Great psytrance from Russia - Dissociactive

album name: Total Transformation
by Dissociactive



Check out this great sounding psytrance album Total Transformation by Dissociactive.
Artist name is Vyacheslav Iskanyan.

This is a genuinely fresh air for psychedelic trance genre. I have to mention that I am not a very intense follower of any specific genre it´s only that I happened to listen a shoutcast channel on one spanish rave community today in Ning. Of course I rarely even listen to shoutcast. Anyway this really picked my interest right in the beginning.
Just like the cover art makes very clear this is a pure musical piece of art by a sonic wizard.

Unfortunately what is missing from the current psytrance music is a good and interesting groove. This is not just simple to create with common monotonic psytrance bass but with a good combination of different rhythmic percussive sounds. Also with textured arpeggiated synth sequences. This is hard to describe if you have not listened Total Transformation. Some songs are much more organic than others. For example Bioreaction has got some really interesting stuff and the bassline is varied nicely. There´s good headspace with ambient pads on the background.
The whole album is perhaps more close to oldschool goa trance than most recent psytrance albums.

You are also given the opportunity to listen the album for free online in Bandcamp page. Anyway it´s not very expensive if you buy a download for only 3 euros for the full album download or just 7 euros for the download and album. The shipping was just 3 euros worldwide. It´s digipack limited edition only of 500.
I heartily recommend for you to buy the album not just listen online. :-)

http://shop.sunstation.ru/album/total-transformation

Tenori-on - an interesting interactive electronic music device

in picture: designer of the Tenori-On, Toshio Iwai

I found this interesting electronic music device from a "if its hip it´s here" design blog.
You might have seen those ableton touch pads but this is much more advanced.
Tenori-On is made by Yamaha. It and has 16 control layers and you are able to create different cool light patterns onto it´s light matrix by pushing and activating led input buttons on the fly. The light matrix is 16x16 with is for both user input control and interactive light show with different modes.
There´s 6 different modes. The first might be familiar for those who have used some software studio sequencer of hardware sequencer. It´s the score mode where
user can enter notes in realtime and it is looping around. Just like in fruity loops but this is hardware. Ok let´s forget about fruity loops because this is a real electronic music instrument.

Read more about features with example videos:
http://www.global.yamaha.com/tenori-on/features/

Jim O'Rourke video

There´s a SD memory card slot which can be used in same way as in common digital cameras and PSP etc. digital electronic devices to exchange data. You can load up your own samples from your computer into a memory card.
Still this device with cool design costs around 1200 $ so it´s not friendly for a wallet but I think it´s not just any music device from your local music instruments store.

Interesting combination with live playing cello and Tenori - On by the band called The Books. This band uses device in live performance. I like their style of acoustic contemporary electronic music with traditional instruments.

Listen and view their live performance here:

"The books" video


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Music collection: Electro-Tech Vol. 1