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Wake - Meat Mountain

Preview of the first single in the Catalog Records Singles Project.




Wake - Meat Mountain

1 track single by Wake with remixes by Sexy Ultimatum, Denny Denny Breakfast, and Blasco.

8 Bit Sample Kit From Wake!

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It's been a hot minute since we shared some tools with you.  This installment of the Circuitree Toolkit comes direct from Oakland, CA, where Matt Hettich, aka Wake resides.  Currently on the cusp of graduating from the illustrious Mills College with an MFA Electronic Music, Mr. Wake is destined for great things.  With a large and growing handful of tunes on Circuitree and Catalog Records,  as well as a collaborative album with DDB (TFPP), there's plenty to immerse yourself in.  He's remixed Machine Drum, Caroline, and Panic Bomber brilliantly while managing to balance school and helping launch Catalog.  Stay tuned for more great music from this gifted composer.

8 bit sample kit! by Wake available now for download.

Trouble The With (Live at Signal Flow)

My masters thesis piece, recorded at the Signal Flow Festival at Mills College

Live at the "Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut"

Wake live at the "Totally intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut" on Feb. 27th, 2010
A recording live set for you straight from west Oakland! A little preparation for my MFA Thesis concert/piece at Mills College on March 11th, 2010 as part of the Signal Flow Festival( Signal Flow Webite)! Same patches, completely different piece!

Psychic TV

Underground Resistance on CurrentTV

Some members of Detroit's Underground Resistance sound off on the city, Detroit techno, influences, and where the music is heading.

Free Ghostly Compilation Download

Ghostly International has released a free compilation for download! The album was initially intended to be a limited release CD but is now available for you. LINK HERE

Flairs - Truckers Delight

Speechless.

Hypnotize

Eigenharp, i think someone in the cantina played this...

Check out the eigenharp, a pretty neat usb controller that features a bunch of buttons, some touch strips, and a breath controller. Too bad it looks to only use proprietary software. But its still in alpha release so maybe they will open it up to some other more common software. Either way maybe those middle school oboe lessons weren't a complete waste.

All that button mashing and lost quarters can be some good use...

This DIY controller features 16 arcade style buttons and LEDs to create a nice little MIDI contoller. I say you should mic it too, and have a sweet clicky click click solo of the buttons. Next gen from these guys will add 2 little joysticks. DjTechTools

Mother Butter Hawk

24hr mix iPhone app

Phillipe Starcke, international rock-star designer, released a free app where its 24 hours of music, voices and sounds. I love when there's new ways to create environment using new technologies. More info and link to d/l @ Soundwalk.

Jerry Fuchs R.I.P. You will be missed

No Direction, Period

No Direction, Period.

FUNNY!

Tenori-On now in orange flavor!

Yamaha is releasing the Tenori-on with orange instead of white LEDs a little cheaper because it wont run on batteries and doesnt have the LEDs in the back for the maximo showmanship.

Stylophone Beatbox, might be worth $25

Check out the stylophone beatbox, loaded up with samples of some famous beatboxes and a few other fun functions, it just might be worth the $25.50 price tag.

Mustaches!

I saw this product ($7), which I find quite amusing....



And it reminded me of one of the best music videos of all time, the Soft Pink Truth - Promofunk.

The Soft Pink Truth "Promofunk" from Ryan Junell on Vimeo.

Speaking piano

Some Austrians using computers and a real piano make analog synthesized speech. Basically they have an actuator over every key on a piano, and they figured out how to use a computer to control the set up such that a series of keys pressed together in certain ways creates speech. The voice kind of scares me, but the choice of a little boy would do that.





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