Recently, Moog had the honor of sitting down with Nine Inch Nails’  Trent Reznor, the genre-defining music innovator, master synthesist and Academy Award winning composer. In the interview, Reznor recounts his intimate relationship with the Minimoog Voyager, which he feels “is the archetype of what a synthesizer is and should be.” Through personal stories, Reznor reveals his decades long history with the instrument and how it has shaped the way he views and creates music. 

The video is set to an original score by British electronic music producer, The Haxan Cloak, co-producer of Bjork’s Vulnicura.. Befitting the occasion, the artist used a Minimoog Voyager and a prototype Mother-32, Moog’s newest synthesizer, to create the score. 

"I made the track in a unique way that I never have before.

I have had modular synths for a long time, and consistently produced music with them, but purposefully never had a ‘keyboard-based’ setup because of not wanting to treat them in such a ‘traditional’ manner (purely for reasons of self-limitation).

Having the Voyager allowed me to utilize a more responsive approach of seeing the picture and essentially ‘playing’ along to it. I then took those results and used them to modulate other parameters and processed them further. The Mother 32 was used extensively as a sound source alongside also.

The Voyager is a synth I have always been fascinated by, but unfortunately never had the opportunity to own. I knew people that had them, but my first physical encounter was actually on the recent Bjork tour.  I used it for a lot for recreating basslines from her back catalogue, which it did effortlessly.
It’s such an incredibly versatile synth and has already become a uniquely indispensable backbone of my studio." - The Haxan Cloak

Archetype Of A Synthesizer - The Haxan Cloak

Tracklist:
Side A
A1 Bad Endings  
A2 Lulled Into Lethargy 
A3 Toxic Attraction 

Side B
B1 Fear And Satisfaction 
B2 Join My Torture 
B3 Afraid Of Chang

Restive Plaggona - Unready To Exist EP (SCX05)

A collab I did with @premochunes from his new EP "Temporal Device" coming out July 26th on @billegalbeats

This track is available immediately when you preorder here: https://billegalbeats.bandcamp.com/album/premo-temporal-device-ep

Temporal Device

Lord Buttwang

Mr. Bill & premo. - Lord Buttwang [Billegal Beats]

My intention with the remix was to create a powerful, more playable, but still elaborated version of Christians sublime work. It was important for me to preserve the apodictic flow of the original track, its antagonistic character with its silent, overflowing breaks.

Refu

Christian Löffler - Refu (Dominik Eulberg Remix)

Premiere #130

Artist: Swarm Intelligence
Title: Holographic
Album: 'Ultraware' EP
Label: Voitax
Format: Vinyl 12', Digital
Release: Early Jan, 2020
Pre order: bit.ly/37VuN9z

Employing a toolkit of cutting-edge DSP, Swarm Intelligence reimagines classic rave frameworks for dancefloors of the future. »Ultraware« traces a path through electro, big beat, jungle and acid – optimising and reconstructing until only fragmented traces remain.

Following up from his widely acclaimed »Against the Dying Light« album, this EP marks a new shift in the ever-evolving Swarm Intelligence sound. A relentless explorer of audio technology, here he utilizes spectral processing alongside convolution and granular synthesis to craft a gritty sonic repository for the four tracks.

Even in moments when the sequences disintegrate into chaos before reassembling into a coherent form, there is never a feeling that Swarm Intelligence is not in full control – this is an artist who thrives on complexity.

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Premiere: Swarm Intelligence - Holographic [Voitax]

Swarm Intelligence - Ultraware EP [VOI018]
Label: VOITAX
Release Date: January 2020 
Format: 12” Vinyl, Digital

Tracklist
A1. Swarm Intelligence - Rise Of The Machines
A2. Swarm Intelligence - Holographic
B1. Swarm Intelligence - Cybernetic
B2. Swarm Intelligence - Our Wounds Are Opposite

Press release:
Employing a toolkit of cutting-edge DSP, Swarm Intelligence reimagines classic rave frameworks for dancefloors of the future. »Ultraware« traces a path through electro, big beat, jungle and acid – optimising and reconstructing until only fragmented traces remain.
Following up from his widely acclaimed »Against the Dying Light« album, this EP marks a new shift in the ever-evolving Swarm Intelligence sound. A relentless explorer of audio technology, here he utilizes spectral processing alongside convolution and granular synthesis to craft a gritty sonic repository for the four tracks.
Even in moments when the sequences disintegrate into chaos before reassembling into a coherent form, there is never a feeling that Swarm Intelligence is not in full control – this is an artist who thrives on complexity.
Referencing the cyborg-fetishising electro of the early 90s, »Rise of the Machines« opens the EP. Stark and booming, its slick bassline dominates the mix with club-shaking heft. Having escalated to peak intensity, the track abruptly cuts to a simulated scratch routine before slamming back in with gigawatts of pure sonic power.
Up next is »Holographic«, a trippy hybrid of abstract techno and big beat. Shifting textures whirr around a thundering kick drum pattern and off-kilter snare hits, as the track pummels its way towards a ghostly breakdown.
Over on the B-side is »Cybernetic«. An evolved jungle cut, its rolling bassline and snare fills propel the track through clouds of grainy melodies. Swarm Intelligence’s modular synth features heavily as the track dissolves into a crunchy lo-fi drum solo before serving up a series of cine- matic impacts in its final moments.
»Our Wounds Are Opposite« is the last track. Hyper-produced, disjointed beats cut through forlorn pads and glitchy synths to create this 3D-printed ballad. Juxtaposing the reverberating melodies, its laser zaps and over-driven snare mark the track’s passage with absolute precision.

Swarm Intelligence - Rise Of The Machines [Artaphine Premiere]

Formal Method 2013 óta alkot ezen alterego alatt, de több mint 10 éve jelen van a szcénában dj-ként és producerként, különböző nevekkel. Nem szereti bekategorizálni magát, mostanra olyan szélesre tárult a zenei repertoárja, hogy egy-egy szettjében is ízelítőt kaphatunk az elektronikus zene legkülönbözőbb irányaiból, melyeket előszeretettel vegyít stílusra és korszakra való tekintet nélkül. Saját munkáiban sem szorítja magát keretek közé, hiszen annyi irányból érik behatások hogy fölösleges is lenne szigorúan kategorizálni munkáit. Kiadója az Audioexit Records 2007 óta aktív kisebb nagyobb megszakításokkal, ingyenes netlabelként indult, több hazai és nemzetközi feltörekvő tehetségnek is lehetőséget biztosítva, hogy megmutassa magát a világnak. Emellett ismert és elismert művészek munkái is helyet kaptak a katalógusban, és kereken 100 ingyenes kiadvány után a kiadó is új útra lépett, melyen elsősorban a fizikai hanghordózókon való megjelenést részesíti előnyben. Két válogatás kazetta utána következőkben is marad a kijelölt úton, kizárólag a minőséget és mainstream mentességet előtérbe helyezve.

TKWT Podcast #010 - Formal Method

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Artist: MAERE
Title: 'KNIVES'
Label: DIVISION 
Cat. #: DVSN063
Format: Digital
Release: 17th April, 2020
Pre order: https://fanlink.to/OBSOLESCE

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new MAERE' track remixed by Swarm Intelligence on 'DIVISION Recordings'.
MAERE took flight following a lengthy Berlin winter. 
With a broad range of musical interests that span from post rock to hip hop, MAERE's music incorporates a diversity of sounds and ideas into a boundless mixture of pounding beats awash in atmospheric drones, throbbing noise, strobing vocals and haunting melodies.
The original track is given an industrial rework by the mighty Swarm Intelligence, increasing the distortion on this dark and tense banger of a remix.

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Premiere: MAERE - KNIVES (Swarm Intelligence Remix) [DIVISION]

RELEASE DATE: 2020-04-16
LABEL: Radio-Quiet Records
CATALOG: RQ70

The 70th release of series on this platform is including four fresh techno tracks. One original from Doeme and three fresh remixes by Balatro, Comet, Snap-9A. This is Doeme's first single release on Radio-Quiet.

Doeme - Tales Of V. (Balatro Remix)

OBSCUUR is proud to welcome back the excellent Liza Aikin, after her stellar contribution to the “Withered Tales” album. Liza returns with her own release, a take on industrial techno named “Infirm Past”.

Her signature brand of techno spans over two original tracks, a force of sound cemented by how well it blends with the remix efforts of Swarm Intelligence and VSK. This is an EP covering all grounds, from immersive techno to harder-edge dance floor percussion.

First up is “Hospital Bed”, club ready and on the harder end of the scale, it delivers increasingly frustrating emotions through percussion packed with field recordings literally from the mechanisms within hospital machines. Swarm Intelligence adds the remix favour, with a growling bassline and broken techno cuts.

“Enclave” follows up, with a sophisticated palette of layered pounding rhythms. Glued together with a hypnotically morphing melody, VSK steps up to the plate for the remix, plastering his well-known sound all over and slowing the drums to achieve a pure meditative hallucination.

Liza Aikin consistently strives to push her sound in new directions, the known mixing with the unknown, making this EP a rewarding listening experience both at the club and at home.

Title: Infirm Past
Label: Obscuur Records
Cat no: OBSCRV003
Release Date: October 31st, 2020
Format: Vinyl, Digital

Premiere: Liza Aikin - Hospital Bed (Swarm Intelligence remix)

Balatro started to get closer to electronic music around the age of 16. A few years later - in 2005 - he began to manufacture his own sounds and rhythms. Since than, he tasted many styles, and tries not to stress too much over the boundaries, cut by genres. Throughout the years, his songs got released by multiple international labels.
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