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Osmos iPad – 1.6.3 Update

Hemisphere have just released update 1.6.3 to the iPad version of Osmos

Howdy folks,
Just wanted to let you know that update 1.6.3 for iPad just hit the store.
Here are the details:
- Level tweaks: Warped Chaos levels 3 to 9 were too easy. Much more interesting now! (Same as on iPhone now.)
- Level tweaks: Made a number [...]

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Gas – Microscopic 600 (paulstretch)

Here is our track Gas – Microscopic stretched by 600% into 38 minutes of ambience. After the fun last week on Gawker, stretching pop tracks into ambient monsters, we thought we’d join in.
The original before editing is just over one hour long. The world’s longest single is 43 minutes, so perhaps we should have uploaded the original.
On the [...]

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High Skies – The Earth at Night (fan made video)

Tom McBride sent us this super charming video he made for The Earth at Night, from our recent High Skies – Sounds of Earth EP. The video and music work great together; both have a childlike positiveness and are looking ahead to a future where everything is silver.

TOM McBRIDE:
The way I put music to video is [...]

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Charles Webster – The Gift of Freedom (High Skies Remix)

An appropriate post for the 24th July (today), is the High Skies remix of ‘Charles Webster – The Gift of Freedom‘ from his ‘Born on the 24th of July‘ album. Actually it was on the remix album ‘Remixed on the 24th of July‘ as an album of remixes from the album.
Uncoincidentally, today is Charles’ birthday.

I [...]

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Free Minimoog with Gas 0095

Special offer: All orders of our Gas 0095 album on CD or Flac24 come with a free Minimoog model (Microscopics micro model Minimoog?). The 1/8th scale model is painstakingly modelled on the classic Minimoog analogue synthesizer (204D model), probably the best known and most loved of all synthesizers. It’s printed at 600dpi on 350gsm matt-laminated card, die cut [...]

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Osmos iPad – out now

Osmos for iPad has been released.
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Videos below…
Includes music and fx by Gas and High Skies – get our free music download from Osmos (High Skies – The Shape of Things to Come).
Some are calling it – gasp – the definitive version [...]

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Woob Interviews High Skies – Part II

Part II of my interview with Paul Frankland (Woob) on his Season 9 blog, where we talk about future work, future synthesis, favourite gear and recording Gas 0095.
High Skies – Sounds of Earth by  microscopics
Part I of our previous interview is here…
Read the interview Part II…

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Wikipedia Deletes Woob and Emit Artists Pages

UPDATED
Wikipedia, the free, openly-editable, online encyclopedia has begun deleting pages of fellow Emit artists.
Already deleted are Woob and IPG.
The reasoning on the Woob delete (removed 6th June by user SchuminWeb ) was that it broke the rule Criteria for speedy deletion, rule A7
A7. No indication of importance.
An article about a real person, an organization (e.g. band, club, company, etc.), that does [...]

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Sounds of Earth and Gas 0095 added to MySpace Music

Gas 0095 and High Skies – Sounds of Earth albums have been added to MySpace Music, where you can now stream every track in full. All the usual things, so you can loop, randomise and play in a pop-out player or share on Facebook and Twitter etc.
Visit MySpace Music…
Gas – Gas 0095
High Skies – Sounds [...]

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Osmos iPhone / iPod Touch! (video)

We’ve been sent a sneaky first peek at Osmos running (very smoothly) on the iPhone / iPod Touch.
UPDATE: Osmos iPhone and Osmos iPad (No1 in App Store!) have been released. Both are Apple’s App of the Week! Visit Osmos in the App Store…

It’s only a short clip but it shows a couple of new screen graphics, [...]

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