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The Avalanches are a Melbourne Based Disco meets kitch sample outlit that recently took the world by storm releasing their "Since I Left You" debut album.
They are the only band in history who have been permitted to use a Madonna Sample.
find out more on their website
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THE AVALANCHES AND THEIR FROSTWAVE ANALOG EFFECTS
Q: How do Melbourne Australia's The Avalanches perform a record thousands of samples strong live?
A: By utilising the un-equalled 'sample mutating' capabilities of FROSTWAVE ANALOG EFFECTS.
Frostwave analog effects conceives and creates it's world renowned analog
effects stomp boxes out of a modest Victorian townhouse situated in the leafy inner
northern Melbourne Suburb of Carlton.
The street itself is pretty inconspicuous, a nice tree
lined median strip, However if you stand on the doorstep of Frostwave's Paul Francis Perry's home
and headquarters you will see a narrow two story art-deco townhouse painted a garish shade of puce.
It is within this share house that the Avalanches started rehearsing an oddball combination
of skewy guitar music with samples that eventually evolved into the world renowned 1000 sample
strong masterpiece that is THE AVALANCHES "Since I left you"..The album has since debuted in the
UK top twenty and has been growing in critical and commercial acclaim.
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Some years before 'Since I Left You" the Avalanches exploded on to the Live Australian
music scene.After just one show they were hand picked to support the 'Jon Spencer Blues
Explosion" on their 1997 tour.Their live show then being a mixture of live bass and drums mixed up with
analog keyboard craziness,samplers, vocoders and a theremin.
When the Avalanches were putting together their recent live tour of the UK and Europe for JULY/AUGUST 2001
they took along their Akai S900, and S5000 samplers, Rane TTM54i DJ mixer,4 technics SHDX 1200 mixers,
Roland Midi Keyboards PC-100,2 yamaha o1v mixing desks,2 line 6 bass pods and Helicon Voice prisms
for live vocalprocessing,electrix filter factory and roland space echo for f.o.h manipulation of the drum kit,an
akai MPC 1200 xl,Technics SL1200 Turntables, Nord vocoder, Korg synthesiser MS2000, a homemade Theremin, a
roland sh1200 analogue synth and a korg bass analogue synth.
True to their roots particular inclusions to their arsenal of gear included their Frostwave Resonator
,Frostwave Funk a Duck..
and Frostwaves Latest, The SpaceBeam theremin.
Melbournes' Frostwave Effects contain the insides of old school Analog Modular Synthesiers Retro-fitted into
robust, musicially versatile, fully tweakable stomp boxes.
The Resonator Filter and Funk a Duck with
their high and low pass filters and enveloping being used as "Live Sample Mutators"
as described the bands musical epicentre Rob Chater.
The Spacebeam (Which is a Theremin built to filter signals from other instruments and samples)
has been gaffer taped to the front of their live bass rig, run through the output of a Line6 bass amp emulator,
it's theramin like magnetic field being used to create a "Crazy theramin controlled bass synth,"
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Riding next to the master tapes, Rob Chaters
The Resonator and Funkaduck
Rob using the Resonator and Funkaduck to mutate protools based samples.
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