Collected Works

Second installment of the Generative Digital Series where I explore my digital synthesizers collection combined with the generative MIDI tools provided by Bitwig Studio to create long ambient pieces that never repeat. 

Members of the band in no particular order: 
Korg m1 Workstation 
Kawai K1 Digital Synthesizer 
Ensoniq Sq1 Personal Music Studio 
Korg Wavestation Synthesizer 
Alesis Quadrasynth 
Yamaha Sy 35 Vektor Synthesizer 
Yamaha Ys 200 Fm Synthesizer 
Yamaha Sy 99 Music Synthesizer 
Yamaha Dx7 Mk 1 Supermax Digital algorithm Synthesizer 
Casio CZ 5000 Cosmo Synthesizer 
Yamaha V50 Workstation 
Roland D110 LA Synthesis module 
Kawai K4r Synthesizer module 
Kawai Q80 Mk II MIDI Sequencer
credits
released December 31, 2024 

All tracks composed and arranged by Luis Rozalén at Hd Substance Lab Studio B. Copyright SGAE 2024. All rights Reserved

Generative Digital Series_02_Snippets

BUY HERE: https://hdsubstancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/generative-digital-series-vol-3

Third installment of the Generative Digital Series where I explore my digital synthesizers collection combined with the generative MIDI tools provided by Bitwig Studio to create long ambient pieces that never repeat. 

Members of the band in no particular order: 
Korg m1 Workstation 
Kawai K1 Digital Synthesizer 
Ensoniq Sq1 Personal Music Studio 
Korg Wavestation Synthesizer 
Alesis Quadrasynth 
Yamaha Sy 35 Vector Synthesizer 
Yamaha Ys 200 Fm Synthesizer 
Yamaha Sy 99 Music Synthesizer 
Yamaha Dx7 Mk 1 Supermax Digital algorithm Synthesizer 
Casio CZ 5000 Cosmo Synthesizer 
Yamaha V50 Workstation 
Roland D110 LA Synthesis module 
Kawai K4r Synthesizer module 
Kawai Q80 Mk II MIDI Sequencer
credits
released January 14, 2025 

All tracks composed and arranged by Luis Rozalén at Hd Substance Lab Studio B. Copyright SGAE 2024. All rights Reserved
license
all rights reserved

Generative Digital Series 03_ Snippets

Fourth installment of the Generative Digital Series where I explore my digital synthesizers collection combined with the generative MIDI tools provided by Bitwig Studio to create long ambient pieces that never repeat. 

Members of the band in no particular order: 
Korg m1 Workstation 
Kawai K1 Digital Synthesizer 
Ensoniq Sq1 Personal Music Studio 
Korg Wavestation Synthesizer 
Alesis Quadrasynth 
Yamaha Sy 35 Vector Synthesizer 
Yamaha Ys 200 Fm Synthesizer 
Yamaha Sy 99 Music Synthesizer 
Yamaha Dx7 Mk 1 Supermax Digital algorithm Synthesizer 
Casio CZ 5000 Cosmo Synthesizer 
Yamaha V50 Workstation 
Roland D110 LA Synthesis module 
Kawai K4r Synthesizer module 
Kawai Q80 Mk II MIDI Sequencer
credits
released February 8, 2025 

All tracks composed and arranged by Luis Rozalén at Hd Substance Lab Studio B. Copyright SGAE 2024. All rights Reserved
license
all rights reserved

Generative Digital Series_04_Snippets

Fifth installment of the Generative Digital Series where I explore my digital synthesizers collection combined with the generative MIDI tools provided by Bitwig Studio to create long ambient pieces that never repeat. 

Members of the band in no particular order: 
Korg m1 Workstation 
Kawai K1 Digital Synthesizer 
Ensoniq Sq1 Personal Music Studio 
Korg Wavestation Synthesizer 
Alesis Quadrasynth 
Yamaha Sy 35 Vector Synthesizer 
Yamaha Ys 200 Fm Synthesizer 
Yamaha Sy 99 Music Synthesizer 
Yamaha Dx7 Mk 1 Supermax Digital algorithm Synthesizer 
Casio CZ 5000 Cosmo Synthesizer 
Yamaha V50 Workstation 
Roland D110 LA Synthesis module 
Kawai K4r Synthesizer module 
Kawai Q80 Mk II MIDI Sequencer

Credits:
All tracks composed and arranged by Luis Rozalén at Hd Substance Lab Studio B. Copyright SGAE 2024.

Generative Digital Series 05_Snippets

BUY HERE: https://hdsubstancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/hardware-the-album-2025-reissue

Hd Substance
Hardware: The Album
Original Release Date: Monofunk Records 2010
Original Format: CD only Digi Pack Limited Edition

Sixteen years after its inception, Hd Substance’s seminal album Hardware is finally released digitally via his own Bandcamp page. Originally released as a limited edition CD Digipack by the spanish label Monofunk, it was presented as a continuous mix with skip marks to listen to each track separately although they were mixed together. This CD was never released digitally or available to be downloaded and has acquired some kind of cult status as a collectors item.

In this reissue you can access the individual tracks in their original form.

Original In sleeve notes:

We are living in the digital age, technology for making beats is now available for everyone, legally or illegally. All possibilities are opened and there are no limits.
There was a time when creating beats was a challenge, a risk, we only had expensive and limited machines to get the work done. I’ve found that back in those days the limits pushed me forward to create and forced me to reach my target with a primitive setup.

All tracks on this album are part of my comeback to the old school way of composing electronic music, using my old hardware machines in the pursuit of my musical desires. hence the title: Hardware.

Every musical note and sound was created between 2008 and 2009 in my Madrid Studio located in my mother’s basement. All the sequencing and sampling was done on an Akai MPC 2000 XL connected via MIDI to the following machines:

Roland Tb 303
Roland Sh 101
Roland R 70
Roland Tr 808
Roland Tr 909
Roland JD 800
Korg Ms 20
Kawai 100f
Kawai Sx240
Sequential Circuits Pro One
Moog Prodigy

Old Cv / gate Synthesizers were converted to MIDI using Kenton and Doepfer converters. All signals were mixed on a yamaha 01v Mixer and recorded straight into a Tascam DA 30 DAT recorder and Pre mastered using TC Electronics Finalizer.

All tracks are presented in a continuous mix in order to tell a story and add continuity to the songs, a club feeling. That job was done using Ableton Live 8, the mix was again recorded onto DAT, no renderings, no dithering. The DAT mix was analog mastered using valve compressors and SSL original channel strips for maximum warmth.

Not recommended to be listened to on mp3.

It’s been hard work made with care, putting all my 20 years experience in electronic dance music to serve your ears and feet.

This is dance music… Play it loud!

Hope you enjoy it. 

Yours Hd Substance.

Hardware_Original Continuous Mix

BIO
1981 an eleven year old kid gets a gift, that is the New Life 7 inch by Depeche Mode, from that very moment the cold beats of drum machines and the alien sounds of synthesizers are the soundtrack of his life, until today.Living the eighties as a teenager, he absorbed every futuristic and dark sound as a fan, new wave, goth, proto EBM, classics like Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream ...1987 marks the switch from being passive to being active, he gets his first synth and drum machine combo as a christmas gift from their parents, a second hand Kawai Sx 240 keyboard and a Korg kpr 77 drum machine, and starts making his own noises and beats from scratch. Soon he formed his first music project, called Ballet Mecánico, with his two fellows Groof and Daniel Erbe.Heavily synth pop influenced in the beginning, their sound soon moves to darker territories after discovering Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb and later moving into proto rave sounds via the Frequencies album by LFO or the Yellow album by Orbital, as well as those lovely Detroit compilations released in the UK by Network records: Bio Rhythm and Retro techno among others. This project last until the mid nineties and left two vinyl releases.1995 is when his solo career as Hd Substance starts, releasing a track on the Electronic Generators compilation, a showcase of spanish techno pioneers at the moment, on Geometrik records, home of the seminal industrial cult band Esplendor Geométrico a stepping stone to his debut album Eleven on the also cult label Elefant Records.After more than 30 years in the business, more than 30 Ep’s and six full length albums, Hd Substance is still here as a full actor in the scene, writing, composing, remixing and playing electronic beats all over the globe, as live performer or as traditional beatmatching dj. An entire life devoted to electronic music in any form.

Generative Digital Series 05_Snippets

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