Name: Oceandrift - 2011 by kelp7
Duration: 4 min 17 s
Description: This is the 1st track in the chain for the Ninja Remix Chain project. To be remixed by algo. This is a pre-release teaser before the main event sometime in March. (And is unmastered)

great track!! love the uderwaterfeel of this one!

Fantastic deep and mystic atmosphere. Very well done!

I can imagine someone rowing through a foggy fjord. Very accomplished ambient soundscape. The metallic sounds put me in mind of 'On Land'.

Beautiful atmosphere and use of sonic textures. Great work!

I second the previous comment! Great piece

@tesal8: and i love that that is what you made of the sounds :)

Heaven and Earth Magic Feature

Window Water Baby Moving

It started, as it so often does, with two old friends hanging out. 

John Shima and C P Smith were joking around one evening in their home city of Sheffield. At some point, Smith challenged Shima that, if the latter could produce a record using nothing more than a small modular synth setup, then Smith would release it on his Central Processing Unit label. As heads will know, while Shima has drops on imprints like FireScope and Subwax Excursions to his name, he had never previously released anything via CPU. Shima accepted, and thus we now have his CPU debut, the four-track EP CPU Modular 1.

The specific setup that Shima worked with for these tracks was Smith’s Doepfer A-100P6 Suitcase, a small but mighty combination of modules and programmers. It’s no surprise that Shima was able to familiarise himself with the equipment in double-quick time - after all, Shima was an early adopter of the Eurorack modular format back in the day. What emerged from the CPU Modular 1 sessions was a quartet of devastatingly effective DJ tools, mid-set rollers which will get the dance moving something crazy.

Opener ‘003’ kicks the EP off as it means to go on. There’s something at once stiff-necked and buoyant about the rhythms here, all thwacking Roland tones and snares which crack like someone whipping a length of sheet metal. While the beat barrels unyieldingly onwards, the programming in the tuned modulars is more exploratory and even trippy, full of delay-laced bleeps and flighty rhythmic motifs. It comes together for a cracking mix in the vein of artists like Jerome Hill and London Modular Alliance. Second A-side cut ‘010’ is no different, the street-beat groove and grumbling low-ends underpinning all manner of modular wizardry.

CPU Modular 1 is really timeless stuff, a set of percussion-heavy, future-focussed beats which recalls Smith’s own CPU drop ‘DJ Tools Vol.1 - 808 Tracks’. ‘011’ kicks of CPU Modular 1’s second-half with a dose of Drexciyan dystopia, playing an atonal loop off of an insistent bass wiggle and neurotic hi-hats. Even when Shima tightens or slackens the modulars here, ‘011’ remains unyielding, a dose of pure ‘Wip3out’ energy that you could happily groove to all day long. The EP closes out with ‘005’, a gnarled, gurgling production which still retains the dancefloor punch of the rest of the record.

For his Central Processing Unit debut, John Shima was tasked to produce four tracks using a single small modular setup. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of this seasoned machine-funk pro, Shima aced the assignment.

RIYL: Jerome Hill, London Modular Alliance, Matt Whitehead

CPU Modular 1

John Shima - CPU Modular 1

Reclaim Your City 499 | Kerrie (Manchester)

Hopping on board the RYC steamboat this week is Manchester’s one and only Kerrie. The Irish-born jockey and producer has printed her name in capital letters in today's techno landscape through a choice debut platter for Don’t Be Afraid, “Before Calm”, followed by a string of equally solid EPs for Blueprint Records, Symbolism and Cultivated Electronics, plus her own Dark Machine Funk outlet. Holding the reins for two hours of gripping floor dynamics and hypnotic mind-games, Kerrie harnesses the winds of destruction to stunning effect as she takes us places - from hellish circles to heavenly harbours in the sky, via mazy corridors of hard-edged audio brutalism that’ll be sure to test your mental balance every which way.  

Soundcloud: bit.ly/kerrie_sc
Facebook: bit.ly/kerrie_fb
Instagram: bit.ly/kerrie_ig
Discogs: bit.ly/kerrie_dc
Bandcamp: bit.ly/kerrie_bc
Resident Advisor: bit.ly/kerrie_ra

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 499 | Kerrie

Grime/Ambient Remix of Ron Trent - Altered States

ReStates

This is the 1st track in the chain for the Ninja Remix Chain project. To be remixed by algo. This is a pre-release teaser before the main event sometime in March. (And is unmastered)


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Oceandrift - 2011

A dark electronic synth track in the vein of an early 80's Horror movie. 

All sounds played on a Prophet 6 Synth. 

Drums from a TR-09.

1982

A short synth test. 

Synths= Prophet 6, Roland JD-990, Korg Kronos.

Low Cycles

May 4th - John Shima @ Eigor Studios, Leeds 
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/593249747688242/

Ahead of our next party, John has put together a superb hour of music to soundtrack the journey to the cosmos. With a singular production style and a detailed knowledge of analogue synthesis, Shima has crafted his own niche in the scene alongside other great producers such as Steve Rutter and Derek Carr. With a production workrate most others could only dream of, he champions a wonderful sound that stylistically sits perfectly between old Sheffield bleep and emotional Detroit techno. His DJ sets cover everything from acid house, dub techno and electro and are a perfect reflection of what we love at On Ro.

Tickets May 4th Leeds

Rotation 011: John Shima

SIGMA

Question why

“Miss Toulouse had never cared for the jade statue she had acquired from her former husband, and through much deliberation she had never quite succeeded in breaking it with her feather duster.” 
~ excerpt from the bestseller ‘Nite Passion’ by Yung Graymo.


Ambidonk Repair Specialists Vol II is the feather duster of life’s successes. 
Float along rivers of time, bask in the embers of yesterday and meet your true self at the mirror of tomorrow.

Embedded in the music is a cure-all sonic tonic for psychosomatic imbalance, psychic dissonance, human biocomputer errors, retrieval of lost identity, and free access to Meta Positioning System® 

Please use responsibly.

Full track list: http://bit.do/arsii-list

Recorded at Geo Quest, February 2019.
Pixels www.instagram.com/samuel.tomsky

Shouts to @alliance-upholstery and @good-block for the megabytes!

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Ambidonk Repair Specialists Vol II

Kelp is an ambient/IDM/techno/experimental project from the UK begun in 1998 with influences rooted in early acid and techno released by labels such as B12, A.R.T., Djax-Up-Beats, Sounds Never Seen, +8 Records, Eevolute, Rephlex and Rising High Records. Currently Kelp is releasing music via Myuzyk Netlabel and contributing regularly to 64-bar-music

Oceandrift - 2011

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