"Naked" Korg DS-10 track with lots of live performance in it.I'm pretty happy with some of the patterns and sounds, less sure about the performance.   There's a video of this performance - if you'd like to see it, hit the YouTube link in my profile.

No other synths or effects used in this - recorded into the mic input of a Lexicon Lambda using Reaper, trimmed and uploaded as FLAC.

Original is free to download, creative commons licenses apply.

Deeper (first try) - Korg DS-10 dark groove

experienced video game composer, exploring the limits of genres and styles.
 
always willing to take on something new. hit me up: tuddmusic@gmail.com

specializing in 80s and 90s styles, chiptune, experimental synth work and just plain ol' funk grooves.

Currently working on:
Xtreme Formula (Commercial, Videogame)
Gear exploration projects (Hardware synths)
Untitled EP
Live set in Linz, Austria 

Completed projects:
Futurvis
Pickin' Panki Original Game Soundtrack
Tense Reflection Original Game Soundtrack
Breeze in the Clouds Original Soundtrack
Project Butterfly Original Soundtrack
Spark the Electric Jester 3 Soundtrack
Xtreme Formula Demo

Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 4i4
MIDI Keyboards: M-Audio CODE 61, Arturia Keystep
Gear: Elektron Digitakt, Teenage Engineering OP-Z, Roland SP404, Roland JV1080, Korg 01/W, Korg Minilogue XD, MicroKORG, Behringer Model D, Behringer TD-3
Mixer: Tascam 106
Headphones: Massdrop & AKG K7XX
DAW: FL Studio 20 (and a tiny bit of Ableton)
Tracker: VGM Music Maker (16 bit)
Favorite VSTs: Korg M1, Roland JV1080, Serum, u-he DIVA, Omnisphere, Synth1, The Grandeur, Shreddage 2, Funk Guitarist, UVI Plugsound, Valhalla Effects

Featured on:
Mobius by Materia Collective
SoTSS 15
SoTSs 14
HARD RESET [EP] 
Sonic Misadventures
GameChops
ShankMods YT
Millennium Strike

Nerd with a music obsession.  Poor keyboardist, good sound designer.  Working to improve at both before my hearing goes further downhill.

Current goal: Big sounds from small machines.  All tracks have been made on a Nintendo DS with the Korg DS-10 and DS-10+ cartridges.  No outboard effects or EQ have been used.

Despite the choice of synth, I do not make chiptunes.  I grew up listening to Kraftwerk, Jean_Michel Jarre, W. Carlos, King Crimson, early Tomita, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.  My influences are a lot wider now, but the tunes do show my musical history.  I love Jungle/DnB, and although I'm not involved in that scene I respect the skills and commitment of those who are.

Many of the tracks here are sketches which are waiting for me to get back some creativity to finish properly.  If you'd like to hear my best tracks, please listen to:

Electrode - it's one of the first proper tracks I made and I'm fairly happy with it as a tribute to electro and scratching.

Hot Pursuit - theme tune to an imaginary cop show, done at about the same time as Electrode.  First proper Kaoss Pad melodic solo I recorded.  I think it's fun.

Deeper - contains the best groove I've made on the DS-10, and Matrixsynth thought it was "awesome".   :-)

Rockit - a bit of improv anchored by the Herbie Hancock tune themes.  Happy with the sounds I got.  Improv needs to be tighter.

Zürich Connection - something I was happy with at the time, but other people not so much.  Please leave comments saying what you don't like about it so that I can improve!

Hi there! I am Nico.
I am really into all kinds of electronic music. 
Like so many other people in the world I´m a hobby musician enjoying electronic gadgets. All my tracks are self recorded using a pretty old type of way. Recording most tracks in my DAW track by track, aranging the recorded parts and finally editing and giving some spice with effect plugins. Since I find it rather complicated to work with midi, channel routing, or configure latency on my PC, I almost record every part live. Which can be very hard sometimes, but it it improves your skills :-))
I used three Synthesizers (Roland SH201, Korg X50, Akai Miniak)to do my songs.
The second hobby I enjoy is photography. Since I bought a DSLR for my girlfriend, I became infected ;-)
The artworks of my tracks are all pictures done by myself. Except the NYC Skyline with Twin towers.

Update June 2014: Just sold my Miniak and X50 and bought a Roland FA-06, so I don´t need to start my  PC everytime I want to record something.  Hope after over a year of musical abscense(?!?) Yo will be able to hear some new stuff soon...
Thank you for being on my page. I hope you are enjoying my music.
You are very welcome to leave comments or critics.


I'm a self-taught musician and like dabbling on pretty much anything I can get my hands (but generally guitar, keyboards and bass). I played in a soul/funk band for a few years, but only actually started writing my own material properly around the time I created this Soundcloud (now two years ago!). 

My ultimate aim is to write either an album or an EP of material I'm really proud of and just put it out there for people to listen  to (all tracks uploaded here are, essentially, 'sketches' - e.g. songs that were written and recorded on the same day).

Deeper (first try) - Korg DS-10 dark groove

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