This time the Melohman vibes come from Austria, land of the wild – yet highly domesticable – Oinky Poinky specimens. The Oinky Poinky Demixed track was done using only the Symptohm:Melohman synth and fried sugar’n'nutella toasts. The chilled melodies tells the blurred visions through a Vienna’s subway window during a 5 minute ride in an Autumn afternoon in direction of LoFi Records office…(picture below)
Our ears are still banging and echoing. Yesterday night 5 ohmen were at the Nine Inch Nails concert at the Zenith hall, in Paris. Great band, great concert. Statistically Trent Reznor and his NIN are maybe one of the biggest musical unanimities here at the Ohm headquarter. It was a special pleasure listening to what they’re are capable to do with two guitars and a piece of software you might know called Ohmicide:Melohman. Thanks for all band members for such powerful music and special thanks for Blumpy (a big nice guy from the from the NIN crew) for guiding us through the big nail side of the force. Will the band play at your town? Go for it.
Looks really nice this “Poly Touch Tangible” developed by Mike Neumann. The concept of a tactile multi-touch screen in which interface we’re able to place some cubes and dynamically control most parameters of a synth isn’tt that new anymore, but for the first time we see it a size that makes us hope it’s finally becoming something *real* and perhaps even affordable, and not anymore a futuristic prototype that only millionaire or highly sponsored people could touch.. (click on the following pictures to see them bigger)..
“I wanted the track to follow along with the structure of the novel’s narrative if it is read at a fluently paced standard and also complement the image aspects in great detail. I wanted to take you on a sound-walk through the images starting in a state of robotic mind control where we are then imprisoned in a so called “credit crunch” caused by human greed; debt entrapment and inexplicable governing techniques resulting from corruption and back-seat puppet masters whispering in the background; while their puppet people stand around being photographed and making a mockery of the world. The track starts to gradually build into a great big explosion of deep minimonsta:melohman bass (probably from a top secret beer friendly location) and the rehabilitation of all greed struck peoples of the world who are everted by the ultra low frequencies of the globally resonating minimonsta:melohman waves. Eventually they start to be free and play there own sounds and the world is amass with minimonsta:melohman frequencies circulating through the airwaves and renewing humankind’s creative and innovative characters. The people of the rejuvenated world dance and cheer and minimonsta:melohman frequencies ring until the end of time.”
Kylo Alexander from UK started his career with the right foot, as he told us that it’s the first time he shows his music to a public audience. Well Kylo…. I’m afraid our blog is not exactly what we could call “massive audience site”, but if a half dozen guys come to know your work, it’s already a “debut”, isn’t it ? 
Second Minimonsta cohmpetition’s submission is in the house. This time we get closer from the cohmpetition guidelines: Ruppert Lally brings us an intro that smells like global crisis, and when we could think that there would be no more hope, an infectious groove starts to scream..
Friendship’s tenderness. Isn’t it a beautiful thing? “To: Vincent Birebent and the Clueless Morons”, that’s what we could read in the front of the mysterious pack “from Uk” that the postman have just brought. Vincent Birebent aka Mauve Force immediately had the insight: such as love must be something from our GMedia friends, with who we have the GForce joint venture. Three seconds later, envelope opened, the confirmation: a copy of their Virtual String Machine and – Yeaah! – their brand new M-Tron Pro! We were craving to put our hands on it.. (thanks guys!)
In this life we’ve already seen a lot of bizarre things – and you know we love them! – but this EGG “synth” has really surprised us. Craig Dorety made it with a 1000 years old (!!!) easter egg made of paper that used to belong to his grandmother, putting in it a white noise generator and a FM radio transmitter. The outside surface has two metalic touchpoints and some light-sensitive captors that enable someone to “play” the white noise as music notes… (and we thought *our* stuff was weird… how naif we’ve been…)
Seventh cohmpetition submission is “Symptohm:Melohman programming”, by James Brinkhoff.
From where in the world could come a video tutorial about the ferocious – yet always so smooth and organic – Symptohm:Melohman? From Tasmania, of course – the little island separated from Australia by the bass strait! Tasmanian James Brinkhoff takes us in a delightful journey beyond the filter nature of this synth – or the incredible synth capabilities of these filters – showing how to start from scratch then tweaking the existing presets in order to get “the” sound you wanted so much…
Our ohmfriend Dennis Jr. from norvegian electronic music label Akustikk Records has made a whole track just with G-Force synth Oddity. It’s nice to listen to the Oddity doing both warm fat sounds and subtle electronic spices, as you’ll be able to listen/download here…
