OP-Z & PO Songs

Awesomeness ;)

A chronological voyage through my favourite things I've made in the last few months since beginning this journey into electronic music.

It's certainly a pretty eclectic mix of weirdness but variety is indeed the spice of life.

Loop's Chronological Journey Of Ever-Increasing Insanity

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Mastered Tracks

A track I made to make my girlfriend laugh as she's a huge fan of The Office.

Bankruptcy!

My personal favourite thing I've made on the OP-1 even if it is loose, hence the name.

I basically had to layer live takes one by one to make this work.

It's a cute Yoshi's Island kind of lullaby vibe.

The Loosey Goosey

Another sample jam track.

Just trying to get the hang of live mixing tracks and playing samples live.

At some point I will go back and actually produce these as tracks with a structure and some editing.

I would like to be able to do effects, mute groups and live sampling at the same time but I don't know how to perform such wizardry on the OP-Z at this time.

Just Keep Swimming

Fun simple groove. Just a draft until I tidy up the parts and the sounds, write a bridge, fix the melody, etc. etc. 

But the core framework of the thing is there.

[July 2020: Since it's a favourite of my girlfriend I threw some compression and EQ on it and took out the popping noise at the end of the track.

Still needs the parts to be redone as the quantize is off and doesn't account for the higher resolution in later firmware patches.]

Movin' The Goo

OK so it technically never touched a DAW (unless you count Audacity) but like... it's a Son Montuno programmed electronically so my pun is awesome.

Son-In-DAW

A little jam whipped up between sessions driving the uber.

Slinkstep

First time recording the Deluge straight to its internal storage.

Rough attempt at a live drone-based song. 

I'll definitely have another pass at it when I have a better idea how this thing works. Very much coming to grips with it.

Drone Strike

PO-32 Jam track feat. Cuckoo's drumkit Jaleco

Pony Jam

Boots On The Ground - Feet In The Air

First successful attempt at laying something down without any catastrophic fuckups but certainly lots of mistakes were made and I'm hoping by uploading this and then listening back to it I'll be suitably motivated to take more passes at it in the coming days.

Frontsies On The Strugglebus

OP-1 jam.

Simple stacked loops.
Bass & Drums = 2 Bars
Keys = 4 Bars
Filter Sweep = 6 Bars

Live take of Flute with inordinate amounts of delay over the top.

The Flute Of Repentance

A little tribute to my jazz banjo playing Uncle Norm who was known for being the Smiling Banjo Man.

Whipped up in about 10 minutes so is definitely a speedtune. 
No sequencer used and no edits.

Smilin' Norm

A Bembe (meaning Blade) is an Afro 6/8 rhythm which is good.

This is a little backing track I whipped up and attempted to blow over with OP-1's tiny whackass keyboard.

Bembe Busking Burning Brightly Bringing Beach Babes @ Brighton

Another quick throw together. 

1. Laid down a breakbeat.

2. Main arp track as an improv that lasted 100 bars. 

3. Overdubbed a bass part with some live effects and movement. 

4. Overdubbed the first melodic arp. 

5. Hit record and live improved the secondary melody that comes in after the first bridge.

It has tiny wings, but cannot fly.

First time using the Keystep to control the Craftsynth 2.0
Drums once again supplied by Synthstrom Deluge

It was a very fun time.

Activated Almonds

My 100th track I decided to come full circle and return to the OP-Z which is certainly the most neglected of my children.

Couldn't get my OP-Z to mount in Windows 10 so I recorded it through the Avalanche Run into the H6. Unfortunately I didn't have a splitter for the OP-Z to get stereo out so it's mono to the pedal then stereo out from there so it still has a nice spatialisation.

This is my 100th song that I have posted as Loop Linndrum.

Some are hidden from public view because they are too cringe now for me to have them in public view but it is my 100th track in 5 months since I started back in March. 

An output of 20 tunes a month on average is not bad at all.

Lullaby For Little Steves

This is the Matriarch running through an Avalanche Run V2 in stereo.

I was going to name it "The Mother Of All Earthquakes", referring to both the Matriarch and Earthquaker pedal, but then I decided to google that and the top hit was Zechariah 14:3,4 which contains the line:

"And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives"

The music itself feels more like a landscape piece until the earthquake at the end so this title felt a lot more poignant.

Zech 14:3,4 
(The Mother of all Earthquakes)
Then the LORD will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.

On The Mount Of Olives

The Empress Zoia joined the family today. I found an inspiring preset to work with then let the Moog Matriarch do the rest.

Like a lot of my music it has timbral inspiration from indigenous Australian music especially when bringing formant sounds into play.

I was lucky enough to spend time in Marree when I was in school and it was a really inspiring place I hope to return to some day.

The Marree Man Of Finnis Springs

All tracks are improvised live takes unless otherwise noted.
Contact: looplinndrum @ gmailDOTcom