I love drones. I have an idea why it was imprinted (as a child, my landlord used to play bagpipes, radiator and (later) a/c  hiss; 60 Hz hum; later Sunn O))), Metal Machine Music, Glenn Branca, et al.). But I am wondering what makes what many people (at least in North America, I can't speak adequately to older and other cultures)  might find monotonous, terribly intriguing. In the case of this, there is the feedback, which I love without the drone aspect. It's like the music the wind would make with the right configuration of rocks and caves.Although this comment will appear early on, I'm 2/3 of the way through the piece because I am blathering, yet utterly entranced.

Thrust It Forward

I created this album of instrumental electronic music for the February 2023 RPM Challenge. I had fun making it.

SomeWhy

Cherry Red

Personnel: 
2 x Subharmonicon
1 x System 55
1 x Arturia Mini V
1 x Soundtoys Echoboy
Korg Electribe
Logic Audio
PM Interview about aggressive cows

With My Head In My Hands

This instrumental album is an imaginary soundtrack for a film that does not exist. I recorded it using Logic Pro and various plug-ins. I created the front and back covers using Craiyon and Pixelmator.

ElseWhen

ExoGenesis

Cloudy Days

RPM Challenge 2024

One single track created on the NDLR.  The output of that recording, an organ-like synth tone was then layered 3 -4 times, similar to what eno did with music for airports.  The layered notes collide and create accidental chords as the piece moves forwards

Perhaps that would have been a better title?  (Accidental Chords)

Kate Will Work From Bed

RPM Challenge 2024

Hard to believe that this one started life as a NDLR track

I might re-do this with some vocals

The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125) or High Speed Train (HST) is a diesel-powered high-speed passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982. 

A total of 95 sets were produced, each comprising two Class 43 power cars, one at each end, and a rake of seven or eight Mark 3 coaches. 

The name is derived from its top operational speed of 125 mph (201 km/h)

Intercity 125

LITTLE
OLD
SCRUFFY
CAIRN
TERRIER
GENTLE
LOYAL
SLEEPING
TEARS
MISSED

What's Going On Inside Her Head?

IT TOOK TWO MINUTES

Oh you

A song about obsession

"You should be able to advertise 'Man seeks position as sofa for
large lady' and get lots of sensible replies"

Brian Eno (A Year With Swollen Appendices - 1996) 

He watches as she puts her make up on
She paints a picture in his head
Namio Loves Women
Namio Loves Them All
She paints a picture in his head
He looks up to her
She paints a picture in his head
She looks down to him
Namio
She'll make him do anything for her
He looks at her black hair
Namio Loves Women
He looks Up to her
She looks down at him
She sits down on him
He sits down on the chair
He looks up to her
She looks down at him
She sits down on him
Namio Loves Women
Namio Loves Her
Namio Loves Women
Namio Loves them all
He sees her long black hair
He wants to touch her hair
But all he sees is her
Long Black Hair
She paints a picture in his head
She paints a picture in his head

Reprise

He's a thing to her
She's everything to him
He'll do anything for her
He's a thing to her

Namio Loves Women

This track was created using an analog monophonic synthesizer as the sound input into a four channel mixer. The headphone output from the mixer was fed back into itself with a delay unit in the chain, creating harmonic overtones which were manipulated through level and eq adjustments. The line output from the mixer was run through another delay unit that added additional movement to the sound.
Many thanks to Kato Hideki for mastering this release.
Cover artwork is by Lisa Beck - Untitled, 2012; ink on on Duralar, 14x17 inches (36x43cm)
available as a free download at:
https://kevinbudjones.bandcamp.com/

drone1sp - remastered by Kato Hideki

Kevin Bud Jones

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