ANTIPODA - Invita al lanzamiento de MANIFESTO en Sock.com.co

ANTIPODA & V FOR VOLUME!!!

This concert was simply great! every one was there and it was an honor for us to share stage with such a cool band! 

Here a sample!

ANTIPODA candidate for the INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR AWARD 2009 in UK

ANTIPODA, with SonidoLocal.com, has been selected from a list of more than 30
music entrepreneur projects of Colombia, by the British Council to
represent the nation and Latin America in one of the most important
music entrepreneurship contests of the world, the INTERNATIONAL YOUNG
MUSIC ENTREPRENEUR AWARD 2009 that is celebrated in London.
http://www.incubatormix.co..m/

This
are great news cause we are competing with the 11 most important music
entrepreneurship projects of Latin America and 2 will be selected to
travel to London in June to compete world wide.

In this link you can check our our profile and the other Latin American candidates also:

http://www.incubatormix.co..m/c_producers_ing.asp

Here is our Profile:

http://www.incubatormix.co..m/producer_text.asp?ide=24

We would like to hear your comments!! cheers to you all!

BEYOND CD Single @ stores now !!

"BEYOND" CD SINGLE is now @ stores. We have been working hard for the last weeks and we finally can do what we love the most: Play !!! We are now starting the "Manifesto" album promotion through the "Beyond" single.

The CD single art, created by Dung Hoang, makes it a limited collectors edition, you can get a copy now contacting us through our new Myspace.

Our Myspace, recently launched, has started to build our community, Join our friend list and let us know what you think !! www.myspace.com/antipoda.

We have also released the last chapter of the Studio Diaries series. This last post is about vocals and overdubs, you don't want to miss it.





Don't forget to get your copy of the Shock Magazine, we've got a cool article in the Dec edition.

Studio diaries 5: Lead Guitar Sessions

"I had a rough idea of what I was looking for. Daniel took all the ideas and squeezed the best out of them !"

We can say that we really spent a lot of time doing guitars in this album. We worked out riffs, we did orchestration, and we then added some spice and cool arrangements and finally worked out the solos.

Although the songs were cool without solos, there were lots of incredible ideas that Jose had in mind for them, some since we started writing and others were worked out by Jose during the rhythm and orchestration sessions. We didn't want to go towards the "virtuoso" kind of solo. We wanted just the opposite: raw, tearing solos that could kick the atmosphere at the end of some songs. So we simply started to play around.

Once again, we let ourselves be guided by the music. We experimented and had fun until finally we found the right mood for each song. There were countless options to consider in every part and Daniel was really clever to identify the ones that worked best. He pointed our ears in the right direction again and again. The result, well… you judge for yourselves!!!

We've got two more Studio Diaries episodes coming : Vocal Sessions by Øyvind Osa (probably the one that many of you have been expecting for quite long) and Overdub Sessions by Daniel Bergstrand.... They will be available very soon !!!

Studio Diaries 4 - Bass Sessions

JD says, that a new bass sound concept was born with Daniel's help!!!

The whole bass session went pretty fast. We had the clock ticking on our necks when Juancho started kicking his week.

The bass sound was a huge surprise. Starting with the equipment, they were using a pretty unusual setup, but as always with Daniel, it turns up to boost everything. They worked out lots of new harmonies and arrangements to the already recorded material.

You can see Juancho's "cake face" when they finished setting up the bass sound with Daniel :

"I never thought that the bass could sound with such power, its hell of a ROAR. Because of the lack of time, the bass session had a lot of pressure, but the ideas made their way out and what a way!!! Daniel was looking for a new approach not only sound-wise but he also ment to find a new concept for the bass playing and and its roll inside the band."

Studio Diaries 3 - Rhythm Guitars

"The guitar sound is massive, it really sounds -- in your face --"

Once the drums were finished we hit the rhythm guitars, Maciek's part of the story.

We experimented with distinct configurations of analog pedals together with different amps. It is not easy at all to find the right sound, there are so many variables that can take you into cool sounds, choosing the right one is kinda tricky.

The rhythm guitars took one whole week to be recorded working really hard together with Daniel and Jose. There were lots of cool arrangements in the drums, so we always wondered how to boost them with guitars, which in many cases proved to be a real challenge. We didn't stop until we felt completely satisfied.

One great aspect is that every theme has it's own character, not only because we tried to play with different intentions, but because there are lots of arrangements, as Jose will explain in the next issue of the Studio Diaries.

As with drums, the guitar sessions finished far beyond our expectations. Working with Daniel was an incredible experience. He always kept the coolest attitude and this made us push ourselves more and more in every new theme.