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Ruin - Happy Drone Day17.06.2009 03:20:11
Happy Drone Day is a minimal rhythmic drone album recorded in 2008. The recording process served as an exorcism for a rough period. Atmosphere is thick on the album; sounds of slow decay and rusting textures. A perfect listen for napping, zoning out, concentration, traversing a barren wasteland, etc. Enjoy!
Happy Drone Day was released as the first ever release on the bitkins netlabel, you can either get a digital download on the bitkins website, or order a physical copy from kunaki.
Wesen - Zwiebel EP17.06.2009 03:20:11
I'm super proud to announce my first release, called ZWIEBEL EP, a 3" CD limited to 100 + digital release on rednetic records, in a series of minimal techno EPs. Get it over at rednetic, click here to get to the shop.
Also mixed into a wonderfully lush and deep set by Martin Schulte that you can get for free on the rednetic website. Been listening to this on loop for the past few days!
It's some older machinedrum tracks I rearranged quite a bit in ableton, very happy with it, especially with the third track "Mercurian Asses". Hope you enjoy! Getting this out definitely made me want to more releases, and although days are completely crazy here, I'm sure I'll get that in. Here's some newer stuff I've been working on (definitely just a sketch, but you get the direction):
Synevo : new Ruin drum VST17.06.2009 03:20:11
Following up on the Drummm VST, here is another VST by Ruin, in the same vein of nasty sizzling drum sounds. You will notice that it only has a few presets, because we wanted to let you explore the sonic possibilities of this creation. We are planning to release sound banks for both Drummm and Synevo, so if you have any presets to share, email us at info@ruinwesen.com. You can download the synth here (in source version for Synthmaker, and as a DLL for windows, sadly no macosx version yet):
Let's hear what Ruin has to say about Synevo.
So, another free VST. This one carries on the lineage of Drummm. It is essentially a richly featured Drummm, also it happens to look a hell of a lot nicer. Second thing you will notice (first thing is that it looks shit tons better.) is that it has more than twice the amount of controls Drummm had. I had stated that I wanted Drummm to be super simple, no frills. Synevo gives you all the niceties that you perhaps wish that Drummm had, like a filter, full ADSR, two kinds of modulation, FM and PM (Phase Modulation.) I also added a few more interesting things. On the overall output envelope there is first a knob, than a switch; putting this switch into the left position activates the variable decay and the knob controls range. Essentially it generates a random decay length, with range moving clockwise changing the size of variance. This was added to give a more 'human' feel; make the drums less static. There is also a 'Random' section that can be applied to the bit crusher or to the VCF. Use this to make goofy, grungey, ugly, smooth FM/PD sounds.
More Minicommand Firmwares17.02.2009 16:04:51
I spent the whole weekend building nice firmwares for the minicommand, here are a few videos. Also, I finally found a solution for shipping overseas and worldwide, so the units will soon hit the road. Glad also to announce that I found a nice solution for storage on the MiniCommand, and it will feature a blazing 1 GB of storage (!!).
This is a video showing how to play arpeggios on the machinedrum:
This is a video showing how to generate algorithmic basslines:
This is a video showing the patch I use when I play live, with integrated supatrigga. Also demoes a small utility firmware to show pitches on the MachineDrum:
Finished casings!13.02.2009 02:21:20
I have to post this because you can't even fathom how excited and relieved I am, after 6 months of hard word and rethinking the casing and redoing the electronics and lots lots of development, I'm very proud to show you the first picture of the finished minicommand. The logo engraving will change, but the rest is pretty much the real deal:
Have a look at this video to see the details about the device:
