Xray Dubs - Music category

New Clan Analogue website

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:32:20 GMT

The new Clan Analogue website is up. http://www.clananalogue.org/ -- the groovy thing about is that finally it has the easy capability of the members themselves to provide the content. 'Bout time! Check it out, lots of information, and a couple of new Clan releases too.

Andre Rieu: a review (NSFW)

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:19:44 GMT

Lisa:

He's ALWAYS on the Ovation channel. we watched a bit the other night and by god it was the aesthetic equivalent of 100 chimps on tricycles in tuxes, wheeling around a pond full of multi-coloured vomit. And yes, the pompous onscreen audience was lapping it up all dewy-eyed as if it was some rarified transcendental experience "Ooh look at me! I'm appreciating classical music!".

Scot:

Except the funny thing is: THERE WAS NO CLASSICAL MUSIC.

Every time we sneeked a peek back at the channel to see what fresh horrors awaited us, he was doing pop or musical hall numbers, like a Michael Jackson song (he murdered a version of "Ben", for instance), or a Lloyd-Webber number, etc.

So no matter how crappily played on his "fiddle" accompanied by his "band" (see Richard Tognetti's comments about the imposter's career and playing ability), anyone who defends the monster by saying "he brings classical music to people who don't listen to classical music" is lying. MOST OF THE REPERTOIRE IS NOT CLASSICAL MUSIC. Like how hard is it to go to a fucking Borders or HMV and buy a random CD of Bach or Mozart concertos played by a proper orchestra anyway.

He's a fucking cunt.

Projeckt Inertia - Someone Like You

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:54:04 GMT

I've got a remix on this Projekt Inertia release from Transcom, check it out at http://itunes.com/ProjektInertia (N.B. REQUIRES ITUNES)

Dear Friends,

Perth-based beats duo "Projekt Inertia" announce the release of their new single "Someone like You" through Trans:Com. This EP features 4 very fine leftfield vocal and instrumental dance tracks, and includes bonus remixes for breaks and dub lovers; with mixes by Lo Key Fu, Fridayz, and Victor Xray. The EP is available now on iTunes at http://itunes.com/ProjektInertia - so go and have a listen!

Also - watch this space for news about their forthcoming album!

Best regards
Dennis & Anna @ TransCom

Clan Analogue back catalogue : the Festival Years

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:45:31 GMT

Everyone's releasing back catalogue it seems. My friends at Transmission Communications are also working on their 1990s back catalogue too. In the email this afternoon from this little missive from Clan Analogue: included in this is my first solo album-length release G-Type Nerve Agent (CA023), and a lot of these other albums have withstood the test of time, Pear Shaped in particular but I still listen to Disco Stu and the first Deepchild album too, as well as various tracks off all the others. A fine collection of music is represented here!

Clan Analogue: The Festival Years

Clan Analogue are pleased to announce that a selection of its classic releases from the years 1998 to 2001 are now available in digital format from iTunes and other digital retailers. These albums are from an era when Clan Analogue snuck in through the back door of the corporate music industry, signing a lucrative distribution deal with Festival Records and releasing a series of albums still hailed as classic milestones in modern Australian electronic music.

Clan Analogue will shortly be releasing Re Cognition: The Clan Analogue Legacy Collection, a selection of the greatest tracks from the history of Clan Analogue, on a triple disc set, including a bonus CD of new remixes and DVD containing all the filmclips and the Plug In & Switch On documentary.

Now available in digital non-physical format are:

Jaunt 2: A Sojourn in Bass – various artists (catalogue number CA017)
A throbbing journey through drum’n’bass, dub, trip hop and downbeat grooves, with tracks by many Australian electro-funk luminaries.

Telemetry Orchestra - Live Better Electrically (catalogue number CA019)
Debut album from indie-dance crossover act Telemetry Orchestra, combining funk grooves with deep analogue synthesis in a new form of spaced-out electro-lounge.

Cognition Two: 20 Disco Greats – various artists (catalogue number CA020)
20 Disco Greats took Australian electronica deep into the Disco ghetto of funky beats and smooth basslines. Nominated for a Dance Music Award!

Disco Stu – Adult Themes (catalogue number CA022)
Prior to Englishman in Ibiza fame, Disco Stu released Adult Themes, a minimalist conglomerate of mangled disco samples, sparse electronics and driving basslines.

Nerve Agent – G-Type Nerve Agent (catalogue number CA023)
Staking out an area between fucked-up dub and funked-up techno with a dash of house thrown in, the debut release from the artist who later became Victor X-Ray.

5000 Fingers of Dr T – Buttsqueezer (catalogue number CA024)
5000 Fingers of Dr T present a collection of funky tracks, tasty tunes, buzzy squelches and groovy electro beats.

Cognition Three – various artists (catalogue number CA025)
A deviant beat-based sound journey and an extraordinary excursion into electronica audio bliss of the purest form, from tech-house to deep bass.

Deepchild – Hymns From Babylon (catalogue number CA026)
The debut album release from the internationally renowned Deepchild, an eclectic album of experimental breaks, analogue blips and dirty bass-laden grooves.

Pear Shaped – Pear Shaped (catalogue number CA027)
The side project from Atone’s Andy Fitzgerald, fusing smooth dub, drum’n’bass and hip hop, with collaborators such as Jodi Phillis and Serena Gartner.

Build a studio

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:51:35 GMT

My friend Charlotte mentioned on Facebook that she's building a "soundproof studio" in her garage and was curious as to how it would work. At least one commenter mentioned the fabled "egg cartons" solution (I hope in jest) but I knew this is nowhere near good enough. Egg cartons and acoustic foam on the walls will not soundproof anything. Acoustic foam is for sound treatment INSIDE the room. To build a "sound proof" studio you need a floating room.

A quick google around turns up some interesting links:

On this page there is a link to an "Instructables" PDF: http://createdigitalmusic.com /2009/03/12/instructable-how-to-build-a-music-studio-in-an-apartment/
This is the first in a series about building a home studio: http://revolutionaudio.ca /store/2006_09_01_archive.php#6886430431023584036
This is an interesting article about 'flanking noise', i.e. noise transmitted through gaps and vibrating structures: http://www.greengluecompany.com /understandingFlankingNoise.php
If you got some spare land then you're interested in this guy's thread about actually building an actual studio building from scratch: http://www.gearslutz.com /board/photo-diaries-recording-studio-construction-projects/ 161575-manifold-recording-studio-construction-thread.html

Happy studio building!