Tiptop Audio is proud to introduce a new project for 2015: Tiptop Audio Records.
In the recent years musical productions have seen a remarkable return to the use of hardware through analog synthesizers and digital control interfaces. This trend has proven so strong that it prompted a rebirth of modular synths in a new format (eurorack).  Tiptop Audio has made a name producing sophisticated but easy to use modules, designed to form a complete system that is especially effective for dance-oriented productions and live sets.

Tiptop Audio Records selected for its first issue some of the most groundbreaking artists using such systems, to present a range of artists who, through their tracks, explore the landscape of dance music in a very fresh perspective.  These are the artists who inspire the Tiptop team to make more innovative devices, which in turn make new music (a nice feedback loop).

ANGLE, BLAWAN, CHRISTIAN BURKHARDT JOAO CESER, JOHN TEJADA, JOSEPH FRAIOLI, MOE ESPINOSA (DRUMCELL), KINK, RICHARD DEVINE and SURGEON each contribute a track stamped with their own style and vision.  Tracks range from Surgeon’s trademark hard minimal beat, to Kink’s gauzy dreamscape, while Richard Devine and Joseph Fraioli explore the outer reaches of beat based music.  The Phase VI team (John Tejada and Moe Espinosa AKA Drumcell) produces an endlessly shifting set of percolating rhythms, Christian Burkhardt and Joao Ceser put some 21st century twists on classic dance floor patterns, ANGLE lay down effortless, sophisticated Continental style and Blawan adds some industrial toned menace.

The release will initially come as a double vinyl edition, with a cover painted by the artist Matteo Giampaglia, and a digital download version will follow.
An original video teaser will introduce the compilation, then other videoclips of the individual tracks will be realized by exciting new visual artists.

9 RICHARD DEVINE - CR HEX MUTANT

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EC Puppets (PJ)

V/A - AUTONOMOUS ADDICTS - The Designed Disorder (001)

Time: 5:51







Richard Devine - "Per-Cer"

Richard Devine is a sound designer and musician whose work, characterized by intricate rhythms and an extensive use of DSP, amassed a following within the IDM scene after his remix of Aphex Twin's "Come To Daddy.” Over the course of his 25-year career, Devine has designed patches for gear by Native instruments, Korg, Eventide, and more. His “Voltage Aesthetics” sample pack reflects his seasoned sound design chops, filled with perfectly designed sounds that are at once wacky and beautiful. Spanning versatile one shots to polished loops, Devine’s sounds are nothing short of electrifying. 

This collection contains

287 samples, 191 crazy alien modular single shot percussion & SFX sounds, 96 loops/sequences/textures. These samples will work well with all your favorite VST/AU samplers, and will equally be great source material for your favorite Eurorack modular samplers :-). 

https://on.splice.com/devine-sample-pack

Richard Devine: Voltage Aesthetics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPPuwFg2SvU
http://smarturl.it/RichardDevineRevsic
http://smarturl.it/RDSortLave
http://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/1079…ine-sortlave
http://richarddevine.bandcamp.com/album/sort-lave

After a break of 6 years, Atlanta based electronic musician, producer and sound designer Richard Devine returns with a new album ‘Sort\Lave’ on Venetian Snares‘ Timesig imprint. Recorded between 2016 and 2017 using Richard’s custom built Eurorack modular system and two Nord G2 Modular units, Sort\Lave features 12 tracks of intricate electronica that ranges from abrasive percussive experiments such as ‘Revsic‘ to ‘Astra’s dazzling juxtaposition of sounds and onto the radiant ambience of the album’s closer ‘Takara‘.

Talking about the album’s genesis Devine explains “I’ve been using modular synthesizers since I was 17, but have never written complete tracks using these newer systems. This was my first experiment to see if it would be possible and I probably spent about 5 years building up the systems that I used on this album.”

“I wanted the record to sound very different to my previous works which had been more cold, digital, clinical even, and had all been made using computers. The aim here was the complete opposite, to create something that felt very organic, detailed, spacious, big and warm and just as importantly, a record that you could put on and play all the way through that flowed in a seamless way.”

This new approach was to prove fruitful and enabled Devine to create music in an entirely new way. “I really wanted to break free from timeline-based music creation and do things with my hands on the fly,” he explains. “So the tracks are more like captured snapshot performances where I could experiment and play around with the idea of probability-based sequencing for every patch, string multiple sequencers together that would feed other sequencers to come up with interesting rhythms and melodies. It was really fun coming up with new sounds this way too, I felt like I created several I haven't heard before with this album. Some of the tracks on the album were complete accidents and evolved from something that happened spontaneously. In the end I feel this is one of the best records I have released to date, so I’m very excited to share it with the world.”

Making his debut in 1995, Devine’s releases for labels including Schematic, Warp Records and Detroit Underground have established him as one of the leading figures within the electronica community. In addition to his musical productions, Devine has enjoyed a lengthy and successful career in sound design, developing patches for many of the world’s leading music technology businesses and working with companies such as Google and Nike.

Sort\Lave

Richard Devine - Revsic (TIMESIG009)

Cinematic Cover (feat. Jung Youth  Fleurie)

In The End Linkin Park

All played live on Hydrasynth, no overdubs or external FX used.  These are demos for the Hydrasynth factory patches I contributed (patch names ending with PS).

Hydrasynth Patch Demos

Richard and I go waaaay back.
Yep, we were touring America together back in 2002 and that was the first time I met him. 
tWas a warp records tour with Mark Bell (RIP), Nightmares on wax, Prefuse 73, Luke Vibert and other nutters! 
He was the guy fixing everyone’s laptops on the bus I recall. We were all busy getting wasted and he was onto something else.
That pretty much explains the man. Super generous with his time and pioneering in his goals and accomplishments. Not a follower. 
Indeed, not content with just making LPs, touring and all of that trad life, Richard’s made his own path and now his work represents the high bar for sound design across the board. 
Whether working for Google, Yamaha or Jaguar Richard is the guy to figure out converting the unknown into the possible. A no to yes convertor. 
We talk about his toughest sonic challenge, the cutting edge of sound tech in 2019 and where he is heading in terms of his AI aspirations.  
We chat about the world of sound that lives above 20kHz.
Why analog ??? and a lot more. 
He’s a deep mind and this chat gets pretty specific in terms of tools used and so forth. 
You’re welcome!

Richard talks about a purely algorithmically generated set of music
Here’s a link:

https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos

Really something unexpected. 

Also That Sanken 100khz mic !

https://bit.ly/32T0j54

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In the nitty today I dive into controlled chaos. Dipping an ankle into the portal!

It’s a lot of eurorack talk. Tricky to explain but I give it a go :)

CHAOS 
CONTROL
CHAOS
?? bit of both like …

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Music for today’s show comes from Fake Baby. Check it here!

http://www.andyrivas.com
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Here’s the link to the competition giveaway thanks to Sonarworks!

What you stand to win!!

* Speaker measurement software – find out where your monitors need help
* DAW plugin – reference sound combined with zero latency for any musical endeavor
* Systemwide – apply calibration to all outgoing audio
* Measurement microphone for  Recording Studios – sniffs out any faults your setup might have
* Custom-tailored calibration file for your Sennheiser HD 650 studio headphones
* Sennheiser HD 650 studio headphones

Enter now!

 https://gleam.io/lroFH/howa-podcast-x-sonarworks-giveaway

EP 57 - RICHARD DEVINE

original music by DREAMDUST

A fully improvised Hydrasynth & Waldorf Microwave XT synths.... atmospheric/ambient sound exploration




FREE DOWNLOAD

'Hipnotized'     Hydrasynth, Waldorf Microwave XT improv

Here's the demo track for my latest upcoming sample library for the Waldorf Quantum and Iridium. Everything you hear apart from the drum track is from the Waldorf Quantum. No analog filters were used - it will sound exactly the same on an Iridium.

The video for this music is here: https://youtu.be/xFQmvWEx9mg

The sample library is called EVO. Subscribe to my Youtube channel to get notified when it is released.

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