Calvin Harris’ Humanthesizer

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calvin_harris_humanthesizerElectro-pop sensation Calvin Harris has shown he’s not only on the ball with cutting edge music making possibilities, he’s also a dab hand at finding a great marketing opportunity. To promote his new single ‘Ready For The Weekend’, Calvin hooked up with a team called Bare Conductive, coating hands ‘n feet of himself and an array of bikini-clad models in a special ‘conductive’ skin safe paint. Checking out the video (below), this in turn appears to trigger some form of sample playback/synth system loaded with the individual parts of his new track.

It’s straight forward ‘fun meets performance art’ as, the whole lot of them (led and orchestrated by Calvin) clap, jump and shuffle around to sequence the beats and music. The lead vocalist however sticks with that old ‘no paint, just a microphone‘ standard!

So, an interesting combination of MIDI protocols and swimwear, which the Scottish artist calls a ‘Humanthesizer’… not sure how DV will get around to stocking this item though :-)

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Paul Dakeyne is a DJ/Producer who has dedicated the past two decades of his life to dance music production and DJ'ing. For six years, he toured globally for the world famous Ministry of Sound and has played DJ sets for the likes of U2 and for the legendary, Kraftwerk, Although remixing around 250 records in his career, as an artist in his own right, Paul landed one of dance music's seminal crossover moments with his "18 Strings' monster hit by Tinman - scoring a UK top ten in 1994. He also co-wrote and produced the music for BBC's Watchdog and Crimewatch when they were both revamped in 2001 and '06 respectively. His other career highlights have included an A&R stint for Mercury Records, lecturing in 'DJ culture and music technology' and creating mash-up mixes for Radio 1's, Chris Moyles. Paul joined the DV group in 2003 leading to his role as blog and feature author here at the DV Mag.

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3 Responses to “Calvin Harris’ Humanthesizer”

  1. Sureno says:
    August 12, 2009 at 14:08

    Best looking synth EVER, would love to have them in the studio, doubt il get any music done though :D

      

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  2. David Bell says:
    August 12, 2009 at 15:45

    Can I have an ETA on a Humanthesizer please?… I’ll take 5.

      

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  3. Ed Ryan says:
    August 15, 2009 at 11:24

    If you pay attention, the girls lips are all painted green.

    I wonder which sound that would make then ?

      

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