The Prodigy only just toured Australia and by all accounts, the tour was a huge success.
The band's fusion of techno, punk, break-beat and acid was one of my earliest electronic music influences.
Lam Howlett founded the band back in the early 1990s and he picked Flint to be the bands frontman. Flint scared my parents with his menacing live performances and goulish makeup....and that was part of the attraction. Hopefully this isn't the end of The Prodigy. Howlett's music is synonymous with late 1990's British Electronic music.
Along with Fatboy Slim, Orbital and the Chemical Brothers they were the
soundtrack of the late 1990's dance culture.
We
all know what a radio is, how to use a simple receiver and tune into
our favourite programs. But what if we go further? Instead of
eliminating unwanted frequencies, we learn to use them all,
discovering the world of noise humans created unintentionally, which
we didn't even know exists. Sometimes it may be fascinating,
sometimes scary. Are you ready to explore it?
Soma
Laboratory proudly presents its newest device – Ether. Engineered
by Vlad Kreimer, this small piece of gear contains a lot of creative
potential in a portable and sleek design.
You can easily carry it in
your pocket and, when ready, turn it on, plug in your headphones and
plunge into the electromagnetic world around you. Simple as that. But
beware, once discovered, this world may become your obsession.
Thanks
to its high sensitivity, Ether allows you to hear the electromagnetic
soundscape in any of your surroundings. Take it to the crowded city
center, to a subway car or anywhere you wish. Use the built-in
antennas or, with its special input pin, changing encountered metal
objects or even yourself into an additional antenna.
Ether allows you to hear and record things that normally are beyond our
perception, yet are still omnipresent basically everywhere we go?
It's been like a parallel dimension or a ghost world, accessible only
to the chosen few. Until now.
Ether
creates a whole new range of possibilities for field recording
artists. Microphones pick up what we can already hear, this device
simply goes beyond our senses. And it's simply great fun for
individuals who want to take it on an electromagnetic ghost chase,
alone or with friends.
You
can also use it on stage to track down your movements when playing
all sorts of electronic instruments, adding a noisy layer to your
performance, perhaps even picking up signals from the audience's cell
phones and other technical equipment.
Ether is very sensitive to any kind of digital circuitry that’s in close
proximity. This is why itdoesn't have an SD-card recorder. You also have to make sure to keep other electronic
devices that you carry (phone, laptop, recorder) at least 30cm/1ft away
to avoid interference.
To record ETHER, you need to use an audio cable of at least 1m/3ft in
length to connect it to a device like a ZOOM recorder. Even with a long
cable, ETHER can sound differently than when using headphones.
Ether
is designed to be inspiring, easy to use and affordable. It will be
available for a net price of 120 euros.