News Round-Up: 27/9/13

Waldorf Pulse 2 finally arrives, Korg and Karenn go on tour, entrepreneur sells Molly water and Fabric have a 30-hour birthday party.

Waldorf release Pulse 2, finally. Waldorf’s new analogue synth has been much anticipated. The Pulse 2 retails at $479/£403.50. See the full spec here.

“I never witnessed a DJ perform while standing. I thought to myself ‘Why isn’t he sitting down like everyone else?'” In a three-part series for the Secret Agency, Delano Smith writes about his musical ‘Odyssey’ growing up in Detroit as the dance scene grew from disco at high school parties to the notorious canon of house and techno the city is now known for. Read the first two instalments here.

Korg announces analogue and synth tour in the UK.  Korg will take its entire synth and groovebox collection on tour around the UK with specialists answering questions and giving demonstrations. Attendees will receive a Korg goodie bag and be entered into a prize draw to win a MS-20 Mini. More info here. Check out our full review of the new Volca units here.

Live Twitter Q&A with Beatport CEO Matthew Adell. The oft outspoken CEO will be answering questions from 10am MDT / 4pm BST. Use #AskBeatportCEO to submit questions.

Fabric to celebrate 14th Birthday with 30-hour party. As well as a bumper line-up on Friday 18th October (including Oneman, J Rocc, Martelo and a debut live show from Chicago rapper Sasha Go Hard), the club will play host to 30 hours of non-stop music from 11pm on Saturday until 5am on Monday. The night/morning/night/morning will feature a five-hour set from Marcel Dettmann and live sets from Shed and No Regular Play. Residents Craig Richards and Terry Francis will be kicking around with the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Skream and Soul Clap. Then straight to work, obviously. More info here.

Dubmekanix launch new website and dub siren models. Since 2008 Dubmekanix have been making hand-crafted analogue dub sirens in creative casings. Their new website features some new models as well as a selection of mixes which use Dubmekanix sirens. Check it out here.

Mollywatr: names water after a drug, revolutionises hydration on the EDM scene. Mollywatr, the new brainchild from Ken Unaeze, claims to be “The perfect complement for your EDM experience”. Unaeze asserts that by using “cool” branding such as the strapline “Molly is better than coke” , his $5 bottles of water will counter the “stigmatization of water consumption”. Check out their classy Instagram and Facebook pages.

Spain approves crackdown on pirate site owners, and ease-off on users. Owners of websites that link to pirated material can be jailed for up to six years. Only those making money (including money from advertising) by linking to illegally provided copyrighted material will be prosecuted. Users will not face any punishment and ordinary peer-to-peer file-sharing sites and search engines are exempt. Read more here.

Karenn announce tour and give away SHEWORKS001. Formed of Blawan and Pariah, this hitherto elusive outfit are known for playing live shows using an impressive stash of hardware, and for their hard-edged, retrograde approach to techno. Tour dates and free download here.

Audio Damage launch hardware modules. Audio Damage have been working in R&D for two years to create a hardware platform for their DSP effects. Their foray into hardware begins with the launch of three Eurorack modules covering delay, pitch shift and bit & sample rate reduction. The DubJr, Grainshift and Errorbox modules are available at $179, more info here.