Calrec Audio unveiled Artemis Light at IBC 2011, the newest member of its Artemis family of Bluefin2/Hydra2 audio consoles. Artemis Light introduces a new compact processing rack dedicated to delivering DSP and routing capabilities in a 4U enclosure.
According to the brief liner notes, both tracks are the result of a bass guitar put through its paces: "drones effected, looped and processed." Guild is a name adopted by Mark Midgley, who on his markmidgleyofficial.blogspot.comnotes the association between his slomo death pop and the work of My Bloody Valentine and, more recently, Jesu. Midgley is a member of various bands, including Falconetti, Alt, and the Black Lanterns. Album released by the netlabel restingbell.net.
stream from MIXCLOUD
GUILD - "REQUIEM" from the Requiem EP (Rural Colours)
MICE PARADE - "INBETWEEN TIMES" from the album What It Means To Be Left-Handed (Fat Cat)
COOL PIANO ROLL - "MONTENEGRO" from EP2
DAMO SUZUKI with C.I.A. - untitled live improvisation from Hebden Bridge Trades Club, July 31st 2010
top 5 from Weirdo Records
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1.Various artists - Chinese Rocks (Outhouse)
2.International Hello - S/T (Holy Mountain)
3.Les Rallizes Denudes - Heavier Than A Death In The Family (Phoenix)
4.Various Artists - Let's A Go Go (Silver Tortoise)
5.White Boy & The Average Rat Band - S/T
DEAD SEA APES - "SOY DIOS" - free download from here
TWINSISTERMOON - "DESERT PROHECY" from the album "And Then Fell The Ashes..." (Blackest Rainbow)
GLASS TREES - "EVE'S EVE"
CLUTTER - "YELLOW LIGHT DISCARDED" from the EP Yellow Light Discarded (Clutter Music)
BIG BLOCK 454 - "BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH" from their next album, currently a work in progress
MININOKOTO - "THAT SPIRAL ORBIT" from the album Chofu Ekoda Koenji (Plunk's Plan)
Calrec has introduced a modular version of its popular Hydra2 I/O unit.
This compact 3U box has 20 slots which take an array of modules, and allows the unit to be designed to a broadcaster’s exact specifications. Its modular nature enables our customers to design and build a network around their specific needs, resulting in a mix of audio interfaces with an extremely high density of connections, saving rack space and cutting costs.
Designed for studio floor and outside broadcast applications, the unit has all audio (including SDI) and control connections (Hydra2 links, GPIO, Serial) located at the front of the unit, with power cables connected at the rear.
Each of the 21 slots is 4HP, or 0.8 inches wide, with one slot being a dedicated Hydra2 interface module. The remaining 20 slots are all available for other audio interfaces. These cards can be made up of:
Mic/line inputs
Line inputs
Line outputs
AES3 inputs (unbalanced)
AES3 outputs (unbalanced)
AES3 inputs & outputs (balanced)
Dual SDI embedder
Dual SDI de-embedder
Card types can be freely mixed, and as it is a Calrec-designed piece of kit, both primary and secondary Hydra 2 links are provided as standard. In addition, two PSU modules provide redundant power, and PSU modules can be hot-swapped without interruption to operation
as can any of the interface cards.
SDI embedders and de-embedders support SD, HD and 3G SDI streams and are able to decode all four groups (16 channels) and later, as well as de-embedding 32 audio channels from 3G SDI as proposed by SMPTE.
To illustrate the density and flexibility of these boxes one such box can deal with:
40 mic/lines on XLR or
80 line inputs and 80 line outputs on DB25s or
80 unbalanced AES3 inputs or 80 unbalanced AES3 outputs on BNC, or combinations thereof or
160 balanced AES3 inputs and 160 balanced AES3 outputs on DB25 or
32 Embedders or 32 de-embedders (for 16 channel de-embedding), or combinations thereof.
As part of the Hydra2 network, each box will be able to deal with 512 bi-directional signals.
The Modular box joins Calrec’s well established range of fixed format boxes on the Hydra2 network, which provides an enormous 8192 ² synchronous router with mini-GBIC connectors allow customers to fit their own cable connectors. Hydra2’s router is a TDM-type router, capable of true 'one-to-many' routing and is truly point-to-point; any input on one router can address an output on any other. This allows for enormous networks with highly flexible topologies involving multiple routers.
ALT have released a new track and video, Heartless. The Track, scheduled for release as a single later this year, is available now through on ALT Channel Also watch out for extra video updates for previous tracks.
This is to tie in with the new ALT Blog ,which will be updated along with this page for all up to the minute news of the band.
PULSE II is the brand new 2nd EP from the Experimental drone trio, ALT. Available for exclusive download from Indmill.com as a high quality 320 kbps Download.
As Indmill put it themselves:
From the moment we had the idea for Indmill it stuck. Selling music for next to nothing and giving almost everything to the artist made perfect sense. But why wasn’t everyone else doing it?
It used to cost a lot of money to get music in the shops but, to paraphrase a famous poet, the times are a-changing. Music can now be recorded and made available for download without the expense of paying a record company, advertising agency, manufacturer, agent, manager, lawyer or retailer.
With most of these costs out of the window music is getting cheaper … but not cheap enough to persuade a generation of fans to pay to fill their iPods. Unless someone figures out how to pay artists to record music, well … they might not bother.
Contrary to current belief, there is a solution. Indmill customers pay ludicrously low prices for music they can keep and 90% (excludingVAT on EU sales) of the revenue goes straight back to the artist. We take a 10% cut (excluding VAT on EU sales), of which 5% goes to a charity nominated by the artist. The artist can, if they wish, give a cut to charity. The customer also gets the chance to donate something to charity at the checkout. Everyone gives something, everyone gets something. Everyone’s happy.
Indmill sells whole albums and singles as MP3 files (because it’s currently the most widely accepted format) encoded at 256 or 320Kbps (because 128Kbps just doesn’t cut it through decent speakers) and at a price you won’t find anywhere else (without breaking the law). Oh, and we sell whole albums and singles rather than individual tracks because - well that’s how the artists wanted them to be listened to. If you don’t want some of the tracks you’ve downloaded, delete them.
Alt feel that Indmill reflect the integrity and ethics of their music and a percentage of each sale of every track will be donated to Save the Children.