleaning and lubricating all the switches and bringing up the voltage gently, he’s rewarded with a working bridge. You can see the whole story in the video below the break.
Test equipment from this era is huge, so perhaps not all of you have the space for something like this. Some of us have been known to own other AVO products though.

Rigid Audio announce free Shimmer Strings instrument Rigid Audio's latest free instrument offers a selection of bowed violin samples with an additional pitch-shifted layer. 

Album Review of "Son" By Icarus Phoenix (7/10)Icarus Phoenix

Producers: Jed Jones, Drew Danburry

Deliberate and in-your-face story-telling with psychedelia-like music in the background. Danburry is a consummate raconteur with flair for finding the most delicate and faint method of breaking your will.

From country-ish-esq ballads to pop induced harmonies, the music transports you to another demension, to a land far, far away, and delivers the goods, even if you don’t want them.The post Album Review of "Son" By Icarus Phoenix (7/10) first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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