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"DEUS" with music by Ady Cohen from Ady Cohen

Ady Cohen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:57:14 GMT

Hi all,

The new TV series DEUS, for which I have composed the music, starts airing by Israeli satellite broadcaster YES beginning next Sunday, November 23rd.

This prestigious and sophisticated series, YES's flagship series aimed at teenagers, is divided into 52 20-minutes episodes, and will be shown twice daily.

The series stars some of Israel's most popular young stars: Michael Lewis, Adi Himelbloy and Michael Moshonov.

I will try to upload the series opening, accompanied by my Main Theme for the series, after the series starts...

You can read more (in Hebrew) and watch some clips here.

Best wishes,

Ady

made it to the mountain from jon ben berger

jon ben berger — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:09:17 GMT

HE MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN TOO A SONG WRITTEN FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING AND DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA from Jon Berger to publisher@nytimes.com, president@nytimes.com, clarosa@nytimes.com, schools@nytimes.com, letters@nytimes.com date Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:39 PM subject HE MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN TOO A SONG WRITTEN FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING AND DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA mailed-by gmail.com hide details 1:39 PM (1 hour ago) [MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN.mp3] Reply ATT: Arthur Sulzberger Jr Scott H. Heekin-Canedy I AM WORKING ON AN IDEA RIGHT NOW THAT CAN CHANGE OUR LIVES IN THE USA AND MAYBE THE WORLD. SO MANY OF US LOVED THESE MEN AND YET THEY COULD NOT BE PROTECTED . PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST BE ALLOWED TO DO THE WORK INTENDED. SO MANY YEARS AGO I WAS SITTING IN A CLASS ROOM AT PMA A MILITARY SCHOOL ACROSS THE RIVER FROM WEST POINT. OVER THE LOUD SPEAKER CAME THE WORDS THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD BEEN SHOT. LIKE MOST OF US FOR GOOD AND FOR BAD WE FOUND OUT THAT ALL WAS NOT WELL WITH THINGS IN MY USA. AND THEN MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THEN ROBERT AND ON AND ON . I HAVE WRITTEN A SONG FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING AND NOW I WILL DEDICATE IT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA.I HAVE BEEN CALLED FROM ATLANTA AND ROBIN CASTLE AND THECENTER FOR THE ARTS SCHOOL HAVE AGREED TO HELP ME WITH A GOSPEL CHORUS AND BAND.TOGETHER WE RECORD A RECORD WE WANT IT DONE BY THE TIME OUR NEW PRESIDENT IS SWORN IN AND PRESENTED TO HIM ON THAT DAY OR ON MARTIN LUTHER KINGS BIRTHDAY::: THE SONG IS CALLED "MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN"AND YOU CAN HEAR THE FIRST VERSION I WROTE AT http://www.ilike.com/artist/JON+BEN+BERGER Jerry Ash wrote at 5:10pm Your recollections and song bring back my memories of the day the news of President Kennedy's assassination reached me -- in Korea! I can't tell you how strange it was to be serving in the Army in a country half way around the world, along a demilitarized zone, and learn that my commander in chief had been shot in my own country. Sure gave me something to think about. Ernest Shukara Walker wrote at 4:48pm John, I am speechless. heard the MLK song. Can find nothing wrong with it. Your music seems to come from a very stable and centered place within you. Rare for a musician, I mean I could go into where I think your influences stem from but that's not important. The song is simple, direct and fun. I like it. keep doing what you do "MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN" Written for Martin Luther King by Jon Ben Berger Dedicated to President Obama http://www.ilike.com/artist/JON+BEN+BERGER WISH LIST TO GIVE AMERICANS JOY AT KNOWING SOME TIMES DREAMS TAKE MORE THEN A LIFE TIME BUT IDEAS THAT ARE SOUND AND FAIR CAN BE ACHIEVED... IF WE WORK TOGETHER SMART AND PASS ON OUR CONVICTION TO OUR YOUTH, THAT WITH EXTRA PROTECTION TO OUR LEADERS AND TO OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR DREAMS CAN BE REALIZED... HEALTH, PEACE AND EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL .. I AM COMMITTED TO THIS IDEA AND TO SEEING IT THROUGH TO FRUITION, JON BEN BERGER 0046-703654239 AMERICAN ARTIST LIVING IN SWEDEN JB BERGER VRETGRÄND 4b 75322 UPPSALA SWEDEN http://www.myspace.com/jonbenberger

Buy my music at iTunes from siflaar

siflaar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:15:01 GMT

Yes..... here it is:

My music on iTunes.

"THANK YOU FOR LIVING YOUR LIFE" OUT NOW from jon ben berger

jon ben berger — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:47:23 GMT

AFTER MUCH WORK AND LOVE JON AND MARTIN HAVE TEMED UP TO MAKE THEIR FIRST CD TOGETHER WITH 14 TRACKS OF MOSTLY ACUSTIC LIVE IN THE STUDIO FRESH NEW SONGS. WITH MÅRTEN KORKMAN ON UPRIGHT AND IDA ERICKSSON ON BACKUP VOCALS

Primesounds sale in our web shop from Emil Hansson

Emil Hansson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:42:56 GMT

We're doing some cleaning at the warehouse and are selling out all our Primesounds sample CD's at half the price. Check em out below if you like:

A Funky Future
Previews (64 kbps mp3)

Distoteque
Previews (64 kbps mp3)

Flum
Previews (64 kbps mp3)

Metriam
Previews (64 kbps mp3)

Prime SFX
Previews (64 kbps mp3)

Session Strings
Previews (64 kbps mp3)

See you again, everyone!! from HUMANOISE

HUMANOISE — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:04:41 GMT

Cood luck everybody in the contest !!!! I stay the hospital from November 18, next tuesday, about 2 or 3 months. I will be 37 years old in there. I honor about I could keep current top 30 about 2 weeks in the contest and I could make my friends 420 and more in this community!! I will never forget all your kindness. Good luck everyone, and See you again !!! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO.

Atlas Reshaped from Subliminal

Subliminal — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:11:37 GMT

At last, I have finished my remix of Anchor's Atlas. Now, it may seem that I am on a roll here, but I started quite some time ago with both Atlas Reshaped and A Comforting Solution. Not that I have been working on both these songs all that time, but still, both were not exactly created overnight. Next up is a serious attempt at completing my version of Blind Date. This one I have been working on when I got stuck with everything else, but now it is time to try and finish it.

Unplug the Plugins ! from niteshift

niteshift — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:52:13 GMT

Well, what a harrowing week it's been. Having the time to sit down and actually get it all togther and create something has got to be a gift at the best of times. A month just to write, a collection of internet collaboraters to help speed the process along, and long days dfirting off into the creative ether. Nothing could be better right ?

Now, nothing at all is suppossed to go to plan, and with no agenda, the pressure should be off, to just go with the flow and let the mind have a mental splurge. That is, until internet collaborater No1 comes up with some lyrics, a great tune, and a great voice to sing the tune, to a musical piece first visited a couple of months previous.

So, it's into the dark recesses of the computer, to pull up the track, and see how it sounds with a new melody line. Sounds great, and everything is flowing along well. So, it's a quick mixdown, and onto the internet for peer review.

First comment : "There is something very wrong sonically like the music is playing from a separate source than the vocals. I have never heard you have this sound before, is something off on the set up?

Second comment : " ...but the vox sound like they are recorded in a room quite different than where the music is taking place "

Third comment : ".....had the same sense of something off, so I'll look forward to the next one? "

And so they went on . OK, check and recheck, and yep, there is a phasing issue, and yep, those vocals are sounding really different to the backing track, so what's the problem ? The problem was, that the backing tracks were recorded months ago, built up one by one, with various effects being added to the tracks. Sometimes 2 or 3 units per track, as it was a bit thin at the time and needed some "oomph" After adding a total of thirty five tracks, each with it's own clutter of little gizmos to make it sound "better" the whole thing ends up a sonic cosmic slop, spinning around in the phones like a demented cat in a clothes drier.

Only solution. Back to basics. Back to square one. Back to kindy school and back to the simplicity of the sandpit. Like a child scribbling with crayons, the plugins are unceremoniously detatched and thrown out the virtual window hopefully to be shattered on the ground into a million little bits never to return. Replaced with just an EQ, a bit of reverb, a smidgeon of compression, and a big dash of ears, all is well in sonic land.

We live, we learn, and try to remember that "better" does not always mean "burden me down with gadgets" So the next time you consider brewing up a batch of sonic soup, just remember....... unplug the plugins.

cheers, niteshift

4 new (old) songs! from Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:00:24 GMT

Hi friends, I've recently added four new songs to my page, relatively old for me but new for this site: Two more or less spontaneous instrumental improvisations (category: humor) and two songs, 'Bushmensong' and 'Mystery to Me'. The latter being based on an improvisation of words, guitar and Groove Agent. The lyrics seemed meaningless at first but in retrospect they reveal some meaning, at least to me. Song art will follow… I hope you like them.

Freedom from Subliminal

Subliminal — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:43:42 GMT

I have finished another track for my Orpheus In Hell project. This one features Snowflake's spoken word piece Freedom, which is therefore the title of my song. You can also hear some excellent clarinet playing by Fireproof Babies, which he recorded specifically for this song. The track opens with a flute solo, originally called Still Life, which in its final version was inspired by the Dead Can Dance song Piece For Solo Flute from their splendid live album Toward The Within. I used a stretched and reversed version of my flute solo as an extra layer in the second part of the song.

CONTEST from rucademoura

rucademoura — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:36:27 GMT

http://community.mi7.com/contests/current_contest_show_single_entry/21?contest_entry_id=2910

A Comforting Solution from Subliminal

Subliminal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:24:56 GMT

There is a new remix to be enjoyed. It's called A Comforting Solution and it's a remix of Artie Q's song Belief. I could waste your time by talking at lengths about it, but Artie has said it all here. The only thing I would like to add is that it was Duckett's drum loop which got the creative juices for this remix flowing again. So, thank you Duckett!

Finally I entered these songs !!! from HUMANOISE

HUMANOISE — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:13:27 GMT

Finally I entered " DREAM9 ( I'LL BE WHO I WANNA BE ) ", " THE FLOWER AND BUTTERFLY ", and " My favorite Unknown Sound " to this contest !!!!! Everybody, Vote for me if you like them, All right ? I will do my best until when I stay the hospital !!!! Do your best, too!! Good luck, everyone! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO.

Micro-Phones contest open for voting! from Emil Hansson

Emil Hansson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:51:38 GMT

Step right up and vote folks. This is more important than the US election! =)

Fortunately, I am still in my house ( not hospital ) !!! from HUMANOISE

HUMANOISE — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:31:00 GMT

But I will stay the hospital soon, the day will come. So I will do my best untill the day will come!! I can't still answer for your comments, but I'm thinking everyone is my friends. " Hey, you are all music lovers, right ? " RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO.