Splice Originals – Fire and Ice From $7.99/mth

>The Splice crew fire up their in-house synth, Astra, and coax some cold ass sounds for all you bleepy bloopy beatmakers. The virtual instrument’s unique bank of tones and drones have been tweaked, offering up everything from simple passages, all the way up to complex brainmelting oscillations. It’s a pack of two halves, or temperatures. To start, they channel the spirits of old-timers Vangelis, Wendy Carlos, and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop posse, before racing forwards, through decades of pioneering electronica, to stop in on the arpeggiated rhythms of future synth lords like patch artists Lichens, and Ninja Tune’s own modular monsieur, Chrome Sparks. Roy Spencer splice.com

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