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Version – Background Sound

Alex / DFRNT — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:58:38 +0000

I’ve had this video sitting in my favourites for a little while. I think I saw a link to it on Facebook or something, but anyways, time to post.

Version – Background Sound (Demo Reel) from Alberto Hernandez on Vimeo.

I love the music, the vibe and the feeling it gives me watching the visuals. As someone who loved the states when I was there in the first half of 2010, this takes me back and gives me snippets of cutting about New York, and chilling with the people I met there.

I’d love to find out more about this video, and how Background Sound all fits in to this. Anyone able to shed some light – email me!

Future Sound – An Underground Electronic Music Documentary

Alex / DFRNT — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:08:42 +0000

Presumably some of you will have seen this by now, since it’s been posted around a bit – but I found it interesting, and to an extent inspiring, so if you’ve not watched it – take a moment out to check this.

Future Sound is a short documentary that looks into a small cross section of London’s forward-thinking underground dance music scene, exploring some of the things that define and affect it as it moves into a new age of digital innovation.

Featuring interviews with Roska, Scratcha DVA, Blackdown, Mark Fisher, and Lisa Blanning, plus footage from a live SBTRKT DJ set.

Directed by Jamie Whitby & Rachel Lob-levyt

Skyence – INSCT

Alex / DFRNT — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:02:59 +0000

Skyence sent me this today:

In his words:

There is a story to this one:
Some months ago, I packed my bags, took my girl by the hand and activated the auto-responders – off to South Tirol for a week.
I knew it would be the only time off this year and therewith the only chance to record some fresh nature-sounds without the disturbing humming of hamburg in the back – mobile recorder bagged!

The result: I had a great time running around in the alps and dolomites at around 2000 meters in altitude, collecting some of the weirdest insect sounds, from crickets & locusts to bees, flies and, for sure, some happy italian cows.
After being back in the studio, I started to edit and trim all the applicable sounds to sort them in my foley-libraries. The longer i listened to those insects, the more I wanted to do a track with those edits and use the sounds in a more or less melodic context. That’s when “Insct” was born.

Right at the same time, Johannes Timpernagel hit me up, telling me about this VVVV Patch he’d been working on and that he needed sound to work something out. The rest is history, haha…

So, some months later, I find myself writing you this little note and I want to give you the opportunity to become a part of this journey just by watching the final animation, looking at the pictures and maybe get a little inspiration from all that.

So, what do we have?

The VVVV Animation by Timpernagel:

The photos from the recordings:
http://www.facebook.com/skyence#!/album.php?aid=34914&id=100000545335679

AND my promise, that the full version of the tune will be on my forthcoming album on Project Mooncircle.
http://www.projectmooncircle.com