Day of the Dead - Dia de los Muertos Showcase Ft. FALLS

*All above photos courtesy of Ryan Joyce/Live music provided by Supersonic Creative.

FALLS completely rocked our studio showcase night last Thursday! They brought explosive energy, enthusiasm and the crowd went wild!   Smoke machine was a nice touch as well. 
They are fabulous and I encourage you to check out their facebook page here.

There was a mariachi band that walked through out the studio, kick ass traditional Mexican fare from Rebozos & Pancho's Bakery who provided decadent Churros, and Ryan Joyce did an fantastic job documenting the night with his camera.   Gira Moin rocked the turntables.  The most talked about props throughout the night were the 8ft + Day of the Dead sculptures!

You can check out all the pictures of the event here on our facebook page.

Again, thank you to everyone who was in integral part of this event! It was a smashing success!

Until next time.

Falls to perform at TA2 Showcase #7 on Thursday, November 1st!

TA2 Welcomes our new Assistant Engineer, Adam Png!

As a rule, Assistant Engineers don't boast much in the way of experience.  Exception: Adam.  He's lived on a couch in Amsterdam.  May have committed a slight B&E in Barcelona.  Built his own computer out of organic fair-trade parts.  Worked in finance for a short time before realizing it sucked.
Masquerades as a cat whisperer.

These days Adam plays guitar in a band with no name.  Composes.  Juggles.  BBQ's.  And makes sure your sessions are tighter than...well, security at a certain auditorium in Spain we're not at liberty to mention.  

Adam's been with us since August and we couldn't be happier to welcome him officially into the TA2 sandbox!

Hell ya!! Two Golds at the Bessie Awards!

What a success the Bessie Awards were last night.

Big shout outs to Troy McGuiness, Cam Boyd and the team at MacLaren McCann who took home a Gold for "Gears of War 3 - Butcher Shop" for Microsoft Canada!

A big congrats as well to Leo Burnett's Steve Persico & Anthony Chelvanathan's team who won a Gold for "James Ready Spelling Bee Lottery"!  

Both Steve Gadsden (James Ready) and Tyson Kuteyi (Gears of War) were so pleased to have been the Audio Directors on these stellar projects.  

Well done everyone.  Until next year. 

You can click here to see all the winners and view the creative. 

The Gift of Life - Be a Donor

TA2 Audio Director extraordinaire, Steve Convery had the pleasure of working on this spot with the wonderful folks at Bensimon Byrne.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the epic-ness that is Steve Convery well here's a pretty damn good intro.  Steve used to work on a show called SCTV and has run a handful of successful audio houses in the past.

After listening to this sensational score that Steve I think you'll agree that there's a reason we call him an audio sensei at the studio.

One organ donor can save up to eight lives.  That's right, eight lives!

To register go click on the link below:
https://beadonor.ca/

Goodwin vs. Badwin Episode # 5 - "The China 4000"

*Adult content.  May not be suitable for children*

We're back!!! Check out the latest and greatest Goodwin vs. Badwin Episode "The China 4000".

New Family Members

 

TA2 Showcase Night #6

Our showcase night was a rockin' success!   Many thanks to all the talented visual artists, Supersonic Creative, Lioness and Sapporo for their generosity.

We set the night on fire!

You can check out pics of the evening here.

CMA Awards 2012 Interactive Audio

Check out the fantastic voice direction and interactive audio that we did for the CMA's website!
Link and full experience here.

Half Life - Escape from City 17 Trailer

Half Life: Escape from City 17 is a dual part film, written and developed by the Purchase Brothers.  We were approached to to the sound design on this trailer and happily agreed.  Above is the end result of our efforts.

With lots of explosions, aliens and a ridiculous music score I think you'll agree that your ears will thank you.

Let us know what you think.

Toronto Animation Arts Festival International

Checked out TAAFI's opening night premiere of Ronal the Barbarian, attended the Nelvana Bouncing Ball Party and The Rock and Rule screening and Q & A.

It rocked.  It ruled.  Well done TAAFI!

We're so thrilled to have had the opportunity to be part of such an innovative and creative festival.

Check out the bumper we did for the festival here with Style5.

Animated Super Fan Film - "Superman Bizzaro Classic

This is pretty gosh darn good!

Holy Guacamole There's a New Website in Town!

The internet just got 13% better with the unveiling of the sexy new TA2 website.  If you could tear yourself away from kittens wearing pieces of bread for a few minutes, come check out the most bodacious website this side of Friendster. 

www.ta2music.com

Style5 Bumper for The Animated Arts Festival International

We had the pleasure of working with Style5.tv on an animated bumper for The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International.  Such stellar talent coming out of Toronto!

Check out all the amazing events at the festival here as well as a write up from Sam Chou of Style5.tv on how it all came to fruition.

Events run from July 6 - July 8, 2012 at the TIFF Lightbox.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Robot Quarrel Solved with Dubstep

Topanga Unveils New Song, Roll Out Canadian Tour Dates

You can stream or download the track from this link.  Full article in in exclaim.ca here.

Oh yeah, they just got signed with a Japanese record label:

http://www.thistimerecords.com/release/index.htm

English translation to the write up:

"Sound of lightning burst leave the band a year of unprecedented Topanga! Come Wakamusha of <age of 10 born and raised tropical indie 90s). Rock new powers from Canada.  Topanga hottest bands making great strides in just a few months Japan has debuted with great fanfare. Physical limit of the world's firs EP "Lionheart" to "Oceans" CD was rare vinyl-only release, was his debut release, was added to the two songs as a bonus track further Unused Track CD (CD).  Produce by Jon Drew engaged in Tokyo Police Club, the Fucked Up!"

You get the point...

Speaker "Henge"

Reduce, reuse, recycle.  Nice one Berlin!
Full article here.

Mrs. Brickles - "Death of a Turd Gobbler"

*Adult content.  May not be suitable for children.*

As you know, we've been working on an animated web series with Style5.tv called Goodwin vs. Badwin. We just finished the above webisode where one of the characters from the series debuted yesterday with her very own show.

Ladies and gentlemen, for your listening and viewing pleasure I present to you, Mrs. Brickles!

Pickles from Matt Creed on Vimeo.

The concept of this ad for Converse is pretty great!

Pneumatics

Crazy wild! Literally an "air" guitar.  Whole band is controlled by pneumatics.

Summer Solstice Triptych

A.M.T.R.I.M - Kardinal Offishall

Allow me to re-introduce myself #AMTRIM, has dropped!  A free album from Nottz Raw and Kardinal.
Download it at http://liveanddiewrecked.com or http://datpiff.com.

All songs mixed by our man Tyson and Nottz Raw.

Little City and Topanga to Rock NXNE!

Our wonderfully talented Engineer Dave Clarke & Assistant Engineer Nestor Chumak will be both rockin' out tonight for NXNE.  Check out the details below for the shows that promise to be an epic night of music!

Nestor's Band "Topanga" plays the Analogue Gallery's (673 Queen St. W, Toronto) 2nd NXNE Showcase.  The patio will be open, Murray's Sandwich Emporium will be providing BBQ'ed treats and they have the amazing lineup below:

2:15pm - Holly Andruchuk
2:55pm - Jane's Party
3:45pm - Parks & Rec
4:35pm - Beekeeper
5:35pm - Honheehonhee
6:15pm - Neon Windbreaker
6:55pm - Modernboys Moderngirls
7:45 - Topanga
8:35pm - Northern Baptists

Dave's Band "Little City"will rock The Piston (937 Bloor St. W, Toronto) at 11pm alongside the below lineup:

8pm - Old World Venture
9pm - Eastborough
10pm - Cai.ro
11pm - Little City
12am - Dora Alexander
1am - My Pet Dragon

Tyson & Shawn Hook

Tyson laying down a vocal session with EMI's talented recording artist Shawn Hook.

Egg Farmers of Canada "Pride in Every Egg"

We had the pleasure of working on this job with the wonderful folks at ReThink in Toronto and Vancouver.  An original music score was created for both French and English and we're quite thrilled with the end result!