Arms and Sleepers - 'What Tomorrow Brings'

New album out now on Pelagic Records:
https://orcd.co/armsandsleepers
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Pt. 1 ** Innocence: tracks 1-5
Pt. 2 ** Melancholy: tracks 6-9
Pt. 3 ** Rupture: tracks 10-13
Pt. 4 ** Reflection: tracks 14-17
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Contact:
hello@armsandsleepers.com

Press Inquiries:
harry@hanglands.com
jasmine@pelagic-records.com
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What Tomorrow Brings

Nautica

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Jazz Cool Guts - Questions

BRANDÃO - GAZEV

Because Of You - original track by SKender Makota
Artwork: Dorotea Hrenek www.doroteart.com

Version:2021 Fall
Recorded live to two, in Chicago,  Fall 2021 at Skeyelab Bradley Place - operated by Eric Dahl - thanks for letting me add on your Moogs on top of mine!!

Skeyelab Sessions - Skender Makota Balkanimal.com

Dub 4/7 - Fourth version/mixdown/dub out of a series of 7 different versions of the same song. 
The original, or 1/7 mix was one of the first songs I ever actually wrote/finished back in 2001 while studying Production/Engineering/Synthesis major and piano/bass as principal instruments at Berklee College of Music. I finished it using this new awesome thing called Reason/Rebirth - I finally realized that apart from Pro tools, reason was fix it all for me as I would not have to fight over studio time, deal with musicians issues, I could make songs right here in my Boston student closet/bedroom! 

And I did, wrote many of the songs here back then, this End Of The World (Diluted Sky at the time) song being really if not the very first track ever... so it deserves a bit of a better presentation.

Therefore, I will soon follow with all of the other mixes, and upload an album of this one song, told in many different ways - from ambient, downtempo, to elektro, electronica, to deep house and house! 
I will do the same for some other songs I wrote in that period and also have multiple mixes.

Today, I love playing an instrument or composing in other ways, mouse clicking was a curse I could not get passed, but I am still often using Reason to get the ideas moving, or add more old stuff in a new mix in Logic etc. 

Using it back then in 2001 and onward as a scratch pad and basically in my mind already hearing what should be there once I reopen in Pro Tools/Logic and move on... a reminder of what should be where was precious, knowing full well that in order to get the big sound, I would need a bigger box than my G4 tower and ditch the headphones if I wanted to preserve my hearing!
:0 but that was fine with me, and I was hooked!

Of course, now I use everything but love analog Moog synths and Ableton as my second step tool, where live mixing and live PA is an experience in itself with endless possibilities of on the fly composing - still the easiest way to sync and devote to playing, not fiddling :)

With these mixes released in one album they will be representing my progress and sound over the years in one package, and this is exciting to me :). 
Even the Live PA mixes from the Originals Series (about to released) all of the songs will be Released individually.

Hope you enjoy it, let me know if you like it and which version did you like the best!

Because Of You - Dub 4/7 - v2021 Skeyelab Sessions - Skender Makota Balkanimal.com

Cultural Rhytmn

Cloudnine

Neon Skies

Happy Black History Month Beautiful People!!
CHIEF! is a genre ambiguous beat tape that highlights the Greatness that is African Artistry. From the Caribbean to East Africa, you will hear samples created or directly inspired by African artists. As a first gen son to Ghanaian parents, I always dreamed of the day that I will use my talents to give back to my people overseas. This project serves as a step in the right direction. Engage with this post, cop a digital copy on Bandcamp, and continue to celebrate this blessed leap year. Cheers ^^

CHIEF!

V5 Freestyle

#cover #歌ってみた #vocaloid 

#FIEP.10

Mix : @KARL_b2w

[mèo] 一角獣(일각수) Cover by 메오

Empty Souls

Original tracks composed and produced/engineered/played by Skender Makota
Keys/piano; MOOG, ROLANd, KORG
Bass guitar:- Sandberg Jazz bass; 
Synth: - Moog bass, synth lines, 
Guitar: poor man's (me) Gibson - the pretty awesome Epiphone Les Paul, Moog Subarmonicon, Moog DFAM, Moog Mother32, Moog MINITAUR (I used this baby a LOT, especially in the earlier unreleased work you can hear on this page, or my website + download for free). 
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Visit www.balkanimal.com for more songs and free downloads - focus on upbeat original house, chicago house, techno etc, dj mixes, remixes... 
I host some cool remixes there cause Soundcloud won't accept them here, check it out under Remixes page

Visit www.skendermakota.com for more music in all sub-genres, work in progress, melodic ideas in ambient, drum n bass, downtempo, electro, pop, and of course - jazz which I love, as well as live band jamming recordings... 
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All downloadable in hi-res format 44k/16-bit 
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Balkanimal - focus on live pa performances where I try to recreate different mixes of my own original house, deep house, tech house, techno, minimal, ambient, jungle, drum'n'space... well, you get the  idea :)
IF IT MOVES, THEN IT GROOVES!
Sourced from yesterday, merged with tomorrow, and I got today. 

I try to not restrict myself in the world of electronic music composition and creation by doing my staying within the confines of the sub-genre expectations, lingering in the (boring) safe zone, the beaten path which in my view is a waste of time and zzzzzz, 
I try to push the envelope and reinvent. 
I also like meeting, collaborating and otherwise hanging out with people who share this view, not just music and art, but science, education, life and social acceptance, where we truly are equal cause we truly feel that way. 
Trend followers are not worth my time, neither am I worth theirs.. but if you want to reinvent, and have fun in life doing it by exploring options in electronic music creation... then by all means - we're already friends!

contact: musicnlight@gmail.com
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Future historians do not follow trends...
They set the trend followers on the right path to the future!
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Because Of You - Dub 4/7 - v2021 Skeyelab Sessions - Skender Makota Balkanimal.com

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