A couple of tracks from Jet Jaguar's 9th album, Room Tones, released on Shimmering Moods Records 1 July 2022.

Jet Jaguar - Room Tones (selections)

A few tunes from Jet Jaguar's sixth album. 
Tapes through @becomeeternal

https://jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/everything-happens-for-some-reason-digital-release

Jet Jaguar - Everything Happens, For Some Reason

Five remixes of tunes from Everything Happens, For Some Reason (@becomeeternal March 2018)

Thanks so much to the remixers!
Ludus @ludus_music
Mantle @thisisgeorge
Steve Pacheco @stevepacheco
Mugwood @mugwood

https://jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/some-remixes
+ it's on Spotify etc. etc.

Jet Jaguar - Some Remixes (snippets)

This week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to do a Pig Latin version of an existing piece of music. I decided to try something with my track Ottomans off my 2018 album 'Everything Happens, For Some Reason'. Original track is here: https://soundcloud.com/nonwrestler/jet-jaguar-ottomans

'Ottomans' is in polymeter - the different instrumental parts are in different time signatures. I wanted to work with something using polymeter because in Pig Latin it's not like you force the "ay" syllable in at regular time intervals - you do it according to the length of the word. 

So I decided to play an A at the end of very bar of the existing phrases, pushing out the original time signature of each phrase. I had to push the whole track down a semitone to make this in key. 

Then, say the original phrase was 4 bars of 4/4, I turned it into 4 bars of 5/4. with an A playing on the 5th beat of every bar. For the original 4 beats I reshuffled them like you would with Pig Latin, so instead of going 1 2 3 4 A, it goes 2 3 4 1 A. I followed the same kind of idea always inserting an A for a crotchet length at the end of each bar, e.g. turning bars of 7/8 into 9/8 and so on.

I made basically no changes to the arrangement of the original track, like when things fade in and out, but the different length phrases change things quite a bit to my ears.

More on this 480th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ongsay Aftcray (The Assignment: Record a piece of music by employing Pig Latin as a technique) — at:

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[junto 0480] Ongsay Aftcray

Jet Jaguar - Omansottay [disquiet0480] (Free download)

This is my latest contribution to the Disquiet Junto. The assignment this week was to use the speech about how magic works from The Prestige as inspiration. So the track had to go from part A to part B and back to A. 

I felt like "B" needed to be some kind of trick, not just like verse/chorus/verse. I hope you can figure out what the trick is and, either way, enjoy.

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[disquiet0489] The Prestige

Jet Jaguar - The Greatest Trick Was Bowie's Moustache (Free download) [disquiet0489]

Fourth of six free EPs I'm releasing this year, released 24 August 2013. 

Apologies to Split Enz for the title...

Benny Tones - mastering

http://jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/lucked-out

Free download

Jet Jaguar - Six Moths In A Leaky Boat (free download)

Original track is from this @lontalius release: http://lontalius.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-will-never-know-about-us

Nice one.

Lontalius - Loud (Jet Jaguar Remix)

For the Disquiet Junto this week, I chose the option to "Record what you imagine it would sound like to attend a club event of 10BPM techno, including crowd noise."

I wrote a sequence at a normal-ish techno tempo, then slowed down the master tempo in my DAW to 10bpm. Techno typically evolves slowly, in blocks of 16 or so bars, and while I didn't quite stick to that, I thought it wouldn't feel really like it was 10bpm if I messed with the structure. So I decided to focus my efforts on making it sound at least a bit like being in a club.

I used convolution to feed the whole mix through a night club's PA,  using these free impulse responses. http://www.balancemastering.com/blog/free-funktion-one-impulse-responses-ir-irs-convolution/

I mixed the music with a couple of crowd / bar noise recordings from freesound.
https://freesound.org/people/Pfannkuchn/sounds/457606/
https://freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/100904/

I faded the thing in and out, to give a bit more of a feeling of just a captured recording of a club night. I don't think the result is convincing, but it was fun to do.

More on this 541st weekly Disquiet Junto project — 10BPM Techno (The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats) — at: https://disquiet.com/0541/

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Jet Jaguar - Slow Night [disquiet0541]

This week's Disquiet Junto was to make a drone using only your voice. 

This is just a snippet of me talking in a work context, a meeting recording. I thought using spoken-word from the least musical context was a good laugh - something about droning on in meetings, the New Zillund accent, my accent specifically, something...

Then all I did was send the recording into a convolution reverb, using a 45 second impulse response from a disused radar dome in Germany. Thank you Antony for the recording!

https://freesound.org/people/mugwood/packs/7592/

I chopped the front 50 seconds off the recording, so it starts when the convolution is already going nuts and that's it. I was pleasantly surprised by the many layers from this single effect.

More on this 548th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Drone Vox (The Assignment: Make a drone using just your voice.) — at: https://disquiet.com/0548/

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Jet Jaguar - Online Meeting In a Radar Dome [disquiet0548]

A selection from Jet Jaguar's 9th album 'Room Tones', released 1 July 2022 on Shimmering Moods.

Room Tones

Buy album

Jet Jaguar - Ōokayama Cats At Night

Jet Jaguar - Griselinea Lucida

The one instruction for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to use an octave leap, which is something I quite often do anyway. 

So, I just set about writing a new track without thinking too hard about the brief. I actually started with the percussion that shows up later in the track.

The root on the opening part steps down an octave before introducing the next chord in the progression.

A two-note synth part is just the minor 7 on two octaves (with a major 6 once for colour - still fits the Dorian mode but is pretty HELLO when it shows up imo).

A second synth part doubles the guitar harmonic sounds, coming in via an opening low-pass filter. That synth part has its pitch modulated by a little step sequence, so it steps up one or two octaves, and the rate at which that's happening in shifting about. That part then runs into a delay (Valhalla Delay) which as a descending octave shift in the feedback patch.

A synth bass part arrives later that is just sustained notes following the root of each chord, but an arpeggiator steps up and down an octave. Kind of like with the pitch modulation on the other synth, the tempo of the arpeggiator is being modulated by an LFO, then quantised, to make it less synth disco / Girls & Boys.

More on this 564th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Octave Lept (The Assignment: Work an octave leap — or more than one — into a piece of music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0564/

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The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “octave leap.”

[disquiet0565] Octave Leapt

Jet Jaguar - Sound 1 [disquiet0564] (Free download)

This week's Disquiet Junto assignment is to make music that moves between 5/8, 6/8 and 7/8. The main phrase of this is 2 bars of each. 

The opening synth and the claps are doing something different. 

The first synth plays 5 bars of 5/8, then 5 of 6/8, then 5 of 7/8, back down to 6/8, back down to 5/8, and repeat...

The claps are constant polymeters - three patterns, one in each time signature, happening at the same time.

I used this free mastering service, and liked it. https://mastering.ianknowles.com/

More on this 567th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Three Meters (The Assignment: Make music in 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time signatures) — at: https://disquiet.com/0567/

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Jet Jaguar - The Establishment [disquiet0567] (Free download)

This week's Disquiet Junto project is to use the rhythm of rain in a pipe as the foundation for a piece of music. I piped (hoho) the audio into three frequency bands and trigger a different synth note when each band gets over a certain volume. The lowest frequency band is the lowest synth note and so on. I'll put more on lines, link at the bottom.

More on this 581st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Helsinki Downspout (The Assignment: Use a rhythmic field recording as the foundation for a new track), at: https://disquiet.com/0581/

Thanks to Scott Fletcher for having provided the original material. It is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Original track at: https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/helsinki-downspout/

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Jet Jaguar - Downpipe Triggers [disquiet0581]

The latest Disquiet Junto assignment was to record a rhythm track through a wall. I did that twice, once with omni-directional mics in my bathroom, and once with contact mics on the bathroom wall. More process stuff at the lines forum link below.

More on this 583rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Wall to Wall (The Assignment: The Assignment: Use a building as a filter), at: https://disquiet.com/0583/

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Jet Jaguar - Walldrums [disquiet0583]

This week's Disquiet Junto assignment was to make something from samples made by https://soundcloud.com/marcus_fischer His source sounds were great, so this was a lot of fun. I didn't add much at all.

I'll put some process notes in the thread on lines: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching Out (The Assignment: This is a shared sample project. Rework a set of seven WAV files provided by Marcus Fischer), at: https://disquiet.com/0600/

Please credit Marcus Fischer when posting your track.

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[disquiet0600] Reaching Out

Jet Jaguar - Rework [disquiet0600] (Free download)

So this week's Junto had a really simple assignment - to record something that "would suggest to the listener the pleasing experience of air conditioning — of the air being cooled on a hot summer day." The perverse bit is where I am we're in the tail end of winter, and I'm sick of the cold and wind, desperately hanging out for a holiday on the other side of the planet that's looming... There's a real storm thrashing around today, in fact.

So, yeah, here's my idea of something that feels "cooling" but with me trying to desperately not think "wintry".

More on this 135th Disquiet Junto project — “Record the sonic equivalent of air conditioning” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/07/31/disquiet0135-soundofsummer/

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Jet Jaguar - Summer Over There [disquiet0135-soundofsummer] (Free DL)

So the Disquiet Junto assignment this week was simply to make a piece of music in 29/16 time. This is a super weird time signature. I remembered fooling about with Dilla-type beats using quintuplets (where you count 5s between every beat) and I figured exploring groups of 5 16ths might be worth it. It's a strange feeling to try and take a very mathsy approach, like fitting beats tightly on a fixed grid of 29 steps, and try to replicate some kind of "real" shuffle.

In the second half of the track I use this sample pack from Freesound. A Korean instrument that sounds like a koto. https://freesound.org/people/spt3125/packs/1534/

More on the 664th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Mother Beat — The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time — at https://disquiet.com/0664/

Jet Jaguar - Kāo [disquiet0664] (free download)

Disquiet Junto Project 0694: 5/4ify
The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music.

I took this track of mine, released in 2023, and worked through it, editing every sequence / loop so it was in 5/4. I then sped up the tempo so the track is the original length. 

The most interesting thing to me is how similar it feels! I guess a bunch of the rhythmic stuff is fairly similar.

https://cudighirecords.bandcamp.com/track/ferry-crossing

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

Jet Jaguar - Five Four Ferry Crossing [disquiet0694]

A track I didn't like much that I wrote this weekend, so I reversed it and now I like it more.

Jet Jaguar - Heaven Knows (demo)

Pay as you like EP on Bandcamp from 2009 http://jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/my-life-in-the-bush-out-the-back-of-my-place

Jet Jaguar - Dub Outside (In The Rain) (from free 2009 EP)

One of 2 remixes I did last year for New Zealand heavyweights Fat Freddy's Drop - this one saw release on their digital single.


Fat Freddy's Drop - The Raft (Jet Jaguar Mix)

A remix from 2002. Free download. Could do with a remaster, sorry. The original track is on Trinity Roots' first album, True. 

Trinity Roots - Just Like You (Jet Jaguar Remix)

Off a compilation of Wellington electronic music.  http://www.discogs.com/Various-Skankatronics-Pure-Wellingtronika/release/164951

For those into writing stuff: 11 8 time signature, a mono Akai sampler that could handle no more than 8 sounds, a Juno 106 synth, and a guitar delay pedal.

Jet Jaguar - Seeper (1996)

A remix of a track from Aspen's 'Are You That Retail Snob?' that never saw release back in 2000.

Aspen - Live V7 (Jet Jaguar's Sad and Beautiful World Remix)

Off The Radio Active 89FM 21st anniversary celebration CD. Funny looking at the track listing - a really early version of Fat Freddy's 'Hope' and other such things... sooo long ago.

Jet Jaguar - Ambrose (1998)

I followed the instructions that you can find at the link below, using a squelchy synth lead sound... ("Create a pattern, loop it, and intersperse alterations.") 

I liked the fact the instructions were ambiguous about whether additional notes should change the length of the phrase or not. I decided in my case I'd let them change the length.

But I'll admit I got a bit bored and threw in an overly-compressed 808 rhythm in 5 4. Oops.

More on this 281st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Pattern Interruption: Create a pattern, loop it, and intersperse alterations” — at:

https://disquiet.com/0281/1

This week’s project was proposed by Lin Mu.

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[junto 0281] Pattern Interruption

Jet Jaguar - Pass Out [disquiet0281] (free download)

Everything Happens, For Some Reason

Jet Jaguar - Should Be Home

Buy tape: becomeeternal.bandcamp.com/album/everything-happens-for-some-reason
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Jet Jaguar - Ottomans

Should Be Home (Mugwood Remix)

New Folder (Jet Jaguar Remix)

Should Be Home (Steve Pacheco Remix)

Call (Ludus Remix)

I've been obsessing over the hook on this one since I got the album.  I was really wary about approaching one of El Truento's productions, but figured there was something worth trying with a steady beat (vs. the mostly beatless original) that wouldn't be totally redundant.

Home Brew - Fungi / Absence (Jet Jaguar Remix) (FREE DL)

This week's assignment was to take the most famous of Satie's Gymnopédies and rework it in a genre of your choosing. I went with dub techno in the style of Rhythm & Sound.

My process was simple: I found a midi file online that split the piece into left- and right-hand piano parts. I chucked that into Reaper and played each part back on different synths. Lots of delay fx and saturation. Tape drum machine sounds from Goldbaby. It probably took an hour at most.

I played it slow and let the bass sit on its own at the start and near the middle, but otherwise the score is intact (assuming whoever created the MIDI didn't do anything weird, but I can't pick it if they did).

Furniture because of Satie's "furniture music" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music

More on this 363rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Gymnopédie Rats: Make over Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” in your chosen genre — at:

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Many thanks to Peggy Nelson and Alex Hawthorn for having proposed this project, at the tail end of last week’s project.

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[junto 0363] Gymnopédie Rats

Jet Jaguar - Furniture and Sound [disquiet0363] (Free download)

Not sure where I'm going with this, so must be time to stop.  Features verses from Lucky Lance (Team Dynamite) and Lui Tuiasau.  

"Don't make dumb shit cool."

Home Brew - Everybody (Jet Jaguar's Everybody And Their Cicadas Mix) (Free DL)

In 2010 I remixed FFD - one version ended up on the single 'The Raft', but the other was never released.  So here you go.

The version that did get released is over here: https://soundcloud.com/nonwrestler/fat-freddys-drop-the-raft-jet

Fat Freddy's Drop - The Raft (Jet Jaguar's Findaway Mix) (Free DL)

Crackly night time recordings from Sri Lanka, a metro line in France, marimbas, synths...

From my 7th album, Recording:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/recording
Thank you @shimmering-moods-records

Recording

Jet Jaguar - A Doleful Hum

Rediscovered off an ancient DAT. Thanks Simon!

Here's me wearing my major influences of the time on my sleeve: Black Dog Productions, Mo'Wax records, Future Sound of London.

What I can remember:
* vox from TV show Sapphire & Steel, 
* organ and percussion loop from Bitches Brew, 
* Bevan Smith recorded it and added the high wheedling synth line (classic Roland 101)

Jet Jaguar - Skink (unreleased from 1996)

Features Heather Elder on violin. Opening track from my compilation on Cudighi Records, Quiet.

Quiet

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Jet Jaguar - Escalators, Violins

Third of six EPs I'm releasing this year.

Written in 2013, released 9 June 2013

This track written and produced by Michael Upton and Jeremy Hunter. 
Guitar by Jeremy Hunter. @re-thejurymen
Cello sample pack courtesy Tim Kahn, thanks! http://freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/packs/2680/

Mastered by Benny Tones. 

jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/many-things

Jet Jaguar - Agave Ferox (feat. Jeremy Hunter) (Free download)

Releasing tunes under this name since 1996.

8 albums & 12 EPs as Jet Jaguar, as well as releases with Takamu, Tonkyn Pearson (fka Montano), Malty Media, Datsun Stereo, Patio and The Dub Connection.

I also try and pull together stuff from New Zealand you might like if you say you like ambient music. https://ambientnz.com

You can find a lot of free music that's not on here via my Bandcamp or website.

Jet Jaguar (NZ)

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