Watch long-lost footage of the 80s acid house scene. Carl Cox announces summer Ibiza plans. Loopmasters introduce cloud-based sample service.
They Call It Acid. Long-lost footage from an acid house documentary filmed mostly in the 80s but never released has surfaced this week. Heavyweights Larry Heard, Derrick May and Carl Cox all appear, and you can watch a trailer for it above. Find out more here.
Carl Cox announces summer plans. The dust has barely settled on his emotional goodbye from Space, but the Ibiza king has already revealed that he will be back on the White Isle for a series of parties at Privilege, starting Tuesday 11th and Tuesday 18th July. Find out more on Facebook.
Bandcamp’s booming. According to their own glowing report, Bandcamp had their best year yet in 2016. Hundreds of thousands of new artists, fans and labels joined the platform, and a record was sold there every three seconds, 24 hours a day for the whole year. That’s contrary to general record industry trends, which you can read about in more detail here.
Access your samples anywhere. Thanks to Loopmasters’ new Loopcloud service, you can now access and manage your presets, MIDI files and samples through a browser anywhere in the world. Initially, any sounds you have bought from Loopmasters will be available, but they promise that you’ll soon be able to upload and tag your own sample library. Find out more here.
Maschine gets experimental. Prismatic Bliss, the latest expansion pack from Native Instruments, is aimed at producers looking for ambient textures, experimental sounds and melodic richness. It promises a broad palette of drones, field recordings and leftfield layers and is available for £44 from their online store.
Soulsby Synths debut first Eurorack module. For £260, you can have The Oscitron, an 8-bit wavetable oscillator with 15 filter algorithms, phaser effects, wave-crusher, pulse width and pitch quantiser as well as five CV inputs and a clock input that can be routed to many different parameters and audio in and out. Check it out here.