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Interviews| Tue Aug 19Source: Beatportal.com - Beatport Blog |
| News | Shur-i-kan releases new EP on Urban Torque Tom 'Shur-i-kan' Szirtes first made an impact on the Freerange records imprint with the track 'Niomi's Dream' that Tom Middleton spotted for his seminal 'Jedi's Night Out' compilation for Mixmag. Since then he's been steadily making a name for himself in electronic production, moving into techy territory on his 'Berlin Rising EP' with releases on Physical Graffiti, Defected. |
| Tue Aug 19Source: Beatportal.com - Beatport Blog |
| News | Magda: “Minimal techno is mainstream” Since her move to Berlin in the early naughties Magda has become one of the world’s biggest techno DJs riding the crest of the boom in underground music. The Minus star takes a break from her insane touring schedule to answer some questions about her life on the road and why minimal is going all “ticky-ticky-ticky-ticky.” |
| Tue Aug 19Source: Beatportal.com - Beatport Blog |
| Videos | How to cook Wiener Schnitzel … drum & bass style D Kay and Concord Dawn are some of the biggest names in drum & bass, and cooking Wiener Schnitzel and pea pasta isn't something you'd normally associate with them. But it just so turns out that D Kay is a master chef in training, giving you all the tips you need to cook a Vienna classic. Watch this video on Beatportal.com |
| Tue Aug 19Source: Beatportal.com - Beatport Blog |
| Videos | How to cook Wiener Schnitzel … drum and bass style D Kay and Concord Dawn are some of the biggest names in drum & bass, and cooking Wiener Schnitzel and pea pasta isn't something you'd normally associate with them. But it just so turns out that D Kay is a master chef in training, giving you all the tips you need to cook a Vienna classic. Watch this video on Beatportal.com |
| Tue Aug 19Source: Beatportal.com - Beatport Blog |
| News | Preview: New book by John Peel How many people are hoping for an audio book with a compilation of the most laconic and funny John Peel comments taken from his legendary radio show on BBC? Well, I am one of them. And I guess I have to wait and hope a little longer for this dream to come true. But no need to be sad. In late October Bantam press will publish ’The Olivetti Chronicles', a compilation of articles the radio-legend, who died four years ago, wrote for different British newspapers and magazines over the years. |
| Tue Aug 19Source: Create Digital Music |
| DS-10 US Preorder Available; US Ship Date 9/30
Further evidence: a competition last week to make tracks with that DS-10 cartridge offered the legit cart as the grand prize. Now, we could ignore the fact that piracy exists, but instead I bring this out in the open because so many people I talk to feel strongly about it. We want the ability to run homebrew software, and we likewise feel it’s vitally important to support developers in the traditional distribution by paying for the software they make. So, the word has gone out from the mobile music and homebrew communities: if you appreciate the tool, pay for a legitimate copy of Korg’s DS-10. It’s really a unique moment in soft synths. It’s a real, commercial music tool for a game platform. It’s not a music game (Guitar Hero), or an oddball add-on in a game (the synth in Mario Paint), or a fascinating piece of sound art (ElectroPlankton), or homebrew software requiring hacking. As a result, it does have some constraints — you can’t export files made in the tool, you’re limited to preset spaces on the cartridge itself, and you can’t use things like wireless MIDI available in the homebrew community. For those reasons, I still heavily recommend the homebrew tools, and we’ll talk about that more. But, having played with this for the last week on an early cart from Japan, I can say this: you’ll want it, if you own a DS, even alongside homebrew tools. Watch for the CDM video review by early next week. And apparently, the buzz is out there, because the preorder has already risen to #3 among music games on Amazon, which is pretty unbelievable. I’m tracking any affiliate revenue we make from Amazon, and will use it to specifically support DS coverage and tutorials on CDM. Previously: Nintendo to Block Homebrew Game Hardware; Leaked DS-10 ROM Inspires DS Music |
The music hacker is a different breed in a number of ways. It’s fairly safe, for instance, to say that the average Nintendo gamer does not consider the ability to patch modular synth parameters with their stylus a “killer app.” Yet the Korg DS-10, arguably the first entirely music production-focused cartridge for a major game system ever, has attracted just that kind of interest. And it’s also attracted a different kind of pirate. I know some of the folks who pirated the DS-10 ROM personally, and a lot of them did it after completely a pricey import order for the legit cartridge from Japan — seriously. Many are developers themselves, and they’re committed to supporting other developers, and to supporting the creation of new musical tools on every platform possible.