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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 414

created on 2023/11/05

Picture CREDIT:
(c) Cricket Raspet – some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Mixed for Shock the Algorithm

HOBOCOP

Your MegaMix

Someone Is Watching

For the 20th release at TDF Records, we give a warm welcome to Japanese producer Pitch Shift.
The first track of the EP, THRU, offers a super tight low end definition with dub accents, moving glitch artefacts and a tasty wet reverb that compliment a crystalline acid synth. PLAS is a timeless leftfield piece conveying nostalgic emotions over a massive square bass. THRU 2 also got this subtle dub flavour with endless chords, meticulous details and a powerful storytelling.
On remix duties, Wa5p signs a dancefloor interpretation of THRU, with powerful drums, old school chords and a wild acidulous intake.
This EP displays a really mature production on the Leftfield Techno spectrum, which will please the audiophiles as well as the ravers!

Production by Pitch Shift 
Mastering by Elliott Sebag (smartdsp.pro)

Pitch Shift - THRU

I've been trying to mix electronic sounds with acoustic drums for a while now and I'm finding it very challenging, not just from a sound mixing perspective, but a mood perspective. Mixing the two implies mixing genres and vibes, which has been throwing me for a loop.

Not sure this track is anything but an experiment, but I'm proud of it, so here it is.

Deep Techno, I guess

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: Korg iMS20, Synthmaster KV331, Loopoperator, Hammerhead, uKORG, Logic Pro X.

Samples: Modulated waveforms: Found TV audio snippets and themes, band rehearsal in the Royal Military Chapel -
 London, Illinois school band.

Cover Art: Detail from "Black Chapel" (2022) by Theater Gates. Constructed at the Serpentine Gallery.

Watch this Space (excerpt)

Kit: uKORG, Animoog, Fugue, Volca FM & nubass, Audulus, Mono/Poly, ODYSSEi, Hammerhead, Logic Pro X.

Acknowledgments:
1) SackJo - modified vocal stems from
 a) "The Haunted Hotel" [2013].
 b) "White Out (Shade of the Moon Mix)" [2009].
Both a) & b) - Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license (CC-BY).
2) Josh Woodward, "Follow the Road" [2014] - modulated samples, mostly vocals. 
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (4.0) license (CC-BY).
3) Rukmani Devi {1923-1978}, "Dushmantha Aho" taken from a 2017 compilation of single tracks - Public Domain from the Free Music Archive website.

Summer of '23

Incandescent - Omnipotent

I normally go for "light and melodic" in my music but here i've gone for "dark and percussive" for a change!! 

Music,composition,arrangment,mix and production ... Pablo
Retro-Tone Audio ©2023

The Dream Chaser

The Dream Chaser ................ Scary Mix ...............

An experiment in using a kick track with rhythmic percussion, Helen provided vocals  in a single take, after adding some vst based guitar, orchestral decoration and reverb this is what we finished up with.

Tripping The Light (holding on)

T-Pensées

Janine: voice, words, vocal melody https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

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on a frozen berm
in a carriage house
with a veil of gauze
on a frosted hearth
 
on a ledge of iron
in a blinding storm
on the peat and earth
of the winded moor
   
in the ink and lead
in the skin of men
in the final beats
of a trembling heart
 
it is quiet, shhh
oh but it is quiet 
 
it is quiet
oh it is quiet
 
on the rolling sea
in the folds of sails
in between the planks
on the salty rail
 
in the thorny vines
in the rumpled flowers
in a nest of crows
on a crumbling tower
 
in the swirl of smoke
from a dying fire
it is grey and green
and it is quiet
shhh

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image: Boudewijn Huysmans via Unslpash

It Is Quiet (with Janine Levinson)

Now I see them

Lofi Lowrider

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, Fugue Machine, Launchpad, Mono/Poly, Teraverse, Volca FM, Boss Waza Delay, TCP:Reich, Logic Pro X

Acknowledgments:
Cover Art: "Mathematical form: Surface 0005" (2004) by Hiroshi Sugimoto (rotated 90° about X-axis).

Ding Dong Express (excerpt)

I am honored that Maestro Rafael Serrano has arranged my composition
'A Peace of Love"
"Dedicated to Chris and Caroline".
Rafael Serrano: https://soundcloud.com/virtualoperahouse
Video by Pamela Illaes- Tatsuoka
©2023 Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka. All Rights Reserved.
Here is the video!
https://youtu.be/71726QGxwKk?si=EmX3pUENQd7Yg5Gj
This composition is on Pandora's radio. and Spotify!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ynv0wVHEpONieZfOYbJDe?si=vlrUFyjxTuG5vf5wzbBV5w
https://pandora.app.link/qMszjjvMhFb

A Peace of Love

TheReign (Instrumental)

TimeFlies[OtherDubXeum]

MOON

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14 MS2 tracks (Including Native and Xewton Forum Instruments).

1 Alchemy track.

DAW MS2
Hardware. iPad

Mix and sound. My car.

Cover by Ponciano (Pixabay).

My first synth external to MS2 was Alchemy. This software disappeared when the company was purchased by Apple, which introduced it in GB. Apple did not introduce the entire wonderful collection of sounds that the original, including this one that I used for this composition.

Thank you, as always, for your comments.

Paco.

Moon (Remaster)

Imagine a lonely oasis in the mountains of Oman. Wonderful scents and mysterious sounds surround you, a cool wind caresses you, the water channels ripple softly. Complete relaxation sets in and you surrender to your dreams ... my beautiful arabic moments.This is an attempt to translate the memories of my vacation in Oman in a sonic way.

DAW Cubase
Halion Sonic 7
Groove Agent SE
Retrologue 2
Padshop 2
Trip
CRE8 Poly Engine
CRE8 Wave Engine
Colors LoFi Tapes
Vibrant
Olympus Choir
Halion Symphonic Orchestra
Kontakt Play Series - Etheral Earth
Habitat by Domink Eulberg

100 bpm

Picture by Walkerssk on pixabay

arabic moments

See The Sun Arise

Blue

Acknowledgements :
Kit: uKorg, Fluss, Sampletank for piano and cello, Drumcomputer, Minimoog D, Logic Pro X.
Audio Samples:
1) "Debris on the Scioto River" (2014) by Kelly Latimore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 : CC-BY.
2) Modulated and mashed samples from the Choral Matins service at the Royal Military Chapel, London, February 2024.

Cover art: Detail from "Dream – Spontaneous Combustion" (2008) by Olaf Brzeski

Debris, filtered and mutated (ft. Kelly Latimore)

Kit: CS2x, PO-33, iMono/Poly, uKORG, iMini, Launchpad, Aparillo, Sonar X1...
Vocals: SpinningMerkaba, SackJo22
Cover Art: “Cave” by Antony Gormley

Acknowledgements: [Vocal samples]
- Hope Is (Like A River) by spinningmerkaba (copyright 2010) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/28031

- Lamadio Tiado Vocals by SackJo22 (copyright 2011) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/33441

- Indelible Choices -- Background Vocals by SackJo22 (copyright 2011) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/32703

- Untethered (BG Vox) by SackJo22 (copyright 2010) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SackJo22/27512

Hope is like a river (ft. SpinningMerkaba and SackJo22)

a.k.a.  -..-
Pre-releases and Experiments
- Final releases via https://linktr.ee/dashdotdotdash (Apple Music, Spotify)
Support creativity through Bandcamp.

- Artists: 
  (1) -..- , xperimental 
  (2) XLab3 , xperimental
  (3) Ding Dong , vintage electronica

- xmachines: Logic Korg Yamaha Orchid Moog Teenage Engineering iApps ccMixter freemusicarchive field recordings radio
- Header Image Acknowledgement: (my silhouette in front of) an excerpt from the video, 'Plato's Alley' by Charles Atlas (2008)
- Profile Image Acknowledgement: 'Switching Marys' by Mike Kelley (2004-2005)

- History: 
1980s - Casio VL-tone, Wasp synth, Moog Concertmate MG-1, 2 track compact cassette recordings: tape to tape mixing ... emergence of Ding Dong. Revelled in the limitations in lo-fi sonic pallette and student budget...
1990s - Upgraded to 4-track compact cassette recordings... Casio CZ1000.
2000s - finally onto DAWs & xmachines & budget soft/hard synthesis & quirkiness in the Hikari Monos......Cakewalk>Sonar>Logic