Getting creative in the lab with a bunch of gorgeous classic 1960s Brüel & Kjær lab gear I have restored and modified over the years for creative use in the recording studio at Hideaway Studio...

I discovered and fell in love with the 1960s Brüel & Kjær lab gear around 10 years ago and ended up accumulating over 70 of these gorgeous beasts and, during my exploration of them, it seems a few of my friends and clients have since caught the obsession too!

All Recordings Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2014 - 2022.

Brüel & Kjær - Le laboratoire Créatif...

From Greystar ... "Aphex Twin's seminal work, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, came out 32 years ago today.

This is a passion project commemorating this great work. Over 40 artists have come together to put forth their unique versions, remixes, covers, reworks, and recreations of these tracks!

This project has a bit of history. It has been in the works since before 2016.

Before this Bandcamp page existed, I was involved in a few "Aphex Twin Tribute compilations" organized on the /r/aphextwin subreddit. Eventually, folks decided to tackle covering the entirety of Selected Ambient Works 85-92. This culminated in "Selected Ambient Covers 2016", a soundcloud-exclusive release that fell short of its lofty goal: not all tracks were covered, and some of the tracks were unfinished. Since then, I've led projects covering Selected Ambient Works Vol. II, ...I Care Because You Do, and Drukqs, among others, all seemingly more ambitious than the last! Having met so many new talented artists from all of these projects, it felt like the right time to return to SAW85-92 and do it justice.

Anyways, I'm a bit tired, I might write more here later ... there's a few tracks missing from CD #2, marked as "[COMING SOON]". They'll be ready in time for the physical CD, but needed a lil extra time to be finished before this digital release. They'll be added here in post, so keep an eye out! Follow this page if you want to be notified of when they're added. I heard a snippet of WHRK's Hedphelym Remix and it's very very good, you won't wanna miss it.

Alright, that's all from me for now. Thanks for reading!"

- Greystar 11/9/24 
credits
released November 9, 2024

Mastered & Organized by Greystar.

Artwork by Windman and Greystar.

Artwork assets contributed by a bunch of people from Reddit & several of the musicians involved!

SUPPORT THE MUSICIANS...
Dead Again - kdnx-dead-again.bandcamp.com
Sigmatus - wxyz.bandcamp.com
Leovillads - bandcamp.com/leovillads
Greystar - greystarmusic.com
Doll Bones - sephabeats.bandcamp.com
PNCKS - yonef.bandcamp.com
Lee - leeboiacid.bandcamp.com
matthew909 - www.instagram.com/matttthew909/
Mause - mausebrighton.bandcamp.com
Diürn - www.diürn.com
Sonsique - sonsique.bandcamp.com
Raqoon - raqoon.bandcamp.com
Windman - windman.bandcamp.com
M-Corp - m-corp.bandcamp.com
DGP - ???
Enry - enry027uke.bandcamp.com -- NEW ALBUM, CHECK IT OUT!
WHRK - whrikk.bandcamp.com
DanyaIrwing - irwing.bandcamp.com
Trilobot - trilobot.bandcamp.com
Mystic Sky Zone - ???
Opus v84 - opusv84.bandcamp.com
Skywalker14 - ???

SPECIAL THANKS

... to Stavorius, for organizing the original Selected Ambient Covers 2016 album.

... to Paul Nicholson aka NUMBER 3, designer of the Aphex Twin Logo

...to all the folks who contributed to the album artwork! Every member submitted their own version of the Aphex Twin logo which was then layered to create the final product.

alusé
astrokomrad
BoweryElectric2001
British-Four
ButtonsAndFloof
CatMoo
Emuoo1
Enry
Ferrarinu
Kirito_93_apanyan
kory
Leovillads
moralbankholeinwall
Nerdyhedgehog_NerdyH
Ok_Feeling_8521
pancakes
panman
pr0xladno
aiqphex
sonsique
SystemOfADown4Life
Windman
wyatt

... To Richard D. James
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Selected Ambient Reworks 16​-​24

Heliosphan (lee's TR Drums Re-Hash)

https://aduaine.bandcamp.com/album/system-collapse

Aduaine starts off 2025 with a massive 16 track compilation that showcases a wide ranging sonic palette of electronic sounds from braindance to downbeat breaks to dub techno and everything in between. Aduaine regulars are featured, as are numerous other local synth maestros from Ireland. In addition some of our favourite artists and friends of the label from around the globe have come on board, each selected for their own unique style to complete this ambitious release.

Thanks to all the artists - Sadnoise, Lerosa, JP8080, CH415, Hex Tulpa, Human Behind Pluto, Brendon Moeller, Mause, Latchwork, Gesceap, Crispy Jason, Sleep Underwriter, cable.percussion, ZOiD, Peter Sweeney and Flathan

Available on tape cassette for 9 earth tokens. Shipping starts at the end of February.

Dedicated to the memory of JP8080, Árni Grétar.

Thanks for your continued support!

System Collapse

The Red Eye

From "Dubio", releasing on march 24th: https://kettel.bandcamp.com/album/dubio

Arpa Ingrata

New album - ƒαtherhood - https://midievil-records.bandcamp.com/album/therhood

Fatherhood

bug (zeezee mix)

joyspell II [cut]

Single taken from my forthcoming album 'Quiet Pieces', released on 30 May 2025
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-pieces

PRE-ORDER ALBUM

Following a dream

a bounce of some live tracks i made this year, played at Holma Sonika 2025 

live set 2025

Yes it's that (2017)

sixthCarnal

A gorgeous 1960s Brüel & Kjær type 2112 all tube stepped 1/3rd Octave band pass filter in action shortly after being returned to life at Hideaway Studio and modified for creative studio use.  The filter is simply being fed with a single sustained Solina like string pad and a series of quite haunting harmonically related pads result as the frequency control is moved between 5 different settings.  The filter has around 60dB per octave slopes. The resulting audio sounds very different to the original source material!

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

1960s Brüel & Kjaer type 2112 in Action - Harmonic Pads

Molco

Testing out a gorgeous 1964 all tube/valve Brüel & Kjær type 1013 Beat Frequency Oscillator just after being returned to life for the first time in decades at Hideaway Studio.  The Type 1013 is a close relative to the infamous "Wobbulator" at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop put to good effect by Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire et al during the 1960s.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2018.

1964 Brüel & Kjaer type 1013 Tube BFO "Wobbulator" Test

A pair of gorgeous 1968 Brüel & Kjær type 2107 all tube swept band pass filters originally built for laboratory use in action following restoration and modification for creative studio use by Dani Wilson at Hideaway Studio. Originally designed for frequency analysis, these majestic hand cranked beasts can achieve selective audio filtering up to 50dB/octave in tube regenerative circuits covering the full audio spectrum split over 6 frequency bands with mechanical auto-selection between them.

This test recording was made simply by firing a narrow pulse wave of approx 400Hz to one 2107 and approx 800Hz to the other recording from them as a stereo pair whilst hand cranking the tuning controls with the filters set to over 45dB/oct.  Both units were recorded directly dry with no added effects - just pure vintage tube goodness in action!

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

1968 Brüel & Kjaer type 2107: Pulse Sweepers

Made by firing a slow evolving patch from a Yamaha TX802 into a Brüel & Kjær type 1621 band pass filter set to 3% selectivity mode and several hand cranked filter sweeps recorded and overdubbed.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

Brüel & Kjaer type 1621: Spectral Rising

Made by feeding a single sustained chord played from a Studio Electronics Omega 8 into a classic Brüel & Kjaer type 2113 L/C band-pass resonator bank, sampled through 21 different filter settings, and then randomly sequenced live into a 1969 Dolby A301 for some multi-band compressed magic!...

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio

Brüel & Kjaer type 2113: Random Resonations...

100% synthesized water effects made by feeding some randomised FM bell like sounds from an Orla DSE24 and pink noise from a Bruel & Kjaer type 1405 fed hot via a tube mixer into a gorgeous 1965 Bruel & Kjaer type 1612 Band Pass Filter Set.   Around 60 samples were captured with the filter set to each of the 3rd Octave frequency settings and then loaded across the keyboard and auditioned live in various combinations....

The classic Bruel & Kjaer Band Pass Filter Sets such as the type 1615, 1612, 2112 and 2113 are made up of banks of very high quality passive L/C resonators and are extremely selective with very high Q factors and have a sound all of their own!  There are few studio filters that could come close to achieving the same effect.
 
Sound Design & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2020.

1965 Brüel & Kjaer type 1612: Waterwerks (SFX With Lab Gear)

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

1960s Brüel & Kjaer type 2112 in Action - Harmonic Pads

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