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 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.

More on this 489th weekly Disquiet Junto project — The Prestige (Assignment: Apply some magic to ABA form) — at: https://disquiet.com/0488/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0489-the-prestige/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

[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)

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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0541-10bpm-techno/

Image used thanks to this license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grapevinesnail_01.jpg.

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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0548-drone-vox/

Image by Nevit Dilmen used thanks to a Creative Commons license (cropped, text/color added), according to which this reworking is also available for reuse by the same terms:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

https://commons.wikimedia.org

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

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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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0564-octave-lept/

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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0567-three-meters/

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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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0581-helsinki-downspout/

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/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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disquiet0583

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.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0600-reaching-out/

This project’s cover image is a detail of a photo by Marcus Fischer.

[disquiet0600] Reaching Out

Jet Jaguar - Rework [disquiet0600] (Free download)

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)

A beatless remix from 2004 that never saw the light of day. The K1500 Project was a pretty hard out rock band with growly vox, a million miles from my world. :D It was fun to do something with it.

Original track: http://www.last.fm/music/The+K1500+Project/_/Church+of+Elvisey

Original track

The K1500 Project - Church of Elvisey (Jet Jaguar Remix) (Free download)

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)

A remix from 2006, original track off Module's Remarkable Engines.

Module - Fault Lines feat. Paul McLaney (Jet Jaguar Remix)

First track off my fifth album, Grounded, released on Australian label DataDoor, July 2017. Cassette and digital.

http://datadoor.net

Grounded

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Jet Jaguar - Bright Light

My first contribution to one of Disquiet's Junto projects.  See this group for more details about that: http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info

So I had to use a single, continuous field recording as the foundation for a track and build on that sound.  I had some dishes to do Sunday morning, so thought that'd be a kinda funny  foundation to work from.  Half way through, I looked out at how nice the day was and gave up scrubbing dishes in favour of sitting outside for a bit in the sunshine.  I thought I'd run with that impulse, because it would add a bit of narrative to the thing...

So most of the track is me taking in some morning sun on the deck, with birds, cicadas, and a visit from one of our cats...

Most of the track is just the original recording, with a few changes in volume to e.g. accentuate the different sound environment in the kitchen and in the back yard. There's some granular pitch-shifting action from time to time, which I in turn loop at points.  I added a synth chord progression after a lot of back and forth about whether I thought the track needed it.

A wee pic from the garden...

Jet Jaguar - Sunday-Level Surprises [disquiet0005-layer]

Everything Happens, For Some Reason

Jet Jaguar - Should Be Home

This is part of the latest http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/ - The brief for this week was to remix one of the submissions from a previous Disquiet Junto.  

I wanted to remix one of the remixes of from Disquiet Junto 4, but I couldn't make up my mind.  In the end I chose this track from the last Junto:

http://soundcloud.com/seams/flo

Seams - Flo (Jet Jaguar Remix) [disquiet0010-reflect]

Buy tape: becomeeternal.bandcamp.com/album/everything-happens-for-some-reason
Buy FLAC/MP3/whatever: https://jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/everything-happens-for-some-reason-digital-release

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)

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)

A wee remix for local legend Benny Tones, who mastered my last Jet Jaguar album.

Out internationally through BBE Music and in NZ through Every Waking Hour.

I'll add purchase links as they come up, here: 
http://www.nonwrestler.com/discography/benny-tones-chrysalis-remixes

http://soundcloud.com/bennytones

Benny Tones ft. Mara TK - On My Way (Jet Jaguar Remix)

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

First of 6 EPs I'm releasing this year.

This track written in 2010.

released 17 February 2013 
All tracks written and produced by Michael Upton. 
Mastered by Benny Tones. 
Photography by Amanda Hinkley.

http://jetjag.bandcamp.com/album/single-digit-high

Jet Jaguar - Mose (Free DL)

This weekend's assignment was to make something that's not using the standard A = 440 Hz, equal temperament tuning. In the Disquiet Slack workspace, someone shared a tuning used by Terry Riley on his album Shri Camel. I took that and used Bitwig's built in micro-pitch functions to tune some synths to that. To my shoddy ears the tuning is pretty subtle! Maybe not to yours.

More on this 440th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0440: Tuning In — The Assignment: Dismantle the institution known as A440 — at:

https://disquiet.com/0440/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0440-tuning-in/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this track is from zen Sutherland, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

https://flic.kr/p/xiKt1

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[disquiet0440] Tuning In

Jet Jaguar - Quietude [disquiet0440]

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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