Very cool alternative model who has industrial style. She is from the Ukraine. Click Here for Rashel Weiel’s deviant art web page.

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Hallucinogen: LSD:

Astral Projection: Visions of Nasca:

MFG: New Kind Of World:

Astral Projection: Nilaya:

Man, I love goa trance so much. I miss when it was still good. Old school goa is the only stuff I really like. Israeli Trance is the best though.

I’ve had it for over a week now. What can I say? I think it is a lot louder, bigger, and fatter than the mfb dco I have. It pairs up very nicely to it. What it does do better than all the others is tracking the keyboard and staying in tune(update: the rs95e is a tad better at tracking). So I find this a lot more musical. Hey, before I go any further, I have to say that the pwm on this is the best. Better than any of the other units I have used. There is a pwm saw as well that I really like. Kind of like the old alpha juno. This does those wicked animated leads when you use pwm. It can sound really buzzy and alive and thick. The sync sounds it can make are huge and my favorite so far of any of the oscillators I have used. The square waves on this are godly. I have never used the cwejman vco-2rm, so I have no idea how it stacks up against that oscillator. This is a very stable VCO. That can sound huge. I think the triangle and sine waves on the vco-6 are really good, but I must say that the plan b model 15 sine wave is a tad better. Why did I end up choosing this over the rest? Because stability is the thing I desire the most. I wanted something to cut in the mix and stay really musically IN TUNE with the other gear I have. I had a lot of trouble with oscillators before the vco-6 and mfb dco. My leads would sound like massive detuned trance leads because the tuning and stability of the model 15 was all over the place. I like to have control over the detuning, with the vco-6, I have complete control. It does what I say. It is well behaved. Some people hate this. I love it. The tone is kind of clinical. People say it sounds like roland vco. I compared it to my sh-2. The sh-2 was pillow warm and softer. The vco-6 is like a razor, clinical, and cutting, but still fat enough for most bass duties. I would say over all that the VCO-6 does remind me of roland a bit. But it’s so clean compared to roland stuff. I think it is in it’s own class. I can see the roland comparison, but honestly, it is it’s own thing. Unique in its precision and cleanness. I give this a 5 out of 5.

Pros= Many inputs and attenuators, a switch for dc and ac on fm input 1. Can double as a LFO(It cannot go as slow as some others, more like a moog lfo). 2 pwm inputs, 2 pwm attenuators, 3 fm inputs with 3 fm attenuators, octave switch + fine tune, sync input. The build quality knobs and jacks are so much better than anything else on the market.

Cons= In some cases too clinical. Lacks a bit of warmth and filth(this can be good or bad), not vintage sounding at all.

Here is a little demo of the VCO-6 that I put together, just going up the keybaord on each voice output. At the end I mess around with all the PWM modes. Right Click Here, to save as an mp3. HEY, all you VCO-2RM owners, you can use this to compare the sound to your oscillator if you are still on the fence. Hope this helps. PEACE. hexfix93.

So after countless xbox360vsPs3 comparison videos this pops up and makes me think they fake most of them. That they are in fact bought off by microsoft as I suspected a long time ago. To hell with microsoft and gametrailers. It’s a shame i rely on them for video clips.

Sequencer Sequencer Stalker Figurehead Phoenix Slow Motion Tabula-rasa Storm Luminal Flux

Of all the bands I have been label mates with over the years, this is the one who has captivated me the longest. I am still a true fan to this day, and love most all of their cds. Unlike the scene that picks other lps and songs to adore covenant by. I stand by this cd. To me, it is simply their best. From start to finish, not one bad song, every song is gold. There is a dark core to these songs that I love, and so much emotion in the vocals. One of my favorite cds of all time. Below is a fan video I made for my favorite song of this LP, in fact my favorite song by Covenant, Tabula-Rasa.

I remember hanging out with these guys in 2000. So much fun. Those guys even out drank me back in those days. LOL. Eskil and Joakim were always great to talk to. In fact Joakim even confessed up that he sampled my strings from the start of decypher from fun with knives and used it in one of their tracks :) No problems here. I was so flattered. I remember arguing with Joakim over what synth is better, the jupiter 8 or the xpander. Funny, they got an expander and hardly used it he told me LOL. I what I love about this cd is the roland acid sound. I think they used some old roland SH mono synth, one of the weird ones like a sh-1000 or something(don’t quote me, he told me, but it’s hard to remember) and sampled riffs into their yamaha sampler. They worked lo tech like me back in those days. Below is a FAN video made for the figurehead, there was another version of this video on youtube but the sound was so bad you could not even make out what it was, so I fixed it and re=uploaded it.

My favorite tracks are: Sequencer(this dark foreboding electronic grinding rythmic sound, then this rubber band “ROLAND” synth sound drive the track, with awesome arpeggios and strange vocals and amazing lyrics), Stalker(This is a very cool ebm anthem track), Figurehead(Pure industrial ebm heaven, one of the best club tracks ever, I love the intermittent stuttering string lines, genius), Phoenix(can tell they tipped their hat to old front 242 here), Slow Motion(This is the song that reminds me of the sisters of mercy, well just because towards the end he really freaks out while screaming the vocals, and it reminds me of when andrew eldridge does it, I love the melody during the chorus), Storm(I want to get struck by lightning), Flux(I love the roland rubbery synth sounds on the arpeggios). Below is the video for the Stalker.

This is a must own for anyone who dares say they like EBM. To me this is better than most of the old front 242 stuff that i know and love, better than most nitzer ebb. Not only that, this band has evolved and stayed very relevant in the scene still. I give this a 10 out of 5. Buy now! Click Here to download Sequencer by Covenant DRM FREE 256 mp3. Or Click Here buy Sequencer by Covenant on Audio CD.

I really love this guys style. It’s like a hybrid of anime and tolken style fused together. Dig It. Check out http://kometani.deviantart.com/. Below are some of the other cool images I like.

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