March

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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 234

created: 2022/03/27

Picture CREDIT:
(c) Eduardo Axel Recillas Bautista – some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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ContempJz2

Anders3

the option

V for Valentine

downtempo lo-fi production, trip-hop style... cinematic elements, intense energy. 

Save The Nature!

Distant Promise

For his 23rd birthday, Linus set out to make 23 tracks for 23 friends. Each of them blindly chose 10 samples from a library of 230 self-recorded samples. In an act of reverse giving, the finished tracks are gifted to the sample selectors themselves. Subsequently, these friends come up with the titles, which completes the shared circle. Even though he’s 25 already, the project is still ongoing and we’re very happy to be a part of it through the release of these 4 tracks. 
Happy 23rd birthday, Linus!

2. LinUSB - Chrome Under Water

Let me introduce my first track of 2022, it gathers many influences that a forty years old man may know... let's chop some wood from Canada maybe? :=)

Anyway, I hope you will like it. Take care and stay tuned for more

Bag of troubles

Serious

Originally broadcast on Worldwide.Fm on International Womans Day. 8/3/2022
Also appeared on a very limited run of screen-printed cassette tapes

Andy Votel - Penis Fly Traps (All Vinyl Girl Punk Mixtape)

ureshii hinamatsuri inst.

Clowd4

https://youtu.be/jXDl1z-M0q4
A calm oriented chill beat with Japanese and Asian influences. A very calm and nostalgic, dreamy and peaceful piece in the modern Japanese style. Erhu and the electric piano give a completely different sound.

Beautiful Sentimental Anime

99% pure AEmodular, live, some VST compression, reverb, mastering. Mostly wonkystuff kaestle, Seq8, Seq16, Sawvox, LFOs, QuadBoost, MS20filters, LittleSweepy, Delay, MultiFX, Dronx.

VidClip https://www.instagram.com/p/CbicloTj-n5/

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

album.link

HO EL

Funking Duck: Nicotine [downloadble now]

Volume 2 of Andy Votel's Brazilian Psych Mix (following Volume 1 that was originally released by Far Out Recordings) featuring MORE rare vintage vinyl from the Som Livre / RGE catalogue.

Andy Votel - Subtropical Sunstroke Psych-Out Volume Two

I decided to start a beat series called BeatsPerMonth.I'll drop a beat pack every month starting from October.Contact me if you wish to purchase any of these,but don't bother even listen if you are a fascist/racist/homophobic/sexist trash.

Weak

https://xu-substance.bandcamp.com/album/six-piano-things

I recently came across a number of "abandoned" recordings on my old macbook. These are tracks or sketches dating back to various periods (from around 2018 to 2020) and they all have piano as their main audio source.
The original recordings (some previously dubbed on tape) were then heavily processed in Ableton Live and recently reworked to make them (more or less) consistent with each other.

The result is in some way a collection of raw sounding sketches which, however, well represent my interest at that time in creating an opus starting only from piano sounds and loops. Only a few processed field recordings have been added (however recorded by acting on the body of the piano) and just a touch of Minibrute on track 2 and Volca FM on track 3.

Six Piano Things

Then You Run The Faucet

Then You Run The Faucet - from "Six Piano Things"

Black Swans

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for 
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries 
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of 
private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the 
sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. 

There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought 
valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure 
their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But 
even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. 
Everything up until now will have been lost. 

That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their 
colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? 
Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to 
children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable. 

"I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they 
make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal — 
there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's 
already being done: we can fight back. 

Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been 
given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world 
is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for 
yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords 
with colleagues, filling download requests for friends. 



Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been 
sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by 
the publishers and sharing them with your friends. 

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or 
piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a 
ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral — it's a moral imperative. Only 
those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. 

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate 
require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they 
have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who 
can make copies. 

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the 
grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public 
culture. 

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with 
the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need 
to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific 
journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open 
Access. 

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the 
privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us? 

Aaron Swartz 

July 2008, Eremo, Italy 

OpenAccessGuerilla

佐藤允彦女を奏う - 火曜日の女 [LP]

Masahiko Sato -   Kayobi No Onna

Peaceful travels in space, channeled through an all Italian mix of 70s and 80s library, soundtrack, minimalism, electronic and ambient experiments. Suitable for staring off into winter landscapes while making pasta

tracklist

Franco Tamponi :: Submarino
Andreolina :: Music in a Small Room
Trio Medieval :: Just (After Song of Songs)
Roberto Soffici :: Dedicato a Michaela
Massamo Catalano :: Foggy Night
Amadeo Tomassi e Steffano Torossi :: Giardino di Vetro
Mariam Bordoni :: Acqua
Maria Monti :: Il Pavone
Giusto Pio :: Motore Immobile (excerpt)
Maria Teresa Luciani :: Cortili Cittadini
Giampiero Boneschi :: Retiredly
Lino Capra Vaccina :: Voce in XY
Raul Lovisoni :: Hula Om
Bruno Nicolai :: Incontro la Contessa
Piero Piccioni :: Amore Mio Aiutami
Carlo Savina :: Dreamland
Gianni Sposito :: Asteroidi

Italians In Space

1. GILA - This Morning (Germany)
2. Effi Duke and the Love Family - The Time Is Come (Nigeria)
3. Erasmo Carlos - De Noite Ne Cama (Brazil)
4. Bernard Chabert - Helga Selzer (France)
5. Miguel y el Comite - Hiroshima (1945) (Uruguay) 
6. Kim Jung Mi - Wind (South Korea) 
7. Masahiko Sato - Take it Easy (Japan)

12 - Monsters Only Edition

Fat Pockets & Brother Lester Rosenthal came up with an amazing piece we all had to drop a track to! Vibe wit us and have some fun. Real McCoys up in here!
Check Fat Pockets out on this link below!!!!
A real https://soundcloud.com/fatpockets

Real McCoys  (feat Fat Pockets & Brother Lester Rosenthal)

Etude 1034 for piano & 2 analogue synthesisers(120ct20-3)

etude1034piano

Etude 1048 for piano & 3 analogue synthesisers(28oct20-1,2,2)

etude1048

Etude 1081 for piano & polyphonic analogue synthesiser(3dec20-5.3,6)

etude1081

Etude 1090 for piano, viola & 2 analogue synthesisers(13dec20-4,5) 
I met her in a hologram
in 1964
She wasn't real
She didn't squeal
and I retreated from the scene
then in 1967
I think I might have seen
what might have been
my ultimate dream of bliss consciousness
but that's all in the past
as I never even asked
her to reply to my her smile
on the staircase

etude1090

Etude 1091 for viola & 2 analogue synthesisers(14dec20-2,2)

etude1091electro

Hei!

It's difficult to categorize my music into just one genre. It draws influence from trip hop, breakbeat, instrumental and abstract hip hop, heavy rock, techno, minimal, sound art, contemporary, glitch, and more!

I admire many artists, and you might detect their influence in my work. Among the best are Daft Punk and Massive Attack, followed by 90s Ninja Tune artists like Amon Tobin, DJ Vadim, The Herbaliser, and Kid Koala. I've had the pleasure of seeing many of them live at the legendary Ilosaari Rock festivals. I also appreciate French hip hop, particularly Le Peuple de l'herbe. Other inspirations include The Prodigy, Portishead, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Gorillaz, Moby, Mono, Thievery Corporation, Future Sound of London, and more. My taste spans from acid jazz and funk to lo-fi and even punk or hard metal, depending on my mood.

I've been making music since the early 2000s, starting with MadTracker software (I am fine with the program name). A few years ago, I transitioned to music production with Ableton Live 10, and I'm currently using version 12. Some of my tracks are experimental, stemming from explorations over the past 20 years, while others are entirely new compositions. This experimentation is perhaps influenced by my background in research—I'm eager to explore new territories, including music.

Nature is my second passion. I tend to a micro-farm in the summer, raising sheep and chickens and restoring it to its traditional biohabitat. In the winter, I evade to the city and brood there, craving for the countryside's spring, summer, and autumn... or dreaming being in hot and sunny place by a sea or river...

I'm open to collaborations, akin to scientific endeavors where novel and exciting outcomes emerge from teamwork. Feel free to reach out!

Lastly, I want to express my gratitude to my SoundCloud friends, website visitors, and music listeners. This community is truly remarkable!

Best regards,
Tarmo aka Funking Duck

P.S. If you enjoy my music and wish to support me, you can do so via PayPal at paypal.me/funkingduck. Your support will contribute to expenses such as a pro-account subscription on SoundCloud and music software. Thank you very much!

P.P.S. Go and follow my less experimental project here, please:
https://soundcloud.com/maautu/