This short set of 5 tunes were culled from our collection of "desk recordings" and edited together for http-darkoutside.co.uk. It's made from impro/practice sessions played and mixed live straight to two track. They represent works in progress and whilst we cherry picked sections that worked well there are some wrong notes and crash mixes in there so be warned. 


The Dark Outside and All Around Us

Met up with @phalque (on guitar) today and this is a bit of what it sounded like. I think we'll be inviting him back ;)

jam with phalque

Turn up the volume and the smoke machine, turn down the lights and groove on.

This is a very rough and ready session, complete with dodgy cables, accidental notes & out-of-sync sequences - recorded and mixed live to two-track and then edited in Logic Pro - all glitches sqwonks and mistakes entirely our own work. The bell-type sequence in the middle section is a DX200 preset that I accidentally came across and which ended up driving the whole session. Also, I've wanted to try out Logic's new "AI" Drummer feature for a while and it just really fitted in here, although we'd much rather work with a real person of course. 

We leave it as an exercise for the listener to identify the couple of sounds and sequences we've used elsewhere.

If you liked this, be sure to check out our album at https://only1klaus.bandcamp.com

Default Tree

This is an excerpt from an as-yet-untitled track we are working on at the moment. The full piece is about 20 minutes long, and has three linked sections that came out of a long jam session we had in October this year.

If you liked this, be sure to check out our album at https://only1klaus.bandcamp.com

Untitled

Demo edit of a new idea based around a riff on our new Voyager synth, with secret sauce from the NW1.

If you liked this, be sure to check out our album at https://only1klaus.bandcamp.com

Whatever Happens, At Least It's Begun

Sunday afternoon messing about in the studio, we came up with this piece recorded live to the two-track. 

If you liked this, be sure to check out our album at https://only1klaus.bandcamp.com

Sunday Dark Red Jam

Moog Voyager with Waldorf NW1 oscillator on the external input, with a little bit of reverb from the Lexicon MX200 for sweetness. Playing with the various resonances and harmonic interactions that result from 4 mostly un-tuned oscillators.

Voyager Wave Drone

This piece contains bits of the intro to "Feral Teapot".  Go buy the Kl(aüs) record from Castles In Space already.  It goes on a bit.  A curio at best.

On The Precipice

A bit of noodling with our new synth - a Roland System-8.  It's pretty cute and does a bunch of very Roland stuff.

Roland System-8 in Context

Recently we had the great pleasure of improvising a score to the 1927 silent film “Berlin: Symphony of a Great City” at the Pink Flamingo cinema in Marrickville, Sydney. There was no rehearsal beforehand - one or two of us might not have even watched the film in its entirety - but we simply chose a base key signature for each act of the film and with the aid of a few favourite sequence patterns we developed the whole piece as it went along. We enjoyed the experience very much and will be looking for more opportunities like this in future, for sure.

Watch the film here: http://vimeo.com/351962683

Kl(aüs) is:
- Jonathan Elliot: Synths, Sequencers, Drum Machines
- Stewart Lawler: Synths, Sequences, Effects
- Stuart McVicar: Guitars, Effects

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