Bloodlit Radio features CANNONBALLS (Avarice in Audio Mix)

Many thanks to Bloodlit Radio for featuring our song CANNONBALLS (Avarice in Audio Mix) on their live radio broadcast and placing it on heavy rotation at Bloodlit Radio!

The show featuring the song is available on Youtube:

And also on Mixcloud

www.BloodlitRadio.com plays latest underground club tracks from the Industrial, Gothic, EBM, Dark Electro, Synthpop and Darkwave realms – listen to the LIVE! 2 hour broadcast which is entitled “In The Bloodlit Dark” every Sunday at (12pm Toronto / 6pm Germany) with Dj Father CoVen.

The full track list for this broadcast:

BAND – TRACK – ALBUM

01. Binary Park – Your Own Great Nation – Life On Lines
02. Vore Aurora – Hollow Point – Eidolon
03. Plastic Autumn – No More Lies – No More Lies EP
04. Cosmic Armchair – Cannonballs (Avarice In Audio Mix) – Cannonballs EP
05. Cryo – Control (Iambia Mix) – Control EP
06. Deflexity – Moth Cemetary – Ghosts
07. Dicepeople – Control (Feat. The Brooklyn Foundation) (Trump 45 Mix) – Control EP
08. Finkseye – Shut It Down – Under A Godless Sky
09. Monochrome – Freiheit (Thermical Mix) – Freiheit EP
10. Selofan – Ist Die Liebe Tot – Vitrioli
11. Biogenetik – Unholy – The New Plague
12. Formato Negativo – Who Are You? – Who Are You? EP
13. Wolfchild – Lone Wolf – Lone Wolf EP
14. Cold Drive – Against It – Reborn As Demon
15. Entropia Psicotica – Dulce Angel – Painting The New World
16. 3Teeth & HO99O9 – Lights Out – Lights Out EP
17. Crematory – Salvation – Oblivion
18. Schattenmann – Licht An – Licht An
19. Matt Hart – Systematic Regression – Chaos Rising 2 EP
20. T-Error Machinez – Biological Pharmacode – The War Of The Valkyries (Reworked)
21. NINA – 80’s Girl – Sleepwalking
22. Rose McGowan – Sirene – Planet 9
23. Nightrun87 – The Light Of Your Heart – The Destroyers Are Coming
24. Liste Noire – For What It’s Worth – For What It’s Worth EP
25. Xenia Beliayeva – Because – Riss

Web http://www.Bloodlitradio.com
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Mixcloud http://www.mixcloud.com/wwwbloodlitradiocom

 

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Goths in Singapore

The Goth community in Singapore has always been very supportive of our music, and Ben is now resident DJ of the Back in Black event series (next event Saturday 21 October 2017 at Chimichanga, 36 Dunlop Street) organized by the Singapore Dark Alternative Movement.

The opening DJ is MNRV who plays post punk, dark wave, EBM (Wulfband), and industrial (3Teeth and Youth Code)

Prime time is helmed by DJ RED, a consummate professional multi-genre DJ who plays EBM and industrial when she’s at Back in Black

And Ben rounds off the night with darkwave, synthwave, and new wave classic remixes, including some Cosmic Armchair remixes and live mashups.

The first Back in Black of the series succeeded in reuniting the Goth Community in Singapore after a hiatus of a few years.

We’re very glad to be welcomed by the Gothic Community in Singapore, as far back as Outbreed, the first ever large-scale alternative party in Singapore, at the unconventional remote location of Mandai Orchid Garden. Gathered in one mind blowing live gig were the biggest alternative musical talents in the local scene as well as resident Goth DJs. The Goth and alternative communities came in full force to enjoy genres of music spanning the entire spectrum of dark-alternative, all in one wild night.

Since then Ben has DJ-ed at various Goth events, and after a short hiatus, we’re glad to be back. Join us at Back in Black (Facebook Event Link here https://www.facebook.com/events/774685876036769) on Saturday 21 October.

Get our CONTACT album now

Our new album CONTACT has launched! Featuring brand new songs – some that you’ve heard ‘live’ at our shows, some that have never been performed – Contact is available on CD and as a download.

You can order the CD at the Alfa-Matrix store http://alfa-matrix-store.com/comsic-armchair-contact-CD

or you can hear (stream) or buy (download) the album on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, BandCamp, everywhere, with this link http://smarturl.it/zb7lev

Album merch (special CD+keychain bundle, T-shirts) available at https://cosmicarmchair.bandcamp.com/merch

Live Showcase of our new album at NUS UTown!

On Saturday 19 August we’ll be showcasing our new album CONTACT at Kent Ridge Alumni Family Day, NUS’ annual homecoming to welcome alumni, students, faculty, staff and their families back to Kent Ridge Campus. We’re performing with Brannlum on keyboards and Kids with Laptops on visuals.

More about the event –

Held at the University Town, participants will get a glimpse of modern campus life, enjoy carnival activities, network with students and alumni at the Faculty booths and be entertained by stage performances by fellow alumni. The festivities will culminate in the largest outdoor movie screening on campus of a popular animated film, Trolls.

Date :	Saturday, 19 August 2017
Time:	5.00pm – 9.30pm (our showcase starts 7.30 pm)
Dress Code:	Colourful and Casual!
Theme:	Colours-on-the-Green

Map

Full schedule

Time	Main Stage	Stephen Riady Centre	Education Resource Centre	Town Green
5.00pm to 6.00pm	·     Festival Drummers comprising members of the NUS Alumni Orchestra and NUS Wind Symphony ·     TO Ensemble	Alumni Art Exhibition Alumni-Students Volleyball Challenge Student Life Fair	Battle of theAlumNUSFoodpreneurs	Faculty Networking Booths
6.00pm to 8.00pm	·     Jonathan Leong & Pennylane featuring Stasha Wong ·     Kapap / Modern Street Combatives Self-Defence Demonstration ·     7.30 pm Cosmic Armchair
8.00pm to 9.30pm	Movie Screening – Trolls

Come on your own or bring family and friends!

Celebrate Record Store Day all week with 30% off our songs

For the occasion of « Record Store Day », our label Alfa Matrix has launched a special -30% discount code on their whole music catalog including our own releases! CD’s, vinyls, digital: EVERYTHING! Simply apply the following code: RSD2017 and get 30% discount on all your music purchases on www.alfa-matrix-store.com or http://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com This code is valid until May 1st so take your chance now and thanks again for your support!

You can buy our previous EPs

Also:

As well as

You can buy other albums where we appear, and check out all the other cool alternative electronic music from our label-mates

And albums by other cool electronic artists who we’ve remixed songs for

as well as

There’s lots to choose from!

What is Record Store Day?

Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 and held on one Saturday every April to “celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store”. The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores across the world.

Friday I’m in Love (Club Mix Cover)

Happy birthday Robert Smith of The Cure on Friday 21 April! Here’s our club mix cover of Friday I’m in Love, available from Alfa-Matrix  https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/track/friday-im-in-love

Live in Japan (Part 2) Electronic Pop Lab Chiba 3 Dec

Our second #synthpop #electropop show in #Japan was Saturday 3 December at Treasure River Book Cafe in Chiba with our talented Japanese host artists Cobalt Bomb Alpha Omega!

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3 December at 19:00–22:00 UTC+09

あの東郷カレーが帰ってきた！

２０１２年を最後にサヨナラした千葉のテクノカレーが、そのトンチキ具合を増して復活。

今回の出演はシンガポールから初来日のエレクトロポップデュオCosmic Armchair。Zoom Lensからアルバム『Event Horizon』をリリースしたばかりのYoshino Yoshikawaもライブセットで出演。さらには世界でBOMBを投下するコバルト爆弾αΩもDJ＆VJでカレーの旨味を引き立てる。

会場はもちろん変わらずTreasure River Book Cafe。

今回はカレー王国八千代からKorocurryが出張カレー。千葉のカレーフリークに挑戦状を叩きつける。シンガポールの国旗が制定された１２月３日は、東郷カレーで祝杯を！

Live:Cosmic Armchair (from Singapore / Alfa Matrix )
http://www.cosmicarmchair.com/
DJ:Yoshino Yoshikawa（Zoom Lens / Maltine Records）
https://yosshibox.com/
東郷ターン（EBM Never Stop!）
DJ&VJ:コバルト爆弾αΩ (Maltine Records / Aki Party – Dance Party for Geeks / Inage)
カレー:Korocurry（from 8chi4）

12月3日（土曜日）
¥1500(Entrance+1Drink+Curry)
@千葉TREASURE RIVER BOOK CAFE
http://treasureriverbook.web.fc2.com/

Teaching Electronic Music on a 21″ Tablet (Lenovo Yoga Home 500)

Recently when I conducted the two day workshop on Producing Electronic Music for School of Music Arts (SOMA), I decided to use the Yoga Home 500 PC/Tablet for teaching. In the process, I discovered 3 benefits:

1. Using the same computer for production and performance is more efficient

Until now, we’ve been making music in our personal studio on a heavy duty desktop computer (Lenovo A720) with a large screen. The powerful CPU enabled us to experiment with multiple instruments and effects, and the large screen enabled us to see many channels of music, instruments and effects at the same time. We even performed with it at the Esplanade Waterfront.

Cosmic Armchair playing touchscreen at Esplanade Waterfront

But that desktop was not only heavy duty, it was also heavy. So for many live performances, we had to duplicate our files onto our IdeaPad ultrabook instead. And if we made any new changes during the rehearsal or performance, we had to duplicate them back to the desktop. This led to messy duplicates and sometimes versions went missing or were over written.

   Now our Yoga Home 500 not only has all the CPU power and screen size of a desktop PC, but is also portable enough to be brought out to the performance (or in this case, the lesson). The foldable stand turns it into a tablet that can be carried in a tote bag, and the wireless keyboard and mouse mean there are less messy cables.

2. Teaching by touchscreen is easier than teaching by mouse

My students used to have to strain their eyes to see where my mouse pointer was clicking on screen, even after increasing screen size and pointer size. Now that I use the touchscreen of the Yoga Home 500 to teach, students can see exactly where my fingers are pressing, and follow along on their own computers.

3. Performing live on the touchscreen is intuitive and fun

The multi-touch touchscreen of the Yoga Home 500 allows my students to experience hands on the ability to play live on the Ableton Live software, triggering and manipulating music with their fingers (see below) without requiring additional hardware or configuration.

Playing Ableton Live on touchscreen

   We pioneered playing the touchscreen PC as a musical instrument with our Lenovo A720 at larger shows like our Esplanade Waterfront show (see first photo above). The Yoga Home 500 is more portable which means we can bring it for almost any performance.  This versatility is a great benefit for teaching electronic music, and I’m looking forward to playing it in live performances as well.

LANDR or EMastered – which online mastering is better? Hear and decide for yourself

We recently uploaded our current single, I DON’T BELONG HERE, to the two leading online mastering sites, LANDR and EMastered, to see which one would do a better job of mastering* our music. Both sites  use proprietary artificial intelligence and algorithms to do the job automatically, at a fraction of the time and cost of human beings. Ideally we prefer to give our music to a good (human) mastering engineer with experience in our genre, but we wanted to explore if these automated sites could do the job for a quick demo.

(* ‘mastering’ is the final part of audio post production before releasing the song, where the final mix is processed with EQ, compression, limiting and other enhancements, and makes it sound professional)

The results between the sites are close, so you should listen to the examples and decide for yourself, preferably on good headphones or speakers (not earbuds). You may also want to compare the loudest parts where the beats kick in.

What you hear below is the original WAV file without mastering, as a baseline.

 

What you hear next is the result of uploading the WAV file to LANDR.com

 

Compare it with the result of uploading the WAV file to EMastered.com

 

Finally, here is the version that is available for you to buy in the Alfa Matrix store (hint, hint)

 

So , which one do you prefer? Please tell us in the comments.

 

 

 

Back in the Studio with an #Electro #Synthpop #EBM Mixtape

We’re back in the studio after a long hiatus and our first recording of 2016 is this mixtape of our favourite synthpop / electro / EBM tracks from the Matrix Downloaded 4 compilation by Alfa Matrix, the top international alternative electro / synthpop / EBM label.

Yes we had our hands full with other matters in 2015 – new addition to family, new full time job, new live Peranakan electropop show – and we’re very sorry to our label mates whom we were unable to remix in time for your great EP and album releases (they sound great!) – but we’re back in action producing and remixing and ready to go!

You’ll find our favourite synthpop / electropop / alternative tracks from the Matrix Downloaded 4 (available at http://alfa-matrix-store.com/ ) featuring PSY’AVIAH feat. MARI KATTMAN, AYRIA, COSMIC ARMCHAIR (ourselves!), ESSENCE OF MIND, UNTER NULL, METROLAND, DIFFUZION, ENTRZELLE, SUICIDAL ROMANCE, AESTHETISCHE, STUDIO-X vs. SIMON CARTER, DREAM RECALL, and AVARICE IN AUDIO.