I don't really have a lot of chill for guns. Or anything really. I try to interact with people as little as possible because its usually a mistake. I have a core group of people I don't see a whole lot but we pick up just like we were a few years later. Back in the day, we'd leave each other increasingly unhinged voicemail messages for a laugh. This would be like 02 or whatever. 

Gun culture in the US is gonzo shit. I keep trying to reconcile my love of violence with guns but gun violence is usually pretty boring? It sucks to get shot, you might die. But somehow any damn fool can get their hands on life ending hardware faster than they can get into therapy. Let me touch on the therapy thing in a bit. I've seen the gun fu movies they're ridiculous. I've seen a bunch of those serious soldier bullshit movies too. I'm glad sergeant sucksnuts gets the babe vol 24. But go the old way, blade and bellyfire, that's like riding in the pocket of gods. Capricious ones at best, but every ride has its lows. Plus the phallic symbolism has a certain juvenile appeal. 

And the mental health is the real motherfucker isn't it? There's always people looking for work, feelin down or whatever. Their cut for the bounty of healthcare is awful meager. Especially for folks with mental health issues. Most places you get a gun in your hands 7 days after you declare you wanna buy it. Even less when its just pass a background check that doesn't disclose domestic violence. See a doctor? 3 weeks. But you gotta fill out all this paperwork and you're overwhelmed so you snap and its cops instead of doctors. Then you gotta play the paranoia game because your survival is now dependent on if the police are having a good day or not. It sucks people live like this. 

IDK people play first person shooters would probably disagree but whatever. They get scared when the light tubes and shit come out.  

Back in 02 I'd get yelled at for breaking glass and rolling in it.  Was I an ok person? Probably, I've apologized for most for the stuff I didn't get away with. Even bought lawn furniture replace destroyed ones. Redid a few lawns. You know, wild american shit.  Am I an ok person now? yeah, I lived through me. I don't drink anymore but I know the tab'll come due.

its 12 am american where your guns at?

So I recently got into Pocket Operators as kind of a play around deal in my office. They're real fun. This song has nothing to do with those but I wanted to start at the beginning of all this.

the Pocket Operators got me interested in maybe doing something with the modular synthesis stuff and I was worried I'd spend a bunch of money and it wouldn't work for me.

I am not a wealthy dude, I keep thinking about selling my tunes on bandcamp but I never really get plays on the cloud. And my pessimism doubts any of the people that message me wanting me to pay them actually listened to any of my music or reads any of these notes(will there be a quiz session? you goddamn right there will be a quiz session. If you don't come prepared I'm gonna roast you on youtube. THATS A FUCKIN FACT, JACK and you too mack)

Nah fuck you. You invest in the music. Everyone invests in the music. You give yourself as freely to the music the way we did back in 2000. To all the basement dance sessions, to all the house parties with decks effects and 909s, to that one dude that got kicked out of Kilroys in Bloomington for headbutting the bass stack, this one's a shout out to you. 

Ok so how did we get here. This song? Is this a song. its more a jam really. 

what is the jam

its a modular synthesis patch made in a freeware software called VCV, massaged by Garageband a skosh and dumped here. I mostly fiddled with the knobs and had no real understanding what would happen. 

I'd initially dismissed the idea of modular synths trying to puzzle out what all the cables were doing was making my eyes bleed. I made it start to make sense after watching youtube videos by @DavidHilowitzMusic, @emilyharpist and @mylarmelodies, I'll link some of the things I liked below. Like a scholar. 

I'm still not entirely sure how I arrived the end result of audio. I got inspired, dreamt about it, fiddled around, asked some questions and it started to work out. I do know if I don't stop the sequencer there's some killer math in there that will make the sound system fart.  Probably something to do with the Fibonacci doohickies. 

Going to do this again with some additions to the sonic palette. You can take that as a warning if you want. You couldn't stop me either way. 

cool stuff I watched in no particular order:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2bo9boedEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jCCzpWBsFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJvc4ZIvc48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFhHArHk5JE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4gTTFNgUkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2bo9boedEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbbTeXb9OA

special note to this ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U mixset that inspired me:
https://www.youtube.com/live/WvyvwlowHWM?feature=share

VCV acid jam sessions take 1

Vocal loops and cuts made completely in Koala sampler sitting in a rental car at a race track. 

Reminds me of aphex twin but everything reminds me of aphex twin. I used to get yelled at on mp3.com for making music people thought wasn’t aphex twin enough. Suck my holes. Shoutout to Jester Med Gester. 

Im doing this on my phone so don’t expect an essay. Please listen to it. I need validation. They beat me up pretty bad. Swollen kneecaps and shoulder bruises.

afraid of the dark (charlotte jam session)

Inaugural voyage of the boombap soundsystem. Bass so loud it'll blow your peaked cap off. 

Dedicated to all the bass vans that drove by my house over the years. Those dudes with the loud as fuck systems and all you can hear is BRONK DUGGGGGHHH as they drive by

Got the idea listening to Tripl-Z, a miami rapper. He had a couple real bass rattler productions that got me thinking how cool it would be to make a synth patch based around that kind of thing. 

I'm now thinking about getting sponsors to build a bass van with an actual synth rig attached that would do the same thing. Just let people come up and twist knobs, rattle windows.

shoutout to the VCV crew, the discord crews that rep me, the bluesky people that love me, and anyone else down with PLUR

Baking House Sound System Take 1

Made in VCV Rack with some Hora and Vult drums. There's an arpeggio contraption involving a Warp Core module, Arturia minilab 3 and a bogaudio arp. I did another weird thing using Bifaco ADSR module as a note source for another warp core. Delays by Flag and Alright(Chronoblob 4 lyfe). 

So for full disclosure, I've never seen the draw of taking MDMA. I'm not really wired correctly for a lot of uppers. However, hearing the playback to this track has me reminiscing to times of cuddle puddles and the time I bought groceries for a pound of the boutique shit. The rental storage complex shows where you'd get showered in feedback because no one thought about the MC's mic. There's even a midset trainwreck that just gets weirder and weirder. Until you're licking each other because you have no other recourse. 

There's no rhythm that'll bring you back to the same person you were before you entered that room 8 hours ago.

Sunshine Family's Last Stand Against The Man

recorded on the West Palm Beach System against Seasonal Affective Disorder. That shit is real and its a motherfu-

Yes its a drum machine stuck in a delay feedback loop and a filter wired up to a slowmo LFO. I will continue building Systems.

I'm think about revisiting old Systems in jams on youtube. What do you think?

This is who I am now.

made in VCV rack using the following bits:
Voxglitch's autorbreak studio, Vult's DJ style filter VCV's kick, Surge Delay and Alright's chronoblob. Sequencing and clocking by Impromptu and Count Modula, mixed up with Mind Meld's stupid studio ass mixer(love the mixer, no way it would survive a traveling eurorack). I could build a live show rack out of this config if I could justify the close to $10k. I am def in the market for a performance controller setup. Like something I could plug my iPad into my mac and use the screen to control knobs. Just putting that out there because I'm doing next week's show on the road. 

Samples from Casio's Rap-1 synth were sourced through nefarious means, then stretched and pitched down in Koala Sampler. I gave the people that make Koala Sampler money because its the best sampler ever. Fight me, I got scars on my knuckles, homie. 

I've never really played with sampled loops a lot before because most of the workflows were absolutely inscrutable or the toolsets were out of my price range. So having this setup is a really cool dream fulfillment. I'm pretty happy with the recording and can't wait to show this off during this week's live show. 

So yeah, I chopped and screwed my samples. I found out about DJ Screw on soulseek through a lot of the Houston based musicians. The cool thing about soulseek is you can chat it up with ppl while you're rifling through their stuff. find out cool things, innovative trolling techniques or get laid. 

I'm going to use these loops in this week's live stream on Youtube if you're into that kind of thing. I hope you are. Especially rich people that think its cool to give me money. You will be 60000% more street cool if you give me money. Kids won't egg your stupid truck if you give me money. 

HMU up for remix requests too! My ass more open for business than Nicki Minaj in tax season. 



casio screw techno session 1

its my yearly big album release! I'm really happy to bring you more weird shit.

Lost And Found

Acid Scream

Chill Out Session

Casio Bump

East StLouis Blues

a first foray into further modularizing my setup. 

Sample wilding provided by SAMPLOR9000(not for resale), a cricket android phone running koala sampler(and little else for the sake of audio quality) jammed into a arturia beatstep. Further sounds were provided by VCV Drums

controlled mostly via the arturias(yeah I got two arturias and a microphone) and my latest touchosc design

REDNECKNO breakbeat science

Between anxiety, tankshit and other litany bullshit I haven’t really found joy in the studio sitting. So I decided to do some self sampling tencho. But I didn’t like the low again so I threw down some kicks included with the koala sampler over the first take as a oneshot sample. Pretty happy with it!

My music still kicks ass

Look at this hole(tencho)

120 bpm cops

you ever get so messed up the sound of a gas station hot dog grill is the soundtrack to your own personal drug nirvana? 

I hope this moves you the way it moved me. 

I built the loops out in Koala sampler using the default sound pack. Then I ran it through the REDNECKNO Sound System to give it some life. And for good measure I chucked a shitton of reverb and compression on it in the mixdown. 

gas station hot dog grill rave

I was going through the airport in Atlanta and someone set off the worst possible sound. So I sampled it. And here we are. 

Airport Alarm Tencho

its more rugged than a cybertruck thats for sure HAW HAW HAW

Starlink Thrown At A Fence Tencho

ITS BAD FOR YOUR EARHOLE BE CAREFUL
AND YOU AINT GONNA GET THAT 2 MINUTES BACK NEITHER.

if you listen to this you will be sorry

PLAY THIS SONG WHILE YOU MAKE LOVE EFFECTIVE BIRTH CONTROL

coconono

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