great chunky rhythm and a divine bassline that has hints of eighties to it

Streets Of Rage  - Violent Breathing

Audio sourced from the original NEC PC-88 files, recorded and supplied in 32bit/96kHz by Yuzo Koshiro, in combination with a 32bit/96kHz direct capture from a PAL Mega Drive (HD, VA4, non-TMSS) Yamaha YM2612 sound chip, running at 60Hz through a stereo output mod.

Taken from the Streets of Rage OST, remastered and available on vinyl through Data Discs. An officially licensed product.

Available now from www.data-discs.com

Streets of Rage - Fighting in the Street (Remastered)

Essio - Troublemaker

This was written as a demo for The Gap... a frenetic animation of the classic cat vs dog antics. Musically, the concept was *Looney Toons goes techno* (yeah, yeah, I know)

GAP cats n dogs (demo)

Crash Bandicoot 2 - Crash Crush (pre-console version)

Crash Team Racing - Oxide Station (pre-console version)

from the forthcoming film *The Wake of Light*

The Wake of Light - Sitting on the Bluff

The Wake of Light - Hand as Shield (unrevised)

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/107937-richard-devine-sortlave
https://richarddevine.bandcamp.com/album/sort-lave
http://smarturl.it/RDSortLave

After a break of 6 years, Atlanta based electronic musician, producer and sound designer Richard Devine returns with a new album ‘Sort\Lave’ on Venetian Snares‘ Timesig imprint. Recorded between 2016 and 2017 using Richard’s custom built Eurorack modular system and two Nord G2 Modular units, Sort\Lave features 12 tracks of intricate electronica that ranges from abrasive percussive experiments such as ‘Revsic‘ to ‘Astra’s dazzling juxtaposition of sounds and onto the radiant ambience of the album’s closer ‘Takara‘.

Talking about the album’s genesis Devine explains “I’ve been using modular synthesizers since I was 17, but have never written complete tracks using these newer systems. This was my first experiment to see if it would be possible and I probably spent about 5 years building up the systems that I used on this album.”

“I wanted the record to sound very different to my previous works which had been more cold, digital, clinical even, and had all been made using computers. The aim here was the complete opposite, to create something that felt very organic, detailed, spacious, big and warm and just as importantly, a record that you could put on and play all the way through that flowed in a seamless way.”

This new approach was to prove fruitful and enabled Devine to create music in an entirely new way. “I really wanted to break free from timeline-based music creation and do things with my hands on the fly,” he explains. “So the tracks are more like captured snapshot performances where I could experiment and play around with the idea of probability-based sequencing for every patch, string multiple sequencers together that would feed other sequencers to come up with interesting rhythms and melodies. It was really fun coming up with new sounds this way too, I felt like I created several I haven't heard before with this album. Some of the tracks on the album were complete accidents and evolved from something that happened spontaneously. In the end I feel this is one of the best records I have released to date, so I’m very excited to share it with the world.”

Making his debut in 1995, Devine’s releases for labels including Schematic, Warp Records and Detroit Underground have established him as one of the leading figures within the electronica community. In addition to his musical productions, Devine has enjoyed a lengthy and successful career in sound design, developing patches for many of the world’s leading music technology businesses and working with companies such as Google and Nike.

Sort\Lave

Richard Devine - Opaque Ke (TIMESIG009)

submitted for a commercial... I tried to do the Neil Young/Dead Man thing - watched the vid once, then improvised/recorded in real time while watching again (then added some extra stuff)

Occupied Youth (full on)

demo for a film... this eventually got remade and remodeled into a proper theme - features a vintage Maxi-Korg synth

Other States LM1

funky rhythms generated out of machinery and high tech gizmos blended and humanized in the mischievous hands of essio

psytrance project: @fuzulu

Essio - Troublemaker

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