Voice Band: Introducing mouth-producing

Just how easy should music making be? This iPhone app called Voice Band looks awesome, I’ve been dreaming about a feature like this ever since I was a kid.

The principle of using voice to control synthesis in itself isn’t new, but if this is available with all sorts of instruments, imagine how you could use this for putting down fresh ideas when you’re on the move. It may not be a social winner on a plane or when bored at your in-laws. But come on, it’s producing with your mouth!

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The A&R guy: A true story

Thanks to Steve Angello for sharing this link via his Twitter, funniest video in ages. It’s a must see, and I’m pretty sure this will turn out to be a classic.

Podcast 005 – Starring Thomas Sagstad

Another strong Innotune selection of new house, trance, techno and downtempo. And Thomas Sagstad in the mix!

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Thomas Sagstad is one of the five bloggers at Innotune. In this episode he get’s the chance to show you his DJ skills. He has travelled all over the globe DJ’ing for his fans. Now be sure to check out the last half of episode five.

As usual, the first 30 minutes is packed with tunes we believe in. We’ve got BT, Funkagenda, Pete Tong and Dj Eco for you, to mention a few.

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Top 20 Classic EDM videos – Part 2

Here’s part 2 of our “Top 20 Classic EDM videos”. Be sure to check part 1 packed with great music videos right here.

So let’s continue our excellent list of amazing EDM music videos

Antiloop – Start Rockin

Scandinavian duo, and you might recognize one of them: Yeah, it’s David West in his younger days. Would be so cool if this was possible to do.

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Ableton and Serato present The Bridge

When Ableton announced in October 2008 their partnership with Serato I was super excited. I’ve been producing solely in Ableton and I have also tried to DJ with Ableton, controlled by Pioneer DJM-800, but at that point it didn’t feel right, I didn’t feel comfortable with it.

Serato has been in the game of digital DJing for more than 10 years, their Serato Scratch has been a choice of several DJ’s during the years, and especially among hip hop scene, using control vinyls to control music on your laptop, has been “the” way to DJ.

While Serato has been strong name in hip hop, Native Instrument‘s Traktor has quickly risen to be the equivalent to Serato in EDM.

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Top 20 Classic EDM videos – Part 1

There are lots of EDM music videos with, let’s say, a bit variety in its qualities. If you get a record company to actually put in some $$$ to create a music video for your track – it usually involves slow-motion nature scenes, a sportscar, some bikini women and the artist standing on various places with some sunglasses.

But during time, there are some gems appearing. Videos with a meaning, or some sort of creative excellence. So here goes nothing; Innotunes Top 20 selected EDM videos  that deserves to be called a “classic”

Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar

Such an mesmerizing video. Everytime I go on a train I try to sync everything outside to the music I’m listening to after this music video.

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The hidden art of sampling

Remember Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up? (Spotify link) The video of this track from 1997 was so violent it was banned from day time television and even MTV had to play it only at night time.

The times have gone by, the video itself has got a cult status, but the track keeps living a life of it’s own still being remembered in night clubs all around the world.

Prodigy’s lead man (that usually keeps everything low key) Liam Howlett is known for his sampling. Some music enthuastics have been spotting various samples from Prodigy tracks. Now in the era of YouTube the stuff gets some videos.

In the summer 2009 a very creative video of how to recreate Smack My Bitch Up was posted to YouTube. The spotting of samples was spot on and the way how the data was presented, indeed top notch.

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Are you a DJ or a controllerist?

Turntablism is mostly for hiphoppers, right? But the concept of controllerism might fit better into the electronic scene. We have moved into an era where the Mac-lit DJ is more common than the jock playing plastic plates. Since anyone can make flawless beatmixes with cheap gear now, you have to give credit to those digital artists that take more creative use of computers and its controllers.

From Wikipedia: Controllerism is the art and practice of using musical software controllers (e.g. MIDI, OSC, Joystick, etc) to build upon, mix, scratch, remix, effect, modify, or otherwise create music, usually by a Digital DJ or “Controllerist”.

The gear manufacturers are throwing out a lot of controllers for DAWs and digital DJ’ing, but real controllerists create their own equipment. Now you might argue that this extreme use of controllers is relevant only for artists performing live electronic music. But isn’t computer DJ’ing based on pretty much the same?

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December blog roundup

The month of Christmas at Innotune brought you acoustic sweets. Håkon showed us a guitar cover of Out Of The Blue, the trance classic by System F. Then seven more great acoustic covers popped up.

What has been typical 00ies when we look back at the last ten years of EDM? Our reader Anton Sonin answered: The gated clap! Do you agree? We would love your opinion on what has been most important for EDM the past decade. The mic is still open.

Thomas went back to the school bench, but with a new approach: DJ math. The numbers showed modern DJ’s are lazy. A funny view, be sure to check it out.

We’ve also featured nine electronic albums you should listen to. That is if you’re into longplayers. Anyway, have a listen to our picks and add your favourites of 2009.

Last but noe least, the December episode of our podcast was filled with Scandinavian trance and the regular blend of new music from many electronic genres. Our very own Ville Lope did the mix.

Thanks for following another month of Electronic Fjord Music! We have high hopes for 2010!

9 must hear electronic music albums of 2009

Are we even listening to albums nowadays? A lot of you guys are probably just downloading the tracks you like, who doesn’t? But I still find satisfaction in putting on a good full-lengther which is both well composed and has good individual tracks.

I asked Innotune companion Håkon Lofthus if he had any good suggestions for this album sum up. He answered:

R.I.P. albums. When buying online – why would I want to buy an whole album, when I could only grab the tracks I like? (I can listen to them first as well) So, this year has been almost an album-free year for me, and iTunes better start pushing out those iTunes LP features to get me back on buying complete albums.

You have to agree. But I’m giving this list a shot anyway. I realise I haven’t heard enough releases this year to create the complete “top edm albums of 2009 bible”, but here’s nine I would like you to check out.

Maybe you’ll start buying albums again, or at least listen to complete releases on Spotify.

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