This is only a small choice of all the brilliant music found on Soundcloud! These are pieces i really have come to love among a huge choice of brilliant music out there...i tried hard to limit this one to, lets say, 20 .....so much for that one! Please check out all the other music i slapped likes on and if you like the stuff, let the awesome musicians know! Let's see what i find in 2015! Peace, Reinhard
P.S. And, oh yes, while it is very nice of you to slap a like on this list it is way more important to "like" the individual tracks as valuable feedback for the creators of this amazing music! Now, go on, dig and enjoy! 


Inspiring the weird mechanic in 2013 and 2014. What made the machine dance!

This is a one take live performance of a new track made entirely with DaveSmithInstruments Tempest analog drum machine. Recorded with Cockos Reaper in one take. Only slight compression and EQ added with MOTU Ultralite mk3 as well as a little bit of reverb. No other treatment was made. Just RAW Tempest sound. 
Also all sounds designed from scratch. 
Comments are as always are very welcome.

Ne-Tek - Some Madness For Your Ears (work in progress)

For this track I wanted to try using the Korg Volca Keys as a sequencer for my Juno-106. “How is that possible?!?,” you might ask. Well I’ll tell you how. I have modded the Volca Keys to include a MIDI out port. Using this mod I sent the MIDI out from the Volca Keys to the Juno-106. Both synths played the same sequence, but because the Volca Keys is polyphonic the Juno-106 consistently played chords, while I switched modes on the Volca Keys between poly, unison, and fifths, etc. I fleshed out the piece by adding an arp provided by the Bass Station II and a bass line from the Tempest.

Wall of Synth Part 1

Silvie von Tiefengrund: Analogue E-Drums Vermona DRM1 MKIII triggert by the e-Drumset, Snare through the Vermona Filter Lancet
Mick von Tiefengrund: Analog Synthesizers
Eurorack Modular for sequences,
Vermona Perfourmer , Doepfer Dark Energy and Korg MS 20 Mini for solo playing.
The trumpet like sound is the Dark Energy.

Another live performance with my synthesizers and my wife Silvie on the e-drumset.
The recording and mixing is absolutly live, on one track . No overdubs
All sequences come from my eurorack modular system.
There are only 8 and 16 step analog sequencer used.
The computer is only used for audio recording on one stereo track.
On the picture you can see a part of the curret patch for this jam session!


"The Great March" Live Analog Jam Session by e-tiefengrund

Kometenregen

I patched this up with my baby daughter strapped to my breast, sleeping. When I recorded the Rhodes parts, she sat next to me and banged the keys. My wife supplied the the countermelody in the middle. Its a family song.

Song of the Sea

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John C.S. Keston is an award winning composer of electronic, experimental, and instrumental music. His work embraces the chaotic ambiguities of environmental and sensorial influences providing context within unpredictable or everyday events. His unconventional compositions convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance and generative techniques, analog and digital synthesis, experimental sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. His compositions parallel indeterminate improvisation activating what remains immutable within traditional forms of notation driven music. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, to contribute to the work.

His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015) presented at the MNKINO Film Score Fest. He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on Unearthed Music. His latest release, Isosceles (2016) has drawn comparisons to the Stranger Things soundtrack. In 2011 he won the Minnesota Emerging Composers Award for electronic musicians. In 2013 he won the Jerome Fund for New Music for his project documenting binaural duets with the Singing Ringing Tree in the UK. 

John has performed and exhibited original work at Northern Spark, an all night arts festival with over 200,000 attendees (MN); the Weisman Art Museum (MN); the Montreal Jazz Festival; the Walker Art Center; the Burnet Gallery (MN); the In/Out Festival of Digital Performance (NYC); the Eyeo Festival (MN); INST-INT (MN); Echofluxx (Prague); WMC (Miami); and Moogfest (NC). In addition, Keston has worked with Atmosphere, Jon Davis, Martin Dosh, Peter Hennig, Joshua Herbst, Cody McKinney, Graham O'Brien, Adam Svec, and Nils Westdal to name a few. John resides in Minneapolis where he is a professor of creative multimedia at the University of St. Thomas and founded the widely read sound design resource  <a href="http://audiocookbook.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AudioCoobook.org</a> where he shares sounds and writes about his unique approach to composition, production, and performance.