for a nanosecond I was reminded on the beginning of "Catch me" from Clawfinger

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Disquiet Junto Project 0137: Old-Time Electronica

Next up in our mix series, is the true legend and cornerstone in the Copenhagen scene; DJ Bondefar. He is the co-founder of the amazing V.A.L.I.S. Records and part of Bunkerbauer for many years, and got a record collection full of old rare goa trance and mysterious forest objects.

In this episode, Bondefar serves a great mix of old psykik trance records, blended with new-school and unreleased music, creating pure transcendence. Hailing from the depths of the danish swamps, Bondefar summits all the forest creatures for this 105 minutes journey.

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Really vague about what electronica means but it suggests "pop" to me rather than experimental. "Old-time" brought to mind the Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach." Disco music also came to mind. 

I used a Kaosillator with 2 patches that sounded retro to me, created 2 tracks and then aligned them in Logic and wrapped it up using a Channel EQ preset called Boombox, a word which for me conjures days of yore.


Rather goofy, was not sure if I should post it, but it is mercifully short.

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Heckuva Pile  [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

This is a remix of the Edison Concert Band's recording of "Nearer, my God, to Thee" (1902). The original recording was downloaded from archive.org. I did "electronic processing" on this old-time hymn to create something impossible at the time it was created: a time-stretched version with a drone created from part of the recording as well, and a phasing effect created by slightly different stretch lengths. My hope is that this version helps people hear this hymn in a new way. (Apologies that I went over the time-limit guidelines a little.)

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Nearer, my God, to Thee (remix) [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

Disquiet Junto Project 0137: Old-Time Electronica

Pineal Pionears [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

For me, this means going back to composers like Louis and Bebe Barron and their 1956 magnetic tape soundtrack to “Forbidden Planet” (check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNKhju6Pryg ), as well as Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos and all those records from the Princeton University computer music workshops that I got my hands and ears on in the 60s.

Steps taken:

In the spirit of minimalism, I worked only with 2 sine waves and a click track, both generated by Audacity. These were modified using plugins and pitch shifting, with shorter more heavily modified sections used to create a gradually changing soundscape.

(See the whole Forbidden Planet poster here: http://cdn-images.9cloud.us/476/piccit_the_forbidden_planet_poster_1296502960.jpg


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The Assignment: Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre “old-time electronica.”

All Disquiet Junto projects employ constraint as a means to stimulate creativity and productivity. Sometimes this means limiting oneself to specific source material, other times to a conceptual approach, and there’s always the additional constraint of time: the deadline is approximately four days, depending on your time zone.

For this Disquiet Junto project, the constraint is a matter of terminology. This week we’re exploring how the concept of “genre” can itself serve as a restraint, and we’ll accomplish this by pushing back at genre conventions.

The project instructions are straightforward: Record an original piece of music that you feel belongs within the genre of “old-time electronica.”

Restrictions: You can use any source material, any instrumentation, except the human voice.

More on this 137th Disquiet Junto project — “Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre ‘old-time electronica’″ — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/08/14/disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica/ 

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588


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Pineal Pionears [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

As a solo parent this weekend, my plans to hook up gear and produce handmade electronica haven't eventuated. So I returned to an earlier idea to work with a MIDI file and honour my introduction to electronic music as a child listening to Wendy Carlos' Switched On Bach.

This piece uses Lokomotiv, Absynth and the Minimojo Reaktor VST synths and was edited for brevity.

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Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg

Switched on Joy of Man's Desiring [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

My interpretation of "old time electronica" was to take a song associated with the dawn of pop music and treat it as the raw material for an electronic track. My choice is "Daisy Bell", a public domain song written in 1892 by Harry Dacre, and used in the first computer speech synthesis at Bell Labs in 1961; Arthur C. Clarke saw this demonstration and incorporated it into the screenplay and novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The first section of the track is the original chorus melody and chord progression played on soft synths in Ableton, with a light percussion track made from samples from Beats & Breaks. For the second run-thru of the chorus melody  the chord progression is replaced with a version made using the Coltrane Changes; John Coltrane pioneered chord substitutions in his performances that used a major third movement to give an odd, airy quality to the harmony. For "Daisy Bell", which is in C major, the original chord progression follows the melody closely, as is the custom for most popular music. In its place I used the Dm7-G7-C progression. 

The jazzy timbre of those chords reminded me of Squarepusher's record Hard Normal Daddy, which used chords and melody combinations usually associated with jazz in conjunction with breakbeats. This track gradually adds more percussion elements, all chopped up from samples from Beats & Breaks.   

Once the new chord progression is introduced, the softsynth playing the melody has a random MIDI note generator, C major scale effect, and Bass-Beat Decoder added to it, with MIDI notes being triggered at the same rhythm as the original melody. The random notes were played & recorded to a separate track, and that MIDI information was placed in the initial softsynth track, with the MIDI effects removed. 


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Daisy Hell [disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica]

Old time electronica conjured up memories of old 80's dance records and their stock sounds, 808s 909s 303s and FM synth patches. Oh and arpeggiated synth lines, reverbed snares and stuttering vocal samples. Happy days.
I didn't want to create a piece of faux dance music as I haven't a funky bone in my body, back then I would mosh to industrial music rather than shake my booty so it explains why the drum track is rather rigid and metronomic. Most of the synths lines are from a tb-3, the exceptions are a couple of lines played on a plug in emulations of vintage gear. 


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The Assignment: Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre “old-time electronica.”

All Disquiet Junto projects employ constraint as a means to stimulate creativity and productivity. Sometimes this means limiting oneself to specific source material, other times to a conceptual approach, and there’s always the additional constraint of time: the deadline is approximately four days, depending on your time zone.

For this Disquiet Junto project, the constraint is a matter of terminology. This week we’re exploring how the concept of “genre” can itself serve as a restraint, and we’ll accomplish this by pushing back at genre conventions.

The project instructions are straightforward: Record an original piece of music that you feel belongs within the genre of “old-time electronica.”

Restrictions: You can use any source material, any instrumentation, except the human voice.

More on this 137th Disquiet Junto project — “Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre ‘old-time electronica’″ — at:

disquiet.com/2014/08/14/disquie…ldtimeelectronica/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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False Memory(disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica)

original track here :
https://soundcloud.com/somatiksoundsystem/03-hank-agapaka-pray-to

Hank Agapaka - Pray To Mechanical God ( Sega System Remix )

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deep-completions

Gentle drones lure the listener in, punctuated by shards of tape hiss and electronic hum. 
Synchronised voices rise and fall, synthesisers exhale, all ushered forward by the pulse of distant static. It’s the sound of a highway at night, the sound of a digital sea, the sound of time passing. 

DEEP COMPLETIONS is a self-titled 8 track album of choral and ambient music, written and recorded in Berlin between 2023 and 2025. Released in the year 2025 on Amsterdam’s Shimmering Moods Records.

releases July 21, 2025 

Written and produced by Deep Completions 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Artwork and video by Andrew Binnie 

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Deep Completions - Flutter Rate

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Handmade cassette, limited to 20 numbered copies.

"Isoconicase" — Album Teaser — OUT NOW on NOIDED

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Nawl - Nocturnal Squall [MLF019]

Nocturnal Squall was conceived just after the intensity of the La Vallée Électrique festival. In this EP, Nawl, an artist from Lyon, distils the energy of the night, the poetry of the winds, and the force of a dancing storm.

This EP offers a range of styles that grow in intensity, reflecting his experience during the event, the story of a metamorphosis, when humans become Mistral.
Martin Nonstactic's remix unfolds a new dimension, awakening unexpected and emotional sounds.

Mastered by Arthur Bohl at Melifera Blue Studio
Artwork by Melifera

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A live recording from Visu.au Textures audio-visual performance that took place at the Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, 12.11.2010. Visual set by Lora Rounevska and Aleksander Petrov. Live sound by Kliment Dichev and Mikhail Stoyanov.

Published on December 21nd, 2010.

https://artmospheric.org/en/artmospheric-sessions-11-visu-au-live-audio
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Artmospheric Sessions 11 - Visu.au Textures by IDMT

Aurora CD compilation ´Beta´. 24 carefully selected sonic sculptures from artists across the globe, glimpsing through different realms and synergies, inviting the listener to a deep journey of imagination and self-discovery.  
Human Lessons features RXEX - Obsidian Ritual from the release. 

All profits from the release will be donated in equal parts to:
Palestine Child Relief Fund & Medical Aid for Palestines
Save The Children Sudan
Alzheimer research UK
Ovarian cancer research UK
Artwork: Elfy 
Mastering: CTRLS 

Artist SC: @rxexx  
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Label SC: @aurorarec 
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HL Premiere: RXEX - Obsidian Ritual [Aurora]

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system. – Volodymyr Zelensky

Track list and start times:
00:00  Plague Clock – Void Weaver
01:46  No Mates Ensemble – Caligo Paean (Isolation and Wonder)
09:58  Snowman Lost His Head - Faring over the light (naviarhaiku612)
13:55  Colony – Empty Skies
22:02  Darshan Ambient – Blue Lotus
27:22  Fadi Tabbal – Music For Arcs And Diameters
33:20  Pigments – Anchorage
37:24  Plague Clock – Hunt for the Mongolian Death Worm
39:40  Mirocaw – Fryazino (Dedicated to Roman Sidorov)
47:40  cryxuss – sunrise improv 09072025
51:52  Beckton Alps2 – The Sun!
58:34  Laurent Pernice – Aussi Loin
1:07:55  DREKKA – Unbeknownst to the Participants at Hand (Part III)
1:12:58  Daniel Barbiero –Not One Nor (excerpt)
1:16:38  Spyros Polychronopoulos ·& Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris – Widdershins II
1:23:07  tetkik ve tedavi – the fall of the red dragonfly [ naviarhaiku614 ]
1:27:37  windspace – Star Above The Peak - naviarhaiku613
1:31:33  squidwerks – Bahkmut
1:37:18  Wizards Warlocks Angel Dust – Aurum Horizontale
1:47:35  Sowl – Where Ghosts Build Their Home
i:56:08  Tuonela – 1111 divergence reverse remix
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Eclectic current – Break down the system

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including music from prince of denmark, jan jelinek, elle, deepchord, cv313, waage, sa pa ..

afternoon at the watkin terrace

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My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

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