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Remembering Kieran Foster; legendary Glitch2 effect now free

Peter Kirn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:29:58 +0000

You may know Kieran Foster by his other aliases -- illformed, dblue, MaDHaTTeR. That's just how omnipresent he was as a light in electronic music communities, from the music and rave scene to software to Renoise. His sister has made his legendary Glitch2 effect free in his memory. Instead of pouring one out, you can crank up its sequenced sound-morphing powers and let his work live on.

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Vintage Max patches revived: free downloads, Leafcutter John and Suren

Peter Kirn — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:12:24 +0000

Suren Seneviratne (My Panda Shall Fly) has been painstakingly cataloging lost software, oldschool patches, and retro musical practices, reviving old machines and software and breathing new life into them. But now, we get some classic Max patches, remade for the current era of Max patches. Download them for free, and listen in as Suren interviews Leafcutter John and John interviews Suren.

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Gigi Masin on Movement, the age of sampling, and thinking analog

David Abravanel — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:14:00 +0000

Forty years on from Wind, the Venetian ambient original makes his Sacred Bones debut with the surprisingly rhythmic Movement. In a written exchange, Masin talked about keeping ambient music from staring at itself in the mirror, being heavily sampled, the reel-to-reel he calls an old brother, and why human thought is analog.

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Impactor, Rupture 2 by Rawton Forge are perfect percussion synths for Live

Peter Kirn — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:08:58 +0000

That's it. Rawton Forge has nailed it. With the new Rupture 2 on the kick and bass drum synthesis side, and Impactor handling general-purpose percussion synthesis for kicks/toms/tonal, you have an ideal floor-rattling, punchy, snappy synthesis duo for Ableton Live.

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DeafMan transforms Ableton Live with custom colors, interactive editor

Peter Kirn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:02:33 +0000

DeafMan's creations for Ableton Live have evolved from a selection of cool retro themes to a vast library of complete color makeovers -- a "visual system." And there's an insanely powerful new editor for managing themes, tweaking colors, creating customizations, and assigning color to tracks. It's more than just customization: it's a way of thinking about your workspace and music in hues and shades.*

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Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves have the cutest dinosaur music video

Peter Kirn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:41:18 +0000

Owen Lake is back -- the alias of Jeff Snyder, who in these parts is best known for Snyderphonics, MPE innovator and Manta creator (of Princeton University). Here, we get twee-and-western, electro-country tunes with Anica Mrose Rissi that charmingly stick in your head, played partly on instruments Jeff invented, Electrosteel and Electrobass. And there's a music video with dinos!

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The Bob Moog Foundation Archives just added 4489 items from inMusic

Peter Kirn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:52:05 +0000

500 schematics, 700 letters, vintage synths, publications, personal effects from Dr. Bob, prototype models, and more: thanks to a major gift from inMusic, the Bob Moog Foundation has massively expanded its collection. It makes the history that much more whole. Here are some images to give you a glimpse.

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Last call on these summer sales on gear and software

Peter Kirn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:54:26 +0000

Don't worry -- summer's not over yet (beloved northern hemisphere, anyway). But there are a bunch of sales ending tomorrow or at the end of July. Here's a quick round-up, including a couple I missed in the last deals guide.

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Birds on guitars, in the zebra finch sound art of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

Peter Kirn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:45:28 +0000

Sound artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's "from hear to ear" is on view in Lisbon, Portugal at the moment. So let's take a moment for zebra finches playing guitars and other sonic installations driven by elements from nature in the work of this artist from Nice, France (now in Sète).

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Detroit legend John Jammin Collins has passed

Peter Kirn — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:28:39 +0000

Few faces are as essential to Detroit music and Detroit techno as John "Jammin" Collins, an institution behind the decks, stalwart of Underground Resistance, and the literal tour guide at Submerge's techno museum Exhibit 3000. We learned this weekend that the soul of Detroit moved onto another plane.

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