Dada Life Releases "Endless Smile" Plug-in

Create epic build-ups that put an Endless Smile on your face

 

Stockholm, Sweden (May 24, 2017) - Swedish music duo Dada Life brings the same high-energy personalities that have propelled them to the top of the EDM scene to the development of Endless Smile, a new plug-in that creates build-ups with the turn of a single knob.

 

"It's finally here," said Stefan of Dada Life. "We know it took a long time, but creating a plug-in while juggling bananas and double-spraying champagne in front of thousands of people all over the world isn't easy!"

 

 

"This plugin is bananas! In a great way," said award-winning DJ/Producers Above and Beyond. "The Dada boys have done it again - spotted yet another niche and dealt with fantastically. There's nothing else out there like it - a fun but at the same time seriously effective plugin that will get heavily used by us!"

 

Endless Smile follows the wild success of their first plugin, Sausage Fattener, which gives producers a simple way of getting Dada Life's signature "fat" sound. "Sausage Fattener makes the tracks huge, but it's not all about the drop - you need buildups too," said Olof of Dada Life "With Endless Smile it's easier than ever to create music that lifts you to space with a smile that just gets bigger and bigger and bigger!"

 

Influential artists such as Axwell, Merk and Kremont, Bassjackers, Chris Lake, Blasterjaxx, Tritonal and more are already raving about Endless Smile. DJ/Producer Steve Angello says, "I use it on both buses and the master in some occasions. Saves a lot of time and sounds amazing. Love it!" While Grammy-winning dance music producer Zedd adds, ""LOVE it!!!! Sooo helpful and useful!!"

 

While the Endless Smile couldn't be simpler to use, there is some serious processing technology under the hood. Carefully selected and programmed filters, delays, reverbs, EQ's, phasers, barber poles, LFO's, different distortions and more create rich and complex musical build-ups - all wrapped up in a silly interface in true Dada Life style.

 

Great for use on the master channel, the drum buss or single instrument channels, Endless Smile comes with eight presets from "soft" to "extreme" and were personally programmed by Dada Life.

 

Price & Availability:

Endless Smile is available now for $39 USD or bundled together with Sausage Fattener for $59 USD. To order, visit: http://tailorednoise-downloads.com/DadaLifePurchase.php

Seminal Southern California Punks CH3 Return with New Album; 'Put 'Em Up' Out August 18; New Song Premieres on OC Weekly

Seminal Southern California punk rock band CH3 have announced the August 18th release of 'Put 'Em Up', their first complete album of news songs in over 15 years.

A new song titled "Not That It Matters" is now streaming exclusively on OC Weekly: http://www.ocweekly.com/music/ch-3-whets-our-appetite-for-their-first-full-album-in-decades-with-not-that-it-matters-8137235.

The track is also available now as a free download at https://www.toneden.io/ch3/post/channel-3-not-that-it-matters-official-audio.

The album announcement is timed with the long-running band's appearance at this weekend's Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas, NV (Sat. May 27 @ Beauty Bar) where they will play alongside The Mr. T Experience.

CH3 is also one of the dozens of acts scheduled to perform at It's Not Dead 2 on August 26 in San Bernardino, CA.

In between festival dates, the band will play a series of shows in Denver, CO, El Prado, NM and Albuquerque in June.See dates below.

Contemporaries of fellow So Cal punks Social Distortion, Bad Religion, T.S.O.L., Circle Jerks, etc., CH3 has been steadily touring the world since first forming in Cerritos, CA in 1980.

With 'Put 'Em Up', CH3 has delivered a career-defining album. Written and recorded in the wary post-election days of 2017, the collection of 10 songs are connected as a tightly focused novella, a ‘concept album’ by nature of the timeframe and frame of mind that it was recorded in.

A timely and urgent commentary on current events, with lyrics inspired by the clean, visceral, and cinematic writings of Jim Harrison ("Legends Of The Fall"), some of the songs reference back to the band's earlier political works such as "Manzanar", as those concerns seem more relevant than ever.

Other songs deal with the politics of the heart and themes that have become a trademark of the bittersweet CH3 songbook.

The music remains refined punk with traces of classic '77 Brit to 80's hardcore, power pop rock, which combined, make up the CH3 sound.

'Put 'Em Up' was produced by Jay Lansford (Agent Orange) and features artwork by esteemed artist Lucky Nakazawa. The album will be released via all digital retailers and on vinyl through TKO Records.

Album pre-orders will launch soon.

Upcoming shows:

Jun 23 Streets Of London Pub Denver, CO

Jun 24 Taos Mesa Brewing Mothership El Prado, NM

Jun 25 Launchpad Albuquerque, NM

Aug 26 Glen Helen Amphitheater formerly San Manuel Amphitheater San Bernardino, CA (It's Not Dead)

Enchanted Forest 2017 Opens Expanded Cannabis Zone + Onsite Prescription Evals

An ode to their continued efforts to remain at the forefront of an evolving festival circuit, the West Coast’s premier multi-experiential event, Enchanted Forest Gathering (EFG) unveils an innovative partnership with seed-to-shelf NorCal cannabis manufacturer & distributor, CannaCraft and leading online cannabis telehealth platform, PrestoDoctor. Dubbed The Emerald Forest, the trailblazing venture will be one of the many immersive environments found within the enchanting wooded grounds and the only festival location to boast a cannabis-friendly zone, designed specifically with the gathering’s core audience in mind.

Native Instruments releases THRILL

May 30, 2017, Berlin – Native Instruments today released THRILL, a ground-breaking new instrument that enables the introduction of terrifying live scores to movies, games, sound installations, or theater productions.

THRILL is the first instrument to combine the epic power of an orchestra with the chilling depth of expert sound design, house them within a simple performance-driven interface, and place them into the hands of a single player.

Using THRILL, a single person could perform the terrifying string tone clusters from The Shining, as Jack Torrance rampages around Overlook Hotel. An aspiring young filmmaker could single-handedly play all of Arrival’s stomach-churning bass drones in just one take.

The all-original 30 GB sound library is taken from 963 source sounds, including orchestral recordings and hybrid sound-design based on ambiences, custom-built instruments, voices, pitched metal, synthesized drones, and more.

Central to THRILL is an X-Y control for modulating effects and morphing between sounds. This control offers composers and sound designers something completely new – the ability to design and play complex cinematic textures and builds in real time. Simple and intuitive to use, the control blends between sound sources, effects, the number of sonic layers, general intensity, and more, depending on the preset being used. This X-Y modulator lends itself to trackpad, tablet, or even smartphone control (via TouchOSC), allowing an unprecedented level of sound-to-action interaction.

THRILL also comes with the most powerful tone cluster designer ever offered in a virtual instrument. Tone clusters are a special kind of chord, containing at least three adjacent notes, and are one of the staple tools for generating fear and tension in any audience. THRILL offers 250+ diverse and editable cluster sound and voicing presets, using the many types of pitched sounds in the THRILL library, such as strings and horns. Tone clusters can also be built from scratch, with up to eight independently editable and modulatable voices.

THRILL was created in collaboration with sound master Uli Baronowsky of Galaxy Instruments. Already a trusted NI partner, known for the acclaimed RISE & HIT and UNA CORDA, Uli now brings his proven mastery of high-quality sampling, sound reinforcement, and innovative control to THRILL.

THRILL runs in KONTAKT 5 and the free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER, and is available at the NI Online Shop for €299 / $299 / £239 / ¥ 37 800 / AU$ 439

Additional information about THRILL is available at:
https://www.native-instruments.com/products/komplete/cinematic/thrill