The melodic leads are Drambo's wavetable oscillator played by ShiftBud, an AUv3 sequencer based on the MTM Turing Machine Eurorack module. The higher part generates the lower through a pitched buffer. Note density is a performance parameter using the MIDI chance module. The bass part is another wavetable oscillator played by Drambo's pattern sequencer with chance operations. LFO's modulate the wavetable position on all melodic parts. Kick and snare were created using Drambo modules and the pattern sequencer. Effects are Dub Station 2 delay and FAC Alteza reverb. Created and composed on the iPhone 6S, performed live in the studio as a single stereo track using the LaunchControl XL and LaunchPad Mini. Recorded in Drambo. Mastered in T-Racks.

recorded 9-11-22

Waveshifter

thank you, bye

This is a set I assembled for Sunday Sundowns, the weekly Twitch downtempo show put on by my fellow chillers, The Ambient Mafia, in November 2022. I was inspired to craft an hourlong set that would fit well in a chill room, and ended up with a tracklist from artists all around the world.

Tracklist:

ali dada - Ojoupe
Trippin Jaguar - Arecibo
Handpan - Connecting Souls
Rhi - Craving Your Love (Instrumental)
Aux25 - Scanner
Auditive Escape - Mirage du Visage (Digital Only)
Akın Sevgör - Deviations
Miktek - Parenthesis (Ozora live edit)
Data Rebel - Cyber
Bop - Deep Space
Dillard - I Want To
Erothyme - Northern Cross [May the Way RMX instrumental] (unreleased)

Wanderlust

Curated and mixed for The Way to Ozora, January 2023.

Tracklist:
Maitri - Exhalation
Ellroy - Personal Universe (Liquid Version)
Deep Forest Warrior - To Be With You (ft Marilyn Fox)
Tor - Kanta
EMOG & FR∆SER Live - The Tower
Keerd - A Lonely Path to Nowhere
MAUGLI - Rawa (Ali Dada Remix)
Kalya Scintilla - Evolution (Alt Version)
Somatoast - Kokoa (Alex Unger Remix)
ADM x EVE - Empyrean
Shen - Embrace (Deadbeat's Soaking In The Dub Remix)
Deep Dive Corp. - Dare

Meet You There

This patch was conceived as a vehicle to explore the use of sustained chord pads, or sound beds, that are often found in the ambient and dub techno genres. Legato tone clusters drift and morph while dark, filtered percussion anchors the groove. Sparse bell tones occupy the higher atmospheric space.

Created on the iPhone 6S using Drambo, StepPolyArp, Ruismaker Noir, and FAC Alteza. A live improvisation captured within Drambo to a single stereo pair. No overdubs.

recorded 10-4-22

Poly-res

A Drambo patch using the wavetable oscillator with graphic envelope modulating the wave filter to build thick dub techno chord parts. The bass voice is a wavetable oscillator with wave effects, drums are Ruismaker Noir, bells are built on the modal resonator (physical modeling module), and the blocks are an FM patch. Bells and blocks are sequenced with Rozeta Particles, and sent into a vast, deep space made up of the DubStation2 delay and FAC Alteza reverb. The midi chance module plays a key role, adding unpredictability to most parts.

All sounds and parts were generated on the fly. No samples were used. Recorded live in the studio on the iPad in Drambo to a single stereo track pair, using the Launch Control XL and the Launchpad Mini for the performance. No overdubs. Mastered in T-Racks. 

recorded 11/28/22

Wave Chord

A Black Friday patch using four new apps obtained from the App Store. Two stochastic sequencers, a monosynth, and a multi-tap delay with reverb. Random modulation acts on each of the four voices, which are a synth lead, a pluck, bass drum, and high hat. Follow actions sent to the pattern sequencer generate the arrangement. Minimal performance parameters. 

Drambo, Autony, Zoa, Monolit, Kajita
with LK Matrix and TouchOSC

A glitch in LK Matrix which drops the linked tempo to 20 bpm when saving the session was used as a compositional device for the intro and outro.

An LOBJ (lights out bed jam)

Recorded to a stereo track in 4Pockets MultiTrack Audio Recorder running within Drambo. Mastered in T-Racks.

This was the last  piece of audio mastered in the basement studio before the studio was dismantled for the home addition. Publishing to SoundCloud was done entirely from the iPad on this one.

Artwork - a photo of the hardware used for the session: iPad Air3, Bose NC 700 HP Bluetooth headphones, reading glasses

recorded 11/28/22

A-Z Mono K

This is a 2 hr section of an 8 hr mix I played for a private holiday party in December 2019. This set was played on Bluetech's Holotropic Happy Hour show on Twitch on June 17 2020.

Tracklist:

Balance - It's Just Water
Beatroots - Subrooted
I Awake - Reflecting Impulses
Bluetech - Stone, River & Shadow
Sub Roots & Stakma - The Isle of Dub
Mauxuam - B4 After
Melk - Legolove
Legion of Green Men - Baqup
Strange Substance - Puffy Clouds
Random Rab - Clairvoyer
Vibrasphere - 33000 Feet Over
Lusine - Auto Pilot
Ishdub - Chilltepec
Erothyme - Cherry Picking
Amawalk - Huju feat. Amalgamy
Somatoast - In Syzygy (Somatoast & Zonra)
Rena Jones - The Passing Storm
Union Jack - Water Drums
Aquasky - Images
Digitalis - Noodles
Dream Stalker - Dialekt
Dirty Hippy - The Treehouse
Krusseldorf - Insectoid
Fatum Sci Fi - Vespertine Phantom (Violet Mix)
Trifonic - Infiltration
Cell - The Gate
Bluetech - Laika

SubTerranean

This is a live recording of my set from the Ambyss stage at Ozora in August 2023. The stage, curated masterfully by Bodó Márton, has a freedom to its flow, with everything from beatless ambient to world folk music to gentle beats. I thoroughly enjoyed exploring the gentler and spacier regions of my library for this one.

Kino Doscun & Sigil - Ghantako
Zen Baboon - Qui Otto
Bluetech - Echoes of Orion (Misled Convoy's Scorpius Remix)
Tipper - Sahra
ali dada - Ojoupe
Balancé - No name
Kino Doscun - Atmos
ADM x EVE - Teem
Entangled Mind - Warped Nostalgia
Stray - When It Rains
Krusseldorf - The Warp
Shwamp - Surrender
Hypnagog - Potentially Elastic
Data Rebel - Polar North
EskoStatic - Shadow
Martin Nonstatic - Ligand
Snakestyle & Tove Aradala - Visby (Snakestyle Exclusive Instrumental)
Maneesh de Moor - Oracle
KiloWatts - Loutre De Lune
Akın Sevgör - Waves
Ion Driver - Deep Sands
Mungk - Abydos
Ohmar - When I Dream (EMOG Remix)
Nahuatl Jaguar Sudden Reverb - Sound Tlakotli (Meeting by Chance Remix)
Kino Doscun - Gamba Dub
Faelow - Cave Pool
Rumpistol - Morgenfugl
KiloWatts - Emotion

Amblyss

My producer's set from Holotropic Happy Hour WInter Solstice 2023 (a quarterly Twitch show I co-producer on Bluetech's Twitch channel). Originally an excerpt of a live recording from my former Twitch live stream, Omakase, from February 2021.

Tracklist:
Øhmar - Letters to Nana  
Dillard - Summit  
Hibernation ft. Jello Vibes - Jello & Jaice (Summer Vibes Mix)  
Bluetech - Seed To Soil  
Xerxes - LongYaard  
EMOG - The Magical Wind  
Wagz - After Hours  
Dillard - Market  
Tipper - Sahra  
Sorse - Whimsical  
RQ - Solar Wind  
Stillhead - Recreational Beats  
Sorse - Fernweh  
Hibernation - Familiar Stars (Desert Dwellers Remix)  
Liquid Memoirs - The Disconnect  
Geoglyph - Entheogenetic (Wolf Tech Remix)

Traverse the Twilight

This opening set from Tropical resident Dj Maggie set the table for an amazing 18-hour musical experience into 2024!  

Set in a spectacular LA hilltop estate with sweeping views of the city and midnight fireworks, we danced our way into 2024 in style, and this was the set that started it all, enjoy!

* Beautiful Flyer art (top) by Jeremy Zahtre

* Beautiful Capture of Maggie (bottom) by Mike Boidy

* Amateur meshing of images into cover Image by Ben Annand  :)

Live @ Tropical NYE 2024

Dj Maggie Live at Tropical New Year 2024 -- 6PM-8PM

Evolving organic textures in the electronic soundscape. Positive-flow improvisation.

Baccharis is the solo experimental electronic music project of Chris Hale, based in Richmond, Virginia, USA

This SoundCloud page is an active sketchbook, used mostly to document 
 the processes of synthesis, sound design, and composition.

Older tracks are periodically removed from this page. These tracks can be found and downloaded as collections of singles on Bandcamp.

Feedback is welcome. Enjoy the music.

A-Z Mono K

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