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Becky Hill has released new drum ‘n’ bass track ‘Disconnect.’ Produced by the legendary drum ‘n’ bass pioneers Chase & Status, the song further solidifies Hill’s status as an undeniable force in the scene. With previous genre-defining hits like ‘Afterglow’ with Wilkinson and ‘Here For You,’ as well as her insightful podcast ‘The Art of Rave’, featuring interviews with DJ Zinc, Roni Size, and Fabio & Grooverider, Hill has firmly established herself as a prominent figure in the genre.‘Disconnect’ embodies everything…

Ryuichi Sakamoto died in March aged 71, but the legendary Japanese composer/computer-pop pioneer/actor has left behind this extraordinary “never-before-experienced mixed reality presentation” with technology collective Tin Drum, showcased by the Manchester international festival. The audience are given “optically transparent devices” – special glasses a bit like a VR headset. Once they’re all on, Sakamoto appears as if by magic, playing a grand piano, virtual white clouds wafting around his feet as if he is, well, playing…

Image via Walt Disney Studios Harrison Ford has now confirmed that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will indeed be the actor’s final foray into playing the archeologist and adventurer. Not only that, but he is also giving insight into what motivated him as an actor to want to explore this stage in Indy’s life. Ford also hinted that Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Helena Shaw — Indy’s goddaughter — serves as a sort of catalyst that kicks off Indy’s character arc in the new film. As Ford explained to ScreenRant: “As…

Earlier this year 1010music released the Lemondrop and Fireball, two surprisingly full-featured synths in unbelievably tiny packages. The company’s Nanobox lineup covers a lot of ground between those two instruments, but neither was particularly well suited to handling drums. So the company took the same core hardware, put a percussion-focused FM engine in it, along with a sampler, gave the whole thing a playful pink paint job, and dubbed it the Razzmatazz. The latest member of the 1010music family is a rich sounding drum…

via Netflix Under most circumstances, you’d imagine any movie that secured a perfect 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score and topped Netflix’s global viewership charts would be held in the highest of esteem, but it already feels as though The Forgotten Battle has been living up to its title by fading from relevance in short order. It’s been almost exactly one year since Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s World War II epic landed on the world’s most heavily-subscribed streaming service, where it performed remarkably…

Bang bang Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival Switch just hit the scene, and as a long time Taiko no Tatsujin player, I couldn’t resist. At first glance, Rhythm Festival doesn’t offer a ton of bells and whistles. The “story mode” really is propelled by a points/rank-up system, which provides you with additional kernels of dialogue with our hero, Don-Chan, and their relationship with other adorable characters. It’s extremely cute, and although it meanders a bit, it has a lot of heart to keep people interested: especially…

The Lemondrop and Fireball Nanobox grooveboxes , and 1010music is expanding the lineup with the Razzmatazz drum machine. The pocket-sized device packs in a 64-step sequencer and eight drum voices. Each of the voices has two FM oscillators and a WAV sample layer, which should enable you to blend organic, acoustic and digital elements to create unique drum sounds. Filters, resonators, bit-crushers, delay, reverb and four types of distortion can help you produce distinct sounds too. But if you'd rather not go through all…

Image Credit: Terrence O'Brien / Engadget In fact, after years of mostly making more laidback and ambient styles of electronic music, I found myself dialing in harsh, blown-out guitar tones, a la Nine Inch Nails Broken to jam along with Pērkons. I was transported back to my high school…

At first glance, building a drum machine that uses the heartbeats of children with congenital heart disease might be considered very poor taste. But audiovisual artist Love Hultén and Teenage Engineering have created the CHD-4 to raise awareness of the condition, and raise funds for the Heartchild Foundation.We've long admired Love Hultén's retro computing, gaming and instrument creations, and even the more obtuse pieces, but this latest project walks a very different path – producing rhythms based on the echocardiograms…

latest drum machine probably isn't one that you're going to use to add percussion to your next piece. The company teamed up with designer Love Hulten to in the aim of raising awareness about congenital heart disease. The has four modules that produce rhythms based on the echocardiogram (ECG) scans of four children with heart defects. The scan results revealed the shape, pace and BPM of their heartbeats, Teenage Engineering said. It added the data to a four-track circular sequencer. The patterns can be played together…