Transistorbass: Archive

Nov 16th

Alex - meet Liam

Alex went to the Prodigy gig in Oslo last night, and through a stroke of good fortune, got to go backstage and meet the gang and have a quick chat about music and the industry. Pic will follow. :)

Nov 15th

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The graph the record industry doesn't want you to... →

Labels - get with the program. You are an outdated organization living on antiquated profits. Wake up or perish.

Nov 15th

We just have to re-blog this post from BT - take a...

Sep 30th

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Transistorbass music in a documentary

Transistorbass is featured with two tracks in the upcoming surfing documentary “Fiberglass and megapixels”. Check out the trailer here:

Sep 15th

Today I stole from a fellow musician

Today I spent almost two hours trying to find some way to purchase a song that was released ten years ago on a major label, on a single, on a remix album, on a separate second remix album and as a maxi-single. It was completely impossible. I couldn’t find the song anywhere, and it totally blew my mind. Not Amazon MP3, not iTunes, not anywhere else. So then I went searching for the single....

Aug 18th

Listen to Distortion Reigns Supreme

Jul 16th

Transistorbass mentors The Gathering

Both Bent and Alex from Transistorbass will be present at The Gathering, the worlds largest computer party, this easter. We will be acting as “mentors” for young and aspiring musicians, teaching them how to get the most out of todays digital tools as well as a few tricks-of-the-trade. If you are attending The Gathering, be sure to sign up for the mentor-programme!

Mar 30th

Transistorbass-track in a new demo

Our friends in the excellent demo-group XPLSV made this really cool “Tron”-inspired invitation for the Blockparty demoscene event in Cleveland, Ohio this April. They wanted a track from Transistorbass to build upon, and therefore the tune “Zenith” was born. Most likely it will be available online in a short while, but we want to tweak the mix a bit first. Check out the...

Mar 4th

Transistorbass creates game trailer soundtrack

We were recently asked to make a track for a game teaser, which is now released - please check it out! The game is called Perpetuum, and it is a massive online multi-player game featuring robots, railguns, rockets and teleports - how cool is that?! “Perpetuum is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It takes place on the distant planet of Nia, the discovery of which...

Feb 27th

Absolutely brilliant EQ

Ok, if you’re into making electronic music, you absolutely need to get yourself a copy of Vibe-EQ: It is absolutely amazing! http://www.stillwellaudio.com/?page_id=34 (there is a free version with a nag-screen, and the full version only costs $39 dollars, so get it now!)

Feb 12th

The sound of silence

Yeah, sorry about that. :) We’re currently working on a few new tracks, and we have also gotten some offers to play some more gigs (one in Oslo, one in Trondheim (yay!)) — we’ll keep you updated!

Feb 4th

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Dec 17th

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Dec 17th

Distortion Reigns Supreme video (high-res)

Distortion Reigns Supreme (realtime graphics) from transistorbass on Vimeo .

Dec 1st

Listen to Trashin' (Elektrostat 2008 walk-off...

So, we got some requests from people who wanted to know what the last track we played at Elektrostat 2008 was (the one we played while walking off stage). It is a track called Trashin’ and it features (almost exclusively) the wonderful piece of kit called the MIDINES which allows you to use the sound-chip in the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System - you know, that box you had under your TV in...

Nov 11th

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TAL - free VST(i) plugins that are actually good

Do you know of TAL (Togu Audio Line) already? If not, you should. They make a suite of very nice VST and VSTi plugins that you can use in your sequencer of choice (Logic, Sonar, Acid, Cubase, ProTools etc.) Our favourites include the U-No-62 (a very nice Juno-106 clone) and the BassLine (a sweet SH-101 clone). You can get some great sounding stuff out of these small (and again: free!) plugins,...

Nov 11th

Watch

Here it is — a video of our gig at Elektrostat 2008. Please forgive the bad audio quality, as we didn’t have time to get equipment for proper recording, so the audio is a mix from the heavily distorted microphone on one of the video cameras and the line-mix. Rest assured: it is not your speakers or headset being slaughtered. :) Anyho, we wanted to provide this for the people who asked...

Nov 9th

Video coming

We recorded a pretty bad (sound-wise) video of the gig at Elektrostat, and will be posting it (or at least some of it) as soon as the capture/editing/blah is done. It will of course be posted here when it is done.

Nov 9th

Nov 8th

Gig setup (next friday, be there!)

We worked on the stage setup for our gig next friday (Elektrostat Festival, 7th of November, 20:00, main stage) and we think it’ll work out well. We will be tweaking our bigscreen visualization stuff this weekend to see how we can integrate it into the performance as fluidly as possible. It’s going to be a challenge, but it will be fun :) We will also be using the Atomizer-feature on...

Oct 31st

Hobnox Audiotool

Want to play around with an 808, a 909, a couple of 303’s and a bucketload of stompboxes..? Online..? For free..? In Flash 10? You just HAVE to check out Hobnox Audiotool, the coolest online musician tool we’ve seen. Ever!

Oct 20th

Playing at Elektrostat Festival

We just got a mail confirming our gig at Elektrostat Festival (annoying Flash audio warning) in Oslo. We go on stage at 20:00 on friday the 7th of November. This is the main stage, on the first day of the festival, so be sure to be early if you want to catch us kicking around beats and bass on stage. :) We will most likely be playing for 45-50 minutes (TBC). Later in the festival you can catch...

Oct 4th

New track online

We have put up a new track - head over to our MySpace-page to listen to it. It is called “Imperator” and is an up-tempo big beat track with both tech-beat, hip-hop, drum’n’bass, glitch and trance references (yes, it is indeed possible to mix all of those - or actually.. why don’t you listen and decide? :)

Oct 2nd

More Cowbell! →

Did you ever feel like your tracks needed just “a bit more cowbell” to bring the mix home? Never fear, morecowbell.dj is here! :)

Sep 23rd

Atomizer →

If you haven’t heard about the new Atomizer-feature coming in the new Access Virus TI OS version, check this shit out NOW!

Aug 19th

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Aug 6th

Watchmen →

No more posts today. We’re busy watching the “Watchmen” trailer, over and over and over… and over..

Aug 5th

Watch

Regus Ademordna is a real-time motion graphics experiment, featuring the track “Distortion Reigns Supreme” which is also the title-track from our first EP.

Aug 5th

vloud →

vloud has to be one of the better ideas for an online service. After e-mail, photo sharing, chats.. and such of course. Basically, it’s an online DSP that boosts the overall volume (probably through the use of a limiter with some dynamic compression on top) of your MP3-files. We’re not quite sure exactly what parameters it uses, or what kind of material the three options work best on...

Aug 5th

We can has website

Our gig at Elektrostat 2008 is coming up and we thought it would be a good idea to maybe boost our online presence a bit, to let people know who we are and why they should bother listening to us. You know - all that jazz.

Aug 5th