Name: Diode Sky by Darren Lipper
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Description: I'm using the electric bass as a lead synth sound in this one.

Out the box.

The Second Ring

Morn is dark ambiental/drone project by zuna (Seppuku, Hesperian Death Horse, Portraite, Nietzsche Killed Him!…)

The Only Ture Freedom

I worked on different worlds probably longer than any other song. For me, it started as a fusion of guitar and heavy bass, but eventually morphed into this spacey, chaotic direction. Then I wrote ambient sections and mixed them in. Wash, rinse, repeat. Ad infinitum (at least, it felt like it).

i was fixed on an image in my head, one I saw in a Dr Who episode entitled "the impossible planet' where our hero finds himself stuck on a planet straddling the threshold of time and space at the event horizon of a black hole. 

i guess, I got sucked in.

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my mom coined the name of this album. when I played her one of the tracks, she offered a couple of kind words, but her honest sentiment was: "I don't understand this tech music." And then I just knew that's what I was going to call it.

tekmusiq reflects a personal journey for me of about 2 years worth of effort. this is my first true solo album and it is a labor of love and frustration. I'm both proud and petrified of that fact that I calculated every single noise on every single track on this album, listening to things over and over, relentlessly, pushing the gain and trying to find the right gel.

what I ended up with, more often than not, was music based in repetition with tracks that were anything but repetitive. I like tones that keep moving, beats that keep shifting, playing games with the ear and defying expectations as much as possible. But I love melody, guitars solos, buildups, and explosions.

And so I took it all and shaped my own aesthetic - I believe its unique, but its me, and that's all I'm trying to do. Whether you find it exhilarating or exhausting, tekmusiq bears a little bit of my soul, destroyed, electrocuted, sucked into a vacuum, and then stretched to infinity.

I hope you enjoy it.


dedications

andy c: for a solid master
adam: for a variety of cat sounds
zaak: for confidence and clarity
lynn: for everything else

different worlds

Feat. Tom Bargelski (keys), Dave Arrowsmith (bass), John Nyman (drums). Recorded live at Bernies Bungalow, Anchorage, Alaska, July 2014

Song written by Pharrell Williams. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Happy (sax solo snippet)

I'm using the electric bass as a lead synth sound in this one.

Diode Sky

-_-The New Nasty-_-

I'm Darren Lipper, a bassist, producer, and solo artist.

Contact: darrenlipper@gmail.com



Diode Sky

Darren Lipper

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