Interesting (and creepy) video for Depeche Modes "Hole to feed", directed by Eric Wareheim.

Youtube via ericwareheim

If you, like me, have been awake night efter night, thinking "How did they do it?! HOW!?" here is what you have been waiting for. In just a little more than 6 minutes, Youtube's synth guru Syntesen shows us how to make the synth sound used in Toto's Africa. Finally!

Youtube via Syntesen

It's not that similar, is it?

I'm about to buy Use Audio's Plugiator, the cool box that contains up to 8 different plugin soft synths. In the words of Use Audio:

"So far, hardware synth modules were fixed-architecture, basically providing one fixed sound engine and presets which cover the range of the given architecture. In contrast, the Plugiator can store up to eight DSP plug-ins featuring very different synthesis architectures – thus hugely expanding the sonic possibilities and sound spectrum."

The Plugins (Creamware) are:

Minimax - Minimoog replica

Lightwave - Wavetable synth

B4000 - Hammond organ emulator

Vocodizer - Vocoder

Prodyssey - Arp Odyssey replica

Pro-12 - Prophet 5 replica

FMAgia- FM Synth

Drums'n'Bass - Some drum'n'bass shit

Ohhh, can't wait. Now let's just hope that the guy selling it doesn't chicken out.

Youtube via useaudio

Nice accent!

Whenever I hear a bad, or strange song, I think "Is this somebody's favourite song?" I mean, how bad a song may be, chances are that someone sits at home listening to it, with lit candles, closed eyes and says "yeeaaahhh". For example, my favourite song, Alberto Balsalm by Aphex Twin must be an unthinkable favourite song for the majority of the world's population, but I tend to say "yeeaahh" when I hear it.

And what about all of the world's "our songs"? Are there couples who have Ministrys "Jesus built my hotrod" as "their" song? Probably not, most people tend to go for the love songs. But they shouldn't, it is so predictable and boring. Now, I'm going to tell my girlfriend that I have decided that "our" song is Rydeen by Yellow Magic Orchestra from now on.

Youtube via Ymo1965