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Recorded on 23 July 2022 > 21h00-22h30
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Takkra - The Gardens 04 - Boom Festival 2022

Recorded on 24 July 2022 > 14h00-16h00
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Balancé - The Gardens 30 - Boom Festival 2022

The Liberated State

Galactic Picnic is a cosmic journey that will take you to the farthest reaches of the galaxy and back.
Grab your space suit and join Galactic Picnic on their cosmic voyage through music.

Cosmic Visitors

Sound is transmitted through as vibrations, detected by the ear drums, and interpreted by the brain.

track notes

Inspiration:
this entire track was inspired by the source of the audio sample - the BBC archive, and an 1969 look at their Radiophonic Workshop. It's amazing to think how far we've come. There's also heavy use of Ableton's spectral resonator device, which is just mental for creating vocoder, and totally new sounds. The main pads here are a spectral resonated sample of Indian singing..

This track's challenge:
I've gone for a triplet time for this track, i think it gives it a more happy skippy feel, without the need for adding groove or swing to anything. It's also the first complete track I've made in triplets, which was a challenge getting to grips with triplet timing in arpeggiators, delays, and arrangement.

I have specifically chosen not to use crashes, cymbals, risers, or other such effects on this track. An experiment on whether it's still possible to get the flow of energy in to the music without those things. 

Sound design:
I've also chosen not to synthesise bass again on this track. Instead fishing out 5 or 6 samples and loops from loopcloud, and then chopping them up, converting them in sampler racks, and rearranging. I find bass synthesis a drain on energy, and found sounds usually sound better anyway. But it does limit the range of notes that can be used, which makes me want to get a Steinberg Backbone license, since it's great at resynthesizing from samples.

Most synth sounds here are, however, originals. Some are made from scratch, others are presets or tutorial patches that have been tweaked and layered. I'm particularly happy with the main synth sound and how the layering and stereo field reminds me so much of shpongle's early tracks.

matering:
this still needs some EQ work, but that's a thing I'm almost never 100% happy with - I'd say it's 90% of the way there, and sounds good across the devices I've tried it on, even in the car. However, I can see from the wave form there's not a consistent loudness, so that also needs working out, but for a first pass it will do.

frequencies interpreted by the brain (original version)

Steamy Dream Machine

Papo Arrow - Lazy

One sock too many

Recorded the 23rd July 2018
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Zen Baboon are Daniel Rosado and Henrique Palhavã. Both were born in the '70s in Portugal and since an early age kept a close connection with the musical world, focusing on great sound quality and original construction.

Daniel is a sound engineer that worked in a studio in Lisbon and started producing electronic music in the late 90′s.  Henrique, a zoologist, lives and works in his own farm and started as an ambient DJ, (DJ Henriq) and producer in 2001.

They got together in 2003 and decided to melt their musical preferences and create Zen Baboon.

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Chill Out Gardens - EP 01 - Boom Festival 2018

Zen Baboon - Chill Out Gardens 01 - Boom Festival 2018

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