Name: Virus:Octa by honer
Duration: 2 min 14 s
Description: ...just some experimentation with my remaining gear, and some new additions. Elektron Octatrack, Access Virus TI and Folktek Alter X/Y

Tweak VCO303 and VCF303

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Lawless

Two (Number Series)

...just some experimentation with my remaining gear, and some new additions. Elektron Octatrack, Access Virus TI and Folktek Alter X/Y

Virus:Octa

By the end of the 90's, drum & bass was a hard & desolate place. Apart from some of the intelligent D&B still lurking, much of the music you heard out had a heavy, minimal edge to it. I was playing a lot of dark basement sets, dividing them between ragga jungle that was still barely around by the latter half of the decade, and this nasty business. It also had a nice fit with hip-hop, and I would frequently mix the two in sets.

Brain Droid (mix) 1999

quick bit of bass to show the Yamaha PB-1 Thumb profile - free on Rig Manager and the Kemper facebook page

Yamaha PB - 1

pre-s358 : music for transit (1997)

I originally had an idea of macroscopic sound based on a book. I titled this demo on a DAT and mailed it to 12k. I don't think it had any relation to 12k's future "microscopic" direction, which made more sense than mine anyway. Luckily, Taylor's guidance helped me form the direction of what became shuttle358 with my following releases.

©dan abrams

Pre-s358 - macroscopic sound (12k demo, 1998)

From the album 'Pacifica' on Silent Season Records

Snow Dub

track from the Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band album (Anticipate, 2008)

Displacement

honer is an Edmonton born and Vancouver based electronic musician who has been composing minimal electronic music for more than 10 years.
	The inspiration for a majority of their composition comes from their natural surroundings especially nature and the sounds from it. honer's music is an amalgamation of found and sampled sounds that are later sonically altered to ones created on a variety of synthesizers. At times they can spend several months perfecting one sound in a particular arrangement. The purpose of spending so much time to create sounds in honer's words is to ".... exploit each part of a sound to draw on all of it's characteristics and emotion." 
	Venues have ranged from record stores (Listen records and Megatunes), cafe's (naked cyber), halls (children of Iraq relief fundraiser, Mead hall), art galleries, modern dance performances (citie ballet), and even The Alberta Legislature Grounds (w/ Clinker). honer also was apart of the development and promotion for “Warm Fuzzy” held in December of 2009 at The Azimuth Theatre in Edmonton. It was a multi-disciplinary evening including, music, visual projections and photography. They have also composed for convergence contemporary dance showcase.
     honer's first experience with electronic music came when they first purchased an album by Canadian industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy. Ever since that time honer has been drawn to the infinite sonic possibilities that electronic music has to offer. 
	As their experiments in electronic music has evolved his influences have as well.  They have recently started to rebuild their studio after years of inactivity and life interferences.
	Through electronic music honer hopes to reveal that there is complexity in minimalism and beauty in simplicity. 
	Thank you for being you and for listening.

Virus:Octa

honer

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