Standalone-Music The Drill Drop KONTAKT [FREE]

In case you lived under a rock for the past few months, The Drill by Magnificence and 7 SKIES is a massive tune released on Tiesto‘s label Musical Freedom that has been supported by pretty much every dj in the scene. Now you can use the EXACT sounds that 7…

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Elemental Child – The Heleus Cluster

The Heleus Cluster is a cluster of more than thirty known systems on the outer edge of the Andromeda Galaxy. Heleus was chosen as a target by the Andromeda Initiative after long-range observations indicated an unusually large number of habitable planets (Golden Worlds).

Der Heleus-Cluster ist ein Sternenhaufen mit mehr als dreißig bekannten Systemen am äußeren Rand der Andromeda-Galaxie. Heleus wurde von der Andromeda-Initiative als Ziel ausgewählt, nachdem Langstreckenbeobachtungen auf eine ungewöhnlich große Anzahl bewohnbarer Planeten (Goldene Welten) hingedeutet hatten.

MonsterDAW MONSTER Piano v1.0 x32 x64 VST AU WiN MAC [FREE]

#MonsterPianoVST is a Free Piano VST with various Preset, including Grand Piano, Baby Grand, and Upright Piano. It covers multi-tone characters, suitable for Pop to Rock, Jazz, Classical, and everything in between. The size of the sampling is small but still fun to play (I hope so). The great thing…

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Red Rock Sound EQ560 v2.0.3 VST AU WiN macOS [FREE]

EQ560 based on the 1967 classic. The 10-Band graphic equalizer features precision filtering and high headroom, ideal for signal enhancement. The curve shaping potential is unmatched, while unique «Proportional Q» design intuitively widens the filter bandwidth at lower boost/cut levels and narrows it at higher settings. FEATURES 10 bands of…

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Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks, dies aged 79

Vangelis pictured in 1976.

Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, has died aged 79. His representatives said he died in hospital in France where he was being treated.

Born Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou in 1943, Vangelis won an Oscar for his 1981 Chariots of Fire soundtrack. Its uplifting piano motif became world-renowned, and reached No 1 in the US charts, as did the accompanying soundtrack album.

Mostly self-taught in music, Vangelis grew up in Athens and formed his first band in 1963, called the Forminx, playing the pop music of the time: uptempo rock’n’roll, sweeping ballads and Beatles cover versions, with Vangelis supplying organ lines.

They split in 1966, and Vangelis became a writer and producer for hire, working for other musicians and contributing scores for Greek films. Two years later, he struck out for Paris to further his career, where he formed the prog rock quartet Aphrodite’s Child with Greek expats, including Demis Roussos. Their single Rain and Tears was a hit across Europe, topping the French, Belgian and Italian charts and reaching the UK Top 30

Vangelis at his home in London, 1982.

After they split – Vangelis deeming the world of commercial pop “very boring” – he returned to scoring film and TV. Turning down an invitation to replace Rick Wakeman on keyboards in Yes, he moved to London and signed a solo deal with RCA Records: his LPs Heaven and Hell (1975) and Albedo 0.39 (1976) each reached the UK Top 40, and the former was used to soundtrack Carl Sagan’s popular TV series Cosmos. The connection with Yes was finally completed later in the decade, when he teamed with the band’s Jon Anderson for the duo Jon and Vangelis, whose debut album went Top 5.

Vangelis had continued his film score work throughout the 1970s, but it was in the 80s that this reached its commercial heights. Chariots of Fire became inextricable from Vangelis’s timeless theme, and the music became synonymous with slow-motion sporting montages. “My music does not try to evoke emotions like joy, love, or pain from the audience. It just goes with the image, because I work in the moment,” he later explained.

His score to Blade Runner is equally celebrated for its evocation of a sinister future version of Los Angeles, where “replicants” and humans live awkwardly alongside one another, through the use of long, malevolent synth notes; saxophones and lush ambient passages enhance the film’s romantic and poignant moments. “It has turned out to be a very prophetic film – we’re living in a kind of Blade Runner world now,” he said in 2005.

Later in the decade he scored the Palme d’Or-winning Costa-Gavras political drama Missing, starring Jack Lemmon; the Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins drama The Bounty, and the Mickey Rourke-starring Francesco. He worked again with the Blade Runner director, Ridley Scott, on 1992 film 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and elsewhere during the 90s, soundtracked Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon and documentaries by Jacques Cousteau.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/19/vangelis-greek-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dies?fbclid=IwAR1bdF9htSpJ4_7z09axoTqd7wYrpaqylr2FVJsYIe0zTXnlFH1jnNWMQnU

Fuzzploid by Shameless Plugs

Fuzzploid is the fuzz pedal for the 21st century. The Fuzzploid algorithm is a new design, neither borrowing from existing 3rd party software code nor modelling any particular hardware circuitry. It was developed with the resulting sound in mind, by trial and error, and finally, success. Its character is brash, brutal, in-your-face….

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Yumbu 3 by Fanam Team

Yumbu 3 is slot driven drum sampler with lightning speed drum-kits loading and fast one stage control, fitted for live usage, with better control,  both mp3 and wav. format support, fast workflow and only 0.5 sec. loading times for new core kit, Yumbu 3 is one of the quickest drum samplers…

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MonsterDAW MONSTER Guitar v1.0 x32 x64 VSTI VSTI3 AU WiN MACOS [FREE]

#MonsterGuitarVST is a Free Guitar VST with various Preset, including Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, and soon some Ukulele Preset too. It covers multi music genres, from Reggae to Pop to Rock and everything in between. I made this Monster Guitar as a tool to make a MIDI mockup when I…

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