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Sunday, November 29, 2009 
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 


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Close your Eyes - Kenton Duffield - featuring Kathryn Wales - PREVIEW  by  Eight minus Eight

Close your Eyes Kenton Duffield featuring Kathryn Wales PREVIEW. This track has been on the go for about 4 months now, originally an instrumental, we finally got the vocals down this weekend. Thank you so much to everyone involved, especially Kathryn for her time and Darren Porter, for the facilities

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Saturday, August 29, 2009 

Someone just IM'd me out of the blue and asked me this question, strange but good to! Thought I'd share it, feel free to comment or add your own list.

In no particular order, my top 5 electronic tunes are....


Hardfloor - Acperience - A timeless piece of techno. Sucks you into it's vortex and spits you out the other end a changed person. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5wycI_C0N8 ---------------------------------------------------------

Age of Love - Age of Love - Probably the first Trance tune I heard, loved the staccato choir to this day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKs9JwiD65E&feature=PlayList&p=49A882F7E5783DAE&index=1 ---------------------------------------------------------


Plastikman - Physk - If you have never done acid , this is what it's like. Heard this on BBC John Peel show 10 years ago live, awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWfXC1wD4cI ---------------------------------------------------------

Moby - Go - Ok Moby has produced some weird stuff lately, but this was one of those tunes that, with it's simplicity ticked all the right boxes for me. Played this till it wore out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwGN36VtR8&feature=related ---------------------------------------------------------




Quench - Dreams - Hard and trancey with a tubular bell, what more can you want http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPvhUpnocx0
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Sunday, August 23, 2009 
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 
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Eight minus Eight ++OUT NOW 8-8 THE SINGLE++

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30 April 2009

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8-8 The single is out today. This is something of a milestone for Kenton, who is Eight minus Eight. This track, originally recorded 8 years ago, and recently remixed opened up a whole new style and direction for the electonic music producer. You are invited to check it out!

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 
8 BIT Snare

Here's a collaboration opportunity, for any tech, trance , house artists .

Take  a listen to this track sampler called "8 bit Snare"

I would describe it has tech trance , but you may disagree.

The main hook of the song is the SID chip sound , emulated with Quantum64 VST, and the compressed snare drum loop, I have taken it as far as I can.

The sampler has had some positive interest , but is not signed, and I am making no promises it will be released. If it's good enough it will!

If you fancy a crack at it drop me an email and I will get the remix parts to you ASAP.

Get the 4MB sampler and MIDI  ZIP file here

http://www.box.net/shared/2r8sko90ej

Thanks for your interest

Kenton

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Monday, April 20, 2009 

Mick Chillage Sub Harmony remixes are out today on DJ Download, I am really pleased with my mix, the best way to describe it is ,  Blade Runner dipped in an ACID bath.

http://www.djdownload.com/mp3-detail/Mick+Chillage/Sub+Harmony/Nice++Nasty/592360 to listen and buy.



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Friday, April 10, 2009 

Current mood:pixelated






       

Pixel Art a quick guide

Sent a little pixel art to 'The Polish Ambassador' a funky retro maestro who I have found, he liked it , and put it on his website, which made my day. Check him and the piccy out here;
http://thepolishambassador.com/.

It got me all excited about things retro, music, graphics, life in the 80's etc and I thought I would share a little info on pixel art.

Wikipedia says"Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old (or relatively limited) computer and video games, graphing calculator games, and many mobile phone games are mostly pixel art."

The important thing to remember is, we are not pixelating photgraphs, thats cheating, the idea is to produce a stylised piece of art, not to everyones taste but what the hell.

There are lots of different ways of making the art and animations, but this is my method;

1.Make an animation with Deluxe Paint PC version ( an old bitmap paint editor from 1991 available for free as abandonware at vetusware.com)

2. View the animation file with Imagine a  Free Image & Animation Viewer For Windows' ( google it , easy and free to use) and importantly it reads Deluxe Paint files

3. Save the file as a .gif (animated frames) this means most computer browsers will recognise and display the picture.

4. Crop or adjust the size of the.gif file using online editor such as www.smileygenerator.us otherwise the little artwork will be so small no one will see it.

5. Make final adjustments like frame speed etc. at gifmake.com

6. Save your final animated .gif

Thats how I do it anyway, used this method for years, and sometimes the old ways are still the best. Hope you enjoy the guide have a look at this youtube showreel of some of this old stuff here











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Thursday, March 26, 2009 



Northumberland Gazette March 26 2009 by James Willoughby

TWENTY years in the making; vintage electronic debut. That is the message on the front of a Northumbrian electronic dance producer’s website. For Kenton Duffield, this statement personifies a proud moment in a long musical journey. Having been signed in January by Dublin Tech/House label Nice and Nasty, the 36-year-old has finally fulfilled a long standing ambition. just last week, the dad-of two, from Acklington, saw one of his dance tracks released for the first time,  after making music for two decades. Kenton, who goes by the name of Eight Minus Eight, said:  "When I had conformation in January that I had been signed it was an enormous sense of achievement after so manly years of making music and thinking about getting something released." ' The track, Mad Hatter, has been described as a "sublime acid—tech track" and it was exclusively released on digital download site Phonomonkey.com last Thursday. It is set to hit other download stores such as djdownload.com and juno.co.uk at the end of March.

Kenton said: "It is a good thing to get to a wider audience. That is my personal goal. "I enjoy making music and I would like to know that other people are listening to it and enjoying it themselves. “It has been a pretty hectic and exciting few months building up to this debut release." But he admitted: "There is a degree of nervousness about how my music will be received by the listening public. But we will just have to see how it goes." As part of the deal, Kenton will get to work with producers from across the world. His debut track features three remixes from global music big  shots such as French electronic music producer, Catalepsia, and Canadian electronica artist Andrew Duke.

Kenton, who has signed five tracks with the music label, will also get the chance to remix other artist’s work. It is something which he believes will be a great learning curve and a creative experience, and something that will shape a definitive sound for him. At the end of last year, Kenton’s tune Doubledecker was picked from hundreds of tracks to be given airtime on BBC Radio’s Dave Pearce Dance Anthems unsigned producers slot. But he said: "The tune on the radio was trancey, with an euphoric sound. · "However, the label’s broad description is techno music, but not in a distorted bass drum and 150 beat per minute sense. It is more listenable, a lot more glitchy and quirky  “This year it is about getting some releases under my belt and fine tuning my sound. I want to channel all my energy into one type of genre."  Kenton’s passion for music came from being a clubber himself and the buzz and euphoria which the scene conjured up. The ability to produce his own music came with the birth of the home computer age. Learning, analyzing and experimenting with sounds, he did is apprenticeship on the early Commodore C64 and Amiga computers, which although limiting, pushed him to squeeze every ounce of sound from these early machines. It culminated over the years to a full hardware studio of synths, effects units and classic analogue sounds. And it is the advancement of technology which has helped him reach his goal.

 Kenton, who runs his own handyman business, said: "The main thing is the development in technology in the last five years. You can now produce something which sounds commercial. "ln the last few years technology has been there, meaning that you can affordably produce a fully-rounded track, mix it and master it yourself. "The way people can share music these days, such as on MySpace, has also helped." Kenton has also challenged people who might knock dance music to listen to his material. He said: “I would ask them to question their perception of it. People say that it isn’t music or doesn't sound like music and they are not playing instruments. "lt ls fair comment when you hear kids driving down the street with music blaring with bass every four beats. But what we do is produce symphonies, melodies and arrangements as good as you find in orchestral pieces, but the difference being, we just use micro chips to produce the sound." For more information on Kenton, or to listen to his tracks, visit http://www.myspace.com/eightmlnuseight





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Thursday, March 19, 2009 

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I was talking to a journalist today about music and stuff and he asked me why I chose the name eight minus eight to release under.

Well I was delighted to give him the story, I pulled on my leather driving gloves, lit my favourite pipe and pulled the chairs close to the fire.

"Many years ago", I told him, " before the internet and the Microsoft universe, us budding musicians had two options when it came to making music, we could sell a kidney and spend £1000's of pounds on pro studio kit, bear in mind a AKAI sampler cost £2500 then, or we could try and squeeze as much life out of the limited home computer power available, mine was the latter method.

The computer I used was a Amiga, and the sequencing software was called OctoMED, it was a break through from the previous 4 track to an 8 track sequencer. One day I recorded a track, which consisted of only 8 elements, A Bass drum,  rimshot and a few other percussive elements, an analogue bassline,and a spacey synth sound.

Once sequenced I recorded the whole thing on audio tape, building the track up by introducing each element one at a time, then muting on and off through the track. Eight tracks on ,eight tracks off ,Eight minus Eight.

After recording I pulled the power, and the track faded away with the dying current, only preserved as a magnetic audio signal. That was making music then, one hit , no saves, no re-takes, all or nothing.

I thought it was a  cool name and adopted it for myself and the track"

I finished my glass of brandy and looked up the young man sitting beside me by the fire, listening to my story, to find he was in a deep sleep, almost coma like. At what point during our chat I do not know, I hope he got to the good bit.

To listen to the original tape recording of eight minus eight, it is the last on the player




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