Electric Caress

softheav

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1. Jerohme - Ovalbumin
2. lee - Big Jam Slade
3. love horses - be this horse or uhhhhhhh egg
4. The Simian - clandestine_retrieval
5. Anitta - holivokrizi
6. utopia cloak - egg moon
7. Greystar - Wake Up
8. Dollarstore Keyboard - CRACK
9. Purpledaughter - Kmart Holiday Spirit Tape #235790648

Mastered by Danny Playamaqui
Artwork by Jerohme
Tracklist curation by Purpledaughter

Release date:
21 February 2025

Anitta - holivokrizi

NEWS UPDATE: The second batch of 25 pre-production units are nearing completion and am now taking pre-orders for delivery in June. A new Patch Editor/Librarian App & VST/AU plugin with full automation has also been developed complete with a new library of over 250 sound patches for Win/Mac/Linux and will be free to all Elfin-04 and 01 owners.

Introducing Elfin-04, Hideaway Studio's Compact New 4-Voice Polysynth Expander...
 
I have been working round the clock for weeks now on my dinky little 8-bit 4-Voice (4 x [2osc+1sub+LFO]) VA Poly Expander with 1960's style transformer-mixed output voicing and finally No's.000 thru 010 are born to the world and receiving very positive feedback from their new owners....... this 4-voice polysynth measuring just 16x12x3cm has full real-time control over her 32 parameters via simple midi ccs and 16 built-in patches. 

Based on an expanded form of a customized software synth-core design by ISGK in Japan, I think the Elfin-04's unique voice ouput/mixing transformers do add something for sure - they are driven full-swing with 60KHz PWM resulting in a lot of additional harmonics/mirror frequencies and some saturation that all gets trapped within the transformers which adds a richness/darkness to the sound (no-doubt inspired in part by my beloved DK Synergy). In the Elfin-04, the 4 voices are passively mixed but, unusually, by the topology of the output-transformers themselves which is a trick that used to be found in some more exotic 1960s valve test equipment where multiple signal outputs were mixed on isolated outputs (eg. my huge old Panoramic TTG-2 tube Dual Sinewave Generator). Also, each voice CPU is independently clocked so everything is genuinely free-wheeling across the voices so even the noise phases slowly when played on multiple notes and unison which is pretty cool.

Any questions, please PM me here on S/C or to EF86 on GearSpace.

All Sound Design & Recordings Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2025.

Hideaway's New Elfin-04 Polysynth: Detuned Unison Mode Montage 01

Listen to "Distance" by SeedZ, a collaboration of AudioCompress and Polyklinik. "Ethereal" EP will be self-released on 31st March

Pre-order: https://seedz.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-ep

Links:
SeedZ are AudioCompress and Polyklinik
@audiocompress
https://audiocompress.bandcamp.com
@polycloud

Ethereal EP

pre-order / bandcamp

SeedZ - Distance

The 51st release of katharsis is the album Afterlife by Danish artist Johan Carøe. The album takes shape through a collection of synth vignettes and spectral landscapes, where fragmented strings and ephemeral pads merge into weightless, hyper-lush forms. Created in a period of both new life and impending loss, Afterlife lingers in the space between presence and absence—a fragile transmission of shifting states, quiet relief, and fleeting sonic imprints. It stands as an isolated relic of a time that no longer exists—a collection of echoes, projecting the paradoxical nature of life and death.

Created in solitude on headphones and a MIDI keyboard in a transitional period in life, the album embodies a raw and intimate catharsis—the word in its truest sense. Without the usual studio space, these pieces emerged through line-in synths, VST textures, and fragments of old recordings—saxophone, cello, violin—stitched together like distant memories resurfacing. The absence of microphones and monitors lends the music an eerily virtual quality—a small life in a small box, a stretched-out portrait of a passing moment. It is introspective yet expansive, a meditation on the transient nature of memory, sound, and being.

releases March 31, 2025

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Johan Carøe - Sorrow

Recorded July 2012, arranged and mixed April 2025.

stefllr

"This album is an amalgamation of works about my desire to explore places with my camera, in search of a voice of reason and personal reflection. People enjoy travelling to escape from the realities of life and to enjoy the vastness of earth, people also enjoy travelling to see the wonders of the earth and see the beauties of it, be it walking in the forest or strolling by the coast of the sea. I enjoy travelling as it is a way for me to not think about the shackles of society and have a conversation with myself.

Travel Bag - to the middle of nowhere! is an homage to my mother and grandmother, who inspired me with their passion for exploration."

- Ryouko

Artwork by Erli Grünzweil
Written & Produced by Ronn Tan Hsien Han
Mixed & Mastering by Ioannis Nafpliotis

Special thanks to Mother [Melissa Teo Chong Hia] and Grandma ‘婆婆’ [Chua Chye Hoon 蔡彩雲]

Buy / Stream

Ryouko - bye. (till we meet again)

Duo Musette
Baroque cellos: Mia Grubišić & Dora Kuzmin Maković

commissioned by Zeitschleife
Recorded by Benedikt Alphart

last still life (2025)

This iteration of Peltiform was Nathan Story, Tam Ferrans and Paul Daniels.
 LP3 " TRIPTYCHS" - 25/07/2025.
#FloatingSpirits #Nonima #Mitoma #Dissolved #Apydiagirls #Peltiform

Amberallion

A quick live improv with a newly created evolving patch on a 1987 Böhm Dynamic 12/24 recently overhauled and upgraded to 24-voice.

The 12/24 is an unusual combination of classic 4-OP FM fed into a lovely on-board triple BBD based analog ensemble generator...

Original Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson 2018.

1986 Böhm Dynamic 12/24: Evolution 24V

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