Crosstalk / Orbea Bloom (ft. Kiefer)

This is a warmup loopy jam recorded at Bird & Egg Studio with my friend Cody Rhodes on drums. I was playing a Fender Bass VI. Cole Williams engineered. 

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Bird & Egg Jam

This tune was a super fun exercise in DAW-less looping. Cole had been wanting to make a tape loop by physically cutting and splicing together 2 bars of a drumbeat I performed. After he made the loop, I added guitars, bass, and synths. Cole even synced up a drum machine with the loop, which took a few attempts to get locked in due to time phasing.

After we filled up 8 tracks, Cole did a console mix by adjusting the faders in real time and doing delay throws to the SpaceEcho. He also changed the tape speed midway thru.  Pretty cool analog nerd stuff :)

The only time it touched the computer was for mastering.

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DAW-less Tape Loop

This started as a "production study" in which Cole and I tried to match the drums, congas, guitars and bass to the original song as best we could. Then it ended up turning into a Toro y Moi inspired dreamy textured synth landscape. I really like how the piano turned out. Cole used Ableton's stretch tool to make the tails all glitched out. Note the well-timed Juul hit at 1:01 that serves as a nice wash of white noise ;)

Credits
Cole Williams - Guitar, Mixing, Engineering, Co-Production, 

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Running Away -  Roy Ayers

This one's hot off the presses. I'm out of town with a mini setup right now (laptop, Akai MPK mini, and a SSD with my audio library). This one was a fun challenge because I couldn't track any actual instruments and I was working against a self-imposed deadline. The only elements that aren't my own homemade samples are the Kick and Snare one-shots and a couple instances of the TAL-U-No-LX soft synth.

Gas Boss

I like that the progression modulates with each repeat. The steel-drum sounding thing is a sample synth I made out of a pianet. The voice at the end is my girlfriend's colleague from her linguistics PhD program. She was demonstrating some wasei-eigo terms (Japanese words that are borrowed from English).

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Unrequested Fission Surplus

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You Will Live To Write Another Song

To celebrate everything selling out from the Choke Artist merch run, I'm releasing this hitherto exclusive mixtape that came with the purchase of a tee or vinyl. 

Cover Art: Madison James

Choke Tape

In April of last year Cole and I found a box of free records on the sidewalk in West Berkeley. There were some gems but most of them looked weird as hell and in bad condition. I remember there was a really creepy record that consisted only of tongue twisters, “Chopin for Kids”, and the CSUMB Class of 1976 Jazz Ensemble, which was actually pretty good. 

We took the records home and used them for a sound design session, playing them at various speeds into a rather involved effects chain which included the filter of a Korg MS20, a vocoder, Roland Space Echo, and various pedals. 

Today I rediscovered the audio from this session and cut it down from 3 hours to a more reasonable 30 minutes. 

Enjoy!

No plugins were used in the making of this record. 

Artwork By Phoenix Delman

Street Records (Ambient Album)

heart it races - dr dog

Cool With It

Let's Get Evil

Stereologue (ft. Rose Droll)

A Night Alone (ft. Maddie Jay)

Benthic Zone Parking Lot

Next One Out (ft. Vooo)

Rag Time Gal (ft. Dani Offline)

Elevator Music

It Never Happened

With the magnificent miss Annais Rittenberg on vocals.

say something - dr dog (with annais)

the end has no end - the strokes

excuses - morning benders

Written, performed, and produced by Robert Ross. 

Jake Thornton - mixing, mastering, synth performance on tracks 3, 6 
Coleman Williams - engineering, additional sound design / production
Peter Johnston - drums on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 
Eric Lawson - drums on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4 
Jan Purat - violin on track 4 

Album artwork - Ian Stokes (@pussayfoot)

Johnny Bravo

Chicken Sized Nugget

Yaskool

Though I’m alone I kinda need it
“Be solitary to put in the time”
kinda fits with the narrative but does it stick
I’m kinda sick of waiting for the right sign
Hands up, pens down, we’re through with the test

But is this test through with me
Can we expect to slowly decant the drops of ice water one at a time

Banish delicacy and split hairs with machetes
and boldness I can only just hope to refine

Caught in the clasp of psychosomatic pain
Beckon the ghost, i watch it stand there
I want thank you just for singing to me
I held it close, not understanding
You never left, i never needed to
suffer alone without an answer

Written, performed, and produced by Robert Ross. 

Jake Thornton - mixing, mastering, synth performance on tracks 3, 6 
Coleman Williams - engineering, additional sound design / production
Peter Johnston - drums on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 
Eric Lawson - drums on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4 
Jan Purat - violin on track 4 

Album artwork - Ian Stokes (@pussayfoot)

Shrugging Match

Take It Away There

robert and aiden's dancy pop song

Written, performed, produced, and co-mixed by Robert Ross, with the indispensable help of:

Cole Williams - engineering / mixing / mastering / co-production / sound design / rhodes
Kelly Portis - drums / synths / piano 
Jake Thornton - lead synths
Peter Johnston - drums 
Lizzie Goodrich - vocals 

Tracklist and credits by track are here:
bobbing.bandcamp.com/album/2020-mixtape

Mixtape

I'm Bob, a producer and multi-instrumentalist who likes to experiment with genre-blending.

(kept some really old tunes on here for fun)

Bobbing

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