Gazelle is a small but colorful part of the African Renaissance promoting the growth and world view of any African born art. The group was born in 2006 following a long journey of discovery in music. Xander Ferreira, the founding member, started his journey as a reggae singer known as the White Lion. He performed in various cities around Europe including, Copenhagen, Berlin, Zurich and Milan. Gazelle had it’s breath of life when Xander started experimenting with producing electronic bedroom music. Mixing an element of Reggae Dub and Electro something fresh was found. Most recently Nick Matthews from bands such as Coda and the Iridium project has joined forces to create a international standard of production. At the moment Gazelle is planting a seed in the music scene in Cape Town, waiting for the roots to spread through Africa and the world. Starting on the southern tip and working it’s way up in the world… The focus is to create authentic Afrikan Elektronik Dance Musik. A full length album is in the production line.

Am 26. Juli 2008 wird Gazelle exklusiv im Baby auf dem DISTORTED.tv Event, unter dem Motto „ CHIC AFRIQUE” auftreten.

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For more Metal Muff product info, see:
http://www.ehx.com/products/metal-muff

The ultimate metal distortion pedal. Three powerful EQ bands sculpt the mids and 6 controls shape the sound precisely for your groove from slithering mercury to lead belly blast furnace dross. Its unique Top Boost adds serious bite with its own control knob and footswitch so you can kick it on for searing leads.

* High input impedance buffered bypass

* Output volume and master drive controls

* 3-Band EQ: bass, mid and treble

* Footswitchable Top Boost with separate control knob

* Tough and compact die-cast chassis

* 9-volt battery included

* Optional 96DC-200BI power supply available

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Now onto the song, I believe this is one of my best remixes ever and I think the reasons can be heard throughout the track. Strong beat, sharp bass and sharper flowing gated pads and leads. I don’t know if this satisfies your needs but for me it’s the definition of progressive house/trance as I was introduced to it in the late 90’s through Global Underground series and DJs such as Sasha, John Digweed, Dave Seaman and more.

Back then, along with a few very good friends, it was our absolute obsession. Our food was trance white label vinyls and our drink the various live mp3s of our beloved DJs. Each of us had at least one belt-driven pair of turntables and a cheap mixer. Getting the pitch and the cross patterns right became our second life; our lists of tracks that would mix well where compiled on a weekly basis.

Some of us were eventually able to DJ here and there and gain some stage experience. Middle-high schools would at times host parties inside their school’s gym – of course with formal approval and without alcoholic drinks. I began when I was younger as a secondary DJ then I became the first. Had to make arrangement for the sound systems, the lighting and of course prepare for my DJ set. No, this was not a cute formal party with balloons. 300-500 teenagers (including me) would dance all night to progressive trance magic. That was my magical – but sadly never satisfying – highschool years.

At that time I was trying to produce this kind of music. Software synthesizers back then would be almost non existent – with the few ones like VAZ requiring many seconds of processing before producing a sound. Hardware synths were out of question – try asking your parents for $2000 when you’re 16. Things have changed a lot since then. Software synthesizers are right on my desktop ready to fire on click.

That very unsatisfying feeling of never being able to produce what I wanted was always over my head when I was making music. These 25 remixes I have done throughout the last few months, with all of you guys supporting me and pushing me, were the last pieces in this large emotional puzzle. This track and its sounds are not random clicks here and there till it sounds right. They are exact stereotypes and memories as they emerge from those intense highschool times. That lead/pad sound at 0:52, I couldn’t even dream about making it back then; the beat/bass compilation at 1:10, there was no chance; 1:38 the voice pad, 1:55 the chord lead, 2:46….

This remix for me is a stereotype dream becoming reality. If you have time and you don’t mind leaving U-Kiss alone for a bit, I would suggest you also give a listen to the instrumental (dub) version as it contains all these feelings in their pure form.

That said, I feel U-Kiss have done a good job this time too and they keep raising in the charts. Once one of them (I don’t know their names well) said his dream is that they will become number 1 on some chart. I wish them that they will achieve this soon.

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Remix MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/?gmuujmjmzyz
Remix Instrumental (Dub) MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/?yzyfz4zzmzy

You can watch the original video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwnZ5HA33Y

Track BPM: 130 orig / 137 rmx

Subtitles are a slightly altered version of the subtitles found in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e26DjycPVY

Enjoy and please visit my blog: http://remix.areiacreations.com

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Welcome to Electro-Harmonix’s “Effectology” series, in which we play a remarkable collection of EHX-assisted sounds, and explain how they were made.

In today’s episode Bill Ruppert transforms his electric guitar into a classic Hammond B-3 organ (pedals used: HOG and Soul Preacher).

For more details on pedals and settings, please visit: http://www.ehx.com/blog/effectology-hammond-b3-organ

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gear used

Korg ESX1: All Sequences/Drums

Yamaha TX81z: Reverby/Pumpy Sawtooth Bass (chain:TX81z-Boss V-Wha-Akai MFC42-DBX266 ch2 (Compression/distortion)-Alesis Nanoverb-DBX266 ch1 (pump)–Mixer)

Roland MKS50: Hoover/Saw/Lead/Pumpy Synth (Chain MKS50-DBX266-Boss SL20-Zoom RFX2200-Mixer)

Redsound SoundBite Pro: Vocals/looping

Korg Kaoss pad 2: Tempo Delay

Korg Kaoss Pad 3: Loops, Looper(snare rolls), Grainshifter

Korg Kaossilator: Noise Sweeps (path: K01-Mini KP(Delay)-Mixer)

Korg ER1: Beatbox AND sidechain signal (Chain: left out-ProCo Turbo Rat-Boss V-Wha-Mixer)

DX200: Fm E-piano, pads, 303-esque sequences, etc (Chain: Left Out-Boss DD5 delay-Mixer)

Motu Midi Mixer 7s: My mixer, controlled by the BCF2000)

Kawai Midi Patchbay:Guess

DBX MC 6: Output Compressor

NOT used:
a computer, besides recording it; no edition

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Reason 4.0 Tutorial – Panning your Drums

In this Tutorial we show off some crazy production styles suited to Electro, Minimal & Tech House Music. This includes Bass Distortion and some mad effects!

Stay Creative!

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For more Tube Zipper product info, see:
http://www.ehx.com/products/tube-zipper

Unzip your soul! Just picture your guitar signal being massaged by a complex set of filters moving through a vacuum tube maze. Energized by two Electro-Harmonix 12AX7 tubes, the Tube Zipper’s patented moving filter tastefully adds controlled analog harmonics to your signal. In typical EHX fashion, each control can be set over-the-edge, generating a host of novel tones. Tron or Trill a la mode!

* True bypass using a mechanical relay

* Overdrive stage allows interaction with the envelope follower for hard hitting sweeps and frequency color

* Tron mode allows the filter to sweep smoothly, following your amplitude’s envelope

* Trill mode allows modulation to be added to the envelope as the filter sweeps

* Switchable up or down filter sweep directions

* Input gain boosts the signal before the filter drive

* Resonance control adjusts the Q or peak of the filter ranging up to self-oscillation

* Two Electro-Harmonix 12AX7 vacuum tubes included

* 12VAC-1000 power supply included

“It’s the most flexible little box yet.” — Adrian Belew

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