Reportings from NAMM

To be honest - I think there was a distinct lack of big announcements to be made...

no hovercraft Moog, no laser guitars or computers than run on your own sense of self-satisfaction...

There were a few biggies, Nord, released their stage piano [which is the same size and same engine as their nord stage, why the fuck you'd bother is beyond me!] Nord Stage FTW everyday

Moog re-released their famous Taurus, with added usb jive and all that shit [but a sod to play, so I wouldn't bother!]

Ableton announced integration with Serato, released all the MAX/MSP plug-ins for live and released a new launch-pad... but nothing really really special... the serato thing let me down a wee bit... but cool none-the-less

Redmatica released an AWESOME off-line sampler... check their website for that [actually next level capabilities]

other than that, good old Electro Harmonix had a few bits, Sonnox and Waves did their usual ting, few random inventions [like fold-up piano, not rly all that good] and those people who did the fold-up hard were there...

PreSonus announced integration with SoundCloud, they now have a DAW with an export to SoundCloud function [expect Ableton and others to jump on this in-time for MusilkMesse I'd imagine]

I however, met David Smith [of Sequential Circuits] Bootsy Collins, Victor Wooten and Zachery Vex [but I guess he *has* to be there!]

In Due Time by J-Treole

In Due Time  by  J-Treole

awesome months

Awesome months for EP sales... am well chuffed at it. We've sold more this months than all year [both EPs put together!] and nearly all of last year...

So that's it really.

Been mental busy day e-mailing/txting/SoundcClouding/facebooking musicians to get involved with the forthcoming [yet un-named J-Treole EP - which is so fucking shit-hot by the way]

Details to come another time...

but it'll be alot

Pos secret Acoustic recording coming up this w/e, but unconfirmed.

Byye!

update

Nothing of haaauuge importance to report today - added some new pads to mr. wolf [yay!]
and the 'Taylor' [aptly named after Taylor Swift] release of SoundCloud came out today, check it:

http://blog.soundcloud.com/2009/11/10/taylor/

has some swell new features, but i'll let y'all check it out

Must also plug new releases...:

Ithaca Trio [aka Ollie Thurley & Co] have an album on the horizon
here's their bits:
http://soundcloud.com/ithaca-trio
http://twitter.com/ithacatrio
http://ithacatrio.wordpress.com/

these guys have been making making their drone ripples in the ocean that it Ambient since... well not long now. They [he] is actually awesome though, builds his own instruments and does alot of stuff live [take note >>>any other electronic producers!]

He's also dabbled in some J-Treole live stuff, and has some enat jazz-chops.

Also from the OneWish and StereoType camp... [available on iTunes too]

http://www.twitter.com/onewishmc
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Day-Life-Explicit/dp/B002PCS17K/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1255620549&sr=301-2

They're doing Soundclash at Cambridge Fez w/ Klashnekoff, so are making moves. Liam's been there since day-fucking-one in terms of J-Treole support, he's got us some good gigs and is a top-guy, Stereotype [his producer] is one mean mother-fucker with the MPC, and all his tunes are pretty dope. So go buy it mofos.

[btw Liam if you're reading this - you're fucking impossible to find on google, cept some old youtube vids and the Cbanger blog review, no twitter/vimeo/blogspot! sort it out!]

um, that's probably it for now, i need to go to Tesco and take the rubbish out

A

the afformentioned sully remix

sully - the loot remix  by  J-Treole