Review: Studio Wormbone Sample-Packs

As a creative producer you are always on a quest to find new ways to break out of your usual producing-habits, in order to avoid boring your listeners to death with the 13261st tune that sounds exactly like your previous productions. Sometimes sample-packages can represent a good way to find the desperately needed inspiration. In this article we are going to have a closer look (and listen) at three outstanding sample-packages created by the US-based production-house “Studio Wormbone” run by sound-engineer Trevor Dutton: “Atmospherix: Ominous Environments”, “Droid Artworx” and “Cybernetic”.

Free VSTi “Latte Free”: A synth with a vintage touch

I know that my last article in the category “Producer Tips” was published quite a long time ago, so this is why I want to point you towards a virtual synthesizer that tries to simulate a certain analogue sound: “Latte Free” is a synth with a “vintage touch” if you want to call it that way.

Ballet Of Aggressions – Free 2 CD album by HardtraX

Together with my friends at Hardtechno.lt I am very proud to announce that my new double-disc album “Ballet Of Aggressions” has been released today. After a long time working on a concept for a new release to celebrate the last 15 years I have spent with the production of tekkno-music, you can now listen to the result of several months of hard work (and many sleepless nights).

With this new album for 2012 you receive no less than 34 tracks on two CDs. To obtain the album I am not charging you 20 Euros, not 15 Dollars, not 800 Yen and not even 10 Pesos… Since I am not only totally crazy, but also enjoy the kind help from Lithuania’s first scene-portal Hardtechno.lt, I give this one out to you for free!

Meet my friend… the second HardtraX!

Yes, this title may seem odd but it is true: There is a second HardtraX out there! He is not a long-lost twin brother, I am not suffering from a split personality, I do not have any kids thus he is not my son, but he is no fake either. “HardtraX 2″ is real – I have met him in the past and he lives in South America…

Free download: 6head_slug – Forgotten Not Forgiven (No Sleep Till Bedtime SE001)

Coming Friday (10th February 2012) a new Australian hardtekkno-release hits the JunoDownload online-shop and there is something great about it: It is free. Yes, free as in “free beer”. Oh, and besides of that a remix of mine appears on the EP too.

The free release called “Forgotten Not Forgiven (Remixes)” on Melbourne’s hardtekkno-imprint “No Sleep Till Bedtime“ is also a great way to spend the time waiting for my upcoming (and equally free) double-disc album “Ballet Of Aggression” (release-date: 21st February 2012). The original tune with the title “Forgotten Not Forgiven” was produced by NSTB-labelhead 6head_slug and below you can find some more details about this nine-track-EP:

Free sample-pack: Distorted TR-505 drum-kit by DJ Quartzlocker

This one is for the producers amongst you. Paris-based hardcore-artist DJ Quartzlocker from France was kind enough to provide a very special contribution to the HardtraX blog in form of a free sample-package!

DJ Quartzlocker created a small but fine kit of one-shot samples by hooking up his Roland TR-505 drum-machine to a Boss Metal Zone distortion-pedal. The result is a dirty, sick, distorted kit of very useful samples that do not sound much like the drums that you originally get out of Roland’s normally rather basic and plain-sounding machine.

New free dark hardtechno album “Ballet Of Aggressions” out soon!

Yes, I know I have been very silent during the past weeks but I am back with some great news for the first blog-update of 2012.