lo-fi ROBOT Boy's Musical Sketchbook.

A collection of rough tracks, works-in-progress, and music ideas for future tracks. An aural scrapbook.

Sketches from the ROBOT Lab

A slightly jazzy, wee bit loopy, synthwave-esque, instrumental hip-hop jam brought to you from the deck of the Skeena Queen.

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* No narwals were harmed in the making of this track.

Instrumental

Ferry Jam no.1

Ferry Jam No.1

Gnarly Narwhals are a little like lo-fi ROBOTs !

Just a bit of good ol' fashion hardware acid house.

Analogue Drums: Pearl DRX-1 (Drum-X)
Hand Claps: Roland HC-2
Rhythmic Baseline: Roland JUNO-6
Squishy Baseline; Roland JV-35
Pads and Strings: Roland D-50
Sequencer: Arturia BEATSTEP Pro
Caffeine:  Extra-strong Coffee!

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Liquid Zoo

Gnarly Narwhal - Part 1

A little "lo-fi acid house nobody-reads-this DAW-less" jam.

Novation Bass Station
Korg Volca Bass
Pearl DRX-1
Roland D-50
Arturia Beatstep Pro

NOTES No.1

NOTES No.1 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

Another late-night synth jam, recorded dry and archived here.

This is a little chord sequence I was banging out on the piano for the last few days. It began to sound like it could be a good synth-pop tune so I put together a very rough cut so I wouldn't lose the idea. I'll go back and rework it a bit and it may end up on my next album.

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Cheers!
LRB

NOTES No.2

NOTES No.2 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

Synth Sunday!
Messing around with my "new" Novation Bass station plus my trusty ol' Roland D-50 and JV-35. Very rough track that may be massaged into part of the upcoming Liquid Zoo album.

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sketches from the ROBOT Lab

NOTES No.3 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

Tangerine Dream-inspired sequence produced using a Novation Bass Station, Roland D-50 and Moog MG-1. We're "all vintage, all the time" here at the ROBOT Lab. Well, except when were not. Anyway...

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NOTES - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

NOTES No.4 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

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NOTES No.5 came about one rainy Sunday afternoon while I was testing out a newly acquired Novation Bass Station. I sequenced a simple baseline on the JUNO-106 and then started experimenting with lead sounds. I added 808 drum samples from a Roland JV-35, started playing chords with cheesy choir samples and before long I had the makings of a little synth-pop ditty.

NOTES - Sketches from the ROBOT Labs

NOTES No.5 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

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Sweet Dreams (are made of synths)began with the idea to re-imagine the famous Eurythmics song. Like all the "Notes" tracks this is a work in progress.

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NOTES - Sketches from the Robot Labs

SWEET DREAMS (are made of synths)

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Yet another orphan track from the "NOTES - Sketches from the ROBOT Labs" series. Like it's fellows this is a work in progress, a quick sketch to get some ideas down so I can come back to them later if I feel so inspired. Constructive criticism  is appreciated and encouraged.

For the synth nerds...

This track was sequenced using an antique copy of Cakewalk Pro from 1991 running on an equally ancient Windows 95 PC. The synthesizers and drum machines were all hardware, mostly vintage and include the following:

Roland JUNO-106, alpha JUNO, D-50 & JV-35
Korg Volca Beats & Microkorg
Novation Bass Station
Realistic (Moog) MG-1
Yamaha FB-01
Alesis Microverb III
NU-X Phaser Core

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Sketches from the ROBOT Labs

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Experimental Electronica and Synthesizer Cheese.  lo-fi ROBOT Boy makes music using hardware synthesizers, sequencers & drum machines collected from flea markets, yard sales, and the dusty back rooms of music shops. Everything has knobs, sliders & smells like ozone. VSTs and blue LEDs be damned!

Artist with Pink Dolphin Music Ltd.

Sketches from the ROBOT Lab

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