Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Somebody complained about my big ego and my mania of posting pics of myself... Here's another one. Posted by Hello

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

The song now sound great without the vocals...

After mixing and getting mad the whole weekend I took the vocals away and mixed the song using a flute sound as a reference... The song is pumping again!!!

Vocals are EXTREMELY IMPORTANT in pop music... They are what make a track work... Even in very uptempo rithmic music the vocals are what make the groove work... The vocals I had were poor (the singer has a nice voice but she's inexperienced) so THAT's the reason the track sounded dull...

In searching for a better sound I added another bus to the mix with a distorsion effect and run some sound through it... Then I lowered the drive of the distorsion... Now the tack sound cooler... It was too clean... Now is a little more dirty...

Monday, April 25, 2005

Pet Shop Boys Musical Opening In Australia

from synthpop.net
Posted by: DaftMonk on Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 10:32 AM, 24 reads.


A new production of “Closer To Heaven,” the musical written by the Pet Shop Boys and playwright Jonathan Harvey, has been confirmed between June 8th to the 18th at the Brisbane Powerhouse in Brisbane, Australia. This marks the first production since the show’s original five month run in London in 2001.

Pet Shop Boys are currently writing material in Italy with programmer Luca Baldini of dance duo Drama Society for inclusion on their new album, expected to be released in 2006, with a reported eight songs already complete. Not content to simply work on one project, the Boys have also written a song titled “Baby” which will be recorded by Swedish pop group Alcazar for release later this year and Pet Shop Boys have also selected tracks for a double-CD entry in the “Back To Mine” chill out compilation series with a separate disc dedicated to each of the duo’s picks for “after-hours grooving” to be released shortly.
Further information available at petshopboys.co.uk.

Forums down

The forums at www.electroculturemagazine.com are down, apparently as a result of a violent discussion about the 80's music.... The page now redirects people to www.synthpop.net

Urlelated to this, but syncronically, I decidad to stop participating at the forums at Buenos Aliens... I'm tired of being accused of being "commercial" by a bunch of losers.

Post Mixing Depression

It's 1:34 AM and now I feel that my songs sound horrible, I'm a horrible producer and everything sucks...

Sunday, April 24, 2005

I Spent The Whole Afternoon Mixing

A singer came yesterday... (well, singers came all the week). It was a young girl with a good voice but with zero experience recording. We recorded voices for two hours (the song was in English and I kept them singing till the pronunciation was fair enough). Today I mixed the song (the voice was not complete but I mixed it anyway). Sounds good.

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Internet only remixes for New Order

From SideLine Magazine

imageNew Order has produced remixes of their "Krafty" single exclusively for internet downloads. "The Glimmers 12" Extended Remix" and "The Glimmers Dub Version" together with the "Phone Reality Remix" will be available from iTunes from April 26. The original track features on the "Waiting to the Sirens" album, New Order's first studio album since "Get Ready" in 2001.

Friday, April 22, 2005

Garbage. Shirley is the singer (the girl). Posted by Hello

Sí de Clarín: Shirley Manson

De Clarín Digital. Sólo lo posteo porque van a sacarlo de la página en breve.



Después de 4 años de silencio, la cantante de Garbage explica las claves de su nuevo disco ("Bleed like me"), donde rockea con los dos temas que la obsesionan: el sexo y la política.


Txt. Nicolás Artusi.
nartusi@clarin.com



Uno se la imagina de negro, montada a los tacos aguja y, en las fantasías más arriesgadas, con la garra de una mujer-pantera. "Shirley Manson no tiene una belleza convencional y eso hace que no puedas sacar la mirada de encima de ella", dice la periodista inglesa que entrevista a la cantante de Garbage en Londres, pero yo no entro en hipnosis porque hablo con Shirley por teléfono y, como única seña personal, noto que pronuncia las errrrrres con el fervor de una institutriz austríaca. "Su cara recuerda a Picasso en su fase cubista", describe la inglesa: "Elegantemente angulosa, con labios fruncidos y ojos delineados un poco demasiado separados". Shirley es una pinturita: a veces Picasso y otras, la del Payaso Triste que cuelga en el living de la tía Delia.

—Te definieron como una "mezcla de sensibilidad glam y pesimismo escocés". ¿Estás de acuerdo?

—Soy escocesa y tengo una veta pesimista pero eso es propio de alguien que vive en una cultura empapada de pesimismo. Vivimos en un clima muy duro, llueve siempre. ¡Vivo pensando en un desastre inminente!

(Si no le gusta la lluvia, qué duro habrá sido dejar Edimburgo, "mi hogar oficial, donde recibo los impuestos", y mudarse a Wisconsin, el desierto blanco americano donde filmaron Fargo: "Aunque hoy viajo como una nómade... ¡soy una gitana del rock and roll, baby!").

Volviendo a la definición, más difícil será que acepte lo del glamour sensible: "No, no. No me identifico con la forma en que la gente me percibe". Lo dice: a) la pop model de Calvin Klein y cosméticos MAC, la dueña de uno de los rostros más fashionistas de Europa; b) la que en su último tema (Why Do You Love Me) aclara: "No soy tan linda como las chicas de las revistas".

—Ahí salen seres humanos que no tienen nada que ver con la realidad. Nadie tiene los abdominales marcados como una plancha de ravioles. Y todos somos culpables al compararnos con esa idea de belleza. Aunque no sé cómo es en la Argentina, donde hay gente muy linda...

¿Está siendo irónica? Shirley se monta en su personaje preferido: es la dominatriz del rock que grita con la fuerza de la que estuvo callada a la fuerza. Garbage no saca un disco desde hace cuatro años, cuando un quiste en las cuerdas vocales la dejó literalmente muda. Si Gudrun, la protagonista de The Raspberry Reich (la última sátira porno de Bruce LaBruce: está en el BAFICI) se cansa de la vida burguesa y propone la revolución amatoria, Shirley parece seguir los pasos de aquella anarquista del amor y aclara su plataforma: "Todo es sobre sexo y política".

—Hablás de amor, engaño, traición... ¿qué te pasó en estos cuatro años?

—Tuve la misma cuota de problemas que todo el mundo. Y supongo que eso salió a la luz en estas canciones, pero no todas son autobiográficas.

—¿Son un estudio sobre las crisis amorosas de los treinta y pico?

—No, para nada. El disco habla de una lucha por aceptarnos a nosotros mismos, con defectos y vulnerabilidades, pero no del amor perdido. Muchos temas son políticos, como Metal Heart, que es una canción antibélica.

—¿Está inspirada en la guerra de Irak?

—Sí. La escribí pensando en lo que debe sentir un soldado al llegar a Irak y darse cuenta de que las razones que le dieron no son ciertas, que lo engañaron. Fue una guerra loca y Bush y Blair se comportaron de una manera irresponsable e inhumana.

—También decís que el verdadero enemigo no es el sexo...

—Claro: Sex Is Not the Enemy es una canción de fiesta y tiene que ver con el sexo y la política, sobre todo con referencia a EE.UU., donde hay un avance de la derecha moralista y una firme decisión de Bush de atentar contra los derechos reproductivos de la mujer y de quitarles a los gays el derecho a casarse.

—Garbage nació hace 10 años: ¿te sentís una sobreviviente de los '90?

—Me siento una sobreviviente y punto. Hago discos desde los '80, tengo suerte porque tengo éxito. Me considero una privilegiada porque es poco frecuente en esta industria que una mujer tenga una carrera tan larga...

Shirley evangeliza con la convicción del exitoso comprometido (sí: Bono es uno de sus mejores amigos). En esta época aprovecha cada micrófono para hablar de sexo progre o para desconfiar de Bush & Blair. Y si al lanzar el disco Version 2.0 (1998) reconocía las conspiranoias como fuente de inspiración ("tiene influencias de Patti Smith y Kraftwerk, pero también de películas como La conversación o El embajador del miedo"), hoy directamente se asume: "Esta es mi mejor definición: soy liberal y paranoica".

Bergoglio y la votación de papa

La Nación On Line 22/ Abril/ 2005

Por Elisabetta Piqué
Corresponsal en Italia

ROMA.– En el cónclave relámpago que eligió el martes último a Benedicto XVI, “el candidato verdadero, el único, además de Ratzinger, fue el argentino Jorge Mario Bergoglio”, reveló ayer un prestigioso vaticanista.

Después de su encierro “cum clave”, pese al juramento de mantener el secreto, muchos cardenales electores están contando a grandes rasgos qué pasó en la fascinante elección. Así, mientras el nuevo papa, Benedicto XVI, confirmó ayer en sus puestos al influyente secretario de Estado, Angelo Sodano, y a su sustituto, el arzobispo argentino Leonardo Sandri, en medio de varios relatos aparecidos en la prensa italiana de cómo se llegó a su rapidísima elección, Andrea Tornielli, vaticanista del diario Il Giornale, hizo una reconstrucción más que interesante.

Afirmó, de hecho, que el arzobispo de Buenos Aires cosechó una buena cantidad de votos en el segundo y último día de votación, durante los dos escrutinios del martes por la mañana. Sin embargo, en la cuarta votación, Ratzinger fue electo con más de 90 votos, con lo cual superó el mínimo de 77 votos necesarios, equivalente a los dos tercios de los 115 cardenales electores.

"Mis fuentes son más que seguras, son todos cardenales electores, pero todavía no logré establecer cuántos votos finalmente alcanzó Bergoglio", dijo Tornielli al ser consultado por LA NACION. "De todos modos es evidente que Bergoglio obtuvo una clara demostración de estima, porque desde la mañana del segundo día, en la segunda y tercera votación, creció mucho, aunque nunca tanto como para superar a Ratzinger. Pero es notable que fue el único nombre que le dio batalla", agregó.

En su artículo, Tornielli precisó que, tal como se había vaticinado, en la primera votación del lunes por la tarde, Ratzinger, "la única candidatura seria" -respaldada por un bloque conservador-, logró el apoyo de cuarenta purpurados.

El frente opuesto, de tendencia progresista, presentó al cardenal Carlo Maria Martini, el prestigioso ex arzobispo de Milán, de 78 años, que, como "candidato de bandera", ese día alcanzó "casi la misma cantidad de votos". Según otras fuentes, sin embargo, Martini habría superado a Ratzinger en esa votación.

Esa misma noche, en la Casa de Santa Marta, Martini, un intelectual que siempre dejó en claro que debido a su enfermedad -Parkinson- no era candidato serio para ser Papa, "habría pedido que no lo voten más".

A la mañana siguiente, el martes, según Tornielli, "muchos de los votos que antes había cosechado Marini se trasladaron al arzobispo de Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio, jesuita como él".

"Otros votos se fueron dispersando, mientras el apoyo a Ratzinger fue lentamente creciendo: el futuro Benedicto XVI habría superado, de hecho, los 50 votos. En el escrutinio siguiente, el cardenal alemán habría crecido ulteriormente, pero también los sufragios de Bergoglio aumentaron, convirtiéndolo así en el único candidato consistente para los que no querían a Ratzinger".

Tornielli dijo a LA NACION que, desde su punto de vista, "fue una operación inteligente de parte del frente reformista la de impulsar a Bergoglio, porque no es de izquierda, sino que podía ser un candidato de mediación".

Opinó también que, de todas formas, ese bloque cometió un "gran error estratégico al decidir votar a Martini para bloquear a Ratzinger, porque éste sólo era un candidato de bandera, mientras que la de Ratzinger era una candidatura verdadera, que fue creciendo en forma constante también porque es una figura muy conocida entre los cardenales".

Este prestigioso vaticanista consideró, sin embargo, que un dato muy importante es que "en el primer cónclave en el cual no hubo un verdadero candidato italiano, el único candidato verdadero, que pudo darle batalla al que resultó electo, fue un latinoamericano".

El cardenal belga Godfried Danneels -también considerado papable- confirmó con una frase las conclusiones de Tornielli, que coinciden también con lo que pudo saber esta corresponsal: fueron varias las figuras europeas, norteamericanas y latinoamericanas dispuestas a apoyar a Bergoglio como alternativa al ex prefecto para la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe.

"La elección del cardenal Ratzinger demostró que aún no era el momento de un papa latinoamericano", dijo Danneels, arzobispo de Bruselas, al diario holandés De Morgen. Danneels, un progresista, se negó a dar más detalles, y explicó: "Si lo hago, violo el secreto del cónclave".

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Sunday, April 17, 2005

Singers are coming!!

Well this week I expect three singers... I'm starting to get singers and those know even more singers... These girls sing great... Expect more news soon.

I bought New Order's Waiting For The Siren's Call

The last New Order album was released in Argentina last week so I bought it today. Sounds good, but a little reto/ classic for my taste...
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I was interviewed for cable TV at the FAV (Festival Argentino del Videoclip)

Some friends of mine organized the 2nd Argentinean Festival of video clips and I went, it was a 2 nights event.

The second night there were some journalists. I started talking with a girl who had a microphone and was covering the event for a cable program (it's the program for a fashionable jeans brand, so they cover the night, arts etc). I told them that I was a pop musician, that I was about to release an album and that I wanted to keep them informed in case covered that kind of things, she said they did.

She seemed to have seen me interesting enough to ask me some questions in camara. As you must know it's not easy to talk in these conditions. It was crowded, everyone looking at us, the music was loud and the camara had a very powerful light that blinded us. I asked her to tell me what she was going to ask me so I could think about the answers, she gave me one minute.

She asked me what did I think about the festival (very important thing), if I had any video being airplayed in the festival (no, I said, I had one last year but not going for the prize to avoid suspicacies because I was a good friend of the organizers) and what did I think about the videos (most of them sucked and were amateurish, but i just said "it amazes me to see what people who have no budget can do with only a small camara and a good idea". Take it as you want).

Did I have any favorite? Yes, a song in English, because I write songs in English, I explained to her.

The girl said "you were brilliant, good we asked you to talk". The funny thing is that there were people more important than me there, and I don't even know if the winners of the festival were asked to talk... But I had the cool pop star look... Maybe... I don't know...

That night I ended at the VIP sector drinking for free. OK, my friends organized the thing, but everyone assumed I was someone important...

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

70's Movies: A Clockwork Orange trivia

From the 70's Movies Fast Rewind

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Kubrick once said "If Malcolm [McDowell] hadn't been available I probably wouldn't have made the film."

It is said that Stanley Kubrick made this movie because of the failure of "Waterloo" (1970). After he completed 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), he had planned to film a movie about Napoleon's life. After many years of research, he sent location scouts to various Eastern European locations, and even had an agreement with the army of Yugoslavia to supply troops for the vast battle scenes. However, after Waterloo tanked, Kubrick's financial backers pulled out. He thus decided to adapt the American version of "Clockwork", which had been given to him by Terry Southern (co-writer of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)).

The writer of the novel, Anthony Burgess, lived for a time in Malaysia [where his wife was beaten by four American GI's, thus giving inspiration to this story]. In Malay, the word "ourang" means man, [this is also part of the derivation of the word 'orangutan', the other half being derived from "houtan" meaning jungle] therefore, the title of the story is actually a pun on the British expression. Rather than a clockwork fruit, it is a clockwork man, which is, of course, exactly what Alex has become by the end of the film.

Before director Stanley Kubrick become involved in the film, Anthony Burgess originally sold the movie to Mick Jagger for $500 when he needed quick cash. Jagger intended to make it with the Rolling Stones as the droogs.

Anthony Burgess absolutely despised Kubrick's movie - particularly because he received no money from it. When Kubrick retreated behind his castle after the movie was hysterically received, Burgess was left to deal with a movie he did not authorize, made from a book he didn't even particularly like. Years later, Burgess wrote a stage version of A Clockwork Orange where the first character to step onto the stage had a remarkable resemblance to Kubrick. The rest of the cast members then proceed to beat the Kubrick-doppelganger.

During the filming of the Ludovico scene, star Malcolm McDowell scratched one of his corneas and was temporarily blinded. He suffered cracked ribs during filming of the humiliation stage show, and he also nearly drowned when his breathing apparatus failed while being held underwater in the trough scene.

When Alex and the droogs enter the Korova Milkbar, there are many paintings on the wall, one of a naked woman. This same painting appears in Shining, The (1980), also directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Alexander's bodyguard was played by professional bodybuilder David Prowse -More famous for another role in '70s Cinema... Darth Vader of "Star Wars" He was apparantly near exhaustion after the repeated takes of him carrying Alexander and his wheelchair down the stairs.

Malcolm McDowell chose to sing "Singin' In The Rain" during the rape scene, because it was the only song he knew all the lyrics to.

The film was not banned in the United Kingdom as many believed. It was withdrawn voluntarily by Kubrick after being criticized as too violent. Kubrick has stated that the film would be released there only after his death. It was. One of the reasons of why Kubrick apparently asked Warner Bros to withdraw the movie on the U.K. was, according to his wife Christiane, several death threats that the family received because of the film.

This was the first film to use the Dolby-A noise reduction system during its theatrical run.

I finally know who Darth Vader is!

I mean, the actor. He's called David Prowse. He was the weightlifter in A Clockwork Orange (the one that helps the doctor after being beated by Alex's gang) and he was asked to chose between the role of Darth Vader or the role of Chewacca for Star Wars, and he chosen to be the evil guy because people remembers them more.

It is said that he'll play Darth Vader again in Episode III....

BTW David is a Cancer like me.

Another note: when Christopher Reeve was chosen to play Superman he trained with Prowse until he developed Superman's body.

Here's more info.

darth vader star wars david prowse george lucas

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Depeche Mode back in the studio!

April 12 - Depeche Mode Back in the Studio!

Billboard magazine is reporting that the band is is in Santa Barbara, Calif., recording the follow-up to 2001's "Exciter." The as-yet-untitled set is due in the fall via Mute internationally and by Reprise/Warner Bros. in North America. It is being co-produced by the band with Ben Hiller (Blur, Elbow, Doves).
And to think we reported they had broken up about two years ago. Egg on our face!!!!!! Read the whole article at
Billboard.com
recent remix collection


From Synthpop Music

Monday, April 11, 2005

Fixing A Song

One of my songs, "For Falling (In Love) " had too many chord changes... The verse has two parts, eight bars each, and the second one had two chords per bar... Not only that, the melody was the same but the chords changed (4 bars and 4 bars).

The song is, I must admit, three or four years old, and I keep it updated

WHAT WAS I THINKING OF????????????????????''

This is pop music... Catchy electronic pop music... What's the point in adding so many chrds? KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND SIMPLE AND TO THE POINT FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a consequence of having had a Berklee alumni as a professor ;)

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

A happy girl... Posted by Hello

Bailarín de tango aplastado por una araña de 100 kg

de La Nación On Line
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Lo aplastó una araña cuando bailaba tango

Una lámpara de 100 kilos se desmoronó sobre un bailarín de 76 años, en la legendaria confitería La Ideal

Un bailarín de tango de 76 años sufrió graves traumatismos en la cabeza cuando se le cayó encima una araña de caireles de cien kilogramos de peso, en la confitería La Ideal.

El hecho ocurrió ayer, pero recién se difundió esta mañana, en la histórica confitería de Suipacha y Corrientes.

El bailarín, identificado como Armando Mazentini, estaba bailando en el salón del primer piso del local, donde se enseña tango, cuando la gigantesca araña, que estaba siendo reparada, se desplomó y cayó sobre su cabeza.

La víctima, fue trasladada al hospital Argerich y de allí derivada a una clínica privada, donde fue sometida a dos intervenciones quirúrgicas, porque sufrió un profundo corte en la nuca y el hundimiento en la zona de un ojo, además de la fractura de un tobillo.

Hoy continuaba asistido en terapia intensiva.

La esposa del herido, Juana de Mazentini, declaró a radio Mitre que los médicos que atendieron a su esposo le dijeron que había "nacido de nuevo" ya que el peso de la araña que se le cayó sobre la cabeza podría haberle causado la muerte.

En tanto, los responsables de la confitería donde ocurrió el accidente afirmaron que estaban reparando la araña.

Señalaron que habían colocado mesas debajo del candelabro de bronce y caireles de cristal, para que los bailarines que participan todas las mañanas de las clases de tango -entre ellos muchos turistas extranjeros- no corrieran peligro, pero igual al caer, la araña se desplazó y lastimó al bailarín.

Fuente: DyN

Salta la banca en la quiniela de Córdoba (Argentina)

El sábado 2 de Abril, día de la muerte del Papa Juan Pablo II, salió premiado el 4788, compuesto por el 47 (el muerto) y el 88 (el papa).

Las pérdidas de la lotería provincial rondaban los $400.000

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Moby CD features a New Order cover

Track #06: "Temptation", originally recorded by New Order. Sung by a woman called Laura Dawn. A very beautiful song and a very beautiful version.

Coincidence in CD Cover

I found an interesting coincidence... I don't mean it's a rip off... Just an interesting thing...

This is the cover of Syrian's "Kosmonauta" CD (US Version)
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And this is the logo of the World Cup Argentina 1978...
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Canal Pop homepage relatively advanced...

Well, I've been working in the band's web page. I added some little features. It takes time to make a good page. The problem is that its content is neal, since everything's just starting...

Take a look if you want...

Friday, April 01, 2005

"Futurepop" banned in Germany

From Side-Line Magazine

This shocking news reached us late last night and has since stirred the german ebm community. Germany's highest court has ruled yesterday that the term 'futurepop' can no longer be used in musical terms as it is a brand deposited by the Germany based factory Futurpop (without 'e') producing electronic components for PCs. The decision followed a lower court ruling that banning the term while keeping the market inundated with CDs described as futurepop music violated the constitutional provision guaranteeing the equality of citizens before the law. Judge Wolfgang Neskovic, who issued the lower court decision, hailed the high court ruling as an "important withdrawal of criminal law from sections of trademark policy." In a reaction Futurpop CEO Winfried Hassemer told Side-Line the following: "Unlike what is being believed, Futur(e)pop as term has been widely spread since the early 50s. In 1963 the trademark itself got registered in Germany and we were shocked to see so many musicians use this term to represent their indie electro pop." Hassemer, who is also the director of the reknown Berliner Philharmonic Quartet, is now asking an indemnity of 1 euro per CD for each album that has been sold as being 'futurpop'. As a protest several labels, such as Accession, Alfa Matrix and Out Of Line, have started labeling their CDs with stickers saying "This is f*t*repop!'. After the court's decision, the most populous German state, North Rhine-Westphalia, closed down a club that was to give a concert by Neuroticfish. Neuroticfish frontman Sascha Mario Klein reacted by saying: "I knew EBM was dead, but now futurepop as well? What is to become of the scene?!" More news as we get it, in the meantime fans have started a futurepop thread in our forum! A complete interview with Klein on this and other matters is available in Side-Line 51, out in the next weeks.
I like shy girls who dress in pink... Posted by Hello