Celebutante- Kids

YouTube via celebutante.

When it starts, click on the HQ icon on the bottom right menu of the vid.
"Lou Dawson and Mitchell Sigman of LA-based synth band Celebutante performing MGMT's "Kids" live in the studio 3/24/09. More on Celebutante @ www.celebusite.com."
via Mitchell:
"This is a video of myself and Lou Dawson from my band Celebutante shot 3/25/09 performing the MGMT track "Kids" live. I'm playing a Roland Jupiter-4 and a Synthesizers.com modular controlled by a customized Studiologic MIDI controller. Lou is playing a Yamaha P-70 piano. Drums are a Linn LM-2 (started and stopped by footswitch). All live!"

I Am The Law

YouTube via celebutante

"Mitchell Sigman of Celebutante performs the Human League classic "I Am The Law" live at his studio 3/14/09 using Korg Delta and Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizers.

Delta is going through an Electro-Harmonix Memory Man w/Hazarai. More Celebutante stuff at www.celebusite.com."

Update:
New York Girls


you might recognize the girl from this post.
"First video from Los Angeles alternative electro band Celebutante, from the upcoming "Nightlife" full-length release. For more info go to www.celebutantemusic.com or www.myspace.com/celebutantemusic. Please add us on myspace if you like it!"
Moog Polymoog, ARP Odyssey, Simmons drum pads

Celebutante - Electrolux

YouTube via celebutante | December 06, 2010 |

Synth spotting. Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
"Second video from Los Angeles alternative electro band Celebutante, from the"Nightlife" full-length release, now on iTunes ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nigh... ). For more info go to http://celebusite.com

Mitchell Sigman- guitars/synths/programming
Eric Skodis- drums

video directed/edited/shot by Myke Smith"

Celebutante Valentine's Day Track

"String sounds are my rev3.2 Prophet-5. Bass and lead synth are synthesizers.com modular. Drums are Logic EXS24 playing Linndrum samples, Logic Ultrabeat and the modular for claps.

Backing vocals/bridge lead vocals are Louise Dawson; she's been playing keys in my band and has her own music page here."

click here for the track via Mitchel Sigman of Celebutante

New York Girls

YouTube via celebutante. follow-up to this post. you might recognize the girl from this post.
"First video from Los Angeles alternative electro band Celebutante, from the upcoming "Nightlife" full-length release. For more info go to www.celebutantemusic.com or www.myspace.com/celebutantemusic. Please add us on myspace if you like it!"
Moog Polymoog, ARP Odyssey, Simmons drum pads. Note this video went up in 2006.

Mitchell Sigman - Celebutante and Berlin

Mitchell Sigman, keyboard player for Berlin, sent me some shots. Pretty cool as I grew up on Berlin, specifically Pleasure Victim, with Metro being my favorite track. The year was 1982.

Mitchell also has his own project, called Celebutante. Check out this video for some ARP Odyssey, Moog Polymoog, and green on black retro monitor action - gotta like that. Mitchell Sigman is on guitar and vocals. The video features both beauties on the left. Who is that btw? I sent Mitchell an email asking, but haven't heard back yet. Update: Her name is Diana Dencker. She's done a few commercials.

Title link takes you to Mitchell's My Space site. Make sure to check it out. I'm listening to the track Electrolux as I type this and there is some good Polymoog action happening on that track. BTW, definitely flattered Mitchell lurks on my site. Pretty cool... Thanks Mitchell. : )


Update: Udpate via Mitchell in the comments:
"Actually every synth in that song is either Logic Audio's ES2 or Native Instruments Pro-53 (except for the little square wave lead after the chorus which is Logic ES1). I swear it's true. If I fooled everyone with the Polymoog, well, cool, that was the idea (the strings are all ES2)." Nice. That definitely sounded like a Polymoog to me.

Links:
www.myspace.com/celebutantemusic
www.celebutantemusic.com
www.berlinpage.com
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MGMT - Kids short cover on Alesis Ion synthesizer

YouTube via adzy31 | November 25, 2008 |

"me trying to recreate some of the sounds from "Kids" by MGMT. this is one take, the drums are from Reason and the rest is all from the Ion.

A few mistakes but i find it hard to multitask... bass, lead, keyboard and foot pedal are too many things for me to do at once :P

fairly short - i was going to record the entire song but thought....if i'm not singing on it, there's no point really, as the background music is fairly repetitive. maybe if i can find someone with a decent voice we can cover it properly?

the audio is straight from my digicam. i recorded the audio in this on the PC but the volume was messed up, and it sounds alright from the camera anyway."

And the original track (note this is not the official video, see below):

MGMT "Kids" Video

YouTube via jsalmon | January 31, 2008 | 67,195 likes, 3,162 dislikes

Lyrics: You were a child, Crawling on your knees toward it, Making momma so proud, But your voice is too loud, We like to watch you laughing, You pick the insects off plants, No time to think of consequences [Chorus: Control yourself, Take only what you need from it/him, A family of trees wanted, To be haunted] The water is warm, But it’s sending me shivers, A baby is born, Crying out for attention, The memories fade, Like looking through a fogged mirror, Decision to decisions are made, And not bought, But I thought this wouldn’t hurt a lot. I guess not.

"HD Version: http://www.itsjonsalmon.com
Article about the video: http://www.canyon-news.com/artman2/pu...
About Abby and Rafael: www.myspace.com/abrafever
Just to set the story straight: the facepainted kids in the video are a boy and girl from Los Angeles, two friends of mine, names Raf and Abby. MGMT was not involved in the making of this video, however, they became involved down the line.
The story goes like this: December 2007: Rushing to make a due date for a USC Music Video class, I ask my friends Raf and Abby to appear in my video. I like the way they bounce off of each other despite completely different personality types, and think they both have interesting faces. Raf didn't want to shave so I didn't push him. We shot in one night, I cut overnight, turn it in and call it the worst thing I've done so far.
January 2008: On a whim one night while visiting home in Austin, Texas, I throw the video on Youtube just for kicks.
April 2008: Ray Tintori, who has directed 3 official videos for MGMT, finds my fan video online and invites myself and my two actors to come to New York to appear in MGMTs next official video for Electric Feel.
May 2008: We go to New York and have a great time on the set with the band and all their friends."

And the twisted not for kids official version:

YouTube via MGMTVEVO | October 24, 2009 | 10,581 likes, 939 dislikes

"Music video by MGMT performing Kids. (c) 2009 Sony Music Entertainment"

Also see the cover by Celebutante here and a Live iPhone ensemble cover here. via DIGITALSCREAMS

Update: Added the official not for kids version and updated the middle video with the original source and description. Thx goes to DIGITALSCREAMS where I found it in my subscriptions.


image via wikipedia

"MGMT performing live at Sasquatch! Music Festival at The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington in 2010

Author: Dylan Hoffman Source: Sasquatch Music Festival"

Anyone know what synths they use? The top one in the pic looks a bit like a KORG Poly-800.

West End Girls - Sat Night Minimoog/Fairlight Party Edition

Published on Dec 16, 2017 celebutante

"So I've been putzing around with Arturia's super fabulous new virtual Fairlight CMI... tonight I loaded in the classic Emulator II 'Marcato Strings' sample, fired up the Minimoog, spent about two minutes ptrogramming sampled LinnDrum in Logic EXS24, and this happened.

Night Boat

Published on Nov 15, 2018 celebutante

Short, but very cool. Roland Jupiter-4.

Duran Duran - Night Boat (Official Music Video)

Published on Jan 14, 2015 Duran Duran

"The official video for Duran Duran's 'Night Boat' from 1981's Duran Duran. Directed by Russell Mulcahy."

XILS-Lab Poly M Virtual Instrument - "This Wreckage"

Published on Jul 3, 2017 celebutante

"As many of my synth nerd friends know, I LOVE a vintage Polymoog, but I'm afraid to buy one because they alway break. Anyway, XILS-Lab just released an awesome virtual instrument modeled on the Polymoog, so I grabbed the demo, futzed with the controls for optimum Gary Numan and made this little sample of 'This Wreckage' from the 'Telekon' record.”

Ken Stone and MFOS DIY Modules

Two pics via Mitchell Sigman of Celebutante, and Keyboard Magazine. You might also remember Mitchell from these previous posts.

"I have a .com system with modules that I've built from Ken Stone and Music From Outer Space PCB's, and I just finished doing my own silkscreening for the panels (I'm not that good at it yet though... you can see some glitches). I did all the artwork in Photoshop. I got the "tic mark" patterns for the knobs from yusynth.net, who has a lot of his own .com style art on his site.

Here is a single panel with both a Ken Stone CGS31 Digital Noise module as well as a CGS RR Real Ring Modulator (my system needs some passive attenuators to make the ringmodmodule more useful)."





Update: one more image via Mitchell.

Keytar Down

via Mitchell Sigman on Facebook

"Because sometimes your keytar breaks when you're wearing your spacesuit. I'm sure you've all been there before..."

Custom white M-Audio keytar.

Update: Mitchell Sigman is the man behind Celebutante. Many of his videos have been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH.

Keyboard Magazine Presents: Studiologic Sledge Review Teaser

Published on May 9, 2013 celebutante·12 videos

"Mitchell Sigman gives a quick overview of Studiologic's new Sledge virtual analog synthesizer. Full review coming soon in Keyboard Magazine!"

Studiologic Sledge on eBay

Keyboard Magazine/ Alesis Vortex Keytar Review- Accelerometer Fun

Published on Mar 18, 2013 celebutante·8 videos

"Mitchell Sigman talks about the innovative accelerometer control in the new Alesis Vortex Keytar Controller. Watch for a full review in the June issue of Keyboard Magazine."

audioMIDI.com blogspace

Mitchel Sigman of Celebutante wrote in to let me know Audio Midi has a new blog that he will be writing for. You can find it here. Mitchel will be covering various products.

On the synth related front you can find a good post on building your own analog sequencer here.

KARP 2600 Demo

celebutante

"My Korg ARP 2600 reissue, currently for sale, completely mint and as new. (contact me at celebumitch@gmail.com)"

Keyboard Magazine Presents: Korg King Korg Overview with Mitchel Sigman

Keyboard Magazine Presents: Korg King Korg Filter Showdown

Published on Apr 17, 2013 celebutante·11 videos

"Mitchell Sigman compares the King Korg's modeled Prophet-5, Oberheim SEM and Moog filters to the real instruments. Opening sound montage created with King Korg. Watch for the full King Korg review in the June 2013 issue of Keyboard!"

Keyboard Magazine Presents: Korg King Korg Oscillator Control Knob
Published on Apr 17, 2013

"Mitchell Sigman explains the powerful wave modulation lurking behind the King Korg's front-panel oscillator "control" knob parameter. Intro music montage created on King Korg. Read the full King Korg review in the June 2013 issue of Keyboard."

KingKorg on zZounds | King Korgs on eBay

karp2600filter

celebutante

Interesting. The VCA almost behaves like a lowpass filter. The upper harmonics vs. all harmonics are reduced as you lower the slider.

Shine On

Published on Dec 9, 2017 celebutante

"Pink Floyd's 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond.' Lead synth is '74 Minimoog D + Electro-Harmonix Memory Man w/Hazarai, strings are Arturia Solina V, bass drone is Arturia Mini V (because I'm too lazy to track the actual Mini)."