Mario Vin Hager aka Risko Disko was one of the participants of our Remix Cohmpetition earlier this year (click here to listen to his remix) and ended it with an Hematohm frequency shifter in his hands. Now he shares with the ohmworld one remix he did for a track from Disco Ensemble called “Protector” – in which his Hematohm had an important role. “I used a preset slightly changed on the Envelope’s Tempo and Release and an adjustment on the LFO Period…voilá!!! It’s in the build up between 1:00 and 1:28 that effect on one of the voices desceding like an aeroplane with an help from reverb touches.”, explains Mario himself. Not only he shares the track, but also the Hematohm preset that he fine-tuned, which you can download here.
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A few months ago we were ending our huge Remix Cohmpetition 2010, in which more than 200 young producers from all around to world gave their own vision of Derek Howell’s “Stride”. At the time “Stride” was still unreleased – Derek had just finished to compose it and gave us some hot and exclusive material – and today the EP finally arrives on Beatport. Even if we hadn’t included the “winner tracks will be released” promise in the prize kit – almost 5K dollars in top gear and a great track to be remixed were more than enough to attract a crowd – we knew that if one of the podium tracks would be good enough to be “releasable”, Derek would do it.
We were happy to see the submissions arriving and putting the overall quality in a high level, and now we close this cohmpetition in the most cool way: two tracks from the contest have been included in the EP alongside with the original, the remixes from Peter Martin and David Graña, respectively. N.W.D.K’s track, the big winner of this cohmpetition, does not fit Derek’s progressive house vibes and couldn’t be released, but he told us that he’s quite happy with his Receptor2 
(click here to listen again to the original + winner tracks)…
To celebrate the release of “Stride” on Derek’s Master Lux Co. label, we’re publishing a big interview with Peter Martin (the guy in the picture below), from the USA, who grabbed the second place in this cohmpetition’s forum. Continue reading ‘“Stride” released with 2 tracks from the cohmpetition + Peter Martin interview’
17
Mar
10
Interview with Sturphy
He was the “Ohm Force Honorable Mention” during the Remix Cohmpetition, you can listen to his track here.
When have you started with music production?
I was programming The Music Studio on Apple 2 GS back in the 80′s and I remember thinking, “wow.. these 8-bit simmons drum sounds are amazing!” I moved on to four track cassette after that which was so much … better? At least you could flip the tape and hear yourself backwards.
Do you have a band, or do have a regular music work/activity?
I’m typically a one man show. I enjoy collaborating, but it doesn’t happen enough these days. I used to play in bands years ago, but I started to have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with audio technology and FX, that drove me to a solo path…
What’s your (home)studio setup?
I try to keep it tight at home. The Big Bits of Hardware:
Apogee Rosetta 200, Digidesign Eleven Rack, Great River ME-1V, Focusrite TwinTrak Pro, Dynaudio BM5A, Frontier Alphatrack, a Mac , various mics, guitars, basses, controllers.
Software:
Ohm Force! Ohmicide (My favorite), Mobilohm, OhmBoyz, Frohmage and Symptohm PE. Pro Tools 8 LE, Reason 4 (50+ GB of refills these days… yikes… how did that happen??), Harrison Mixbus, Sonnox Elite Bundle, Massey (vt3, CT4, L2007, Tapehead, TD5) (Massey rules!) WaveArts (Tube Saturator, Multi-Dynamics, Trackplug 5), IK – Ampeg SVX, Rob Papen Blue, GForce Minimonsta:Melohman, AAS – VA-1, Overloud Breverb, EZDrummer (I know I know…), Mellowmuse IR1A, Audio Ease Cabinet, PSP 608 Multidelay, SPL Attacker (secret weapon)
It was REALLY hard to choose. When you have a contest where more than a half of the submissions are fairly well produced and nicely inspired, it becomes about listening to the tracks several and several times, to find the little details that push or pull each one up or down at the ranking. So don’t be depressed if you’re not at the top10, it doesn’t mean at all that your track is bad, but it will show you, instead, that musical production/composition won’t always be ”painting from scratch with total creative freedom during the whole process”. We have given you some guidelines and directions to be followed, and it’s commonly known that very often some ‘limitations’ help us to stimulate/boost creativity. Winners have followed the guidelines, but with inspired and creative solutions to create good music within the boundaries. So we have ranked the submissions based in, in order of importance: “followed the guidelines + fits well in the novel”, “originality + creativity”, “overal production quality” and “how many positive comments in the blog”. Each ohmforcian has his own creepy musical tastes, so the aspect “music style” was completely ignored. We like music, good music.
1- Kylo
2- Stephan Roemer
3- Steve T
4- Veit Winkler
5- Paul Raisbeck
6- Alexandre Borcic
7- Apeskinny
8- Hunger Ghost
9- Stuart Fox
10- Boblefrançaismoyen
It was really great to have 35 (!!!) submissions, and we’d want to celebrate it in a generous way, so we have decided to expand the prizes up to the top5. It means that Veit and Paul will get a free Minmonsta:Melohman, and since Veit wasn’t able to control his addiction and bought the monsta even before the final result announcement, we’ll offer him an Oddity instead. We couldn’t know if it would please you, but if you guys want us to publish the list up to the top20, just drop a comment and if we see that there’s quorum, we post it. Congratulations to all participants, and thanks for helping save the world! Music could be a powerful weapon, indeed.
Simovski brings the guitars! Three days from the cohmpetition deadline, comes from Macedonia the first distortion-heavy-guitar-track submission of this cohmpetition. The soundtrack is called “Club Malkavian” and we couldn’t be able to label track’s style: electro-rock hardcore? industrial break core? You’ll help us in that task leaving some comments. Click here to listen, and if you want to give some direct feedback to Milan, visit his MySpace profile and leave him a message…
05
Dec
08
Groovy submission from UK
Another nice submission from the UK: the intro is windy, and makes us see all those corporate slaves working as stock traders 29 hours a day, digging more and more earth resources meanwhile; then suddenly action starts with some big beats, somehow reminding recent Timbaland drum style, with fat synths over it, in a very danceable soundtrack for this world salvation. Click here to listen, and if you like it check out his “Blind Polka” project’s profile at MySpace…
Miro from Slovenia brings us a jazzy soundtrack for Minimonsta’s world salvation, called “Gray GForce”, with a slap bass that immediately made us think on some 80′s movie soundtrack (or even the Seinfield theme), and with organic sounds such as a the drumkit and the brass-like sound that quickly takes the song in a freestyle psychedelic jazz solo, click here to listen and then checkout his MySpace profile…
A third swiss submission: Alexandre Borcic aka Krakatau made a tune called “World Music” as the soundtrack for the illustrated novel. Expect a little of everything: it starts with a cold and windy ambiance, then we have some 80′s synths, as other different instruments show off, each one making its ‘solo’ moment. At the second half of the track we’ve some 70′s synths, so we’re not only talking about ‘world music’, but also about some kind of ‘trough the decades’ music.. At the end we feel as if we are in a sunny spring garden, close your eyes and you’ll see it… Click here to listen..
Harrison’s track begins with a terrific dark industrial ambiance, that made us think on Matrix’s dominated-by-machines world, when the creepy robots fly surveilling humans-being-use as energy production cells. Then it cuts to a groovy breakbeat with gritty distorted melodies: “Via a series of your machines i have made a little ditty to accompany your story of the world today. I’ve broken it down into “early dark days”, “attacking monsta times” finished with “happy dance moments” – clearly the way out of global crisis.”, explains Robin with his own words.Click here to listen…
