A collection of ambient pieces, each recorded to 8 track tape and then sent directly to stereo master cassettes, where they were uploaded without any additional processing.  There will be lots of tape hiss.

An Analog Ambient Aggregation

A simple ambient piece, with an ebbing and flowing foundation of a Jupiter 8 slow LFO suspended 9 chord through a Dimension D and Stereo Phaser.  I manually open and close the filter on the Oberheim FVS1, switching up octaves toward the end.  I throw in some Yamaha CS60 for good measure as a nice vocal string frequency range.  All of these signals are then processed through a Lexicon 224 with dimed out settings, and a fast timed RE-201 Space Echo.  Recorded on reel to reel Tascam 388 and uploaded for your enjoyment.

Morning Light

The Synthi A, pulsing oscillator envelope, accompanied by the Prophet 5 rev 2. As always, recorded to tape on the 388.

Purring Circuits of the Ancient Electric Beast

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Release date: 5th December 2022

“Music is one of the most free forms of art. It’s a way of expressing yourself and communicating with people without having to say anything.” - Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis says his new album ‘Through The Mirror Glass’ has existed in idea-form for a very long time – most of his life, in fact. The album is inspired by the movies he grew up watching with soundtracks by James Horner, Thomas Newman and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and the tropes and rhythms of electronic music. Davis has wanted to connect the two ever since he started producing, so this album is his first full-length foray into cinematic electronic music.

In 2001 Davis’ bought a pair of turntables and started DJing at local bars. His first releases were unnamed white label tracks mainly produced on his primitive desktop computer. He couldn’t afford decent speakers so he’d shuttle back and forth to clubs in Magdeburg to play the track, then drive home to make edits. In 2007 he co-founded his own vinyl label Maripoza, which means butterfly in Spanish, and launched his digital labels Klangwelt and Back Home a few years later.

In 2006 he released his first solo EP, which sold close to 1500 copies on vinyl. He released dozens of tracks throughout the late 2000s and became a pioneer of the neo-trance movement. But he always maintained an interest in classical, cinematic and downtempo composition despite his dance-floor ready releases. So his debut album ‘Particles of Bliss’ on Traum Schallplatten in 2012, which married low-tempo and ambient tracks with up-beat, danceable productions, revealed the full spectrum of his musical interest.

Davis teamed up with Anjunadeep for the first time in 2012 with a remix of Andrew Bayer’s catalogue classic ‘Gaff’s Eulogy’. This led to a series of EPs showcasing the melodic, downtempo side to his artistry. He’d long wanted to create a full-length project for Anjuna, so when Above & Beyond launched Reflections in 2022, Davis knew he’d found the perfect home for his next album. 

“With electronic music I have access to a never-ending palette of sounds. This album has been inside me for ages, but computers just weren’t good enough. I didn’t know how to arrange notes to create an orchestra or to record a violin, but now Spitfire Audio has built these incredible samples. I have BBC One’s orchestra at my fingertips.”

Ultimately, Ryan Davis hopes ‘Through The Mirror Glass’ will act as a sonic space to reflect and hold fragile memories. The mirror glass is a way to look at yourself, and simultaneously look behind you, at what’s brought you to this point.

‘Through The Mirror Glass’ is out now on Reflections.

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Through The Mirror Glass

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Psychedelic Melancholia

Felipe Gordon - Psychedelic Melancholia

OXYTOCIN

A generative music piece based on several algorithmically interpreted schemas, featuring the Oberheim OB-8, the Jupiter-8, and the Prophet 5.

Electric Things Have Their Life, Too...Paltry As Those Lives Are

A simple modal piece using only a Yamaha CS-80.

The Freedom To Do Everything Is a Tyranny (a CS-80 solo piece)

An Oberheim OB-8 chordal pad loop, slowed to half speed, drowned in reverb from the Lexicon 224.

A Religion Of Solitude

pairing the juno alpha with the yamaha dx100 with a lil live bass

Cool Toon

Direct Cuts Redux

Direct Cut (Gerd Janson Edit)

Great music is often about chance meetings and impromptu creative sessions and so it is that Hell Yeah proudly serves up Sensory Blending, a new collaborative album from Italian collective Aura Safari and Finnish musician Jimi Tenor. The nine-track record arrives on 26th April 2024 and is a lush and luxurious fusion of jazz-funk styles.

This glorious record came about after Tenor was playing a Hell Yeah party at Tangram in Perugia. Aura Safari were local and, in some free time the day before the gig, everyone jumped in the studio together. They had never met before but soon found plenty of free-flowing common ground and the result of that one-off session is now served up on this vibrant new album that brims with musicality, indelible melodies and subtly uplifting vibrations.

Tenor has toured the world and previously collaborated with the likes of Japanese master Calm. He is a psychedelic space-jazz-funk king, skilled musician, composer and producer who, since the mid-nineties, has released more than 25 albums and 45 EPs. Aura Safari is made up of bass, synth, guitar and keys players Lorenzo Francioli, Ruggero Bonucci, Nicola Pitassio Andrea Moretti, Lorenzo Lavoratori, Daniele Melloni and Nicholas Iammatteo, and they are label regulars who served up their sublime Island Dreams album here last year.

Says Jimi, who enjoyed his time in Perugia and adds that "the studio session was 100% efficient. I showed up and we started to play. Almost all that was made was material that we could use for the album. I love to work fast. Quick brushstrokes. Finish! I was amazed at how intuitively the Aura Safari guys could come up with new parts for songs. I mentioned some feeling or approach and they seemed to find it just like that.”

'Bodily Synesthesia' is the seductive opener with steamy sax notes and gentle grooves that are topped by aloof vocal whispers. 'Lunar Wind' is another slow and steamy mix of jazzy keys and soulful vocal hooks, 'Bewitched By The Sea' is a more tropical and percussive number with majestic melodies and 'My Bluebell' picks up the pace with jazz-funk grooves and hustling chords. 'Last Waltz In Perugia' has freeform sax lines soaring over meticulous drums that ebb and flow and 'Gimlet' brings a playful, samba-tinged rhythm and sunny flute leads straight from South America. There's a laidback, carefree mood to 'It's Too Easy To Love You' while 'Your Magic Touch' is a dancey number that exudes melodic joy, and 'Indigo' closes in dramatic fashion with a conversational sax that sticks long in the memory.  

Sensory Blending is a seamless fusion of collaborative minds from Aura Safari and Jimi Tenor and it could well be performed live at some special select shows later in the year.

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Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor - It's Too Easy To Love You

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Old Voltage is an all vintage and analog recording studio based in SoCal, featuring some of the most legendary synthesizers of all time, recorded directly to tape on our Tascam 388.  Old Voltage is also an independent label, specializing in an old school approach to music making and recording.

Hit us up at OldVoltageMusic@gmail.com !

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