The Yamaha CS01II is the first real synthesizer I ever owned. I got it when I was about 14 years old, back in 1985 or so. I noticed that I could get reasonable approximations of most of the sounds from Depeche Mode's "Speak & Spell" album with it, but at the time I didn't have the means to make decent multi-track cover versions, even after I got a 4-track. 

Recently I was studying the Depeche Mode 5.1 surround mixes, and realized that I could clearly hear all the distinct parts of alot of the songs, including "New Life." I also realized that most of the sounds in "New Life," which heavily featured the ARP 2600, were fairly simple. So I decided to throw together a version of it using just my trusty old Yamaha CS01II as the sole sound source (including the drums), just to see how close I could get to the original. 

This version has no vocals at all, but otherwise it comes pretty close to the original. The actual musical arrangement is 100% accurate. The sounds themselves are of course only approximations, and most of them don't have the same level of timbral detail as the ARP originals. I sequenced the whole thing in Cubase via a Kenton Pro Solo going into the custom CV/Gate inputs on my CS01II, recording each monophonic line in one at a time (20 tracks in all). Cubase provided the reverb and EQ, otherwise it's all CS01II.

Yamaha CS01II plays NEW LIFE by Depeche Mode

Originally written for toy piano, I've arranged 'joujou' for Kevin Hobby and William Sethares' Hyperpiano.

http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/papers/hyperOctave.html

It's a short march which gets increasingly ornate to the point of being almost Indonesian towards the end. 

Score and parts available at http://parnasse.com/pdf or at my IMSLP page - http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Harrington,_Jeffrey_Michael


joujou for Hyperpiano

First of the year ... first in a few years? Instead of cleaning & re-building the home studio I got distracted by blinking lights and made this.

Probably going to do more like this because why not. 

Probably going to use the alias DANAX because ... Dan + Xanax worked pretty well on this one.

DANAX (aka Dan F) "Oh Lord The Dust" (2017)

Frekwenzi - 2017Livetakes

Late-Nite beach groove.

Sample: https://youtu.be/Jk3PTNpQKpY

SUPER CRUISER X

Memories of You By The Ocean

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Clockwork

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Alex Downey - Voyage de Lux 2019-05-15 Tracklist:
Intro: Daniel Avery - Embers | Phantasy Sound
01 Morphology - Bipolar Nebula | Firescope
02 Skee Mask - Shady Jibbin’ | Ilian Tape
03 Geche - Melt | Statravel
04 Data Leak - Data Drip (Duplex Remix) | Data Leak Records
05 M-Twelve - All The Things | Electrix Records
06 Morphology - Detached | Firescope
07 Mesak - Iskut | Orson Records
08 D'Arcangelo - Asset 5 | Touched Electronix
09 Plaid - African Woods | Warp Records
10 Alex Jann - Blue Moon Rising | Censor
11 Plant43 - Ceilometer | Future Massive
12 Mesak - 	Kruisata | Orson Records
13 Gilbert - Illumination | Distorted Sensory Perception
14 Reedale Rise - Arbour | Subwax Excursions
15 214 - Snow Banks | Klakson
16 James Shinra - Reflector | Furthur Electronix
17 The Hidden Persuader - Specialise 
18 Secret Frequency Crew - Miami Eyes (Andrea Parker Remix) | Mass Transit Records 
19 Espion - Witches | Bass4Bots
22 Mindless Evolving Objects 	- Lunar Trace | Distorted Sensory Perception ‎
23 The Exaltics - Every Beginning Has An End | TRUST
24  Vectorvision vs Convextion - Zy Clone | Legwork 
25 James Shinra - Centaurus | Furthur Electronix
26 Jensen Interceptor - Kinetic Floor | E-Beamz
27 Dopplereffekt - Telomere | Leisure system
28 Bitstream - Tactic | Frustrated Funk
29 Adapta - Vohx Continues V1 | Frustrated Funk
30 Resonance Committee - Sound Bites | Cultivated Electronics 
31 Unknown Artist ‎- Track B2 | Keep Your Mouth Shut
32 Skee Mask - Shred 08 | Ilian Tape
33 Junq - From Below | Art Mechanical
34 The Exaltics - NGC 253 | Solar One Music
35 Pollon - Lost Souls | Tresor / Scopex
36 Kovyazin D & Moralez - Sunken Space Sea | Eidetic ‎
37 Pip Williams - Pleasure Deficiency Syndrome | Brokntoys
38 Jesus Jones - Zeroes & Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction # 2 Mix) | Food
Outro: Daniel Avery - Days From Now | Phantasy Sound

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Voyage De Lux 2019

Alex Downey - Voyage de Lux - 15.05.2019

Darker Days

Here is an example of a perfect pairing of two songs. If these two tracks were on the TV show 'Take me out' i just know 'The Power' would pick 'Double barrel'.

Made entirely from samples and/or parts of the following British No 1 singles... 
Dave & Ansil Collins - 'Double Barrel' (1/5/1971)
Snap - The Power (31/3/1990)

Double Power

"The Error Response material is my outlet to make more subtle ideas. This is purely sample based, natural flowing sequences, and aimed to be atmospheric.. Many tracks are short and sharp - sometimes 2 minutes is all you need to convey that mood." 

“Zen”, the debut Error Response album mixes mysterious film score with downtempo, trip hop grooves, into a masterpiece of sample based electronica… Lifetime producer, Stephen Arnold (AKA Espion – Bass4Bots Records), gave birth to the Error Response project after many years of producing various styles of electronica, liberated by dividing his work into two categories – from industrial and agressive electro as Espion, to downtempo, trip hop as Error Response. As time went on, the music seemed to take on a path of its own, evoking thoughts of Bladerunner-esque, urban environments, with Japanese samurai vibes. The artwork of SHTL conveyed this perfectly, in his absolutely epic CG art piece ‘Sanctus2K9′.

The album is the first of three parts entitled Zen, Tao and Chi, which have been in production since 2005. The music fuses sampled loops and phrases with complex interweaving programmed rhythms and synthesized melodies, with an organic flow, dropping into ambient sections or drum’n'bass, while always sticking to the theme of a mysterious, urban samurai, film noir soundtrack, filled with curiosity, intrigue, thrills, car chases, plot twists, gangsters, cops and femmes fatales.

You can more work which is electro, techno, braindance and IDM at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/hyperoctave" target="_blank">hyperoctave</a>

