Tracks made by Music Production Club members during Jamuary 2024!

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MPC Jamuary 2024

A frozen soundscape journey to various places in Svalbard.

SVALBARD UTOPI / JAMUARY 2024

The Unknown Moon

Jamnuary 2024 (Day 1) - Overcast

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You are not allowed to die on Svalbard. Because of the permafrost on Svalbard, burial isn't possible as bodies won't decompose.

frozen tech-house track / jamuary day 01
synths / juno-6 + mellotron
drums / tr-808 + juno-6 generated white noise
sounds / various svalbard field recording

SVALBARD UTOPI / NOBODY DIES IN LONGYEARBYEN

The Svalbard Satellite ground station has worked with a range of Earth observation missions in polar orbits. The station is equipped to survive for a week or two without a fresh supply of water or waste removal.

frozen down-tempo ambient track / jamuary day 02
synths / juno-6 + mellotron
drums / tr-808 + juno-6 generated white noise
sounds / various svalbard field recording

SVALBARD UTOPI / SVALSAT POLAR GROUND STATION

Rabies is an important zoonotic disease with high fatality rates in animals and humans. In Svalbard, the Arctic fox is regarded as the principal reservoir, but there is considerable debate about how the disease persists at the low population densities that are typical for this species.

frozen ghetto lofi track / jamuary day 03
synths / juno-6 + mellotron
drums / tr-808 + juno-6 generated white noise
sounds / various svalbard field recording

SVALBARD UTOPI / ONE DISTURBED ARCTIC FOX

Aleksandr "Sasha" Romanovsky has worked as a tour guide at the Russian abandoned settlement of Pyramiden since 2012 when he was the only person to apply for the job. A loner by nature, Romanovsky has come to feel at home in this unusual, otherworldly place surrounded by polar bears.

frozen synthwave track / jamuary day 04
synths / juno-6 + SID chip
drums / tr-808 + juno-6 generated white noise
sounds / various svalbard field recording

SVALBARD UTOPI / LONE PYRAMIDEN CARETAKER

Deep in the bowels of an icy mountain on Svalbard lies a resource of vital importance for the future of human­kind. Millions of these tiny brown specks, from more than 930,000 varieties of food crops, are stored in the Global Seed Vault, a reserve of seeds for use in case of an apocalyptic event or a global catastrophe.

frozen ambient lofi track / jamuary day 05
synths / juno-6 + arturia pigments
drums / tr-808 + juno-6 generated white noise
sounds / various svalbard field recording

SVALBARD UTOPI / DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT

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The desks and chairs in the administration office in Pyramiden, Svalbard, are still laid out as they would have been in the 90s. Papers are strewn around the office adding to the feeling of eerie desolation. It was in this building that the KGB office existed.

frozen sovietwave track / jamuary day 09
synths / juno-6 + sovietsynth melody
drums / tr-808 + juno-6 generated white noise
sounds / various svalbard field recording

SVALBARD UTOPI / ANOTHER SOVIET URBEX

When it does not waste its time playing video games, the OCTOPODZ blends lo-fi soundchips from depths of outta seas.

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