Chew BubbleGum And Kick Ass....

“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses”

Produced by Llydia Cross (2017)
Mixed by Llydia Cross (2024)

26.08.2017

https://soundcloud.com/naemgurl/unlimited sequel/remix kinda thing

illimitable love mix

This #SoundCloud upload isn't a song, but a sound test / demo I made many years ago. It's the Yamaha RY30 drum machine, the coolest one I ever owned IMO. These are several patterns with different sounds and effects. The effects you hear are due to altering the filters on it with the modulation wheel, which was one of it's best features. The pitch of the synth sounds were done with the wheel too, though you can do it through MIDI. I made this just for fun around 2000 or so. 🥁

The photo is one I took of the boilerplate test Apollo capsule found at the visitor's center at Meteor Crater, AZ. I thought the test / demo theme fit, and since this recording was never named, I've now given it the title "Boiler Plate 29". 🚀

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Boiler Plate 29

Boiler Plate 29: Please Keep Off ˒﹚) (Yamaha RY30 Drum Machine Demo / Sound Test, Recorded in 2000)

This was a fun piece from 2004, "nuFountain". Don't ask me why I gave it that name, but it's kinda cool so I just kept it. I did all of my recording live into a line-in to my PC, and used Sound Forge 5 to record and tinker with the finished track. I probably overdid it a little bit here, since it was a brand new toy for me at the time, but there's some cool effects thrown in there if you listen. 👂🏻

I used completely different instruments here than were used on anything else I've uploaded to SoundCloud so far. A Korg DS-8 was the main keyboard, also controlling a Yamaha TG300 midi module that adds the analog synth filter sound that makes up an important part of the sound (I love how it sounds in the final part of the song the best). I'm just playing whatever I'm feeling, along to the beat of a Yamaha QY20. 🎹

Like several of the things I've made over the years, there's a little bit of Ultravox inspired sound in there. Not the rhythm, but the lead + string sound reminds me of them. 🏦

The photo is a close up of an actual fountain ... though I think it looks like an oil painting! 🫟

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nuFountain

nuFountain ༄.° (Korg DS-8 Synthesizer + Yamaha TG300 + Yamaha QY20 Sequencer, Recorded in 2004)

Tonight's SoundCloud upload is more of a sample / demo / loop thing than a finished piece. A couple of years ago I made this little Western-sounding guitar loop and I think it sounds cool enough to add to the lot. It's looped 3 times, with the effects changing several times along the way. 

From 2023, here's "Prairie Wolf". 𓃦 

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Prairie Wolf

Prairie Wolf 𓃦 (Electric Guitar Looper Demo, Recorded 2023)

Years ago I burned a CD for my parents, who at the time were among the few people that had ever heard any of my music. I put some intermissions in there between some songs, just for fun. One of them, "Interlude" has already been posted. 

I'm not sure if this one even made the cut, but I had fun doing it all the same. It's a repeating phrase with changing sound effects and instruments in the background. It has that intermission feel, and does give the impression that the next piece will be coming up shortly ... 

I call it simply, "The Bridge". 𖣑

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The Bridge

The Bridge ⌒ (Yamaha QY70 Sequencer + Yamaha SU10 Sampler, Recorded in 2006)

https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/album/the-ridge

Foxcall (Blue sky days)

Talk about incidental music. What the Hell is going on here?  🫣 Who are they and where are they going? You fill in the blanks. 🤷‍♂️

I'm a hardware guy. I love keyboards & drum machines, the more knobs the better, and guitars & basses too ... the plugged in kind only please. But here's some software weirdness, "stutter", a bit of dark atmosphere for your movie. ⛈ Marking the passage of some folks on the way to their doom, or whatever other creepy scene you can imagine.

The photo is a small portion of one I took that included some very dark storm clouds.

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stutter

stutter ☣︎ (ABSYNTH Soft Synth, Recorded in 2008)

A short piece with a distorted guitar and some effects, made in 2023. I added some Pro-53 this year though (2025), using only a mouse. It's an announcement of sorts ... here I am! 

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Presence

Presence ⤷ (Electric Guitar + Pro-53 Soft Synth, Recorded in 2023)

If you only listen to ONE piece of my music, I hope that it's this one. ❤️

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This is the "biggest" sounding piece that I ever did with the Wavestation. From 1998, this is "All In". I think it might be the only track I've done where both hands had to stay on the keyboard at all times in order to keep things going. Varying the pressure would add or subtract wave sequences, which can lead to subtle or dramatic changes (I chose the latter here). 😁

This was all done in one take, with only a little bit of editing done later on when it was transferred to digital. I don't think I could reproduce it if I wanted to. And if somehow I could, I'd choose not to and keep it just as it is. 🙏 

Goodnight 🕊

All In

All In ꩜ (Korg Wavestation EX Synthesizer, Recorded to Tape in 1998)

Close Your Eyes
Sheffield UK
Established 2015

26.08.2017

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