Prowess Records: New look, first release

Our web-designer has worked on the website using our wishes, input and his own imagination and has rolled out the resulting web-code. Go to Prowess Records to view the public beta! (And feel free to sign up to our RSS-feed.)

Soon, Prowess Records will release it’s first EP featuring yours truly using my new pseudonym: JordyVision. The first release will be called “Van Charles De Gaulle Naar KIX” with tracks such as “Kittens”, “ソフィ ＆ フェリシア” (Sophie & Felicia) and “んゆー！” (Nyu!). I’m currently mastering these tracks and sorting-out the artwork. In about six weeks these tracks will be available in the iTunes store!

Also, this is my hundredth blog post! And to celebrate the event I want to show you the talents of 電気グルーヴ の プェール瀧 (Denki Groove’s Pierre Taki):

ピエール瀧の体操42歳 (Pierre Taki’s 42 year old gymnast)

JordyVision – KIX Arrivals

To celebrate the upcoming first release of Prowess Records and because it’s been a while since I last uploaded a new DJ-mix, JordyVision released a new DJ demo. It’s called “KIX Arrivals” and you can download it here, for free!

The DJ-set consists of the following tracks:

01 : Estado Avanzado – Compressor Coma (mix 2)
02 : Zigarettenpause – Tuesday Arrivals
03 : Paper Details – Voyage Electrique
04 : Doppelclick – Kleng
05 : Toni Latenz – The Hype
06 : Bertech – The Sun
07 : Roderick K. Fox – Splendid (Nidecker Remix)
08 : Thompson Kuhl – Makro
09 : Karla Van Goa (A.K.A. Kill Minimal) – Star Track
10 : Suspect Delivery – Daisy (Soundbalance Trio Minus Remix)
11 : Kill Minimal – Martes De Matanza
12 : Nahfeld – Subworm
13 : Berteck – Blocked
14 : Pable Akaros – Reisepass
15 : Tec Overflow – Deseos
16 : Naifloop – Revenge Of The Casiotones

Download it here, clickety click!

All of these tracks are Net-label releases released under a Creative Commons license. Hench, I release this mix using the same license.

JordyVision – KIX Arrivals by http://prowessrecords.com/ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.1 Japan License.

KORG DS-10 Plus

A much wanted and sought after video-game application for Nintendo DS, KORG DS-10. AQ Interactive released a new version version for both DS and DSi just short of a month ago; KORG DS-10 Plus.

This version promised a few improvements over the original when played on the normal Nintendo DS, but the main core of the application is in the DSi version. The same game-card can be used for both systems and the DSi version is fully backward-compatible, meaning that when linking up the systems for multi-play, both “games” will sync-up it’s tempo and thus you can still use your old version to create tracks on multiple DS’s. For more on it’s features, I’m gonna let Denji Sano do the talking in his Keynote: Take it away Denji!

Allowing up to four DS to be synced. When used wisely, like say, via à 4 channel mixer, one could create a very interesting song created on four separate KORG DS-10’s, all running in sync. The DSi version features the same stuff you already knew from the original DS version, but, everything in dubbles. Twelve instead of six channels, four instead of two synths, eight instead of four drum-tracks and so on. When used with the new DSi “Dual-mode” this would mean, technically, you could have 8 KORG’s all synthesizing in tune and in time with each other. That’s some bang for your buck! Unfortunately, I don’t have a DSi yet, so I could not test the DSi features myself.

I ordered KORG DS-10 Plus on Amazon, costing me only ¥3150. But expect retailers (if sold in a store at all… Remember how many shops sold DS-10?) to squeeze about €45,- out of your wallet, or I guess, about $50,-. So I recommend ordering the application via the good ol’ internet. Remember that this is a Japanese release, and so the manual will be in Japanese. If you want an English manual, you’ll have to wait for Q1 2010 for an American and European release. But if you already used the original version and read the original manual, you won’t find any surprises in this installment.

New website design

Last night the new design of my website was unveiled to me.

I hope you like it! I do. Blue suits me a little better than green does, and the DS is there for fun, and because i owe a lot of traffic to the small touchscreen device. As usual for me these days; Keep coming back to check it out, the design will gradually move towards it’s final point of perfection.

A very special thanks goes out to Studio Krater for designing my website. This is the second design Studio Krater has done for me, and Studio Krater also build the (content) engine behind it. Be sure to check him out on his website:http://studiokrater.com/