“This piece of work was made using the animation backgrounds from the Reverberation Box video.The colours and shapes are intended to represent the sound of music!”

You can watch the video to “Reverberation Box” by clicking this link, and you can also buy Unquote’s full “Reverberation Box” album from the Hospital Shop here.

So what do you think – does it look like “Reverberation Box” sounds?

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If you haven't already got the EP you can get it over on the Hospital Shop on 12″ vinyl / digital download.

*Remember, when you purchase the vinyl from the Hospital Shop we’ll give you the 4-track EP for FREE!*

Not only that but Unquote’s album “Reverberation Box” was voted #6 in K Mag’s “10 Best Drum + Bass Albums 2011″ and “New Blood 011″ was voted in Headphone Commute’s “Best Compilations Of The Year”.

Unquote was also in at #3 in K Mag’s “Top 10 Producers Of 2011″ and our Russian resident came in at #17 in Data Transmission’s “Top 10 Podcasts Of 2011″ alongside a Med School New Blood special at #9. A huge success all round! Thanks to all the artists and everyone who supported us in 2011!

Best Med School track of 2011?
We also decided to run our own poll to see what you thought was the best Med School track of 2011. Many thanks to all who entered. The top 5 results of our poll were:

1. Joe Syntax – Signal Drop

2. Joe Syntax – Sightlines (feat. Jono McCleery)

3. Spherique – Snowflakes Catcher

4. Eleven8 – Colours Of Distance

5. Bop – The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel

Full list of results can be found here.

Australian D+B producer Royalston a.k.a Dylan Martin talks to us about his new release on Med School, the “Cerulean Blue” EP, life in Sydney, his favourite but elusive studio snack and plenty more…

Hi. Can you briefly explain who you are and what you do?
I’m Dylan (Royalston) from Sydney, Australia and I spend most of my waking hours making electronic music at 170+  beats per minute.

You’re from Sydney Australia. So, what’s better….

Home & Away or Neighbours?
Home & Away
Fosters or Castlemaine?
Neither! Coopers Pale Ale
Koalas or Kangaroos?
Wombats
Hugh Jackman or Heath Ledger?
Heath as The Joker
Beach or BBQ?
Beach
Cricket or Aussie Rules?
Football (with a round ball). I’m hopeless at cricket and Aussie Rules is much bigger in Melbourne

Now you’re no stranger to Med School. We’ve had a couple of releases from you before – “The Test” and “Glitchbitch” – which we love! Tell us what you’ve been up to since “More Blood 010” last year?
Its been a busy year! I’ve been working on and released plenty of  tunes, released a mix CD with Nu:Tone, remixed London Elektricity, Art vs Science and played plenty of great shows around town. I’ve also been honoured to work with local producers like Dizz1, Mark Bionic and Linken.

How would you describe the key characteristics of your “sound”?
Clean drums, dirty bass.

What would you say are your top 5 studio essentials and why? (can be either hardware or software)
Despite being a total gear slut, I wholeheartedly believe that less is more. For my top five:

1) Ableton Live – I’d be happy with nothing else.
2) A fast computer – I had a slow one until recently and it changed my life!
3) Room treatment – I spent a lot of time researching some good effective cheap acoustic treatment. It looks ugly but it helps a lot.
4) Mackie Big knob – really useful in so many ways. Makes things quicker and easier and when using different monitors its very helpful. Great when recording vocalists.
5) Decent monitors –They don’t have to be too big either.

NB: If you want to find out more about Royalston’s studio set up, head over to Music Radar to have a look at his “Me In My Studio” feature!

You’ve got a new release on the cards. What can we expect from “Cerulean Blue”, which came out on 21st November?
It’s a fairly dark EP and one I am very proud of!. Tribal drums and steppy, percussive elements. “Cerulean Blue” was inspired by a reality dancing show. Bonesinger is a distant nod to Doc Scott’s  epic “Shadowboxing” which is one of my all time favourites. “Japanese Bones” is one to make you cry and “Mantequa” is a South American rhythm gone evil.

And how did the MA remix of Japanese Bones, which appears on the digital package, (which has been getting a lot of love, by the way!) come about?
MA are an Australian pop duo (just releasing their second album). One of them, Drew Crawford, was my teacher at music school and I asked if I could do the remix. He put a lot of love into the song writing & recording process and I wanted my remix to enhance and work with this. We’re trying to collaborate on some more stuff at the moment.

Talking of remixes, we’ve all been loving your remix of Art vs Science – “Magic Fountain”. Do you enjoy doing remixes? Any more in the pipeline?
I really enjoy remixing and I’ve done quite a bit of it over the last year. With ‘Magic Fountain’ it started off as a bootleg but the lovely guys from Art vs Science liked it and made it official – which I was very happy about. There are some amazing crazy rhythms in the original, which I had to simplify at 170 bpm. I was shuffling hi hats until the last hour of the release deadline to get it right.I’ve recently done a remix of one of MA’s new tracks which I believe Tony has played on his podcast and I have a new remix of Ou est la Swimming Pool’s ‘Jackson’s Last Stand’.

Now you’re a proficient DJ as well. What’s your DJ schedule like as well. Have you been anywhere exciting?
I play around Sydney quite a bit but I haven’t travelled much for DJ-ing. Next year I’m hoping to do some gigs in Europe and North America.

One last thing that’s been on our minds – in your “New Blood 010” interview last year, we asked you about your favourite studio snack? Can you explain what it is? We’ve been puzzled ever since!
From memory, I did that interview from Indonesia. They had these strange, versions of Kit Kats called ‘Take it’s”…they taste so good. I can’t get them here, and I ate the box I brought home, so studio snacks are back to biscuits and tea.

Make sure you grab a copy of Royalston – “Cerulean Blue” EP which is out now on Med School Music HERE!

Royalston takes us on a visual tour of his studio in this latest “Me In My Studio” piece on Music Radar, taking us on a whistlestop tour of his favourite bits of kit and secret weapons for his music production!  Budding producer and tech geeks take note!

Head HERE to check it out.

Ricky Trickartt tells us about the making of the artwork for Unquote’s “Reverberation Box”.

Taking life as an inspired idea from his Grandpa’s copycat photocopier and Soviet animations of the 1960, the real life reverberation box began to take shape with a painted wooden box, suspended letters, photocopied paper scraps and some careful lighting, plus the fortuitous discovery of a Scheidegger Princess-matic typewriter.

Read all about it on Trickartt’s blog HERE.

Data Transmission came down to fabric on Friday 22nd July when we were hosting Med School in Room Three with Marky & Friends in Room One and Urban Nerds in Room Two.

Joe Syntax was headlining, plus Lung, Eleven8, Blu Mar Ten and Spectrasoul with MCs Wrec and Ruthless hosting.

Read the full review HERE.

Joe Syntax’s debut solo single on Med School – “Signal Drop / Sightlines ft. Jono  McCleery” was released on 4th July on 12″ vinyl / digital download.

Buy the single if you haven’t already:

MEDIC24 release info
Buy on iTunes
Buy on Hospital Shop

The single got some great reviews  in respected print and online publications:

Data Transmission
iDJ Mag
DJ Mag
Mixmag

There were plenty of news /features / mixes / podcasts from Joe too:

Fabriclive x Med School
Hospital Podcast 147
K Mag News
DOA Interview
D&BArena Blog
Top 10s on: Beatport / Track It Down / Juno / Juno Download / Mixmag Online

Within the article, they talk about “The Future Sound Of Russia” compilation album, what they’re up to at the moment and more! Click in the image below to read the article.

“structural prodigy, delivering his solo debut amid a buzz of anticipation for his quirky techno-infused take on dancefloor innovation.”

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