Here's an excerpt of a live improv from FFS II Synth Jam 2022 - Birthday. Recorded at FFS II on 07/30/22.

Recorded after a dinner break (hence the song title), we wasted no time in working off our meal.  The track features Ttam Troll providing a sumptuous synth bass part on the Moog Minimoog Model D, mC2p4 effervescently refluxing forwards, backwards, and bi-directional audio collage samples on the Ensoniq EPS, and Steve O's delectable synth leads on the Korg Z1, Studiologic Sledge, and Kawai K5000S.

Imbued Vagary - Post Roast Beef Sandwich

Demo track for dnb / break influenced house / techno 6.12.14

Oval Peaches

This is the Blue Eyed Christ cover of the Gary Glitter Hit "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah), also made famous by Joan Jett.  The BEC version is much more true to the Joan Jett version but modernized with big drums, huge guitars, heavy synths, and a dose of noise to give it the Blue Eyed Christ sound

Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)

The Sanity Assasin

November Renegade

This is the first release of new/rare/unreleased tracks in 14 years!

Songs Left After The Nod (Vol. 1)

Runner

Master Beat (Bitchslap Mix)

Implicit Differentiation demo

Roland R-8
Kawai R-100
Yamaha DX7mkII

Implicit Differentiation

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We came up with this song parody of Louie Louie while Scott (MC2P4) was working for Donnelley Directory Talking Yellow Pages in the Summer of 1991. Every year they would have an employee awards ceremony called the Ruby Awards. At the ceremony, they would serve breakfast and have drawings for prizes but the main purpose was to recognize outstanding work by employees during the past year. A Ruby Award was the honor that was given to each of the outstanding employees.

Scott thought that they needed a theme song for the awards ceremony so he told them that he was going to write one. They encouraged him to do so but we're sure that they never really expected him to deliver one.

Scott came back to the studio and told me what he had promised to do. He said that he'd already started to work on lyrics for it and had based them on the tune Louie Louie. He titled his song "Ruby Ruby". Though I was apprehensive about doing a parody of a popular song and, of course, thought that it was "beneath" us, we agreed that it could be fun to do if we did it in an "Any Questions?" way. So, we asked LTJTHC (Tim Harrell) to help us pull it off and away we went.

The recording session was quick and fun. For drums, LTJTHC played his Yamaha DD-5 which was MIDIed to my E-mu Pro/Cussion. I pulled out my Rickenbacker 4003 bass, which had been lying dormant since I was mainly playing synths by this point, and ran it through a nice distortion patch on my Korg A3. We recorded our tracks live to a Tascam 38 1/2" 8-track reel-to-reel machine that we had purchased from Larry Lee Fiber. I only have one version of Ruby Ruby on tape so, after rehearsing, I assume it only took us one take to record the drums and bass. I dialed in one of my signature A3 vocal effects for Scott and he sang his parody lyrics. We mixed it down and mastered it to cassette (this is before CD-R recording was common/affordable) and it was done.

Scott took the cassette in to work and, even without hearing it, his bosses said they'd use it for the awards ceremony. As the ceremony started, the Ruby Award Princess wearing her white dress, high heels, tiara, and carrying a Ruby scepter hit the catwalk. Our song, Any Questions? - Ruby Ruby, began to play and the employees erupted with applause for both the princess and our song.

Not too bad for a song parody! Check it out...

Ruby Ruby

Any Questions? - Ruby Ruby

Imbued Vagary - Noise 2

Release Notes:
Imbued Vagary is no stranger to brutal electronics. This second installment of extreme music in the Noise series showcases the harsher side of our Floating Fish Studios Synth Jam live improv sessions and live concert performances. Synthesis, sampling, and special effects meld together to form these harsh and noisy sonic experiments. 

As we warned on the first Noise release, “Hold on… This ride gets bumpy!”

Credits:
releases February 26, 2021 

The Imbued Vagary Collective 2021: 
Dan “The Man” 
Guillermo Pizarro 
Ho Magos 
James Krabiel 
LTJTHC 
Mary Mary 
mC2p4 
Paul Doppelganga 
Steve O Man 
Thee Sub One Genius 
Ttam Troll 

The Imbued Vagary Live Infiltration Unit (Tracks 6 and 7): 
mC2p4 - Moog Sonic Six/Moog Model 15 (iOS) 
Ttam Troll - Korg MS-10/Korg Monotron/Moog Werkstatt-01/Ensoniq EPS 

Tracks 1-5 live improvisations performed and recorded by Imbued Vagary at Floating Fish Studios and Floating Fish Studios II; Track 6 recorded live at Commun Circuit Noise Festival 2015 12.19.15; Track 7 recorded live at Seven1878 Celebration 2017 07.22.17 

Mastered by Tommy T Rapisardi at DSBP Records 

Copyright ©2021 Floating Fish Music

Imbued Vagary - The Conquistador

i like to play bass and modular synthesizers. 
i enjoy mathematics and birds.

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