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Get your name printed on the movie style Hardcore Pong Poster (designed by Walt Watts), signed by Brian and Zoog. The 12″ x 18″poster will be folded into quarters. Also includes Merch Pack + Hardcore Pong Tshirt + Digital Download of the album.
From ping-ponging paddles to borg-busting battles! It’s an overload-bearing poster!
Check out the Hardcore Pong Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegothsicles/hardcore-pong
OK, we’re now got most parts needed to build these things. The main controller face will be 9 units high and have seventy patch points on it, over a dozen knobs, 1 joystick, several sliders, switchers, multiples, randomiser, wave fuckers, a coffee grinder…and other STUFF.
The remote controller will have several sliders, one JoyStick, randomiser, random slide modulator thing…and MORE STUFF!
The objective is to build controllers that interface with synths in a way that is different to conventional keyboard controllers.
More updates coming…
ReGen Magazine, Industrial Music’s bible, names Angelspit’s “THE PRODUCT” in their top 20 albums for 2014.
“As fervently acerbic as ever and full of all the punk rock energy that has defined the band for over a decade, Angelspit unveiled what was perhaps its most belligerent and most collaborative release to date. Creating its own microcosm of a corporatized world, resulting in an individual model for business and artistic expression, Angelspit is in a class all its own. Never afraid to infuse accessible pop melodies into a caustic blend of industrialized rock and acidic mechanical noise, ZooG Von Rock and his cohorts continue to confront and confound, even taking Angelspit into darker and more disquieting territory with no signs of softening up.”
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Agent13 IS AWESOME!
He’s helped me design and build this little puppy. It’s a controller and live Analogue switcher for the Doepfer Modular Synth.
Yes, it works. Yes, it ROCKS! It will be the main instrument for the USA tour.
Ilker Yücel (Ilker81x) gives Angelspit’s recent album “The Product” 4 stars.
“Angelspit’s most collaborative and yet most singular effort yet, with a few pensive moments that along with the band’s usual acerbic bombast make for an enticing and confrontational listen.
Therein lies the irony that, along with the subtle infusion of familiar melodies that take the songs outside of their confrontational and acerbic facades, lends to the album’s power and makes The Product one of the strongest entries in Angelspit’s prolific output.”
Bass+Synth+Chaos = MUD…??!!
A question from our Forum:
I’ve got an insane drum loop and bass synth line happening. Distortion and all the bells and whistles but it’s really complex and loud and I can’t hear anything else in the mix and the bass and subs sound like mud…help!!
Thanks for this, here’s a few suggestions:
If you can, take out everything in the loop under 120Hz…an i mean use a brutal hi pass. make sure the only think under 120 is your kick and bass. When you master it, it will THUMP.
If you want the bass synth to be supremely HELLISH, only use a single oscillator. A single oscillator will cut through more than a huge stacked bass sound – it’s fat and wonderfully defined.
Also cut -12dB out of the loops around 600 (depended on taste). this frees up space for guitars and voxes. You could also cut -12 around 2.8kHz…this makes space for the hats and “air”
Hope this helps!
ROCK!
ZooG
An Interest In Music
Original Post: http://krankhaus.net/forum/index.php?topic=10078.0
Ganguro666 from Angelspit’s Forum asked me about STUFF…here’s my response.
I have a great interest in music and lately I find myself with a great desire to create it, explore it, and then fuck it up. The only problem is that I don’t really think I have much talent in the way of music, I don’t know any instruments or anything like that but I do love to sing (even if I’m probably not very good) and write poems/lyrics.
Even if I don’t posses an ounce of musical talent, do you have any suggestions of some ways that I can be involved in making music?
I have a friend who also claims to have “no musical talent”…but his left foot is PURE GENIUS.
He has this amazing ability to come up with this very simple and effective rhythms by just tapping his left foot.
…I kid you not! This is his knack:
1) listen to a beat or a musical idea
2) tap your left foot (only works with his left foot…his right foot has no talent)
3) assign notes to the rhythm from his foot. Use octaves or the minor pentatonic scale (the black notes) it will work miracles.
Record your lyrics, decide on a tempo, slot them into a verse/chorus structure then apply the LEFT FOOT MAJIK.
Ever thought of learning the guitar? – it’s awesome therapy. Strum along using the rhythm from your left foot.
Another option: you might be an awesome lyricist/vocalist – ever thought of teaming up with a music writer?
I know several music makers who are looking for lyricists!! check our forum:
www.krankhaus.net/forum
Most important: GOOD GEAR DOES NOT NESSISARILY MAKE GOOD MUSIC
Good music comes from good ideas…and it can be made with cheap shitty gear. Many people fall into the trap of thinking “if i just got one more synth I can make this happen”. This is just procrastinating.
making music is FUN – inventiveness is the key.
I hope this helps!
ROCK!
ZooG.
ANGELSPIT’s gift to DIY Horror Flicks and Noise artists : BitCrush Drone
BIT CRUSHED DRONE OF DOOOOM!
INFO:
Lots of random shit…or “PopSong to Convertor in 60seconds”. Random stuff going through Frostwave’s Sonic Alienator and Doepfer’s A-189-1
Please use this creatively! Please credit Angelspit, and PLEASE let us know when you upload your completed work – we’d love to link to it!
FORMAT : 24bit, 44kHz, 320 MP3, 5.3Mg
Brand: Roland
Model: Jupiter-8
Link: http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/jup8.shtml
BLURB:
I bought this from a guy in Sydney around 2000. He also had an OB-Xa…but he refused to sell it. He used these two delicious machines in a cover band…yup, A COVER BAND. This FOOL put gaffer tape on this beautiful machine. He left it on there for several years. The gaffer tape is now baked on. One day i will find him. He will die a HORRIBLE DEATH.
Brand: Doepfer
Model: A-136 Distortion/Wave Multiplier
Link: http://www.doepfer.de/A136.htm
BLURB:
Similar to the A-137 Wave Shaper…but totally different. Personally I actually think the A-137 is a better distortion unit, but the A-136 is the master of Wave Shaping.
PROS:
The CV inputs can be used to get some very interesting “Morphing” happening. The sound can be radically changed with a twist of a knob.