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Review: After his amazing performance on the mainstage at the Super Bowl, this 7" comes out exactly at the right time. Usher showed why he was one of the strongest male performers in pop music with his review of some of his biggest hits in his 25+ year career. A clear highlight was his top ten hit 'Yeah', featured here on 7" featuring Lil John, who also puts in an appearance on the B-side with another club destroyer in 'Get Low'. Not many other tracks represent the 2000s dance club much better than these do.

Notes: ***B-STOCK: Box damaged, product in perfect working order***


Yamaha's all-in-one portable production tool offers an exciting new take on music making. Synth and sampler engines combine with a built-in sequencer, allowing you to create tracks from scratch.

Supplier's Notes:
Unlock your creativity anywhere

Introducing SEQTRAK, the ultimate music creation station that empowers you to capture, create and connect with fans - from anywhere you happen to be.

Capture

Capture ideas as quickly as they come.

All-in-one system

Drums. Synths. Sound design. Sequencing. All included. With an array of features, all loaded in a compact, lightweight design, SEQTRAK allows you to start producing right away - no matter where you are. It's got everything you need. And more.

Lightning-fast workflow

SEQTRAK makes capturing ideas simple with a clear 3-part user interface and real-time, hands-on controls. You'll produce your music without menu-diving or waiting for boot times. Seize moments of inspiration and unleash your creativity in no time at all.

Extensive sounds

SEQTRAK extensive library contains over 2,000 presets. You'll find a vast collection of professionally crafted sounds - from rich pianos, to shimmering synths and thundering drums. More will be available with updates to the SEQTRAK app.

Onboard sampling

Capture your own unique sound samples effortlessly. SEQTRAK's sampler offers seven sound slots and a variety of effects, allowing you to shape and transform your samples with ease. Say a phrase, tap a spoon, or record your favourite pet - then customize to create polished Tracks - all in high-quality 44.1 kHz/16-bit format.

Make music on the go

With its compact size, lightweight design, built-in speaker and microphone, as well as a rechargeable battery, you can take SEQTRAK anywhere - from the studio, to the stage, to the sofa. No need to worry about power outlets or tangled cables. Create, perform, and share your music - anytime, anywhere.

Create

Turn your ideas into original music.

Sound engines + effects

Double your creative potential with two versatile sound engines. AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2) boasts an impressive 128-note polyphony and specializes in authentic sounds like pianos, strings, and guitars, while the four-operator FM engine produces stunning synth pads, leads, FM electric pianos, and more. Additionally, SEQTRAK includes powerful effects for a polished sound.

Sequencer

SEQTRAK's advanced Sequencer allows for intuitive and seamless composition, arrangement, and playback of musical Tracks. With its user-friendly interface, you can easily navigate and control various parameters, such as tempo, swing, and track settings.

Sound editing

Inside the included SEQTRAK app you'll find an intuitive graphic user interface that lets you quickly dive into each Track and shape your sounds with precision. Editing includes a comprehensive set of functions, including envelopes, filters, and effect manipulation, enabling you to refine your compositions with meticulous detail.

Connect

Share your music. Connect with your fans.

Performance

Take centre stage with the SEQTRAK's powerful performance features. Create arrangements on-the-fly by combining Tracks and Patterns, remixing beats, and muting/unmuting Tracks in real-time. Add polish and sparkle to your music using global effects - then control these sounds live while you perform.

Visualizer

The SEQTRAK app has a Visualizer mode that transforms your music into a captivating visual experience. With this free performance and production feature, you'll bring your music to life with stunning visuals that sync perfectly with your songs. Customize and tweak Patterns, motion effects and more, however you see fit. There's even an Augmented Reality (AR) mode that allows you to integrate 3D virtual objects into real-world live videos.

Connectivity

- Bluetooth MIDI: Connect wirelessly to the SEQTRAK App & Visualizer, enhancing convenience and mobility.

- Wi-Fi: Transfer WAV samples wirelessly, eliminating the need for cables.

- MIDI In/Out: Connect to other hardware synths, MIDI controllers, or a computer; expanding your sound options and enabling integration with external devices.

- USB-C: Establish a single cable connection for MIDI and stereo audio to a computer simplifying setup and streamlining workflow.

- AUX In: Connect to drum machines, synths, and other external sources, expanding and diversifying your sound.

*Wireless functions may not be available depending on your area. Check with your Yamaha dealer. Windows PC cannot use wireless functions.

Specs
Tone Generator: AWM2, FM: 4 operators
Maximum Polyphony: AWM2: 128, FM: 8
Wave: Preset: 800 MB (when converted to 16-bit linear format), User: 500 MB
Effects: Reverb × 12 types, Delay × 9 types, Master Effect × 85 types, Single Effect × 85 types, Master EQ 5 bands, LP-HP filters for each track

Tracks

Track Types: DRUM, SYNTH, DX, SAMPLER
Number of Tracks: 11

Sounds

Number of Sounds: Preset Sound: 2032 Preset Sampler Sound: 392 *Can be added from the SEQTRAK app
Connectivity


USB: USB Type-C (power, MIDI to host, MIDI to device, audio)
Headphones: [PHONES] (stereo mini jack)
A/D INPUT: [AUDIO IN] (stereo mini jack)
MIDI: [MIDI] IN/OUT *Only included cable can be used.

Functions
USB audio interface: [Sampling Frequency = 44.1 kHz (quantization bit depth: 24-bit)] Input: 2 channels (stereo 1 channel), Output: 2 channels (stereo 1 channel)
Bluetooth: MIDI transmission/reception (wireless capability varies by country)
Wi-Fi: Data transmission/reception with dedicated app (wireless capability varies by country) The highest SAR value: 1.11 W/kg

Sound System

Speakers: 2.3 cm, 1 W
Microphone: Internal MEMS microphone

Power Supply

Power Source: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery (2,100 mAh, 7.6 Wh) USB Power Delivery (PD) (Output voltage: 4.8 V to 5.2 V, Output current: 1.5 A or greater)
Power Consumption: 6 W
Battery life for continuous use: 3-4 hours
Battery charge time: 3-5 hours

Size/Weight

Dimensions

Width: 343 mm (13-1/2")
Height: 38 mm (1-1/2")
Depth: 97 mm (3-13/16")
Weight: 0.5 kg (1 lb 2 oz)

Packing Box

Width: 420 mm (16-9/16")
Height: 90 mm (3-9/16")
Depth: 165 mm (6-1/2")

Included accessories: USB-C to USB-C cable, dedicated MIDI Converter Cable, Quick Operation Guide, Safety Guide
Dedicated Software: SEQTRAK app
Sequencer Block - Maximum Steps: 128

Review: Container is a long-running project from Ren Schofield but he has hasn't released anything since back in 2021 when he delighted techno heads with his Creamer EP. His manic sound has recently taken him to some sold out shows around the world and now comes Tacker, a new album that fuses rock with electronic stylings on Alter. Nirvana's 'Oh, The Guilt', Mindflayer's album 'It's Always 1999', and the Rah Bras song 'Sooop Toe Pump Girls' have all been given as points of inspiration for this most brain-fizzing, hardcore collision of worlds.

Review: What drives Amaro Freitas in life is experience. In 2020 the pianist, who hails from the Northeastern Brazilian coastal city of Recife, was drawn to Manaus, located in the Amazon basin, some 4600 kilometers to the west. His experience in that lush wilderness led him into a new realm of musical creation, one rooted in magic and possibility and tempered by a sense of stewardship for the earth's bounties and a connection to the Satere Mawe indigenous community. Crucial to the experience for Freitas was the maintenance of a true exchange of knowledge. According to Freitas, in the resulting album, Y'Y (pronounced: eey-eh, eey-eh), he pays "homage to the forest, especially the Amazon Forest, and the rivers of Northern Brazil: a call to live, feel, respect, and care for nature, recognizing it as our ancestor." This album is an artful conversation between its traditions, rooted in the unique sounds and rituals found in Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous cultures. With Y'Y, Freitas further codifies his fresh, 'decolonized' interpretation of Brazilian jazz, one that may well shatter preconceived notions of what jazz can be.

Review: Berlin-based Swedish tenor saxophonist Otis Sandsjo is back with another of his brilliant albums. Y-OTIS TRE is his third on We Jazz Records and one that finds him working closely with his old work partner, pal, bassist and producer Petter Eldh, plus the live band keys-man Dan Nicholls. Crafted and produced by Eldh & Sandsjo, the album embraces the band's Swedish roots within the continuum of layered liquid jazz. It has a neon, 3D essence, morphing from laser sharp to gooey like jelly, and each track is ripe with evolutionary ideas though also remains rooted in recognisable forms, cross-referencing its own concepts but never repeating. With a mixtape-like DNA, the music teems with vibrant colours and acoustic depth and blurs boundaries between live performance and studio innovation.

Review: Brothers in sounds (and lineage) Mark and Clive Ives deal with two of the biggest issues impacting music right now on one incredible record.WOO have a reputation for taking parts of archived sounds and formulating new things from those segments, and in this case the work is born from excerpts of four-track tape recordings made in the late-1980s. They then began reflecting on the "imminent nature of humanoid robots", and starting to create Xylophonics/Robot X. From artificial intelligence to reuse and sample politics and economics, these themes seem to guide the sounds themselves, which feel strangely nostalgic and futuristic, a vision of tomorrow that is inseprtable from the humans that made it - their understanding of the unfolding machine age through weird distorted jazz tech, deconstructed dub and psychedelic electronica. So, remembering all this is a reconfigured version of stuff made almost 35 years ago is truly mind-blowing.

Review: Those who know, know how strong the Dutch electro scene has been since the early 90s and Netherlands label BAKK has a special compilation here with many excellent electro tracks to enjoy - no less than 11 tunes in total, spread across three pieces of wax. The list of artists is impressive, from Legowelt, Antenna, SFV Acid and more. This pack starts off with a stunner called 'Bos Ochtendmist' by Legowelt, a phased out and radiant futuristic theme song that's just downright beautiful! Rather than imitating any other city's history of the style's, these artists have their own style - see Aurora Halal's 'Spiral' as a great example, or Sfv Acid 's 'Urbanfury' which adds some nice IDM influences. The slow and deep bass on Tala Drum Corps's 'Gargoyle' is killer too. An early candidate for best electro comp of the year 2024.

Review: Originally written and produced by Japanese power couple Tatsuro Yamashita and Mariya Takeuchi in 1984, 'Xin Ai' stood out as one of the quintessences of Japanese city pop at the time. Later in 1991, it was covered with new Cantonese lyrics by Anita Mui; and now, over three decades later, yet another cover version surfaces again in Cantonese by Anita Mui, lending the song a completely fresh bedroom pop aura. Still retaining something ineffable of that 80s drum-machinic stuttery steeze and yet also recalling the decade's cusped interest in video game music as trailblazed by YMO, 'Xin Ai' comes in the form of a club mix and a karaoke version, and continues to push a well-documented stylistic yoke.

Notes: Poti II expander notable features:

- per-channel input and output attenuation for the SINE and ASSGN outputs
- per-channel shape modulation with switchable destination (wave folding, shape switching, PWM)
- stores settings during a power cycle
- LED indication of the discrepancy between the stored setting and current pot position
- 4HP
- +10/-0mA from Batumi II

Notes: ***B-STOCK: Item refurbished, repaired and in perfect working order.***


Additive synthesis oscillator based on the concept of building up harmonics from sine waves. A complex idea nicely executed for ease of use.

Suppliers notes:
Odessa implements the principle of additive synthesis controlled by a set of carefully tailored macro parameters to harness thousands of sinusoidal partials that altogether form the resulting sound.

The interface is kept simple and accessible, so you can easily build rich and full, great sounding timbres of very complex spectra, that can be either harmonic or inharmonic. Even though inharmonic spectra yield non-periodic waveforms, all partials are frequency related to the common fundamental controlled by a V/oct input. The series of harmonics can be squeezed or spread apart, tilt, and pruned by a comb-like frequency response, resulting in a variety of unearthy sounds. Animating the comb response yields radical effects similar to flanging and phasing. Additional, often sought after features are implemented: through-zero linear frequency modulation, and unison detune: up to 5 copies of the sound can be spread apart for a fat and dense cluster of voices.

There are nine parameters, each controlled by a dedicated knob, so the workflow is as smooth and immediate as possible. Furthermore, every parameter has a dedicated CV input, allowing live animation for organic audio effects. Odessa sports two main outputs for banks of harmonic partials that can be further scaled in frequency, as well as an additional output that can either spit out a square wave or a single sinusoid of the fundamental frequency. Interesting spatial effects, crazy modulation feedbacks as well as synchronisation is possible that way.

The hardware is based on a powerful FPGA chip offering massive parallel computing. The synthesized signal is devoid of aliasing through the entire audio range thanks to intrinsically bandlimited algorithm. A simplified spectral analyser helps you to keep a visual track of what is actually happening to the harmonics.

For even more control over Odessa, you can use the Leibniz subsystem (or just the Lipsk) that can be connected to a header at the back of the module.

Notes: Optional accessory replacement panel.

Black anodised alu + heavy duty screen printing.

Review: Almost two full decades into their curious career, slacker-psych experimentalists The Pheromoans have never been ones to shy away from the esoteric or mundane. Led by the droll, deadpan delivery and unique world view of primary songwriter Russell Walker, LP number 13 sees the collective lean ever further into topical malaise whilst honing their fuzzed out, post-college-rock jangles into their most digestible and direct form yet. With the title Wyrd Psearch, Walker takes direct aim "at the ubiquity of people claiming things are eerie or weird/wyrd in the present cultural milieu", while the word-search artwork is intended to highlight our cultures' obsessive search for meaning in an increasingly illogical world. Twinkling no wave riffs, glistening synth lines and muted requests to loved ones requesting their presence on a trip to town to reup on prescription meds.

Review: Shay Hazan's new album Wusul is an intoxicating escape into his own rich musical heritage. The Israeli musician skilfully blends traditional Middle Eastern sounds with contemporary electronic elements to create a great and seamless fusion of past and present. Tracks like 'Sunflowers' (feat Nitai Hershkovits) and 'A Walk In Dir El-Assad' enchant with their hypnotic rhythms and haunting melodies, transporting listeners to distant landscapes. Hazan's masterful use of instrumentation, including oud (a lute-like fretless string instrument) and percussion, adds depth and authenticity to the compositions so that each track unfolds like a story, inviting you to immerse yourself in the luxurious arrangements. All in all, a captivating exploration of cultural heritage and modern innovation.

Review: Say She She is the psychedelic soul group from Brooklyn that's exploded onto the scene since their debut in 2019. Receiving critical acclaim for their two albums to date, and the pleasure of touring Europe and North America, the Nile Rodgers-inspired female trio even got a video message of approval from the legend himself. Authentic and organic are two words that fit the classically trained troupe to a tea and, in the great soul tradition, covers are a necessity. Jim Spencer's 1979 attempt at foraying into disco 'Wrap Myself Up in Your Love' wasn't received amazingly at the time, but thanks to the adoration of archive label The Numero Group, the song has seen a resurgence in covers and fans. The original vocal is zany and expressive against some jangly funk guitars, whilst Say She She's rendition hones in on the sultry aspect of the track. Guitars are muted down to transform the song into a lovemaking slow jam, wind passages are introduced and the vocal is subtly powerful and sexy. This 7" contains both Spencer's original track and the interpretation by the trio, pressed on white vinyl.

Review: Brooklyn-based psychedelic soul group Say She She have exploded onto the scene since their debut in 2019. Receiving critical acclaim for their two albums to date, and multiple TV performances, the Nile Rodgers-inspired female trio even got a video message of approval from the legend himself. Organic and authentic are two words that fit the classically trained troupe to a tea and, in the great soul tradition, covers are a necessity. Jim Spencer's 1979 track 'Wrap Myself Up in Your Love' didn't get much attention at the time - his attempt at doing disco wasn't well received - but thanks to the adoration of archive label The Numero Group, the song has seen a resurgence in covers and fans. The original vocal is expressive and powerful against some jangly funk guitars, whilst Say She She's rendition hones in on the sultry aspect of the track. Guitars are muted down to transform the song into a lovemaking slow jam, wind passages are introduced and the vocal is subtly powerful and sexy. This single has both Say She She's cover - as well as the original - on a 7" disc.

Review: Just when you thought you'd heard Robert Smith and The Cure every which way but bad, we discover more from their huge back catalogue. This time in the form of World War, a compilation of rare demos that takes its name for the band's seminal early single, which appears in a particular raw and unfettered, grinding version on this collection. A sound that defines the overall aesthetic. Rough and ready but packed full of energy, the huge landmark 'Boys Don't Cry' feels more intimate as a result, 'Fire In Cairo' arguably more punk, 'M' more New Romantic, and 'Heroin Face' less compromising than ever before. If all that sounds like bullshit talking, we implore you to take a listen and see what you think - the smart money is on us agreeing in the end.

Review: Goat's World Music offers a captivating blend of Aboriginal, Nordic, psychedelia, acid Rock and tribal influences, exuding strong rock overtones driven by powerful female vocals that command attention with their intensity and strength. Throughout the album, listeners are treated to mesmerizing organ leads that add an ethereal dimension to the music, while abrasive and rash guitar work injects a raw energy into the sound. Tribal percussion rhythms further enhance the album's immersive atmosphere, transporting listeners on a sonic journey. With its diverse range of influences and eclectic instrumentation, World Music defies traditional genre boundaries, making this a listening experience that stands out.