Steve Hillage and the Glorious Ohm Riff pretty much changed my life back when it used to change pretty frequently, and the latest studio recording from The Orb promised to bring all those spacescapes flooding back. From minimal beginnings the opener and title track, The Dream, effortlessly builds to world domination levels only to inextricably fade away. Vuja De picks up the thread, ultimately setting the scene for the rest of album which throws almost everything you can imagine into a huge vat of dub. High Noon, Sleeping Tiger and Codes are the high spots for this reviewer, pulling some...

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Grammy Award-winning writer/producer and contemporary music visionary, William Orbit, returns with an eagerly anticipated new album ‘Hello Waveforms’ on Sanctuary Records out on February 7th. His first solo release since 2000’s critically acclaimed ‘Pieces in a Modern Style’, the new album was performed and produced by William. ‘Hello Waveforms’ is ethereal, ambient, subtle and distinctive in style, fusing strong melodies with electronic synths to produce his definitive signature sound. Recorded in London and America, the new album features a collection of collaborations and influence...

Peer to peer file sharing leader Lime Wire and independent label KUFALA Recordings will partner up to distribute KUFALA music via the LimeWire network and the LimeWire-owned MagnetMix site. For the first time, famed artists in the jam band circuit including Soul Coughing (under exclusive license from Warner Bros. Records), The Slip, and New Riders of the Purple Sage can be downloaded an...

Trent Reznor has released a version of Nine Inch Nails' current release The Hand That Feeds in GarageBand format, allowing anyone who has a newer Mac to gain total control of the music. In a document written by Trent that accompanies the 70MB file, he suggests that the user "Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you'd like". Included as part of iLife, Apple Computer's suite of digital lifestyle applications which includes iPhoto, iDVD and the ever popular iTunes, GarageBand is an easy to use yet very powerful audio pro...

You may feel like you're cruising around the big city during the seventies while playing this super cool release from Aram Danesh And The Super Human Crew. It's all there, the wah wah guitar, the Fender Rhodes electric piano, the speed guitar and even a brass section. But what's this? Someone talking really fast about stuff. That's called Rap huh. And the bass sounds are impossibly low. Subsonics, wow. Most of the traditional, and not so tradtitional sounds on The Spot are supplied by a wide assortment of musicians based in and around California's Bay Area, brought together and melde...

Having seen most of the 80's from the stage, recording studio or nightclub as keyboard player with The Bolshoi, I've heard almost all there is to hear from the best that the decade had to offer, and also the worst. The good times include tours with Spear Of Destiny, Love & Rockets, Peter Murphy and countless one off shows with other great bands, and the bad times, well I don't think there were any. So within a few snare beats and synth sounds of listening to New York based Elkland's debut album, Golden, it all came flooding back, in a good way. Frontman and principal songwriter Jon Pierc...

TapeOpCon is a conference and get-together aimed at producers, engineers, studio owners, musicians, the growing legion of home-recordists and anyone with an interest in the creative side of the music recording industry. It's a chance to meet, greet and soak up the knowledge and opinions of an incredibly wide range of studio talent in workshops, panel discussions, live shows, a trade show exhibit area and the inevitable after-hours encounters. And for the second year in a row it's in the great city of New Orleans, a perfect setting for the kind of easy-going and down-to-earth atmosphere that th...