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All this year, KEXP is celebrating our 50th anniversary. Each week, we’re picking a year from the last half-century to remember that moment in music. This week, we’re celebrating the year 1984. KEXP’s Roddy Nikpour takes us through his complicated affection for the altruistic single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

50 Years of Music: 1984 – Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?'

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Out (Jupiter remix)

FIGURE - This is Halloween (Drumstep Edit)
Borgore, Wodd - Sweet Dreams (VIP) 
Macpro - The Purge Siren Dubstep
Kubi & Captain Jack - Stranger Things (Remix) 
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Steve Aoki Midnight Hour Remix) 
Chico Rose, 71 Digits - Somebody's Watching Me 
KSHMR, B3nte, Badjack - The Spook Returns
KAAZE & Maddix - People Are Strange (Festival Mix)
Figure - BeetleJuice 
Softmal & Nytron & Avrupts & Dot Larissa - Ghostbusters (Tech House Remix)
Tubular Bells - Halloween
Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons
Richard O'Brien - The Time Warp

Meowl O Ween

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Rome Avenue

GPU Panic - Rome Avenue

Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

Welcome to a new year of Disquiet Junto communal music projects. This week’s project is as follows. It’s the same project we’ve begun each year with since the very first Junto project, way back in January 2012. The project is, per tradition, just this one step:

Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

Track notes:

Happy new year all! 

For this year's ice challenge, I put about ten ice cubes in a large  wine glass and filled it with water. I placed an Aquarian hydrophone into it and routed it into my little modular skiff, using an ohcd LFO,  DLD(stereo delay) and Morphagene module.

Recently I'd been playing around with Karpus-Strong delay effects on the DLD, which is in essence 'resonance feedback', which is useful for generating plucked string sort of sounds from an incoming signal.

One of the things I like about experimenting with resonance feedback is how very transient and discrete sounds can become powerful (and unpredictable) impulses when used in conjunction with the effect.

With an ultra-short delay and high feedback threshold set on the stereo delay module, I rattled the ice in the glass and recorded the very end of the tail of the rattle to the Morphagene and used a couple of LFOs to control the CV of the sample's grain and morphology. 

Because the sample captures the tail-end of the rattle, there's only a little movement interspersed with very discrete crackles, squeaks and pops.  

For recording this track, the dry/wet of the Morphagene was set to 50/50 so that the ongoing 'quiet' action within the glass is heard in conjunction with the granulated sample. At a couple of points, this develops dramatically, with some incidental ice movement, followed by a large crack. The final part involved me turning the Morphagene mix to 100% wet and attempting to break the sample apart, so that only vague traces of the original sample recording can be heard.

[Disquiet_Junto_0575] Ice Murmur

JOINTS VOL. 2 …. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, COWORKERS, PETS, AND DEAD RELATIVES …. MANY THANKS TO JEFF, BRANDON, AND AMERICA’S BACKWARDS LEGAL SYSTEM FOR MAKING THIS PROJECT POSSIBLE. ALL TRACKS MADE ON SP404. 

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rollup 5:01
linez 6:48
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momnt’fclaritee 9:14
blüdreem 9:44
biiigmoney 10:57
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