More music for you to enjoy the fuck out of. Just remember kids: if you like it, buy a copy to help ensure the band will stick around!

Check out these bands:

Mulk
Leftover Crack
Hellboy
Alec Empire
Jewdis
Pig Destroyer

and maybe even my solo stuff at myspace.com/dannycarnage

Make sure to buy as much of this as you can on vinyl cos that’s what all the cool kids do…

Mmmmm... ATR Vinyl....

For no particular reason (and in no particular order) here’s a list of bands you should go away and listen to.

Digicore (duh)
Discharge
Skitsystem
Cry Havoc
Dishammer
Darkthrone (FOAD/Circle The Wagons)
Leng T’che
Phobia
Disfear

Cyanotic
Nailbomb Cults
DrumCorps
Atari Teenage Riot
Flesh Eating Foundation
ChopChop

Probably Manowar too I suppose.

Now scurry off and expand your musical horizons. Just remember to pop back at some point.

I just wanted to add another game to the list of ‘games Digicore play the fuck out of’. It’s ‘I Wanna Be The Guy’. Probably the most frustrating AND most rewarding platformer you’ll ever find.

That is all.

…and I’ve got nothing to do. Time for a Digicore update.

Work on the new tracks is going pretty well although I’ve been slightly distracted recently. Lyrics have never been my favorite part of the whole ordeal and I’m still struggling to come up with anything decent. I’ve got a couple finished and I’m recording them as they’re written so hopefully it shouldn’t take forever to get the album finished. I can’t wait to release it – I think it’s a million times better than Self-Armageddon. I’m strongly considering releasing it for free, possibly via a torrent or something. I’ll have to have a think on that one

I’ve been getting back into some live synth playing – I’m playing some gigs with Action Directe and I’ve joined AFX (head to our Myspace page and find them in our top friends). It’s nice to have a change in style and requirements. It’s also helping me find the drive to write yet more new material.

I recently got rid of my Machinedrum. Great piece of kit but I didn’t use it enough to justify keeping it. I got myself an NI Maschine to replace it and I’m getting some mad sounds out of it. I’m looking forward to using it on the next bunch of new tracks.

Another good couple of time-sinks have been Supreme Commander and Dwarf Fortress (possibly the best game ever coded). Digicore heartily recommend the fuck out of Dwarf fortress.

Take it easy everyone

Psy

I’m currently finding myself faced with a problem while writing for Digicore: there’s just too many things I’d like to do. I can’t do them all – I am but one beast – and this leaves me frustrated and unfulfilled. Insert ‘other half’ joke here.

I’m currently getting in to breakcore in a big way. I’ve been writing some stuff that’s pretty good (I think) – glitchy, distorted and fun, fun, fun. The problem is that it doesn’t work for digicore. There’s no where for any other instruments to fit in. Maybe I’m just not trying hard enough.

Another thing that’s causing trouble is my attention span. It is roughly on par with that of a retarded goldfish. A track that starts out as a heartfelt plea from a soul wracked in tortured agony turns into a gabber-metal speedfest with chipmunk vocals because I thought it would be funny.

In order to build on our momentum and try and address these issues I will be working on some remixes of our tracks. If anyone else wants a crack, let me know. Once I have a few together I’ll release them as an EP and we can all get on with our lives.

Btw i heartily recommend going away and looking up ‘Nailbomb Cults’. There’s a live set from 2007 floating around that rocks my socks.

Okay, okay; I was a bit optimistic when I said the album was about to be released a few months ago. It turns out I didn’t have the finished article in my slightly clammy grasp, but instead something that merely looked a bit like it. I’m easily excited.

But now it really is just about done. 17 tracks now, each one a carefully honed- no, wait, each one held together with spit and gaffa tape. And beer. And porn. We have everything ready in place to release it to all major online distribution services (iTunes etc.) – I guess we’re looking at about 2 months until you can buy it. We should be sending out press copies in the next month (if you’re a press type person and want a copy please get in touch)

Oh yeah, I nuked the forum because it was filling up with ads for russian porn. It’ll bounce back next time I have the time (and inclination) to sort out a replacement.

TL;DR – Album soon, Forums nuked, Porn.

Good question!

We appear to have taken a spontanious rest from the core over the past few months. Steve’s been doing this, I’ve been doing this and the other two have perhaps been doing each other (although I can provide no evidence to support this).

Well the core are back. You may have noticed the new songs we’ve released (if not, head to the audio page). I intend to up our productivity from ‘fuck all’ to ‘well at least it’s something’. To do this I’m going to stop being so anal about mixes and just release stuff when it sounds cool. You can probably consider everything we release in the coming months to be demos. It’ll make me feel better anyway.

Like a furious retard emerging from a train wreck to bring misery to the other survivors, I will continue my quest until death grants merciful release.

Another thing i need to add is that you’ll probably find us being a bit schitzophrenic inconsistent with musical styles. This is because I am easily distracted by the aural equivalent of shiny things.

Psy

‘Destroy’ has been uploaded to Myspace. It’s a bit Jungly/Drum n Bassy. Enjoy.

Alternatively, all the new songs are available to download from the audio page as a zip file. Click here to go there!

We’ve uploaded some new demos to our myspace (myspace.com/digicoremusic) including a Dead Kennedys cover. Check them out.

Does this confirm that we still exist? Perhaps.

As we are clearly inept when it comes to regular updates, here’s my (re)views on some of the gear we use.

Nord Lead 2x: This is a very versitile synth with a great sound and some very useful performance features (although we unfourtunately haven’t used it live in a while). It emulates a fairly ‘classic’ analog synth layout so it’s not particularly complicated; 2 Oscillators offering square, saw, sine and triangle waves (with noise available from OSC 2), 1 filter (choice of LP, HP, BP, LP+Notch and what sounds like a comb filter). There are 2 LFOs, each of which can be routed to one of 4 or 5 destinations, Amp and Filter envelopes and an additional AD envelope that has 3 possible destinations. There are no effects built in so it’s handy to have something that can apply some reverb/delay.

This synth excels at lead and bass sounds (hence the name…) but also makes some great pad/synth/really odd sounds. The unison/OSC sync functions can be used to really make it scream; add some high-resonance filtering and it can get very extreme but it always manages to sound pleasing.

One great feature is the way multiple sounds are handled. You have 4 slots to load sounds into. These slots can be layered, split or just used to ‘hotkey’ sounds for a performance. This makes it possible to make some HUGE sounds (each slot playing 2 saw waves detuned from each other with unison on ).

Well worth the price tag. Sounds great and is very well built.

Elektron Machinedrum: This is a fairly recent addition to the Digicore arsenal and hasn’t yet found its way into our recordings (well, not the ones that you’ve heard yet anyway…) but it is set to become a regular contributor.

The Machinedrum is a drum machine (duh) like no other I have used. It concentrates on the kind of sounds you find in contemporary electronic music and provides an astonishing amount of editable parameters for each sound. Programming is done via 16 buttons that each correspond to a step in the bar. You select which step each sound is triggered on. The version I have supports 2 bars per pattern (although patterns can be strung together to make more complex ones). So far so good – it’s a drum machine. Great.

Things get interesting when you realise that you can program ANY parameter change in the same way you program the beats, and that it is very quick to do so. This means each step can have its own sound edits – if you want to you can take one sound and create a whole beat out of it. There are also 16 LFOs that can be freely assigned to anything you like. Mad shit commences.

All of the sounds are very high quality as are the effects. The machinedrum is capable of processing external audio which is nice because it has some interesting effects and filters you can use. Nord Lead + Machinedrum = much fun, as i can personally attest.

I’ll leave it there for now. More to come.