Ambient

The milky way

Ambient Soundtracks Vol. 4

Radio Far Oeste Playlist Part. III

from recent to older. The last track dates from 2003 and was my first recording as Me, my Thumb and Jack, my then Dogma-style analog approach to sound making. The 2 tracks directly above were a bridge between MMTJ's naked brutalism and a more digital sound, allowing samples and oscillators

Gruppo Infernal - dark ambient & chill

I resampled Ankhtifi's mastertrack "Tibetan Monastery". I had some fun with wordplay as there seemed to be some allergic reaction to Tibetan money at one time. The former Tibetan Srang being replaced by the Chinese Yuan. Besides adding some traditional percussion samples for effect no other sounds were used, everything you hear is somekind of resample of the original master track. Hope you enjoy it. 
original track: https://soundcloud.com/ankhtifi/modular-30

Tibetan money's scary [Ankhtifi reworked]

Album AURORA GREEN NOCTURNAL

RELEASED: JANUARY 8, 2021 - The album contains 9 tracks Ambient and 'long 78 minutes. And 'available now on AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SHD9D5G/ref=sr_1_111?crid=3J09206K0ZW56&keywords=unclemad&qid=1670413069&sprefix=unclemad%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-111

7 - Starry Landscape - Album AURORA GREEN NOCTURNAL

This Track combine (self-)generatived music with animated field recordings. The electronic music was generated with a virtual modular synth. Another part consists of field recordings that have been alienated. In addition, self-generated music was animated and recorded at runtime.

Space Birds

some days be like that

Photographer: Derek Story (https://www.instagram.com/derek.a.story/?hl=en)

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L'appel Du Vide

Summer Holidays

Language in Paradise II

simpler times

Simpler Times

Solar System Excursions

Catch The Sun !

Rinse France Podcast

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Nerang Recordings : 5 Years B-Day Takeover avec Low Tape - 29 Novembre 2021

Сonsecration

One night while working on another track to honor a lost friend, emotions ran deep and the only way to cope with them was with what you hear on this track. Loop based track with live improvisation. Lament for D wherever he may be

Lament 4 D

And now for something completely different...
It was the first warm and sunny day after a long gray period. I was happy and just for a minute I got soft and made this. And that doesn't bother me at all.

On a sunny day

Instruments : Valérie Vienne
Bol tibétain - Tongue Drum - Flûte - Tambour - Tingshas

Rêve Chamanique

C'est l'histoire d'un mec qui n'a pas de chance. Cela le rend autant en colère que désespéré.

OrageOdésespoir (No master yet)

Frost

La mémoire est un paysage en constante transformation, où les contours des souvenirs s’effacent comme des traces dans la neige. Avec le temps, les détails s’entrelacent, des fragments s’ajoutent ou se perdent, brouillant les frontières entre réalité et invention. Et pourtant, une douce mélancolie s’attarde sur ces instants qui ne reviendront jamais, ces éclats de vie désormais flous, chargés d’une chaleur inexplicable, figés à présent dans le froid. Ce qui semblait si clair devient une toile de nuances tendres, une vérité réinterprétée par l’esprit, teintée de la nostalgie d’un passé qu’on aimerait revivre, ne serait-ce qu’un instant.

Impared memory

Lust smolders in the shadows of the mind and fires up the body. It's impossible to ignore. The thirst for something that refuses to be quenched. Though it rarely leads to peace, we chase it because in its pull, we feel furiously alive

Lust

Niksen is a Dutch/Flemish expression for the art of doing nothing. A deliberate act of setting aside structured tasks and embracing stillness. To be stripped of excess and distraction. Mind wandering isn't aimless—it's a mental playground where ideas grow and imagination thrives. Doing nothing isn't lazy; it's an essential pause, a breath in the rhythm of life. It’s where inspiration whispers and the chaos of the world recedes.

Niksen

"She sat beside him, their shoulders almost touching, yet a canyon of unspoken volumes stretched between them—longing for what could have been and mourning what never was.  Each silence echoed with a thousand words neither dared to speak, the air heavy with the ache of both wanting and withholding.  In the quiet, their hearts told stories their lips never would—have missed chances, of the right words arriving too late, or not at all." 

There's this Flemish/Dutch expression "het spreekt boekdelen" which means something like "speaking volumes". In Flemish it means saying a lot, not with words but with a look or a gesture, usually in emotionally heavy situations. I wondered how one would put it if these emotions, however very present and clear to all concerned, would not be expressed at all. Hence the title "unspoken volumes".
I was reading about synth architecture then and wondered how an electric piano would sound like if I had to program it with a DX7. So I tried to emulate it using FM synthesis. The "unspoken volumes" theme came to me while messing about on the keyboard. The choir seemed like a fun contradiction to this idea of something unspoken.

unspoken volumes

Iron Skies

(Made In Berlin) Recording: Berlin 17 aug 2019

Made In Berlin

Pillars Of The Desert Floor

Pillars Of The Desert Floor**FREM

Nebulae

Singularity

Delirium

Lost track from https://youtu.be/mZV5ArTzThw

The Ipatiev House

Boson Spin - Private Thoughts #1

A creepy recording I made while experimenting with loops.

Haunted Beckoning

nepenthe and hemlock

Album ADMIRE LAKE

RELEASED: OCTOBER 2, 2020 - The album contains 10 tracks Ambient and 'long 76 minutes. And 'available now on AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KL53RSX/ref=sr_1_108?crid=1FYOMXTHB1FGD&keywords=unclemad&qid=1670413265&sprefix=unclemad%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-108

5 - Autumn Day - Album ADMIRE LAKE

A place for sound freaks lashing out from the dark. 

So there's all kinds of stuff on this page, but after months of schizophrenic debates about who was playing with who and who took the lead while doing it, finally, the decision was made: all my alter egos got together and decided to form a band. From 2020 on new tracks are created under the moniker Gruppo Infernal. Only pure MMTJ tracks will still be named as such. 

Gruppo Infernal still relies on my work as Me, my Thumb and Jack, an ongoing quest for a liberating approach to sound creation where the human body acts as an oscillator amplifying the natural 50hz hum. Direct live recording, improvisations and delay loops only using analog filters and effects. No editing, no overdubs. Gruppo Infernal adds digital treatment to this original sound material. 

UnterPitch was an alter ego using samples & synths.
Bleached Coffins was a one-off project using guitars.

earliest work when I was still a pup:
https://blindsightrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throbbing-flip-out