the Mind series are dedicated to ambient with a sniff of angst

Mind 8

Dark tracks series (short tracks)

Dance music with lots of reverb, echo, and aggressive atmospherics, to summon demons and other mean creatures (see Dungeon and Dragons, or horror films).

All of these tracks were uploaded between 01/2021 and 04/2021, about half of them in the past month, except for the following older ones:
. . - R A S H "Move Consciences"(#16): 3 Y,
. . - Sec.Knowledge (INOCENT & S Y L A)(#20): 9 mo,
. . - Atch "Mute Movie"(#5): 7 mo,
. . - TMM Rec (BL:ND - Strangers)(#7): 5 mo.

Flavorful darkness for you.

* Soundcloud time: 1 Y = 12 - 23 months

HK_Dark_tracks_41

Collabs & Remixes I

Dark ambient

Copy of The Lair Of The Spider Queen

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

Scrit II -  muterial / P a b l o

P a b l o presented me this ambient drone titled "lost souls" for me to experiment on. In Belgium we're facing our third covid lockdown in one year. Help organizations worldwide are reporting alarming numbers of domestic violence and abuse due to lockdown. Lost Souls immediately became Trapped Souls in my head. I tried to evoke such disturbing situations through sound. It was an emotional rollercoaster. Anyhow, this is the result.

Gruppo Infernal + P a b l o _ Trapped Souls

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL \\ TLXCO - Tiraossi [Perlas Label] (2021)

Artist » TLXCO. - https://soundcloud.com/tlxco
Ep Name »  PERLAS - Naufragio V.A  
Label » Perlas Label - https://soundcloud.com/perlaslabel
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Format: Cassete + Digital Album 

Release date:  March 14, 2021 

BUY HERE: https://perlaslabel.bandcamp.com/album/perlas-naufragio-v-a

Nuevos enigmas se acercan sobre el reciente naufragio que ocurrió en el Fondo del Mar.

New enigmas are approaching about the recent shipwreck that occurred at the Bottom of the Sea.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/kGoGvyosg-Q

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PERLAS - Naufragio V.A

PREMIERE CDL \\ TLXCO - Tiraossi [Perlas Label] (2021)

Youtube

Photo by fabulous Billy&Hells
https://www.billyandhells.com/

the love of beauty

My submission for this open collab from the great P a b l o.
@pablomoretti

The original percussion was so well done that I opted to leave it pretty much intact, then allow it to inform and inspire the music I wrote for it.

Original: https://soundcloud.com/pablomoretti/the-soul-of-the-ram

The Soul Of The Ram | P a b l o | Broken Chronometer Mix

https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040

Grind - Wodwo / P a b l o

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

Studium pętli #1

A short energizer we made with big fun.

Artwork: 1952 Ferrari Arno Xl

Four U

Out of the Box August 2022
All in a row...

Jump aka Pretty Maids #2

Deep and dark drone ambient,slightly cinematic with peaceful ending.

Download

The Deep Vacuum

Z levenjem se prenavljam,
ko odlagam plasti jezika,
ki je povedal svoje  
in utihnil. 
Njegova skorja se počasi
lušči z mene,
ko se obdrgne ob kamenje dneva,
ob prisotnost ljudi in
tišino okrog njih.
Ko se v njegove razpoke
vtikajo besede tujih pesmi,
pod njim že raste nov jezik,
mlad kot pomladno listje,
prosojen na trdnih vejah telesa.

Words by Manca Klun
Music by Alessandro De Oliveira Bastos

Levitev

01 - Godmorgon Framtid

Oil consumption

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

Byron: synthesis
Jeff: voice

photo of Mt Redoubt by Bretwood Higman (2009)

Mastered version available on the album "Back to the Flaming Mouth".
https://jeffsampson.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-flaming-mouth

Sleep Of Reason

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

NEMIGA - DUSINA

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

Available at ZenSound!
www.zensound.es/soundsets/zebra-penumbra/

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Penumbra is a new dark cinematic soundset inspired in drama and suspense.
The purpose of Penumbra is to bring you a state of the art soundset for your sonic arsenal.


Zebra | Penumbra soundset | Satanic Influences

Beings from the Outside | Transition

"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

dac insomniac + r.s.stropharia - darkspeaker I - impro-set live (15.12.2019)

Additional guitars by Bram 'Kaboom Karavan' Bosteels

Mute Movie

Collaboration between Chase Rockwell and Electric Supply Station, mixing genres, beats and methods

Similarity Of Uniqueness

Dimension X

BL:ND - Strangers

So happy to work on the track https://soundcloud.com/pablomoretti/2001-maniacs
from https://soundcloud.com/pablomoretti
Because his work inspires me very much!! Love his style, check it out!

Lyrics:

Travail, achète, répète
ne sors pas, confine-toi mais achète
(est-ce que c'est ça le nouveau monde?)
parce que si tu ne consommes pas
tout s'effondrera
(travail, achète, répète)

where are we going
the world is burning
(mais t'as l'habitude, t'es habitué à ça)
like fire
a fire of joy
or a fire of hate
a fire that burns
more than heating 
it bursts
destroying everything
and you're still feeling nursed
you don't feel the curse

tu sens pas ce qui va nous arriver?

Travail, achète, répète
ne te rebelles pas, confine-toi
et n'oublies pas
travail, achète, répète
le système compte sur toi
il n'est rien sans toi
si tu ne consommes pas
il s’effondra

Translation of french parts:
Work, buy, repeat
don't get out, confine yourself but buy
(is it the new world?)
because if you don't consume
everything will collapse
(work, buy, repeat)

(but you're used to it, you're used to that)

Don't you feel what is going to happen to us

work, buy, repeat,
do not rebel, confine yourself 
and don't forget
work, buy, repeat
the system is counting on you
it is nothing without you
if you don't consume
it will collapse

Collabs 2020

2020 Maniacs (the curse)

2020 Maniacs (the curse)Feat. Pablo

Thanks to Blink Twice for great sounds in the open collab "Ark Dambient"

https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival/ch-4-120-bpm-4-1

downloadable - use for more mixes if you like, referring to the Blink Twice open collab

The Intertubes

The Intertubes - muterial | Blink Twice

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