What makes Keston and Westdal a rarity in the electronic music universe is that as well as being composers and producers they are also accomplished musicians and performers. Seldom is electronic music of such originality and rich texturing performed live in a club setting. Stylistically, Keston and Westdal focus on carefully evolving their compositions, layering them with contagious melodic themes and lush harmony. With Keston’s background in jazz piano and Westdal’s bass brilliance this duo has been consistently producing and performing exceptional original work since 2000.

Together, Keston and Westdal dish out pure jazz infiltrated downtempo Rhodes and bass. Their release Super Structure Baby consists of meticulous original compositions by these two demiurgic musicians.

You can listen some samples here:
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Source: www.kestwest.com

One of our favourite sounds here at Suite303Server is not an instrument in a strict sense. Created in 1940, by the famous Homer Dudley, to break the speech patterns of telephonic communications into smaller components for them to be able to fit a more narrow bandwith, the resulting machine the Voice Coder (hence the name Vocoder) is a sound effect tool that makes the human voice sound synthetic. The synthesized sound that comes through the output of the vocoder preserves the tonal characteristics of the voice that was placed through the input signal, making its characteristic “robotic” sound.

Download your own free vocoder software, or listen to samples: normal and vocoded.

I frecuently read Analog Industries, wich is a really cool blog that showcases resources for musicians producers and audio enginners and I found this post very intersting because they make a statement of what could be an ethical development for music production, in other words, with all the huge gamma of software to process digital audio, editing, wiping errors, tunning or even compressing or adding effects, we can say that music today is too perfect and clean?
The anwser could be: no, music doesn’t mean human-made, it’s all about mathematics, maybe in some cases music is raped by their creators, weakening the whole concept just for records sales,

I think this dilemma is just the result of globalization, and technification, which doesn’t mean that is bad change, is just the fact that music is evolving without our presence in every part of the process, but not a single mathematic equation or any software can compose a lyric of your daily life, or your past lovers

Tell me what do you think about it?

We have a community in Carracho as well, it’s been a while since we started it, Carracho is an application in which you can meet new friends in chat rooms, discuss ideas in newsgroups and you can also upload your samples if you are a singer, musician or producer, we try to offer you all the resources to create feedback between users.
Unfortunately it’s only available for MacOS X, so if you have a Mac, you should download the Carracho client and then copy/paste this url:
” suite303.homedns.org:6700 ” to your new connection button.

UPDATE: “This service is closed right now, you should visit frecuently our blog to have more news about our carracho & hotline server”

Richard D. James a.k.a. Aphex Twin is one of the most avant-garde embodiments of electronic music, he started very young exploring and making lots of experimiments with synths, on his childhood Acid House was expanding and consolidating itself as a movement, definetly this influenced his work, but he created his own style, he made electronic music much more organic, dynamic and complex.

His music is incorrectly labeled as IDM (which means Intelligent Dance Music), for me, this label was created for those people who can’t understand this music, and they simply can’t pick up a name for futurity.

One of the most popular tracks on his catalogue was Window Licker, this track is a nice sample of how music will be in a few years, or at least I think so, in the meantime check out the video, definitely a masterpiece.

We’d announced last March the release of Chosen Lords which is just an extract of the Analord series, a compilation created for vinyl only, I’ve heard all the tracks recently and I think that AFX is going back to his roots, the saturation of TB 303 (this could be a clue of the 303 that names our blog) and TR 808 are very strong, just like in his first EP named “Analogue Bubblebath“, anyway, his new material is based on his huge experience in innovation. He blended genres like Electro, Acid House, and Techno in just one entity. It is simply the best electro album I’ve ever heard, the combination is almost impossible, morphing something very repetitive into something so organic, for those facts we think that this album deserves the album of the month award.

The podcast saga continues, and today I want to show you these podcasts made by DJ Flatcracker Who is a really good DJ and remixer from the United States, his selections and how he does the mixes are surprisingly fine-made, most of his DJ sets are funky and deep house, and something that he’s used to include in his sets, and which is really important, is the track listing, congratulations pal.

I think that the podcast media open a new world for DJ’s who want to expose their work


To suscribe to his podcasts you should copy-paste this URL to your iTunes
feed://djflatcracker.com/mixes/DJFlatcrackerPodcast.xml