Throughout this pandemic I’ve watched as many concepts I hold dear have been appropriated and repeatedly distorted until superficial slogans are all that remains. A mantra conceived to hide a behavior that’s in opposition to its content.
This was a tiny exercise in reclimation.
Ambient. 4MS SWN & friends.
Hardware heavy electro jam.
Chunky beat.
//Model:Samples & Kammerl Beat-Repeat
Seven patterns recorded from Model:Samples. Arranged in Ableton Live. With some extra 808 cymbal.
Ambient. Starring 4MS Spherical Wavetable Navigator. With special guest Make Noise QPAS.
New Year, new EP on Bandcamp.
Four fairly minimal rhythm centric tracks, with heavy analog textures, and more melody than I’ve typically used (at least on tracks 2-4).
Stream or download it for free on Bandcamp.
The beats came easy on these tracks. I’ve gotten to a point where I’m comfortable sequencing rhythms. They’ve become less work and more expression.
Melody and arrangement can be laborious though. I don’t have the tools or the confidence.
That’s going to be my biggest area of focus before next year’s EP.
Chill beat. Started in a hippie’d out Boulder Creek AirBnB, after a hike in Big Basin State Park. Finished back home with some modular drone gated into chord-like things. Plus a little Genesis B. P-Orridge vocal sample – for luck.
808s & Organs
Electro?
I started this track when I had the Shingles. Octatrack + Virus particles in a single sensory ganglion.
Ambient. Practicing imperfect modulation.
Live Octatrack / Eurorack jam … Downtempo booty bass?
Lackadaisical analog heavy groove. Grew out of experiments with Analog Rytm’s tunable cowbell.
Wonky beat / Volca FM melody sequenced and modulated by Octatrack / Antipop //
evaporation & condensation
808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.
Alan Watts
Octatrack percussion while sequencing a 2HP Pluck.
