Electronic Music NewsNative Instruments Releases Kontakt Retro Machines
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- Native Instruments Releases Kontakt Retro Machines
- What’s On: Weekday Planner
- LAL shines a light on darkness
- Events for Thursday in New York
Native Instruments Releases Kontakt Retro Machines
MIX – May 22, 2008
Based on material from the Kontakt 3 factory library Kontakt Retro Machines offers a collection of vintage instruments that helped define electronic music genres of the past few decades. The sounds in Kontakt Retro Machines originate from 11 analog synths five vintage digital synthesizers and six classic drum machines with a dedicated sample set for each of the more than 130 included KoreSounds. The sounds range from electronic music of the ’70s to the rough electro and hip-hop of the early ’80s. Performance features include adjustable glide unison polyphonic portamento optional pure-tuning mode and more. All options are provided through the sound shaping and control features of the Kore platform and the integrated Kontakt engine.
What’s On: Weekday Planner
Toronto Star – May 22, 2008
caEventsBed Time Stories from Imago Fashion is a night of "fashion fetishism and tantalizing performance theatre. " Over 30 designers take part and there are performances from dancer Jonté electronic music figure skating duo Bizune Circus Diablo and appearances by Lena Love and Project Runway's Evan Biddell. Kynt and Vyxsin from The Amazing Race host the event tonight 9 p.
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LAL shines a light on darkness
Toronto Star – May 22, 2008
The folk-festival circuit got my head around a lot of beautiful songs so I just reverted to writing folk songs with my twist of songwriting. "We’re also very much a part of a diverse artistic community in Toronto and abroad so these musicians and artists around us really just inspired us. I mean we jump around the techno hip-hop soul and electronic music scenes as well as the `world’ jazz folk theatre and activist scenes queer or straight black Asian or white or all mixed up. Our music is a reflection of our community. " Just the factsWHO: LAL with Luanda Jones and DJs Nik Red and Moonstarr WHERE: Wrongbar 1279 Queen St. WHEN: Tonight 9:30 COVER: $10-$15 (sliding scale).
Events for Thursday in New York
New York Daily News – May 22, 2008
Sound meets technology at the final installment of a three day series presented by the. Blurring the lines between band and ensemble.