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Da Odd Couple: Goldie Awards
Rob Swift & Mista Sinista. Legends.
Sugar Honey Iced Tea by Princess Nokia
Lullaby for robot vacuums
Ambient. Practicing imperfect modulation.
Eurorack Pitch + Gate Sequencer Module Comparison
This is a pretty exhaustive and up-to-date basic comparison of fancy sequencers for Eurorack. There are many sequencer-related modules for Eurorack, and this comparison is rather picky, focusing on heavier-duty, melodic-oriented designs with fairly complete gate sequencing ability. It includes pretty much everything at the “high end” and excludes pretty much all simpler “utility sequencers”.
Designing a Modular Synth System for Live Performance
This 6-part series delves into every aspect of designing a modular system for taking out and performing with, from overall architecture and philosophy to the nitty gritty of the case, sequencers and timing, modules, layout and approaches to performance.
Building the 0-Coast in VCV Rack
Easy to follow explanation of the synthesis techniques used in Make Noise’s semi-modular 0-Coast synth.
The art of production: Surgeon
“If I had to boil down my take on all of this, it’s about wanting to have people’s boundaries expanded somehow. They would come in with a certain idea about things and leave with that widened. That’s the aim of music and performance for me, to open people’s heads up, to give them an experience outside their normal routine or life, to make them think there’s something else out there. To reconsider the boundaries they set on the world they live in. Maybe these boundaries and ideas are not so fixed and solid? They’re really very loose, I believe. That’s the whole idea of music, to transmit that idea, to make them bend their idea of the world.”
A techno luminary outlines his approach to live performance.
Confessions by Sudan Archives
From the album Athena.
37 gems by ruby yacht
we are bored by the generic mediocrity dominating the rap landscape at present.
[…]
the ruby yacht is a poet gang, a conglomerate of wacko’s who obviously love nothing more than life itself. we are the hoarders of cheat codes, the speakerknockers, the wellthunk monks. potent delivery.
Heavy Freestyle Fellowship and early Anticon posse cut vibes…Compounding creativity anchored in individual craftmanship.
minzdrsprng
Live Octatrack / Eurorack jam … Downtempo booty bass?
A love letter to the TR-909
What the 808 does for your soul, the 909 does for your chakras.
Sunshine Jones
gauibafwx.b.wav
Lackadaisical analog heavy groove. Grew out of experiments with Analog Rytm’s tunable cowbell.
Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy
They sold a car to cover the cost of recording the strings.
Label of the month: Rephlex
It’s not easy pinning down Rephlex, the label founded in the early ’90s by Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin, and Grant Wilson-Claridge. While many labels have clear aesthetics—consistent visual design, a focused signature sound—Rephlex, in its 23-year run, swerved from nosebleed techno to luxuriant lounge pop, musique concrète to blown-out ragga, and of course, lots and lots of acid.
EP 007: From Hainbach With Love
In this week’s Esoteric Modulation we talk to Berlin-based electronic music composer and performer HAINBACH. We talk the beautiful world of test equipment and its creative flow, limitations and minimalism, we all lust after the Cocoquantus and we talk about HAINBACH’s latest release Old Suns!
🔈 Listen…
How Dave Brubeck Changed Jazz
Dave Brubeck’s ground breaking use of uncommon time signatures on his album Time Out.
multiplicity
Wonky beat / Volca FM melody sequenced and modulated by Octatrack / Antipop //
a late spring
evaporation & condensation
8OM8
808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.
Alan Watts
An Analog Rytm Beat
All sounds made and sequenced with Analog Rytm.
It never gets lonely.
theseppl
// Bleeps / FM Organ / Mark Henry
HES
Dirty analog downtempo.
This picnic has ants
Texture and repetition.
commencement
// Monosynth textures
Forecast
Because of rain.
If you can’t prove it’s trouble
Scratching faked using Ableton Live automation.
lesserlocation
Claps like waves lapping the shore.
Remain as
Hip-Hop to canoe by.
That hamburger looks kinda tight
My first track. Downtempo lo-fi sort of thing. Made with Maschine MKII and an old laptop with yellow lines on the screen.