Bought my first synthesizer and celebrated in the dumbest way I know to. 🤠
Low volume was unintentional, uploaded directly to SoundCloud. Just crank it and hold onto your cheeks.

Brandon - knobs
Machines - Korg Monotron Duo, Dinosaur delay pedal with dying battery

Monotron Duo & dying delay pedal jam, 2/7/24

https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/shellf-life-vermillion-syncretism-with-the-furico-music-team
Now playing: Version A2（1st Take)

WHO ARE SHELLF LIFE? They are as exlusive as evasive and have never coveted the limelight. SHELLF LIFE are a musician's band, if there ever was one. It is a rare occassion to have the opportunity to hear them perform. Now, VU METRICS has managed to engage three of their members in an interview. Actually, it is the only public interview we know of, apart from some unverified appearances on the darknet. To call this interview E X C L U S I V E, therefore, would be an understatement of bluntest kind.
[...]

The full interview, revealing some of SHELLF LIFE's strangest quirks will be available on the Furico Music Team's blog: 
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/shellf-life-interview.html

More info on SHELLF LIFE, collected by the Furico Music Team: furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/shellf-life.html (btw, personally, I do not believe TI that "we had no contact with them before that". I think, he just does not want to violate some secret underground code, the New Wave omerta ;-)

Production notes on former iterations of Vermillion Syncretism: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/vermilion-syncretism.html

lyrics (copyright jo richter):

first-class wormhole
from boston to berlin
new kids on the old dole
vuitton vermillion

where are the tigers
on the swank, sunlit border
sunflower hiker
first drink, second order

syncretic synthetics
wormwood for banshees
three musketeer flicks
david bowie four-d

galapagos penguins
freezing the stations
inflatable ice rinks
legal hibernation

[*There are five versions of this iteration of Vermillion Syncretism. It can not be guaranteed that you will hear the same version for longer than a few weeks at a time. The lyrics, though, will remain the same.]

SHELLF LIFE - Vermillion Syncretism (1st Take)

Today, I'm here
to show you a trick
to make the Volca Keys drone,
like a Throbbing Gristle 
or a Sun-O 

A drone in music refers
to a  sustained or continuous sound,  
typically a single note or chord, 
that serves  as a harmonic
or textural foundation in a  
musical composition. 
It often provides a  sense of stability.

Volca Keys is a fantastic little box.  
Perfect for leads, pads, or plucks.  
but a machine built for dancy beats, 
doesn't lean well into moaning or droning. 
It seems like there would be a note hold, 
but we're stepping on new ground, 
so no. 

I begin by lowering the octave knob,
casting a dark, menacing tone.  
I filter out the higher frequencies,
snuffing out the light. 
The descent begins. Record the note,
letting it linger through the loop.  
Precision is irrelevant;
just be carefull with the sequencer unleashed.
I connect a cable to the sync input,
its other end dangling like a severed limb. 

The note persists,
an eternal echo trapped by the frozen sequencer.
A haunting drone takes form. 
Now, I'll  delve into oscillator waveforms,
filters, and effects, shaping the creation.
The sequencer never steps
the sounds the chord continues.
This is a song where the Beats Per Minute, 
is zero, time is effectively stopped. 
It's a mating call from this little box
out into the void. 
waiting for a signal, 
not a waveform or a chord, 
but a single click. 
Like a call one might wait for, 
that never comes. 

As the drone continues without a signal,
I find solace in its unwavering hum—
a gentle reminder that even in stillness,
there’s beauty in the wait,
and in every unreturned call.

Buddy L! 
Why ya'll crying?





Droning Waiting Signals 2 16 2025

Sanatorium

instruments: Jeff Gardiner and jo richter (including some slowed-down  image data gleaned from the cover of pt 4 morphed into sound)
e-bow and voice: Jeff Gardiner
modulation, arrangement and all that: jo richter
lyrics: Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with jo richter
image: Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with jo richter



... and when he found that he was bound
and finially did detect
the binding of his storybook's
superego infancy
and contemplated all his days and nights
and the fire in the pit, and how guitar strings sing
and swing back to all the songs they ever played
while his loyal self was off to work
to pay the rent and make a dent in debts incurred along the way
when they came due with each and every breath

oh desert mind, oh lemon heart
we should have taught the children from the start
and yes the moon was right
from the very first beginning , and every night since then
filled with our voices singing NOT
but sleeping longing in the dawning
of sentience and yearning
for the comforts of the twilight
and those bridges left behind
brightly burning in the dark

scalar fields pt 5: karma peaks

scalar fields pt 5 karma peaks - with stonerjazz

Set en vivo grabado en una toma directa, construido a partir de patrones mentales y texturas hipnóticas. Empieza con una intención dub techno espesa, pero muta hacia un territorio más crudo, experimental y mental.
Ritmos filtrados y bajos modulantes ejecutados con Electribe 2 Sampler, Volca Bass y dos Korg NTS, en sincronía caótica.
Este set es un viaje introspectivo, donde el pulso maquinal se diluye en el humo de la repetición.

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Live set recorded in a single take, built from mental patterns and hypnotic textures.
It begins with a dense dub techno intention, then drifts into a rawer, more experimental and mental territory.
Filtered rhythms and modulated basslines executed with an Electribe 2 Sampler, Volca Bass, and two Korg NTS units in chaotic sync.
This set is an introspective journey, where the mechanical pulse dissolves into the haze of repetition.

Mecánica del Vértigo (Live Set)

fifo beto

2025-07-27

unrest around us

||| Blind Trust |||
From the album White Noise + Releases 15 October 2025 on all major streaming platforms +
Dedicated to all those who have ridden the trauma train 

Trust
noun
Firm belief in the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing; confidence or reliance.
"trying to gain our clients' trust; taking it on trust that our friend is telling the truth."
The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one.
"violated a public trust."
One in which confidence is placed.
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Once broken, trust is often irreparable...
We place our trust in a corrupt society / government / people / technology
(Thus becoming the guinea pigs of behavioural engineering / manipulation)
We are gaslit
Being lied to is normal
We are programmed to believe that we are weak / not enough
We are taught to seek outside ourselves
We are whittled away / divided / disengaged / enslaved
We choose to give our power away due to fear

We allow this

Ignorance is not an excuse

Rise up
Claim your power
Find / know yourself
Reject the narrative
Pain is power
Don't run from it
You are the creator of your experiences
You need nothing but faith in yourself
In you are all things
All possibilities
Be real
At any cost
The cost of illusion is lament
Be a true and trustworthy human being
The rewards are beyond description

Do you trust yourself
To live an authentic life?

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/fYiQFKTn5OU

White Noise

Blind Trust

Opium Verses from the Western Wind

Spin Me Round (DEMO)

Bambino: One shop destroyed. Three heads split like overripe melons. One man wounded and one castrated. All in two hours. Just two hours I left you alone. Two hours.
Trinity: Well, you asked me to give you a hand.

Droning Waiting Signals 2 16 2025

MMMMudd

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