I Wish (Neo-Soul Ballad)

ill see u at sunrise

Produced, performed, mixed and mastered by AiykA.

Submission for the ADSR producer challenge. The challenge was to make a track with a limited sound set. Plenty of chops, audio manipulation, tape and vhs emulations, one shot synthesis and vinyl effects. Going for a mellow retro lofi vibe on this one!

1987

DJ Shadow and Sarah the Illstrumentalist inspired track. Knew I didn't have a lot of time to work on it with a new born baby (priorities y'all! haha) so I banged this one out from 8pm-12:45am, with about two hours(? time passes weird with a newborn) breaks in-between to care for baby. Oh and my first real Ableton 11 crash. lolol. 

It was kinda challenging making this particular pack work for me last night, but process was:
- found my chops in Serato Sample for that lo-fi keyboard
- tried to make lofi then Ableton crashed lol
- reached for lofi but stumbled into the hip hop drum loos
- said forget it, sped up bpm to like 120 and said let's go
- made an 808, a lead, and a pad out of different loops
- found transitions in the EDM pack? lol
- off to the races. RC20 and Drip for the most part, with precision tape stops from Vinyl (how does this free thing do wat RC20 don't, lol)

Most of the idea came out in the first hour - the A section and the B section. The rest was intro, outro, and polish.

Big ups to owizlo for checking my mix for me in the middle of the night on his nice monitors (I'm still on computer speakers over here lol).

cutting room floor

House of Glass

Download full ep here: www.hulkshare.com/pmmgc5noc45c

MY MAN (Intro)

****Physical Cassette Mixtape Available Our Bandcamp****
https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/love-hypnosis-vol-2

I heal myself weekly with the music I play. I listen deeply to the words buried within; the intention behind the lyrics either peppered-in or chorused. So much of the house music I connect with is rooted in love. It’s rooted in desire and hope. It’s rooted in narrative, “Do you want to trip with me?”, “I’ll outstretch my hand”, “I won’t forget about you, you won’t forget about me, we won’t forget about love vibrations!”. I listen to the messages to remind myself what I need and why I continue to move forward.

Vol.2 is represented in two mixing styles; long-melded blends (Trippin’ On Love) and fast, tight radio-style cut mixes with overdubs (Slammin’ With Love). Both convey the deep need for connection to one’s body and to others. It’s this connection energy that I find so powerful about house music’s healing magic.

Xoxo Octo Octa

♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ 50% of the profits the mix will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎

Octo Octa - Love Hypnosis Vol. 2 Mixtape

Next in Tate Etc.’s MixTate Series, artist, DJ and producer TYGAPAW creates an original composition in response to Wolfgang Tillmans's photograph 'The State We're In, A' 2015. 

To read an accompanying text written by TYGAWPAW for issue 60 of Tate Etc. magazine visit: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tillmans-the-state-were-in-a-p20830/mixtate-tygapaw-wolfgang-tillmans

MixTate: TYGAPAW on Wolfgang Tillmans

DJ Plead b2b rRoxymore - live from the True Music Studios stage at Boiler Room Festival Berlin. In partnership Ballantine's.

DJ Plead b2b rRoxymore | Boiler Room Festival Berlin: True Music Studios

** You can buy a cassette or digital download of the mix on our bandcamp**
https://erisdrew.bandcamp.com/album/raving-disco-breaks-vol-ii-rock-the-house

T4T LUV NRG is about to rock your stereo this spring with a sequel to the label’s first release “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. I” (2018). Eris Drew wanted to create a new sound for the second volume of her acclaimed mixtape series instead of simply retracing the pure disco vibes of the original. Setting her sights and intentions on creating a rock ‘n’ roll infected house mix, Eris worked on building crates for the last five years, finally reaching an inflection point—a moment of concrescence—when she was ready to put the needle on the records and let the beats flow. “Rock The House” was born, a concept for Volume II built from musical fragments, memories, and synchronicities. There are no classic Big Beat tunes on Volume II, instead Eris kicks out the jams for this mix with non-stop house and breaks cuts featuring plenty of rockin’ vocal vamps, as well as the likes of Janis Jopin, Joe Strummer, Ramones, and Led Zeppelin—all sampled, scratched and dropped along the way. Both sides of the mix include some of her most personally coveted recordings. To gather these records, Eris spent decades identifying tracks from older mix cassettes recorded by her DJ heroes, such as Terry Mullan and Mystic Bill, as well as discovering many of the featured tracks through happenstance and countless hours digging through dusty bins and YouTube rips. Each of the tracks on Volume II are at least 20 years old—some much older—but fresh is the word here, and the word is freeeesh!

Now, as the snow melts and the flowers of rave romance start to bloom, T4T wants to know one thing…Are U ready to rock right?

Eris Drew's Raving Disco Breaks Vol. II - Rock The House

In this episode of In Our Time Marcus and Melvyn grapple with the concept of imaginary numbers. Perplexing digits that underpin the majority of technology we take for granted today, from radios to computers to MRI scans; not to mention quantum mechanics. This episode inspired a cartoon in the New Yorker that week entitled "not-particularly-easy-listening radio". Good luck.

ill see u at sunrise

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