Vello RInse

Pace Relations

new album: Loner Veils!
also available as part of the new 5-cassette box set. checkout halicon.bandcamp.com for more info // 

This track was originally a demo from 2011, soon after Reznor & Ross made the slide from from the "future dystopia" of Year Zero to the "ongoing dystopia" of The Social Network, and I think the influence that soundtrack had on me at the time shows pretty clearly. I also think it's a good anchor point for the album, straddling the line between droning or hypnotic rhythms and jarring bouts of crushing distortion.  I had a lot of fun refreshing this mix in the studio last year; distorting the piano through an old Moog synth filter and a wash of Afterneath Reverb before being chewed up by this old Rand-O-Matic pedal I recently came across. With the video, I tried to capture that push/pull as the ominous undertones fight for balance against the more hopeful, if warped, piano melodies.

Loner Veils

Halicon - Million O'Clock

The ongoing pandemic has brought me the time and inspiration to dig deep into the archives. I spent a good bit of time mining old hard drives, cassette tapes, floppies and zip disks to create a series of releases over 2020 & 2021 while I finish up an album of new material. This is the fifth release in the series. 

This was originally to be a kind of b-sides collection ep for a handful of songs I really liked, but were cut from the previous four releases due to time or flow, but as I worked through it... it took on a life of it's own and grew into what feels to me more like a full & coherent album: Loner Veils. Twelve tracks spanning from 2002 - 2012. Some with fresh mixes, a few with added harmonies and other sonic flourishes, and still others left entirely as they were

Climpendor

Very old track, late 90s. Seem to remember imputor? wanting to include on the back_up ep, but it was too long. Nearly as long as the whole release!  My dad thinks it sounds like a cat throwing up.

Synaptic Peripherals

Parallax

Found this digging through some old disks. fruityloops, probably around 2001? 2002? 

Tetherbane

Released 2002-05-21

4-track EP composed/recorded to crappy casettes in 1997-98.
Digitized and mastered by Darrin R. Wiener @ The Velcro Lounge.
3" handmade CD-R limited to 100 copies. 

01 flag0phlen

RELOCATION SPELLS
six new tracks featuring hypnotic and organic abuse of analog machines to transmute chaos and dissociate to. 
meditative music for an unquiet mind.

Lately, I have been experimenting with different ways to approach music, drifting a bit away from the grids of step sequencers, and structured, planned out songs in general. Relying rhythmically on the Soma Labs Pulsar 23, and the Make Noise Strega, some of the beats contained here were created using only clock dividers, or envelope modulated arpeggiators, while others are the result of cv-patching feedback loops on the strega or utilizing envelope followers to slam down the pitch of oscillators. Melodies are often played by meandering hands or built up from evolving chords by triggering complementary notes at random intervals. Which is to say these tracks each exist in a very specific moment in time. no sequence to save. no backup. no usb ports were harmed in the creation of this cassette.

EMPTY SET is comprised of the Pulsar23 and DSI Tetra, and utilizes a healthy dose of the Symetrix 606 delay unit

Relocation Spells

Empty Set

Lately, I have been experimenting with different ways to approach music, drifting a bit away from the grids of step sequencers, and structured, planned out songs in general. Relying rhythmically on the Soma Labs Pulsar 23, and the Make Noise Strega, some of the beats contained here were created using only clock dividers, or envelope modulated arpeggiators, while others are the result of cv-patching feedback loops on the strega or utilizing envelope followers to slam down the pitch of oscillators.

Melodies are often played by meandering hands or built up from evolving chords by triggering complementary notes at random intervals. Which is to say these tracks each exist in a very specific moment in time. No sequence to save. No backup. No usb ports were harmed in the creation of this cassette.

Relocation Spells sees release via Gamma Ray Gun records on June 20. 
digital / silver cassettes (limited to 50)
Pre-order: https://halicon.bandcamp.com/album/relocation-spells.

Silver Arrow notes: 
beat created by a feedback loop of the make noise strega oscillator back into itself. synth pads from my beloved oberheim matrix 6r.

Relocation Spells is out June 20th on Gamma Ray Gun Records
available for digital download or limited edition silver cassette


SILVER ARROW

new old stock!  

from 2004. 
released 2020

Vacant Splines

Scissor Slip

Wrote this one in-flight to the west coast for some shows on a dying laptop in early 2002

tractor surfing

Vello Rinse

quilter

Reticulation

Triangle Park

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