Great little video showing the talented musician SaReGaMa playing a Kalimba Solo from his track Air. The Kalimba is an instrument I don’t see often and this video shows off the instrument very well.
If you are interested in hearing more music from SaReGaMa you can visit his personal site.You can also find his album Inward […]

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Searching through some videos on YouTube and I came across some videos of some very talented Glass Harp players that I wanted to share.Here is a selection of my favourite ones I came across. It must take a while to set up and tune these everytime, but the end result is a very nice sound. […]

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Found this great little video made by a company called Animusic. It’s animated and shows some great video-music synchronization work. Animusic has got loads of other videos using different instruments and settings available on their DVDs but this one seems to be one of the more popular ones. I’m not sure whether this sort of […]

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The Thummer from Thumtronics, I came across this new piece of kit via a post on Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog and I was quite impressed by it. The Thummer has lots of buttons in a new styled layout combined with the abilities to manipulate the sounds it creates via it’s internal synthesizer.

Whether this will […]

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Found this brilliant little video of a Drum & Bass band called London Elektricity. They show you how they play Drum & Bass live which can seem a strange concept at first to musicians who use computers for composition. I like the way in which they describe about how they use instruments such as drum […]

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In a recent post I talked about how you can make your drum tracks sound more human like if you played them in using a keyboard instead of putting in drum hits with the mouse. I then then later showed you a great little video of a keyboard drummer showing off his skills in a […]

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Came across this nice little video posted on metacafe posted by Babblin5. The video shows how you can make some 5.1 surround sound headphones. Although I haven’t tried it myself, I liked the look of this little tutorial and am sure it works quite well. If you want to have a go at producing with […]

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In my previous post, I talked about using a keyboard to play drums in to make them sound more human instead of programming in with a mouse and after a little search around the net came across this brilliant little video. He can play better than some real drummers In my

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10 minute documentary about sampling and copyright made in a collage style with clips of interviews with DJs and producers. This video is available from CopyrightCriminals.com

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CopyrightCriminals.com Documentary Web Site

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Brilliant 18 minute documentary available on YouTube. The “Amen Break” is a 6 second drum loop from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. It is surprising how many times it has been used in different tracks over the years especially in Hip Hop, Drum & Bass and Jungle.

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