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Todd Tedje and “I’ts Album Time”

Making your own analog filter

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Talking about live tips

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Todd Tedje and “I’ts Album Time”

Making your own analog filter

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Todd Tedje and “I’ts Album Time”

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Chvrches showing they secrets

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Korg Ms-20 is back

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Staring in the eyes

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Todd Tedje and “I’ts Album Time”

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Synth and cats what’s common

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#14 summer 2014

Todd Tedje and “I’ts Album Time”

Making your own analog filter

Synth and cats what’s common

Chvrches showing they secrets

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during their set at coachella , foxygen , joined by three back - up singers ,

offered up several songs from their great ambassadors of peace

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After weeks of anticipation over a much-hyped reunion tour, Outkast began their 40+ festival trek as the headliners of the first night of Coachella.

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With demand increasing for original analogue synths, more and more people are contemplating building their own

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the haim sisters were among coachella ’ s massive lineup yesterday , where

they ran through a series of their days are gone hits

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ONE MINITUE

the idea of Love Letters as pleasant,

Joseph Mount just can’t stay tethered

the vapor-thin nonentity it became.

to a moment. Metronomy’s 2008 LP

What worked for The English Riviera’s

Nights Out was the headlong dive into

mellow beachfront reveries—subdued

pop’s peak-coke gloss, archly tweaking

instrumentation, placid vocals, clinical

disco, new wave, and all points in be-

studio-band polish—doesn’t stick as

tween. Three years later, Mount dusted

well when the tempo’s edged back up

off some old vintage navy blazer and

a notch or two towards something a

got yacht-rockish for The English Riv-

bit more trad-rock. And what sim-

iera, trading California beaches for the

ple-enough songwriting chops there

boardwalks of English seaside resorts

are to this album’s credit are delivered

and almost pulling off the integration.

so flimsily it’s less twee than just plain

With another three years passed, Met-

weak.

ronomy arrives with another rearview

If you’re looking for a specific culprit,

glance at pop and rock history, aging

pin that on Mount’s voice. Ten seconds

backwards into a gray space between

and twelve words into opener “The

late psych and early glam with a bit

Upsetter”, Mount tries pushing his luck

of pastoral Kinks ennui mixed in to

at the end of the phrase “straight from

whatever’s left of the old indie-dance

the satellite” and creaks out this whim-

pedigree. (He even booked Toe Rag

pery Bowie affectation that’s a pained

Studios for that special analog-purist

balloon-squeak of a noise. It’s visceral-

touch.) But there’s a wide gulf between

ly grating, and there’s more where that

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throwbackish pop-rock nugget and

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came from: When he’s not reducing

Me” and the dozy quasi-waltz “Never

his passionless mumbling to a carica-

Wanted”), he’s trying his hand at a

ture of a non-committal indie-slacker

fume-drunk midpoint between 60s UK

voice (at its slackest on lite-Kraut “Call

pop and velvety

R and B that creaks and shudders under the burden of a voice better built for flatness.

Even through a number of permuta-

the record caught on to that out-front

tions—Holiday Inn lounge Motown (“I’m

force—the words on Love Letters might

Aquarius”), chirpy analog-organ dance-

scan as more than lonely fridge-mag-

craze pop (“Reservoir”), drunk-dial

net poetry, the beats might feel like

Clientele (“The Most Immaculate Hair-

more than just placeholders, and the

cut”)—it sounds like he’s holding back,

music could be something to dance

looking at his feet, trying not to cause

to instead of just drift off to.occuptati

a scene.

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The big shame is that all these side-

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weird, intentionally out of step with

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your typical Brit-indie fare, yet still

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giddily catchy. After three NyQuilcore

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tracks that make the drum machine

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the title track feints towards another woozy slog for a bit over a minute before breaking out in a big stomping piano-pounding number that actually

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shakes the needle. If only the rest of

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chvrches ’ s music style is

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usually tagged as electronic or synthpop , neon gold described their sound as

“a

godless

hurricane of kinetic pop energy ”

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GETTING HOT For two decades, Glasgow’s indie-pop and dance music scenes have run in parallel, with only a few notable intersections; Chvrches are the latest meeting point. The Scottish trio’s debut LP, The Bones of What You Believe, is a seamless fusion of emotive theatrics, hook-loaded songwriting, and some of the more forward-thinking sonics in electronic music right now. It’s a style that feels very of-the-moment: Chvrches embody what a generation

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raised on electronic music is looking

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for in a rock band, taking the danceable textures favored by the Electric Daisy set and applying them to the sweeping songcraft of M83 and Passion Pit. Unlike those those bands, Chvrches avoid guitars almost entirely, but the hooks on The Bones of What You Believe are indelible Chvrches self-produced the album in band member Iain Cook’s own Glasgow studio, big-deal boards guy Rich Costey (Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine) handled the mixing; his touch gives these tunes the bright clarity they deserve

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regardless of instrumentation, and the sound is immaculate. After

Every note sounds clean and sharp, a necessary corrective to the chemicaldipped wooziness that has dominated electronic indie pop in the last few years.

That sense of precision is unusual for a band this new, but Cook and Martin Doherty, who handle the majority of the instrumentation live. and on record, are vets of Glasgow’s perpetually fertile indie scene. Cook handled guitars and programming as a member of

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SYNTH IN USE synthesizers were custom built to order , and required a great deal of technical knowledge to be able to wire

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up and create a sound

Hot Chip

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Clavia Nord Lead 2x

24 voices

Oscillators

2 oscillator groups each with Six waveforms: sine, saw, triangle, square (pulse with width modulation), noise, synced noise, dual sine; 2- and 4-op FM and differential FM; osc-sync; ringmodulation; variable unison.

LFO

2 per voice, syncable to MIDI. Triangle, saw, square, smooth and stepped random, and triple-peak sine waveforms. Seperate vibrato effect.

The Nord Electro has two sections. One is a sample-player intended for electric pianos, although samples of acoustic grand and upright pianos are also available. The sample libraries are exchangeable, and Clavia has made several samples libraries available for free for Nord Electro owners. The second section is a digital emulation of electronic organs.

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Polyphony

This is not sample based, but instead generated by the digital modelling of several types of organs. Unlike many other keyboards that feature tonewheel or-

Filter

2 multi-mode filters (series or parallel). Lowpass, Bandpass, Highpass, LP-HP, LP-LP and Classic mode. 1-, 2-, or 4-pole.

gan emulation, the drawbars of the Nord Electro are represented by LED bar graphs and up/down buttons instead of the traditional mechanical drawbars.

VCA

ADSR envelopes for amplitude and filter; Amplifier Gain control

Keyboard

49 keys with velocity and aftertouch and octave shift functionality

There is an effect section that emulates popular “stomp box” effect pedals from the ‘70s and the

Memory

1,024 patches, 256 per formances

Control

MIDI IN/OUT/THRU (4-parts)

Date

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famous Leslie rotary speaker cabinet. These can be applied to either piano or organ. Additionally, the pianos contain a presence control, and the Clavinet includes settings to emulate the various switches found on the original instrument.As with other Clavia products, it is distinctive for its red color. Unlike the Clavia Nord Stage, it can only play one instrument at a time, although a second keyboard can be attached

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dave smith prophet 12

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Polyphony

8 to 16 voices

Multitimbral 4 parts Oscillators

32 digital oscillators

Waveforms

Sine, Triangle

Modulation

Vibrato

Envelope

16-stages, shapes amplitude and frequency

front end followed by an all analog signal path output. Each voice has five high resolution digital oscillators, a digital character effects section, a resonant Curtis low-pass filter, a high-pass filter, a tune-able feedback circuit, a four-tap delay line with

Effects

Portamento

Sequencer

4-Track, 1860 note capacity, volatile, no editing, no external sync, individual track looping

Arpeggiator None

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The Prophet 12’s brand new hybrid voice has a digital

Keyboard

74 keys, weighted, velocity sensitive

Memory

24 preset tones; 24-tone cartridge expansion slot; 8 instrument settings

Control

MIDI (on some later models)

Date

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feedback per line, four loopable five-stage envelope generators, four syncable LFOs with slew and phase offset, a sophisticated arpeggiator, and a sixteen slot modulation matrix with 26 mod sources and 97 modulation destinations. The Prophet 12 is packed with a plethora of sonic potential and power!

The digital oscillators can be frequency and amplitude modulated by each other with incredible accuracy. They can be freely assigned in whatever operator and modulator configurations you would choose. You can even assign each of the oscillators to modulate LFOs, envelopes, and filters.

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Moog Minimoog Voyager

Oscillators

LFO

MONOPHONIC (switchable between low note, high note, or last note priority)

The Minimoog is a monophonic analog

3 wide-range analog oscillators with triangular, sawtooth, square, and narrow rectangular waveforms.

and Robert Moog. It was released in

One LFO (VCO3 can be used as a 2nd LFO) with triangular, square, Sample & Hold, and smoothed Sample & Hold waveforms. Adjustable Rate speeds from 0.2 Hz to 50 Hz. LFO Syncable to keyboard gate, external envelope gate, or external gate.

synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath 1970 by R.A. Moog Inc. (Moog Music after 1972), and production was stopped in 1981. It was re-designed by Robert Moog in 2002 and released as Mini-

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moog Voyager.

The Minimoog was designed in re-

Filter

Two analog filters: Dual Lowpass mode or Highpass-Lowpass mode. Cutoff, Resonance, Keyboard Control Amt, Spacing (sets the spacing between the frequencies of the two filters over a +/-3 octave range). One wide-range ADSR (Attack Decay Sustain Release) envelope generator.

sponse to the use of synthesizers in rock and pop music. Large modular synthesizers were expensive, cumbersome, and delicate, and not ideal for

VCA

One wide-range ADSR (Attack Decay Sustain Release) envelopes for the stereo amplifier.

Keyboard

44 keys with Velocity and Pressure control.

Pitch/Mod wheels (illuminated blue on Signature Edition).

live performance; the Minimoog was designed to include the most import-

Memory

128 programs

Control

MIDI IN/OUT/THROUGH, CV/GATE, Pedal/CV inputs for: Volume, Pan, Filter Cutoff, Waveform select, Pitch, Mod1, Mod2, Sample n Hold, Env Rate, LFO Rate, and Sync.

ant parts of a modular synthesizer in a compact package, without the need for patch cords. It later surpassed this original purpose, however, and became a distinctive and popular instrument in its own right. It remains in demand today, over four decades after its

Date

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introduction, for its intuitive design.

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top 10 news MAC DEMARCO Recent episodes of IFC’s “Portlandia”

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have featured St. Vincent’s Annie Clark

Brighton shoegazers Fear of Men will

as a gear aficionado with no time for

release their debut album Loom on

mansplaining and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy

April 22 (a day earlier in the UK), via

as a disingenous folkie. Now, Queens

Kanine. It follow’s last year’s early cut

of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme does a

compilation, Early Fragments. Now

bit in which he plays Carrie Browbroth

through April 22, the entire record will be streaming in its entirety on Pitchfork Advance, our immersive music streaming platform designed to emulate the classic album experience.

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TOY SYNTH For her new video, Boston dream-folk singer Marissa Nadler has enlisted a kindred spirit and fellow Massachusetts resident: Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500. Watch the graceful Yang-directed visual for “Drive”, the opening track

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from Nadler’s great recent record.

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ARP ODESSY The Woodsist cult comprises an eponymous record label based in upstate New York, an annual outdoor music festival in Big Sur, and, at the center of this inconspicuous constellation, a sanguine little psych-rock band called

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Back in 2013, Dave Grohl took a stand for a piece of Seattle’s analog recording history, and he wound up taking a bow for Sound City, the documentary he directed celebrating the studio where Nirvana recorded Nevermind.

But another of the northwestern capital’s music-making hubs needs

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assistance, and there’s no single heroic

TODD TERJE Real Estate have premiered their clip for Atlas single “Crime” via Funny or Die. Directed by Tom Scharpling, the comedic short stars actor Andy Daly (from “Eastbound and Down” and Comedy Central’s “Review”) as a broke music video “auteur” forced to auction off the creative rights for the “Crime” video to a variety of interested parties. The finished product includes “undead extreme sports enthusiasts,” product placements for a ceramics sculpture business, old-fashioned pinstripe suits, and a cameo from actor Nick Kroll (The League).

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in addition to producing several hits with donna summer , moroder also produced a number of electronic disco hits for the three degrees , two albums for sparks , a handful of songs

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GOING THROUGH That he’s rediscovered his mojo, Moroder has been throwing himself into producing again – and DJing. “You see the wavelengths, you know a break is coming and you need to bring in the next song,” he enthuses about his DJing exploits, like a kid who’s discovered a new toy. He explains how he plays mainly his own stuff, and that he started off DJing a Louis Vuitton fashion show and then a party in Cannes for Elton John, “but it was very Hollywood, everybody just stood around

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But subsequently he’s done big shows and is amazed at the modern-day club culture which he helped spawn. “I can do this [raises arm] and the people are shouting,” he grins. “I have a little Novation where you have sounds [makes punchy synthetic stab sounds] and because they see me doing it, they shout and cheer.

“I’m using Ableton, so I go from one track to the next, but at the same time I have one or two loops,” he continues. “Then sometimes

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in the chorus I add a huge bass drum, where the melody almost

goes away — I hate when you fade out a song and the next one comes in and it isn’t in key — so when I start to fade out, I come in with a loop and maybe just a hi-hat. I keep it up for maybe ten seconds and then I fade the new one in, so it’s nice. That works quite

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well.”

“I play most of my own stuff,” he adds, “and three or four new songs.

One is ‘Giorgio By Moroder’ by Daft Punk, then I did one with a young Mexican producer which was a little heavier and was based

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FINDING MARKS Like the rest, album number eight plays like an introvert’s manifesto, music made with humble means and consciousness-shifting

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I was really, really emotional. Not only does Giorgio by Moroder tell the story of my life, but the story musically

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Like the rest, album number eight plays like an introvert’s manifesto, music made with humble means and consciousness-shifting intentions. With Light and With Love sounds bigger, though, more accessible, conceived with an ear toward top-down, tear-outof-town FM anthems of summers past. (Is that Gerry Rafferty’s riff from “Right Down the Line” that eases through “Full Moon”?) Certainly it’s cleaner and richer than Woods’ early lo-fi head-trips, with piano and organ adding elegance to the trio’s guitar-driven squall.

Earl sings of big things—loving, leaving, growing, dying—with a plainspoken poetry that observes cycles both celestial and human.

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GIVE IT A NAME Whoever the Golf Channel label’s Central Executives are, they have an exceptionally clear vision of the era of dance music they want to evoke — even if the period itself swims in a haze of spiked punch and poppers, its members-only clubs long ago converted to luxury condos and Duane Reades. The Execs’ key touchstones are songs like Lola’s “Wax the Van” and Loose Joints’ “Pop Your Funk” — artifacts from the era in between disco and house, in which drum machines tangled with rolling congas and live keys, and four-to-the-floor grooves were only as steady as the hand holding the razor. A Walk in the Dark replicates the loosey-goosey feel of tape edits and percussion

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jams with rhythms that refuse to snap to any grid,

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and the singer’s breathy, bluesy delivery only adds to the sense of slippage. Beneath it all, splotchy chords glisten like an oil slick, and the tonal center wanders all over the place in a way that feels almost non-hierarchical .

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“We’re from Louisville, and we thought you needed to hear this.”

These words are heard deep into the rarities portion of this 3xLP box set, as the introduction to a live recording dating back to a 1989 Chicago show in support of Slint’s raucous debut album, Tweez.A freakin’ Neil Young cover, and a wholly reverential, note-

But the moment is significant nonetheless, and not just because Cortez proved to be the root DNA

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for-note eight-minute reading of “Cortez the Killer”, at that.

of the ominously methodical music they would go onto explore; that brief spoken introduction counts as an extremely rare docuIn many respects, the story of Slint is an exceedingly familiar one of influence accruing in absentia, of mavericks who were ignored in their time and had to wait years to get their due. Except unlike other members of the criminally neglected alt-rock trailblazer.

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