Saturday, January 30, 2010
Death/ Suicide By Speaker
I was helping a friend in Kansas fix his Alesis Monitors now that I am now a ninja with a soldering gun. We fixed one box, no problem, went to open the second one up, and there were feathers on the circuit board, and an entire bird carcuss in the speaker box. Dude thought that maybe it happened at a house he lived in 4 years ago., but it couldn't have been any time soon. Death by speaker.
been a long time. shouldn't have left you, without some dubstep to step to.
This is torqux and twist on screwface radio.
's crazy hot.
hope everyone is doing well.
Torqux n Twist - SkrewFace Mix by Torqux
lovetolovetoloveya
spirit o' 93
's crazy hot.
hope everyone is doing well.
Torqux n Twist - SkrewFace Mix by Torqux
lovetolovetoloveya
spirit o' 93
Friday, January 29, 2010
STUPID FUCKING DONK OF A TRACK
Wommywomworkshit by brephophagist
The only music program I have on my work computer is Reason, and this is some shit I built up incrementally during those moments where the Code Head just wouldn't give me some fucking engineer-type inspiration.
But it does have those dreamy pads that form the aural equivalent of wet 14-year-old panties. Maybe 72-year-old panties. One of those. Not sure which. The scribble strip on the track for the pads reads "whale cum".
When I get bored with a loop and can't seem to come up with a B part, I make lots of sends and draw assloads of automation envelopes.
Oh and - you can actually do feedback loops with Reason. For some reason I am really excited by this. (there are none in this track, though.)
Labels:
blows squirels,
choons,
donk,
donkey punch,
donkeys
Reso - Temjin EP
Ian and AGL posted stuff by Reso earlier last year, but just to make a 3rd recommend on that: definitely check out this last EP, Temjin. That track "Hyperglide" is pretty insane. The vocal sample on the last track makes me wonder if it's about time for me to start using those All About Eve and Sally Struthers samples again.
Somebody's shooting this shit down fast on filestube / rapidshare, but you can listen to it on Lala, and buy it there or on Bleep if you dig.
Also, there's a magazine-filler Nas / Madlib pairing here:
It's not great or anything, but it works as decent background music, and hearing some of those raps without totally shitty beats makes you appreciate them a little more.
Edit:
I just heard about this Gimmik EP on tumblr and picked it up from Bleep - it's not bad. If you never dug too deep into the German side of IDM inspired by BoC etc., then checkit. Not revolutionary by any means, but still good shit, mayne.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
I circuit bent something and it still works
This is dedicated to the Electronics 310 professor at UNCA. I bent the above toy and this is what it sounds like. The original sounds are intact, so at any moment I can have the sound of a real Pluto tambourine, or the real "Daisy ate too many cow shit that had stuff growing on it" shaker. If you more detail on what I did, click here.
homemade synths
stumbled on this during my daily search of portland's craigslist for keyword "synth:"
health club
apparently they are based here in portland, and they make lots of really cool shit, but it seems like most of them have sold on ebay already. at any rate, they post samples of their creations in action, and some of it is really impressive (if you're into old universal indicator acid and stuff).
this one is especially cool. the drum modulation sample (#6 "tr 606 drum sequence") is wikkid.
health club
apparently they are based here in portland, and they make lots of really cool shit, but it seems like most of them have sold on ebay already. at any rate, they post samples of their creations in action, and some of it is really impressive (if you're into old universal indicator acid and stuff).
this one is especially cool. the drum modulation sample (#6 "tr 606 drum sequence") is wikkid.
Labels:
606,
health club,
synths,
synths on a rope
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Labels:
Art,
blame the mayor,
busted by the fuzz,
drawings
Drum Synths
Image Line (yeah, the company that makes Fruity Loops, or FL Studio as it's called now) have a new drum synth that's in public beta now: Drum Matrix Public Beta. It uses physical modeling for the sound engine, and it sounds remarkably good. It uses the same model for everything from bass drums to cymbals, but it does a good job of making a whole range of sounds. The sounds it makes are more "electronic" sounding than realistic, but I like that.
In the beta version, you get a nag screen every now and then, and using multiple outputs doesn't seem to work. It has an eight-band fixed-frequency EQ on the output section, which I think is a great idea for a drum synth. It advertises the ability to use separate outputs for each sound, but this doesn't seem to work in the beta. Hopefully in the release version, there will be a separate EQ for each output, instead of just applying it to the mains.
Audio Damage has also released a new drum synth, called Tattoo, that is more focused on xOx type sounds. In contrast to Drum Matrix, each type of sound (kick, snare, hat, etc.) has its own set of synthesis parameters. The built-in step sequencer on Tattoo is also a lot more sophiticated: each parameter for each sound gets its own dedicated modulation sequencer with a randomization options.
One feature I think is a great idea is that you can run Tattoo's sequencer via "note sync" where it's clocked to midi note messages. That way, if you have some kind of groove pattern in your host sequencer, you can have Tattoo match the rhythm but still use the built-in modulation sequencers and drum-machine style pattern editing.
I haven't used Tattoo, but the audio demos are impressive and Audio Damage puts out consistently quality stuff at more than reasonable prices.
I've been using Logic's Ultrabeat for sequencing beats a lot lately, and I've come to like that style of sequencing beats a lot more than pushing blocks around on a piano roll. FLStudio, and now the new version of Sonar have integrated step sequencers. I think plug-ins like Drum Matrix and Tattoo, as well as stuff like Numerology (an awesome, modular, MIDI step-sequencing environment) are part of a come-back of this type of sequencing. I think Ableton helped show that novel approaches to sequencing can really change the way people work and make writing more fun, and I hope we'll continue to see extensions of that.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Together Festival - Boston
So there's this electronic music festival coming up here that I just found out about. The schedule is here:
I definitely want to check out DJ/Rupture, Untold, and Tim Hecker. There's a ton of other stuff going on from a lot of names I don't know. Anything stick out to anyone as a can't-miss?
Sunday, January 17, 2010
speaking of visuals.
a lot of folks have been doing insane stuff with projection. i showed mr. spec some of this before i split nc.
AntiVJ & Crea Composite: Nuit Blanche Bruxelles from AntiVJ on Vimeo.
SQUARE3 / E. De Crecy Tests from 1024 on Vimeo.
Labels:
eye candy,
glow in the dark,
visuals
Richard Devine gets illy @ NAMM
peep trashaudio.blogspot.com where this came from: this post is from Anaheim but these guys get down in chicago, and perhaps some other spots-kinda like us.
note: think these kind of visuals are becoming the standard for electronic music performance. what to you guys think?
Richard Devine Live @ NAMM AfterParty - 2010 Visuals by CPU from Richard Devine on Vimeo.
thought of this after the autechre post. thanks fansler. SNOWBALLz.
Labels:
CPU visuals,
NAMM,
richard devine,
trashaudio.blogspot
plautechred
congrats brian for your wake and bake post number 420 for the broken fader blogginz.
a few things i've come across in the past couple of days.
autechre dj set? hours and hours and hours. listenable for periods of time with some crazy old school dance jams i've never heard before. here
plaid record called heaven's door? only gave it one listen. intriguing. some guitar and drums songs that are a bit mediocre. a couple of headbangers.
also again just in the spirit of new autechre excitement a sick fucking live set from los angeles.
a few things i've come across in the past couple of days.
autechre dj set? hours and hours and hours. listenable for periods of time with some crazy old school dance jams i've never heard before. here
plaid record called heaven's door? only gave it one listen. intriguing. some guitar and drums songs that are a bit mediocre. a couple of headbangers.
also again just in the spirit of new autechre excitement a sick fucking live set from los angeles.
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421,
autechre,
download,
live show review,
plaid
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Maybe The Wake and Bake Lifestyle Isn't the Best of Ideas
It is Saturday Morning, and I told my sister in law that I would do a DJ mix of pop music for her upcoming wedding dance (it is part of her first dance). This is family, and I was happy she asked me, it is mad easy and makes me look good with the in laws. Nothing crazy, I had to take 10 songs, get 15 second samples from them and throw down. So, I got up, got baked, made coffee, and got down on it. Then I realized I need record scratching samples. I have pretty much not used a record sample since I broke a turntable and threw a bunch of 45's across a street one drunken evening, so I had none handy so I hit the Internets.
This is where it gets a little strange, so all you veggie heads may not want to listen. If you like eating meat, you may not want to listen either. I searched on site for "record" and the 8th entry had the word "slaughter" in it. So I clicked it with out reading too much the tags and such, cause my head was right.
Listen here to get the full on effect I got or read on for an explanation before you listen.
Damn, I don't think anyone should listen to something like that at 10am. Wow. For those the with a weak stomach, don't listen to that link, it is a very high quality field recording of a bleeding out of a pig. Dude had super dope gear, and he made this in Spain, and I ate lots of Jamon when I lived in Spain. I now realize I may indeed be going to hell.
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field recording,
internets,
jamon,
pigs,
wake and bake and animal death
nice banner, decent stealz
Decent place to grab some shit. A little biased toward the Pitchfork set, but in their defense it's hard to find music review sites that aren't.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Just for Brian - experiments in homebrew plate reverb
Here.
Not that there are any great conclusions the guy comes to, but... figured it'd get the ideas flowing.
Labels:
\you're it,
audio,
diy,
reverb
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
New Rephlex Site
The Rephlex Records site has been updated and there are new Jodey Kendrick, Alexi Perala, and DMX Krew full lengths up (download only so-far). They also have digital releases of a bunch of old stuff: all the Bogdan albums, all the Analords if you slept. Be warned, if you buy some downloads, the file management is kind of crap: you just have right-click->save as... each individual track.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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