Surfing Audio!

If you haven't checked out the awesome, downloadable game "Audiosurf", you're missing out! It's a fantastic interactive music game where you "Ride Your Music". It works with any song on your computer and is just tons of fun to play.

Other than it just being a great game, "Audiosurf" happens to have been created by a good friend of ours. On top of that, this weeks installment of "Audiosurf Radio" features tracks by Killing Thursby! Isn't that cool?

If you don't already have it, go download "Audiosurf" immediately and be sure to try out some KT tracks while you're at it!

Old Is New Again!

For those out there that like studio gear as much as we do, the NAMM show is an exciting time every year. There are always lots of new gear announcements, demos, and photos. There's been a lot of activity in the "analog gear" realm the past few conventions in particular and this year is no exception. NAMM is still going but already some really cool gear has emerged from the show.

One of the coolest is a collaboration between synth legend, Dave Smith, and drum machine icon, Roger Linn. Their new product, Tempest, is a full-featured analog drum machine. It's got analog oscillators as well as digital samples, filters, envelopes, MIDI, etc., allowing fully customizable old-school drum sounds along with classic "step" programming. It looks like the ultimate modern analog drum machine. Also, Roger Linn stated that he's got another drum machine in the works but hasn't talked about what will make it different from the Tempest. We'd love to get our hands on one of these and put it through its paces!

Drum machines are back and better than ever!

Look To The Horizon!

Happy New Year! We, the members of Killing Thursby, had a great Holiday season and actually spent some time in the same room together (imagine that)! We started a couple of new songs during this time and are really excited about where we can push things for the next album. We also just spent some time hanging out (ie; talking about movies, music, games, etc- the fun stuff!).

We've got some exciting things in the works for this year but we can't talk about them just yet. We're also going to be hitting the pavement hard promoting "Across The Wires". Of course, we're also going to be doing more videos, song de-constructions, and 'random thoughts' blogs like we've been doing.

Here's to a great 2011 and there's a lot more to come from KT!

As good as you remember?

Nostalgia. Ah, the good old days of... We were talking to a friend of ours recently about whether many famous things are well remembered because of nostalgia or because they're really that good? Specifically, we were discussing synthesizers like the Roland SH-101. There are synths like the SH-101 that are highly prized but don't seem to really be that great of an instrument. Sure, they have their good points but don't really live up to the hype. The gist of our conversation was about whether these well remembered pieces are really that great or do they just have a great(nostalgic) reputation. It's sort of like when an artist that you've been following for years comes out with something new and you say, "It's good, but not as good as their early stuff". Is the "early stuff" really better or do you just have nostalgia for it? It's really relevant nowadays with all these things from our childhood coming back.

As far as music gear goes, it's interesting to see people paying really inflated prices for certain famous pieces when there are often 'better'(cheaper) alternatives that just don't have the same name recognition. It's something to think about as things like The A-Team and GI-Joe continue to make comebacks. What do you think- are we living in the past too much or were things really that much better in '82?

A Unique Artist On A Fantastic Voyage!

Since many of you who are reading this are fans of electronic music, synthesizers, etc. we thought we'd talk about an artist who is doing some really cool things with a Moog Voyager. Roger O'Donnell has released a number of interesting recordings the past few years, many of them focusing on Moog synthesizers. In fact, two of his albums, "The Truth In Me" and "Songs From The Silver Box", were done entirely on the Voyager. Both are really interesting and highly recommended. "The Truth In Me" album was very inspirational for us as we initially planned our all-analog concept. His latest album, "Piano Formations", is equally well done focusing on "all-piano" pieces.

It's great to see an artist doing such great material, whether or not it's getting played on the radio or whatever. It's very encouraging to independent artist like us. We hope you'll check out his website or hit up iTunes for one of his albums!

Macbeth M5 Filter Demo

Please excuse the poor video quality- the audio sounds great, though!

Here a demo video of the different filter sounds available on the Macbeth M5. There's a wide range of sounds available between the Lowpass and Multi-mode filters.

The Original Little Fatty Strikes Back!