D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

ALTAI ROCKETS

The art-house espionage of Werner Herzog, Tarkovsky and The Ipcress File. The seedy glamour of old Soho. The bombing of Belgrade and the looting of South London council estates. And the communist junkyard of the Altai Republic, the Balkan region where Russian test rockets fall in farmer’s gardens, unable to reach the coast.

These are the building blocks of Altai Rockets, the long-gestating brainchild of London’s Nick Bergin, Nathan Fisher and Graham Bonnar alumni of bands such as Sophia, The Tears, and 'Brian Jonestown Massacre. They began regular Friday night sessions at Nathan’s Crouch End flat, where high on copious amounts of wine and bizarre guitar tunings. 

Before long they had songs running the gamut of noir rock styles from krautrock noise drone to indie epic to folk Spiritualized. And, crucially, they all wrapped Nick’s lyrics of personal anguish in a dark, paranoid Eastern Bloc intrigue. Altai Rockets were launched.


The result is a raining bombardment of bleak beauty. ‘Searchlight’ is the sound of a South London riot strafed with police helicopter spotlights, building to a huge noise crescendo to make My Bloody Valentines knees tremble. 
‘La chere’ is a Debussy-like classical rock wonder inspired by Paul Auster’s story of a sea-bound prison break-out that turns cannibalistic. ‘How The Mighty Have Fallen’ is a lush Spiritualized homage slumped, bedraggled and heartbroken, in Soho dive bars and Dostoyevsky taverns. And ‘Revolution Eyes’  takes the same locked-in desolation to war-torn eastern Europe.

“It was inspired by that radio station that transmitted through the NATO bombings of Belgrade,” Nick explains. “They were illegally transmitting Milosevic. People would be out in the streets after curfew and in the drinking dens for 24-hours because they weren’t allowed out and it used to get out of hand in there.”

About to get out of hand? That’s Altai Rockets themselves, set to explode onto the live scene.Bunker down in the beer halls, comrades, the countdown has begun.

Whether he’s sculpting kick drums from recordings of balloons being popped, defying dance music’s loyalty to the 4x4 beat with unusual time signatures, or engaged in conversation with past versions of himself while he creates art for the future… Everything you need to know about the young Scottish electronic artist and multi-instrumentalist WhyTwo exists and thrives in the spaces in between. 
His intricate, detailed and highly musical sound explores the space between dancefloors and headphones. His constant use of Foley recordings and his passion for classic jungle breakbeats surveys the space between drum & bass and avant-garde electronic music. His artist name and one of the strongest musical inspirations in his life traverse the space between then and now: WhyTwo was one of his earliest words as a toddler (it’s what he called fire engines) while his jazz musician grandfather was a huge influence on him.   
Even his hectic range of occupations creates an exciting space for WhyTwo to evolve… A freelance sound designer, an engineer in a renown Edinburgh jazz club and a regular session musician with numerous bands flexing all manner of genres; WhyTwo bounces between these universes, sampling his environments and those close to him, pushing himself to never repeat the same idea, process or sound again, constantly trying to express meaning and articulate emotion through instrumental music.
To date this unique meaning and emotion can be experienced on just a handful of releases – from a brief sojourn on the late great experimental drum & bass imprint Med School to his beguiling debut album Ghost on Blu Mar Ten’s cult imprint BMTM – but plenty more is expected imminently as WhyTwo continues to make himself known to the wider fringes of breakbeat culture. Forever exploring the unchartered playgrounds between the influences of the past, the present in which you read these words… And his own exciting future.

https://blumarten.bandcamp.com/album/ghost

Yowser!
My name is Leon, but you might as well know me as Beat Scientist (or a few more aliases over the years)...
I'm always on the look out for possible-collabs and like minded people...

I am an ex-music production student, electronic musician and renowned synthesizer enthusiast. 
I am a user of hardware and software when it comes to production, and genre can vary depending on what I'm using or them mood I'm in.

Peace,
L


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