SOOSKI - Dash Radio Set

And I know it...when I face it in the dark
I can feel it when the fever lights the spark
This ain't about love, this ain't about me
I'm as close as I'll ever be

It ain't easy, it ain't easy when you fall
And I get crazy when my back's against the wall
This ain't about love, this ain't about you
Now I know what we've got to do

Pick me up, shake me out
Turn it up, let's make it loud
Can't stop, stop me now, oh no
Pick me up, shake me out
No it ain't over now
Can't stop, stop me now, oh no

When it's heavy, and my knees are gettin' weak
I get nervous, makes it hard to speak
But this ain't about you, this ain't about me
Now I know what I got to be

Pick me up, shake me out
Turn it up, let's make it loud
Can't stop, stop me now
Pick me out, shake me out
Ya know it ain't over now
Can't stop, stop me now, oh no

When you call my name
I'm gonna be ready, ready, ready, ready
When you call my name
I'm gonna be ready

Can't Stop Me Now

"Lucky You" - from the cabaret act 'Parvenu,' featuring Krista Detor & Amanda Biggs. 

Lucky You Mix 6

Mitch Murder - Prime Operator

Out of time
This is my last call home

It’s a dream 
to fall back to
safe spaces
where you never change.

Where soft delusions
tell you you
never have to 
feel any pain.

Don’t lose yourself
in distant seclusion.
Keepers of the truth 
never walk alone.
Out of time,
I’m done with confusion.
This is my
last call home. 

It’s a dream
to find easy
answers on either
end of a gun.

Never forget what
made you you
and how we lived
in defense of love.

Last Call Home

On the heels of his On Vacation mini-LP that surfaced a few months back, leftfield Montreal producer CFCF returns to the International Feel label on July 15 with an EP of remixes, including his own soothing rework of "Fleurs Laissés Dans Un Taxi," which debuted on on RBMA Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music with host Shawn Reynaldo.

@cfcf
rbmaradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

CFCF - Fleurs Laissés Dans Un Taxi (CFCF Re-Version)[First Floor Premiere]

Written early July 2016 on the way home from a final visit to my wife's family farm in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania, outside Gettysburg. RIP, Aunt Suzanne… 

This track also grieves not for an America that was - but for an America that could have been.

LYRICS
A few hours west of the City line
About 200 miles as the crow flies
Your family farm up on that hill
A place that made time stand still

Where Saturday nights on the outskirts of town
and ways of life were hand-me-downs
Every sunrise let you know just where you stand

There was love in this land
But time made other plans
In time you’ll understand
How much love was in this land

Now we’re taking one last drive tonight
To say one long last goodbye
To the land that held your family name
Thru an America getting auctioned away

By a world designed with no stop just go
That knows you never miss what you never know
That’s countin’ on you to forget where you stand

And all the love in this land

When the radio starts playing favorite songs
You can’t help (but) wonder, 'where did we go wrong?'

The moms and dads pass’d away
The kids flew away on the interstate
The farm is now in other hands
It’s up to you to still give a damn

Love In This Land (2016a)

The task to create a friendly "Hi" to the Juno probe based on the Morse Code for "Hi" (…. ..) became the perfect excuse to duet with my Teenage Engineering PO-16. I've owned it for a while and though I am fascinated by it and screw around with it at times, it hadn't yet found its way into the studio. Part of that is because it's one of those pieces of equipment I don't fully understand and really can't do much with, but its mystery deepens my affection. Kind of like astrophysics. 

In any case, the PO-16 generated all the Morse Code beeping in various notes around the key of D. The rest of the piece fell into place around the syncopated and stacked tones. Diving into my effect library, I found a sample of a countdown and liftoff of a Saturn I rocket, and the track crescendos around that. Built basic basic drum and bass tracks to keep it moving (one of these days I have to try to loose myself from rhythms) and dropped in a few sweeping pads from the archives. Ended up a bit longer than expected but there's not much difference between 1 minute and 2.75 minutes in light years, you know?

RIG
Teenage Engineering PO-16 factory, Peekamoose Guitars Custom M2, SmallSound/BigSound Sparkle Motion, tc electronic flashback delay, Earthquaker Devices Afterneath, Strymon blueSky reverb, Line6 POD-XT, MOTU 828-mk2, DAW: Sony Acid Pro (Win 8.1), Mastering: Harrison MixBus (OSX)

PROJECT
The Assignment: Say hi to the Juno Spacecraft by embedding Morse code in an original composition.

In this project we’re going to send a friendly signal to the NASA probe, the Juno spacecraft, that just entered orbit around Jupiter. Well, we’re going to compose such signals. Sending them is a separate endeavor. We’re going to build on the “Say ‘Hi’ to Juno” endeavor, which had thousands of ham operators sending a message to Juno during its five-year voyage. The “Say ‘Hi’ to Juno” message was Morse code for “Hi” — that is, four dots followed by two dots (…. ..).

Step 1: Listen to the Morse code for “hi” (four dots followed by two dots) on repeat for a short time.

Step 2: Create an original musical composition that in one or more ways interpolates that Morse code.

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More on this 236th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Say hi to the Juno Spacecraft by embedding Morse code in an original composition” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0236/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place on a Slack (send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for inclusion) and at this URL:
http://disquiet.com/forums/

More on the Juno Spacecraft technology at:
http://spaceflight101.com/juno/spacecraft-information/

More on the “Say ‘Hi’ to Juno” ham operator project here:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1263

europa sunrise [disquiet0236]

I decided to do an instructional 'how-to' for my entry, as it's easier than typing it all out. There isn't much of a song here, it's mostly instruction.

Special shout-out to Robert Nunnally (Gurdonark) for suggesting this software when I was just looking for a simple sample-playback device.

Links:

Lunchbox Battles:
[direct download] http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge/2006/Lunchbox.zip
Made by: http://www.brambos.net/

Free VSTs used to make the loops:

loop 1 - lo-fi plastic piano
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=634

loop 2 - iowa piano
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=Iowa_Piano&id=2294

loop 3 - piano one
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=Piano_One&id=1100

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Project Steps:

Step 1: Think of a specific trick or skill or tip you have honed in regard a particular piece of music software or hardware.

Step 2: Create a piece of music in which that trick or skill or tip is intrinsic.

Step 3: Annotate the track to detail the trick/skill/tip.

Five More Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Per the instructions below, be sure to include the project tag “disquiet0242” in the name of your track. If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to my locating the tracks and creating a playlist of them.

Step 2: Upload your track. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your track.

Step 3: This is a new task, if you’ve done a Junto project previously. In the following discussion thread at llllllll.co post your track:

llllllll.co/t/share-yer-knowledge-disquiet-junto-project-0242/4218


How To Make Ambient Music In 10 Minutes [disquiet0242]

Although Suss Müsik proudly cites Steve Reich as an inspirational pioneer, we admit to a bit of frustration at the way audiences overlook the conceptual depth of Reich's more emotive works. Different Trains, written in 1988 for string quartet and tape, uses recorded interviews with family members and Holocaust survivors as its melodic framework. Reich creates a parallel between trips he took as a youth and the shuttling of six million Jews to German concentration camps. Taken as a totality, inflections of speech form a beautiful and sometimes uncomfortable coupling, a musical documentary captured as personal snapshot. The effect transcends minimalism into something haunting and didactic (in a good way); even three decades later, hearing the swell of strings behind "But today, they're all gone" sends shivers up the spine.

In homage to Mr. Reich, this piece uses four marimba patterns played in unison, alternating pauses between bars at random moments. A gently plucked guitar creates the harmonic structure, not unlike the motif in Reich's Music for 18 Musicians signaling that a transition is about to take place. The guitar is played with a jar of rocks on the fretboard and run through a Boss Terra Echo TE-3. The marimbas eventually reveal a phased loop of birds chirping, which were recorded just outside Suss Müsik studios (the weather today was gorgeous). The piece ends with a single marimba phased at the same rate as the birds' pattern, everything fading into a metallic sheen of acoustic percussion recorded with plenty of reverb.

This excerpt is part of a longer piece still in development entitled Misophonia. The piece is named after a clinical term describing the negative reaction some people have to repetitive noises like dripping water, chewing gum, the tapping of a pencil, etc. The image is an egg.

More on this 249th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Wish the minimalist composer Steve Reich a happy birthday” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0249/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

http://llllllll.co/t/happy-birthday-steve-reich-disquiet-junto-project-0249/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Misophonia [Disquiet0249]

Carry Me

A Canadian netlabel specializing in creative commons releases. All the stuff at http://happypuppyrecords.ca

How To Make Ambient Music In 10 Minutes [disquiet0242]

Lee Rosevere