Looks like what I thought was a classic 90s Trance tune is actually from 1979.

So this is not just inspired by воскрешение by ппк in 2001, but also inspired by музыка к фильму Сибириада by Эдуард Артемьев, from 1979 (which воскрешение also was inspired by).

I don't know the slightest bit of Russian by the way 😁

Space Melody

This is also on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPi1pLDsNY

DAWless Techno-ish Jam in 13/16

This was born from a meme. A few months ago, there was a TikTok going around with a Kärcher pressure cleaner providing the bass for a techno track, purely analog, no synths involved. This one isn't quite like that, it does use lots of synths.

It's also way later now. But I figured, I'd release it into the wild anyway. Not like I'd do anything else with it.

Pressure

The prime idea for this track is shamelessly stolen from @synkrotron. Have a watch here for a 3 hour stream where he builds a similar one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l35Ioz30Mak

As they say, a track is never completed, just abandoned. I think I have to release this one into the wild.

Transmissions from the Void

Album out now!

Koto Dreams

This track was inspired by the Acid V synth by Arturia. I knew I didn't want to make acid. I've done that before, I'll do it again, but I'd rather do that with hardware. Software on the other hand, particularly with the range of possibilities of Acid V, gives space to much more exploration. So that's what I did. It's essentially an ambient track with a techno underpinning. Very much inspired by my drone experiments, too.

Enjoy!

Acid Lullaby

This track started with me thinking "Gee, this 8-Bit synth that i finally got, I have to make something with it". Turned out to be quite the happy little tune. Enjoy!

Oh, chiptune always has 909 and 303 sounds, right? Right?

Chiptune I - Happy

This started with a bass line. One that's barely audible anymore, underneath all the complexity, the polyrhythms, the reverb tails, the generative rhythms, the caffeinated woodpecker hats.

Is it too much? You tell me 😄

Oh, Chiptune III and IV. They're there, just not mixed yet. I'll have to revisit them some time, IV needs some finishing touches too. This will probably become an album at some point. The "strange chiptune that is anything but chiptune but has 8 bit synths in it" album.

Chiptune V - Poly Synth Complex

Something is unleashed, I feel. A raw hot pink core deep inside. Chaotic, messy, amazing. It wants out. It gets out. It's finally free!

Raw Hot Pink Core

I made this for a contest where the prompt was "light ambient". I ended up not entering it because while it's ambient, it's not light. So it sat for a while. I figured I'd do something else with it maybe, but it really doesn't need anything. It is complete and ready to fly, fly out into the world, and land on some far away jungle planet for real.

Bye, my little song. Have fun out there!

Jungle Planet Landing

I have a hard time making tracks without 303s it seems. So there is one in here, too. The track was shorter at first, but then it felt like it was stopping just when it got started, so that's when I picked up moog Mariana and got something deep into the mix. It is complete now.

Liminal Echoes

I prepared tracks for my upcoming album "Not Chiptune", which contains lots of things that are chiptune adjacent but not quite. Or not at all maybe. But chiptune inspired. I kept the naming, so there are 8 of them now, 5 of which are public on SoundCloud.

And there was a crazy shaped hole in there, between the 6th and the 7th track of the album. Something that transitions from the polyrhythmic psy stuff to the ambient stuff.

Yeah, it's all a bit wacky.

So is this track. Wacky. It fits the crazy shaped hole I think, so it's crazy in and of itself. The whole album now is over a year in the making, I started it even before Transmissions from the Void. But it's coming together now. It's even more "me," I think. And this track is not the climax of the album, but maybe its most quintessential one.

So if you like this track, stay tuned for the album "Not Chiptune" 😄

Chiptune VIII: Transitionals

One take. My first evening with this synth. Recorded straight as I improvised with it. There's a Valhalla Supermassive on the track, and I only did some volume adjustment with a regular Bitwig limiter.

Just a drone.

Hardware. I'm back. Twiddling knobs. This is amazing.

CPM DS-2 Drone

I wanted to make an unboxing short for my new Behringer Edge, but it turned out to be a full jam instead. It feels so much like the DFAM, which I have since early 2022, that I felt right at home.

This track is a live jam on YT: https://youtu.be/yJ50EFFcOHU

Edge Techno, 100% Improvised, One Take

Watch on YT for all the patching and knob fiddling.
https://youtu.be/L4jA0x-jnEo

Jam from scratch, as in: Everything is unpatched by the time I start the jam, no sequencers running or even connected to a shared clock, and all oscillators on init settings.

...and then I build the track during the 5 minutes of the jam from that 🥰

This was a very very fun challenge by the Hardware Jams FB group!

Industrial Jam from Scratch

New Synth! A K2 MkII. I patched it into oblivion, pretty much? Got five voices out of it; two from the oscillators, two from the filters, one from noise. And then the jam is essentially a track.

Watch the short on YT: https://youtube.com/shorts/wowdd_HRWZM

K2 Intro Jam (Full 1min Track in one Patch)

This is a one-take single synth jam with the Roland TR-06. See here for the jam video:

https://youtu.be/8KaMfx6VsuQ

I really do like this drum machine! Not only does its ACB make it a faithful recreation of the original sounds, its added features are also really welcome and make it an amazing performance machine.

...and I didn't even use Step Repeat!! Only noticed afterwards 😂

TR-06 YT 606 Subs Techno Jam

See the full 13 minutes LIVE jam at:

https://youtu.be/qSBusbmRj64

I kept getting asked this question. "How does the Edge compare to the DFAM?" — had to answer them, right?

(And trolls kept saying "ah the Edge just sounds worse than the DFAM"...)

This doesn't actually pitch them against each other. Instead, it shows that they're indistinguishable in a track. By making them collaborate in a way that is almost entirely opaque to you, where they share sounds.

Oh. This also happens to be a percussion only jam. I've made a 3 minutes radio edit for this month's RedMeansRecording  challenge, which was:

"ONLY PERCUSSION — Make something using only drums and percussion instruments, synthesized or natural, pitched or atonal."

Edge vs. DFAM Jam - Radio Edit

The forgotten seasons are spring and summer of 2020. They're gone and we barely noticed, with everything going on around us. 

This track is a bit more relaxing. I went back to some more traditional trance sounds, though the bass line is still close to psytrance style. Not quite sure about the genre of this one. But then, that's not really that important anyway.

The vocals were synthesized with Alter/Ego. Jungle birds in the second half were recorded by AdrienPola (CC-BY).

Forgotten Seasons

I've been wanting to make something with mantra samples for a while. Finally found some in a great sample pack from Singomakers, and built this track around some of them.

I still have some ways to go when it comes to working with vocals, but they'll probably come back. Enjoy!

Mantras

I'm not quite sure what you expected to be next on this channel, but I am fairly certain that it wasn't this.

I have two Volca Modular, and I'm currently learning how to use them. They're playing here alongside a Bastl Kastl and a Bastl Kastl Drum as well as a Korg NTS-1.

It's probably too long, it's repetitive, it's very strange and experimental, I only recorded a single mono track (one take) and did a couple things to widen it in post. It's very far from perfect, and not polished. But it's probably way closer to expressing myself through music than the last few things I made.

So here's an experimental modular jam for your enjoyment. Hopefully anyway 🤪

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