https://plugexpert.bandcamp.com/album/electro-techniker

"Many moons ago, it must have been a weekend in early 1993, a friend came over with a bunch of disks for the Amiga 500. Mostly games and a few demo's, but also disks with .mod rips written on the label and a disk named utilities. Through a knowledgeable Amiga contact he had learned that the musical content of the demo-scene exhibitions we were addicted watching & listening to (e.g; Jesus on E’s, Spaceballs & LSD demo's), could be opened through so called tracker programs which were installed on the utility disk. Out of all the programs listed, we randomly chose Protracker and after booting, inserted a song disk to load and play a mod rip. As a 14 year old kid I was fascinated seeing the structure of breakbeat rave music running in Protracker for the first time. How the music visually translated across patterns of hexadecimal numbered lines, hearing the succession of note-events, seeing how triggering of samples at different pitches at the same time related to harmony, seeing how the distance between notes related to rhythm. The realization that similar to construction with Lego, this program enabled you to build your own arrangements out of samples. It opened up a possibility to create the music that I loved on a ‘personal computer’ in my bedroom and all of this without having the need for expensive midi gear, I was mesmerized (*cue mindblown.gif*). This was something I wanted to do, create music! I spend the rest of the year playing around with sounds from the shared modules, learning the program inside out through trial and error, without rtfm because there simply was no manual. The Amiga only had four mono 8-bit channels and very limited memory (max 1mb with the ram upgrade) so you had to be creative using the available resources. Eventually I saved up for a techno sound turbo sampler which facilitated the recording of external sound-sources, gradually getting better at essentially creating the same song. 
I guess through the plugexpert moniker I’m trying to recreate the initial excitement that I felt as a kid, often referencing the old through design and choice of sounds interleaved with current influences and technology. 

To celebrate 20+ years of tracking I present you this free 90's inspired tour de force selection of technical, messy & fun glitchy breakbeat tracks, b-sides & outtakes, mixed with obligatory video game bleep bloop sounds ;-) .
credits
released July 16, 2014 

Richard Jonas on the beats. 

Artwork by G.W. van Biene, from collection ReclameArsenaal, www.reclamearsenaal.nl, raped by me adding a few smileys in photoshop .

tags: electronic beats braindance breakbeat drum and bass electro electronica idm juke jungle rave Nijmegen

license: all rights reserved"

Electro Techniker. - 10 Nothing Sacred

Electro Techniker. - 02 Altijd 1993 (1mb Upgrade)

Electro Techniker. - 01 S.S.G.N

Forgotten tracks & variation in productions made in the year 2000. 

A new millennium, a new home & computer. No more trackers to make music with as my beloved Fasttracker stopped working in windows 98, I had to find another solution. 

These recordings are tracks I've made in the year 2000, mostly live vst/hardware tweaking jams or beatloops made for my brother to rap on. I found it hard converting to a horizontal approach of arranging in Cubase, moving, copying sample blocks around with the mouse instead of being able to quickly dial in a breakbeat with the computer keyboard. Nonetheless opposed to feeling like I had control, playing around, being more in a searching-mode also had its charm :) . 

Gear used on these; 

Computer; 
PIII 667mhz 

Software; 
cubase 5.1 + vst(i) 
Bram Bos Hammerhead & tuareq 
Propellorhead rebirth 

Hardware; 
behringer mixer 
Virtualizer (x2) 
Modulalizer 
Roland Alpha Juno II 

Tracks recorded straight to a Philips cdr 930 mini audio cd recorder.
credits
released December 31, 2000

8 Oelek - Make Me

7 Richard Jonas - Lillijk

6 Richard Jonas - Hoffmann Session

5 Richard Jonas - Sometimes Beat

4 Richard Jonas - Priekie

3 Richard Jonas - AH Kaas

2 Richard Jonas - Master Control (vip)

1 Richard Jonas - TIKTAK (intro)

Edited mix of a 3 part collage on bandcamp.  

In the release there are also hidden/bonus flacs off all the individual sounds used, sporting a creative commons, non-commercial, attribute, share-a-like licence. 

Sounds used were created in 2004 during a dark spell.

credits
released January 1, 2004 

Sound; RJ 
Photo; DJ

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