Sunday 26th of may we will be doing our first ever gig at the swan in Liversedge for the Acoustic Sundayz and Boogie Nights, we will be the first live band of the day hope to see you there.

Here is a little sneak peak of the album to keep you going until then.

We have put a snippet of the new track Karma Stations Ready in the set ENJOY.

1.karma stations ready
2.Thomas Jefferson
3.The Great Talawanda
4.Enjoy The Wave
5.Anybody’s Town
6.Young Minds Blind
7.Search Light
8.Mr Blank Stare
9.Temperature Rising
10.Top Roller
11.With Love From London

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You can also follow our blog where we are documenting the progress of the live album from day to day.

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EARS READY KARMA STEADY OH

We have been hammering the new ableton 9 this week in the studio, we had the full 5 piece band recording all on separate channels, its working well and we cant wait to get up to 64 bit.

We have a few more weeks of testing before we decide its good enough to run the hole band through for the live shows, we are also in the middle of deciding weather to use a live drum kit or digital drum kit using Native Instruments studio drummer, so far so good with the digital kit as it gives us allot more control over the sound and great for recording purposes, we can also trigger samples from the kit so can be a great way to make the sound more interesting and complicated arrgggghhhhhhh

Enjoy The Wave
Anybody’s Town
Young Blind Minds

Lots f work to do yet before we show the public but things are looking really promising, lets just say this, the boyz are getting on like an house on fire, not much sleep had and allot of next day hangovers but we are getting work done.

HONEST

1. Temprature Rising
2. With love from London
3. Mr Blank Stare
4. Search Light
5. Top Roller

we are already working on new material for the live show and have managed to come up with a beauty, just 4 more songs and we will be ready for the LIVE SHOW and be ready to record the LIVE ALBUM….

I am feeling very happy about the completion of my album so happy i have done a breakbeat remix of “When the Fight is Over” a future album track? I don’t know but i have put it up on my soundcloud for everyone to download for free.

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Been a proppa music geek today purchased 2 new pair of studio headphones for reference when monitoring and mixing CulturGen’s album and i am A/B testing them against my Beyerdynamics DT770 pro’s this could be a future money saver, all the superlux range are under £40 and i have read nothing but good reviews about them so just had to try it out for myself.

So far i am very happy with the overall sound of both pairs, The HD660′s (back engineered obviously) are very close to my DT770 pro’s in build quality and sound, only noticeable difference is the highs are a little sharper on the superlux headphones but over 20 hours of  burning in will flatten this out, for me a good pair of monitoring headphones have to be flat (no added bass,mid or trebble) and for the price these headphones are a just that and a bargain as well.

Tip – for extra comfort purchase the grey velvet pads for the DT770′s they fit perfect on the superlux HD660′s

http://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_hd660.htm

http://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_hd662_f.htm

I would not condone using just headphones for either the mixdown or mastering stages but it really does help with referencing to have a few good pair of headphones, i also use Adams A3x and Adams A7X as my studio monitors switching between all will only help getting your mixdown’s to the desirable level.