| Meindl returns with a stellar serving of thumping grooves, rolling basslines, stabby synths, dubbed-out chords, precision drum hits and more. |
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| With live bass and drums, synths and samples Tokyo specialise in squelchy electronica with a dark urban edge. |
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| Then imagine yourself surrounded by sizzling synths, drunken piano stomps, and lock-step pirate rhythms. |
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| The guitars, strings, wind instruments, synths and God knows what else in the mix are used sparingly but effectively. |
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| From whooping theremins to massed strings and synths, music furnishes our future dreams. |
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| A clip-release position simulates an overdriven electronic distortion that could work for guitars or synths. |
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| He does a good job of glueing the whole together with big, churchy organ chords and squelchy analogue synths. |
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| The melodies are strong throughout and there's a nice mix of guitars and synths, of rock and electronica. |
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| The thing that really stands out, is their use of classic synths and keyboards, which are wonderfully matched up to the two guitars and bass. |
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| Guitars are stripped clean and forced to interact on equal footing with strings, pianos, synths, even brass. |
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| He seizes every strain of pop music and every instrument he can think of, wrapping them in layers of synths and drum programming. |
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| I'm stammering around my room in a daze, those sickening high frequency synths still slicing into me like daggers. |
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| You never really know where the heavily treated guitars end and the synths start. |
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| Atmospheric synths gradually enter the mix, only to give way to a piano interlude that lays the groundwork for the last few verses. |
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| Largely absent are the spacey Grandaddy synths that occasionally lent the band's debut a pleasant jolt of modernity. |
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| Even new wave synths appear halfway through a song in this organized storm of raw, chunky bass, turbine engine guitars and industrial grime. |
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| Initially, there are no drones at all, and the first one to enter is provided not by big, gauzy, echoing synths, but an organ. |
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| I use the crossfader to blend the sound of my violin with the synths I am playing with the violin. |
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| Of course, if you never record acoustic sources and only use synths plugged in directly, you don't need microphones or preamps. |
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| The group have dedicated themselves to electro-acoustic audio installations using analogue synths and a quadraphonic sound system. |
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| Imagine five guys all on synths, moogs and drum machines playing dancy electro-pop songs with great energy and build ups. |
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| Comedy quiffs, tinny synths and half an inch of rouge were never meant to last. |
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| You had your hardcore kids, punks, and skate rats big on yelling and beer, skeptical of synths and Englishmen. |
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| I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths. |
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| Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity. |
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| The band excels at combining stripped-down electric beats and synths with more organic elements, such as piano, acoustic guitar, and saxophone. |
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| For example, you could have a suite of analog drum synths controlled by a sequencer. |
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| People who think it's all twee warbling over burbly synths just aren't giving them a fair shake. |
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| The convoluted storyline disappears into long stretches of guitar-play, synths, bleeps and bloops. |
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| A prominent solo line, a guitar, a sitar or a flute, floats over a solid background of synths and percussion. |
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| Jaded synths and multi-tracked harmonies lurk above a razor-fine piano note until the vocals lift into a Franciscan chant of helpless beauty. |
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| If you wanted, for instance, to send the output of an analog sequencer to multiple synths, you had to literally provide a sequencer for each synth. |
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| Today, there seem to be as many virtual instrument plug-ins as there are guitars, synths, vocoders, basses, string sections and electric pianos to emulate. |
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| The drums and synths just don't get any louder than this, folks! |
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| Did we mention that fans of analogue synths will also be impressed? |
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| We'll be playing all the hits from January 1990 to June 2011, taking in to account synths, guitars, keytars, drum-machines, girl bands, and boy bands. |
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| Vibes, synths and heavily reverbed flutes slide through the mix, anchored by Lee's guitar and voice, and electric guitars twang along on the margins. |
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| Recorders, twinkling synths, handclaps, banjos, and glockenspiel accompany the requisitely shambling acoustic guitar on songs about tigers, monsters and growing up. |
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| Tamayo traffics in minimalism, blips and beeps and glitchy clicky stuff coated with washes of synths, tiny melodies sneaking through murky textures. |
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| As those synths slide out of range, a cranky whiplash beat briefly takes center stage before relenting to blue-lit micro-beats and gurgling plinks. |
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| The synths had been toned down, replaced with tired guitar sounds. |
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| Trademark swirling synths are all present and correct along with the low-in-the-mix vocals and arpeggios. |
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| Their lushly romantic debut album features the rare blend of glockenspiels, synths, mandolin and more casting a deep, many-layered spell. |
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| His character helped to create the synths and regards his outdated model as sort of a son and the keeper of his memories of his dead wife. |
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| With Howe are Mark Hodgson on double bass, Ross Stanley on piano and synths, and Brandon Allen and Julian Siegel on saxophones. |
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| With its snarly synths and ricocheting beats, this modern-day morality play set to music marks his psychotic break and spiritual rebirth. |
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| But with their blissed out surf-guitars, dizzying chromatic melodies and glitchy synths the four-piece tapped into something that realy struck a chord with people. |
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| Reflections was a song I had on the guitar which was more like a folk song almost but I gave it across to Dave and Tommy and they put a lot of arpeggiated synths on it. |
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| A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. |
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| Everybody's using the funky bass, the synths, the hi-hat, the sequencers. |
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| There's elements of folk here, especially in Wolfe's cool and unnerving voice, but tracks are bolstered with doomy synths, driving metallike beats and washes of guitar. |
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