Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Subscriber market share • Bandsintown + Spotify • Musician’s 2024 Guide • Record Store Day releases • MoreEpisode 184 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart's podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business, including audio drops from Fabrice Sergent of Bandsintown and Megh Vaharia of SymphonyOS, is available now...
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Three unreleased Brian Eno tracks will feature in upcoming Eno documentaryThe official soundtrack to Eno, an upcoming documentary that follows the illustrious career of ambient pioneer Brian Eno, has been announced.

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The OST will be released along with the film on 19 April, and will be made available to buy as a physical LP in June. Today, an unreleased track that features on the soundtrack, Lighthouse #429, has been made available to listen to below:

Eno, a career-spanning documentary directed by Gary Hustwit, also nods to the musician’s distinctive generative music production process by having its own generative element in its development.
It’s been created using bespoke generative software that dynamically sequences scenes, creates transitions, and manipulates visual and auditory elements in real-time. Drawing from a vast archive of interviews, footage, and music from Brian Eno’s career, the software constructs a unique narrative trajectory for each screening, so the film adapts and evolves instead of offering one static, predetermined narrative.
The official soundtrack for the film, created by Brian Eno himself, is made up of 17 tracks that span Eno’s illustrious career, from his early solo works to his acclaimed collaborations and recent compositions. Notably, the soundtrack includes three previously unreleased recordings, offering fans a glimpse into Eno’s unreleased catalogue.
Credit: Gary Hustwit
Director Gary Hustwit says in a press release: “Much of Brian’s career has been about enabling creativity in himself and others, through his role as a producer but also through his collaborations on projects like the Oblique Strategies cards or the music app Bloom. I think of Eno as an art film about creativity, with the output of Brian’s 50-year career as its raw material. What I’m trying to do is to create a cinematic experience that’s as innovative as Brian’s approach to music and art.”
The UK premiere of Eno is scheduled for 20 April 2024 at the Barbican cinema in London, followed by a post-film conversation with Brian Eno, Gary Hustwit, and Brendan Dawes. Exclusive access to tickets is available for those who pre-order the official soundtrack.
Find out more on Brian Eno’s website.
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Newfangled Audio’s Recirculate may be the last delay plugin you ever need$99 (currently $49 introductory price), newfangledaudio.com
Newfangled Audio, the forward-thinking developer distributed by Eventide, is always cooking up something unique. Past plugins include Generate, a synthesizer with chaos oscillators, and EQuivocate, an EQ that uses filters modelled on the human ear. For their latest, Recirculate, Newfangled is tackling delay.

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You’d be forgiven for expecting something wild and woolly, like a delay that models signal disruptions in an analogue telephone relay. Not this time. Recirculate is a feedback echo that aims to be the best delay out there. It does this by combining a high-quality, pristine sound with an intuitive user interface and throwing in some novel yet incredibly useful extras that reveal themselves as you dive deeper.
With so many delays on the market, does Recirculate have what it takes to make it into your plugins folder?

Beats and stems
Delays are all about the echoes; Recirculate gives you detailed control over these taps. At the centre of the plugin is the Stem Display, a horizontal bar that intuitively presents the delay taps as stems poking up and down from the centre bar. The display shows you both left and right channels, with each stem’s length indicating its volume in terms of feedback. You can snap stems to a grid by whole, dotted or triplet notes, or let them run free in milliseconds (and sync to DAW tempo as well). You’re free to tweak the various controls below the graphic or you can grab the stems and work directly with them.
Below the display are various sections, including a mixer with dry and wet sliders plus separate (and linkable) feedback sliders for left and right channels. Move any of these and changes are reflected in the display. Likewise in the Delay Beats section, which handily has separate beat/time divisions for the first echo and subsequent repeats. You can link them together as in a traditional echo, but by giving us the freedom to use these separately, Newfangled has created a powerful and experimental tool.

Strange behaviour
You should already be beginning to see the possibilities involved with Recirculate but they’re about to increase. Recirculate has four different modes, or what Newfangled calls ‘Behaviors’, with each one having its own unique parameter controls.
Standard is as you’d expect, a traditional (and clean) delay, with a chorus circuit in the Soundstage section. Pitch Warp recalls digital delays of the 1980s, with audible pitch changes occurring when you alter the delay time. Accordingly, there’s a modulation button in the Soundstage section to capitalise on this. Granular turns Recirculate into a granular delay, with Spray and Size controls to adjust grain size and randomisation. Finally, Ping Pong pushes left and right channels out into the stereo field and includes a modulation option.
All of these modes are extremely useful and, when combined with the other sections, go a long way towards extending the usefulness of Recirculate.
Newfangled Audio Recirculate
Dynamic transients
While many recent delay plugins have dynamics elements like ducking as standard (this one does too), Recirculate adds a few extra parameters that are exciting to see. The first is the Transient control, which lets you emphasise (or de-emphasise) the echo transients, all the way from essentially a click through to a smeared sustain.
Also useful is the compression control. This is to add in the kind of compression you might get in tape delays or other, older hardware circuits. It’s a small thing but dialling in a little compression can make things sound more natural.
There’s even a Gate function to force repeats to only sound when the wet signal is present. Use it alongside the Ducking control for unusual effects.
Newfangled Audio Recirculate
It’s got character
Sound-shaping possibilities continue with the filter section. With its multiple filter shapes including slope, notch and resonant peak, it’s capable of much more than just shelving.
Recirculate tends towards the pristine. If you want it to emulate something darker and dirtier like a tape or bucket brigade analogue echo, use the Drive and Noise parameters. Each includes a drop-down menu with a variety of settings, allowing you to go from mix-ready frequency bands to pokey, synth-like resonant peaks.
Finally, the Soundstage section is where you add your final effects, including stereo spread and reverb. There’s even the option to push the effects into the dry signal.

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Recirculate is a fantastic delay. Kudos to Newfangled Audio for taking on a tried-and-true (and honestly a little tired) type of effect plugin and injecting new life into it. It’s an excellent all-around delay, whether your needs be bread-and-butter slapback echo or something much wilder. It’s intuitive and easy to understand yet never at the expense of complexity – it can get as deep as you want to dive. It also sounds fantastic.
Recirculate offers pretty much everything we could ask for in a delay. If we had to ask for more, a limiter to control the volume would be handy, since dub effects with lots of drive and feedback can get hairy quickly. But it’s easy enough to slap a limiter into the effects chain after Recirculate.
If you’re in the market for a delay, Recirculate could be just what you’ve been going around in circles waiting for.
Key features

Windows and MacOS (VST/VST3/AU/AAX)
Feedback echo
Four unique delay behaviours including granular
Detailed control over taps
Independent left and right parameters
Comprehensive filter section
Novel dynamics section
Drive and noise circuits to rough the sound up
Effects section including chorus and reverb

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