Good Tunes #22 [Welcome 2020!]

FE012

You gently yawned and stacked clouds. You are the view beneath the clover, miniscule enough to see her veins in the summer sun. You are the end of a sigh, the basement of the lungs. You are the golden hour whom erst you knew. You, in all of your wicked and kind facets, are the red stroke across a blank canvas. You bragged about the tiny spine in your palm, and told stories about the shapes it used to take. You cracked open and told me your name.

orico is a sunset for 15 soundtracks, a diadem of human proclivities. Peach fuzz of harmony hums, the TV’s fur at your fingertips, the dog between your legs awaiting whistles, pacing around the room while the idea rubs against bedroom walls. A parochial friend once implied the sunset is the same every day. “I’ve never had someone make me question all the rules,” once said. It’s hard not to agree with something so foolish.

"I recorded this in the midst of hurricane season 2024. Helene hit us pretty hard and left me feeling even more isolated as a trans person in an area that is already pretty much detached from most everything (northwesternmost tip of south carolina). I found myself looking toward the coast, some 5 hours away, and toward soraweb's approach to "electronic bossa nova" alongside the works of Arto Lindsay and Masakatsu Takagi. Nearly every track here was improvised in single takes (no outstanding cuts or overdubs, if it could be helped) with a mixture of live instrumentation and electronics, including some sounds produced by an old homebrew sequencer for the Nintendo DSi, if you can believe that. the DSi usage is best heard in the electronic voices on "upsets" and "caowu". Various sounds were provided by trans and nonbinary friends who wish to remain anonymous, many of whom are in constant search of an aquatic vessel, one for us to ride into the sunset on, in hopes of escaping this horrible storm."
- e.m.butler 

orico/e.m.butler - Mixing, Mastering, Production
Gabriel Good - Cover Art, Packaging
Glos - Additional artwork, Packaging

bandcamp

haoma

Lithium

Moss Mass

https://organise.bandcamp.com/album/tonbo

Tonbo

My entry for PABAT 2018

FLAC download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=197sXLfvD_xhw5jaLu-WamgQxhrgHuFuy
OGG download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tG6uXzZUKnJmmi2bw4g9pserEzQ90ODI
BMS Download: http://k-bms.com/party_pabat/party2018.jsp?board_num=18&num=3&order=reg&odtype=a

Overcast

"Means of Knowing" is an exchange with the world, an effort to know it and ourselves more deeply. Like a long walk on a favorite path and the introspection and observation that such a journey inspires, it is an album full of constantly evolving interplay between natural and imagined sound sources. Tactile sounds from the physical world combine with textured, processed synthesis to evoke the depth of experience available to us every day.

https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/means-of-knowing
https://hotelneon.bandcamp.com/album/means-of-knowing

All music written and recorded by Hotel Neon 
Additional mixing by Matt Kidd 
Mastering by Rafael Anton Irisarri 
Vocals in 'Referent' & 'Unseen Landscapes' by Lacey Tasselmyer 
Artwork by Steven Kemner 
CD Photography by Alexander Kopatz

HN-ARCH01 - 2018 
ARCHIVES

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Hotel Neon - Means Of Knowing (Album Snippets)

Released on Kahvi Callective's 'One Synth' various artists album. 

https://kahvicollective.bandcamp.com/album/one-synth

One Synth

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Ghosts

"Means of Knowing" is an exchange with the world, an effort to know it and ourselves more deeply. Like a long walk on a favorite path and the introspection and observation that such a journey inspires, it is an album full of constantly evolving interplay between natural and imagined sound sources. Tactile sounds from the physical world combine with textured, processed synthesis to evoke the depth of experience available to us every day.

All music written and recorded by Hotel Neon 
Additional mixing by Matt Kidd 
Mastering by Rafael Anton Irisarri 
Vocals in 'Referent' & 'Unseen Landscapes' by Lacey Tasselmyer 
Artwork by Steven Kemner 
CD Photography by Alexander Kopatz

HN-ARCH01 - 2018 
ARCHIVES

means of knowing

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Hotel Neon - Referent

A track that evolved from a late night jam with Martin Grafton (AKA "Arrantrax", and the other half of our "Discoteca 101" collaboration project). 
We had just finished a Discoteca 101 track, and started messing around with some sounds, Martin on his Korg Minilogue, and myself jamming with a Roland SH01A. 
Martin improvised a sequence following some notes I was playing and we just built up some more layers to build it something more structured.
Since it didn't fit the Discoteca 101 style we decided to put it out here.

Check out Martin's page:
https://soundcloud.com/arran-trax

And our collaboration project Discoteca 101 here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-78813358

Zone 211 (Featuring Martin Grafton)

It's Not Too Early For Each Other

20 tracks on cassette and digital:
https://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/it-s-not-too-early-for-each-other

Listen To Your Future

This track was inspired by Boards of Canada.
The chord progression is in the key of C major with borrowed chords from C minor (the parallel key of C major).

Bass, pad and lead from u-he Diva.
Sequenced in Ableton Live.
Elektron Analog Heat on the master channel (Enhancement circuit).

Children's Playground

PSTX-022D2

Christopher Leopold - Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Percussion
Angela Vicente - Vocals
Matthew Brundrett - Drumkit
David James T - Electric Guitar

https://therealhumanbarbie.bandcamp.com

Recorded and mixed at Majestic Wizard Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Under exclusive license to Poor Man Records
© 2019 All Rights Reserved

Cover photo by Indigo Null:  https://exilehousecreative.com

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• Lyrics •

Be careful what you wish for
cause you’re gonna get f*cked eventually.
Whatever it is you wanted,
chances are you don’t want it, actually.

Cause the grass is always greener
and the lips are always sweeter in a dream.
But you wake up in the morning
with nothing but a painful memory.

Be careful who you’re chasing
cause you’re probably just wasting your time.
And even if you get her, baby, nothing is forever,
and you change your mind.

Yeah, yeah...

Cause the grass is always greener
and the lips are always sweeter in a dream.
But you wake up in the morning
with nothing but a painful memory.

Cause the grass is always greener
and the lips are always sweeter in a dream.
But you wake up in the morning
with nothing but a painful memory.

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Be Careful What You Wish For

pocketwatch

very annoying elevator journey (scraps/unfinished) [2019]

From the Album "This Place has People In It" available here : https://cialyn.bandcamp.com/album/this-place-has-people-in-it

Clouds Ocean

Tunemaking est. 2012

One half of https://soundcloud.com/joymachines

'Good Tunes' Playlist every month(ish)

Contact: maxrutter.music}@{gmail.com

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