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Remix of Chakaharta's Superbroken for Harmonious Discord

Chakaharta - Superbroken (Pointbender's Superbender Mix)

Back at the controls is HD artist Patchen Preston with a peek at his long-anticipated album “Southwest Passage”, releasing later this year. Patchen is resident sound designer and longtime contributor to the HD catalog since the release of Pale Blue Dot in 2007. Patchen has been in the lab creating his next full-length project; a melodically complex and synthetically inspiring collection called “Southwest Passage”. A key single from this project is Night Skies, a lovely serenade to stargazing. To help celebrate the single HD boss PointBender, resident space traveler KiloWatts, and bright and budding star 1981US join to provide their unique take on the expansive night sky.

The original is a synth-driven slow burn that carefully tempers sound design with classic synth arpeggiation. Warm 8-bit melodies dance around the 4/4 construction carefully building momentum with periodic rises and reprises. PointBender ups the tempo and takes it deep with woody percussion, live bass licks, and mounting layers of atmosphere. KiloWatts breaks the beat and propels the piece into epic territories with light arpeggios broken up by processed bass tones. 1981US goes subterranean with tinges of urban tones and natural accents. A proper deep garage take on the original. Be on the lookout for more bites from the upcoming album as well as the full length available this fall.

Patchen - Night Skies (PointBender Remix)

The genesis of this release was formed in dark warehouses and dirt dance floors in the late 1990’s in Dallas, TX. A truly special time and locations in electronic music history budding numerous notable headlining artists. However, it wouldn’t be until tens of years later, multiple individual albums, back and forth remixes and EP’s that they would embark on writing music together using the power of the internet. KiloWatts is best known for his immersive albums that fuse organic instrumentation and synthetic manipulation. PointBender has released a litany of remixes, albums, and singles across many of the industries silent giants. Both being no strangers on the HD imprint, it felt prudent to release the second EP and first collaborative vinyl release to celebrate the years 20th anniversary.

Western Wolf is a collection of songs marrying electronic synthesis, found sound recording, live instrumentation, and written melodies. The EP starts us off with “Circling the Crown”; a slow building tease that navigates through all points deep. Fluid rattles and dulcet tones define the pace as layers drift in and out ultimately rising to the introduction of perfectly tempered dub bass. Western Wolf turns up the tempo and energy with sharp percussive accents and subdued pads. The introduction of distorted bass slaps and arpeggiated synths start to steer the piece into stronger dancefloor territory when a breakout of melodic chords shifts the mood to lighter ground showcasing a selection that sails through multiple moods. The Dub version of Western Wolf strips out the more overt melodic elements in favor of a slowly building track perfect for threading through abstract house and techno sets. The project ends with Swangert, the not so typical B-side. In this selection the duo explores parts unknown outside the confines of traditional dance music with a highly swung and constructively complex slow burn. Phased leads and short percussive bass accents flower this song keeping the momentum solid until the end. Look for more from the dynamic dup in months and years to come, including a follow-up remix EP featuring some very exciting artists.

Western Wolf

Swangert

Western Wolf (Dub)

Circling The Crown

Music creation is not all hype and roses, and few understand it as deeply as Harmonious Discord owner and synthesizer composer Sean Anderson aka PointBender. His 4th artist album is a 2.5-year journey into a growing studio discipline formed by a worldwide pandemic. In a time where humans felt so lost the importance of being close to music and the artist community was a healing force that was ever powerful. Calm, almost serene at times, to points approaching mania. Sean encompasses the entirety of the spectrum of human emotion in sound. Violaceous is a journey through deeply moody ambient, heady electro, and boundary bending house and techno music. Creative concertos that process moments of joy, grief, and experimentation. 

The stand-alone album offers a musical listening experience all its own. From the ambient and melodic beginnings of Conflict and SY35 which feature live clarinet instrumentation, experimental synth applications, and manipulated field recordings to the deeply textured electro offering CBD. For Agent of Peace, we see PointBender partner with longtime collaborator KiloWatts for beautifully constructed ivory implantations that elevates the bliss factor. Plastic Cities is an homage to early Plastic City records featuring the reunited vocal stylings of Suza Kanon who originally released early recordings with Sean on the Guidance and Fair Park imprints. Shifting powers to more playful arenas is Mistakes are OK, a fun and bass centric smooth mover that progresses into haunting overtones. Keeping it light, the undeniable weightlessness of The Bells Found Me Motionless collides staggered bells, growing pad tension, and sonically special drums into a growing cacophony of layers. Capping off our ascent is Altocumulus, an homage to early hard techno composed on all hardware and recorded linearly in real-time with friend Harmon Giddles. The final descent offers a sonic reminder of forgiveness and understanding channeled through a synth driven ambient outro. The collection of creative curiosities aims to please the ears and at times tickle the cerebrum, a familiar formula from PointBender.

Mistakes Are OK

Plastic Cities featuring Suza Kanon

Agent Of Peace featuring KiloWatts

SY35

Conflict

AMBIENT x PSYCHILL x DUB x DUB TECHNO x TECHNO

Mixed live by PointBender @ HDStudios South

01. Mathew Anderson - Art of the Draft
02. KiloWatts - Mother of Thousands
03. Bluetech - Wandering Spirits
04. Troy Gunner featuring Synkro - Is This
05. Mathew Anderson - Messenger (Mat's Quiet Version)  
06. If I Had a Hifi - Oliver 
07. Symbio - Refraction (Ill76 Remix)
08. Minotor - Past To Present
09. Ane Brun - Let Myself Go (Andre Hommen Remix)
10. Deepchild - Black Days
11. Arthur Oskan - 99


PointBender - Monolith Rising

Azieb And KiloWatts - Glimmer In The Dark (PointBender Remix)

Kilowatts And Vanek - Nankurunasia (Pointbenders Day Party Mix)

KiloWatts And Vanek - Nankurunasia (Pointbenders Warehouse Dub)

Strong Heat and Mobile Feet Mix 2023

Exodus Ted

From the upcoming Musical Missionary Album "Left Brain"

Frosted Circuit

Upcoming on Harmonious Discord 2015.

November 17th 2015

Jeffrey Tice - Where Do You Go? (PointBender and JDN Mix)

Funk Lab - Combustion (PointBender's 7 MIDI Cables Mix)

Funk Lab - Combustion (PointBender's 7 MIDI Cables Mix) [Funk Lab Records]

Joshua Kynd - The Magic In This Place (PointBender Remix) [Denied Music]

Brett Johnson and Mikey V - Runaway (PointBender Remix)

Harmonious Discord 028 PointBender - So Fell the Orbit out in November with remixes by Noah Pred, KiloWatts, Symbio, and Vital

PointBender - So Fell the Orbit

Free Download from the Musical Missionary label.Happy Holidays!!
If you like the music please make an effort to support local music programs in your area.

Check out the original here: http://soundcloud.com/auteur/velvia


Auteur - Velvia (PointBender's Dusty Drum Machine Remix) [Free Download]

AMBIENT x PSYCHILL x DUB x SLOWBURN x DUB TECHNO x HOUSE x TECHNO x DRUM AND BASS

Mixed live by PointBender @ HDStudios South

1. Gabriel Montufar - My Inner Self [Sp8tial Records]
2. KiloWatts - Wilderness Self Defense [KiloWatts Music]
3. Boxwork - Fog [Boxwork Music]
4. Ivan Latyshev - Dying to be Myself [Alae Records]
5. Acharne’- Schipol [Seppuku Recordings]
6. Spiel - Awaiting Light [ Wall of Fall Music]
7. Warsnare - Cronos [Infinite Machine]
8. Boxwork - Scotland [Boxwork Music]
9. JVXTA - Only Alone [Clipp.art]
10. Monoscope - Distance to Civilization [MFSound] 
11. Helder Russo - You Me [Tomorrow is Now Kid]
12. Emseatee - 415 [Modular Field]
13. Nahuel Lucena - Atlantis [Deep Sessions Recordings]
14. IMGFriend & Esphyr - Love Will (Rafael Cerato’s Disko Remix) [Transpecta]
15. Sebjak & David Pietras - Soleil {Release Recordings]
16. Mind Safari - Gates of Perception [Jacktone Records]
17. Acharne’ - Gauze [Seppuku Recordings]
18. Boxwork - Lambswool [Boxwork Music]
19. Warsnare - Tuner [Infinite Machine]
20. Mokujin - Full Controllness [Blaq Records]
21. Keeno - Golden Light [Med School Music]
22. Outro

Monolith Epoch

2nd Sin, Henrik Jozef - Again [Cream Couture]
Adam Nathan - Soulmachine [Viva Recordings]
Adam Nathan - Coda [Viva Recordings]
Alex Pina - Elephant Trunks (R. Sales Mix) [Bit To Bit]
Teddy Sex Drum - Solace [Denied]
Dustin Swint - Blue in the Face [A38]
JV - Every Time (Dorian Remix) [Harmonious Discord]
Tone of Arc - Sundust [Roam Recordings]
Sweet Anomaly and Dugong - What May Come (Alicia Hush Remix) [Occultists]
Oona Dahl - So Cruel (Nite Version) [Hallucienda]
Rebolledo - Discotico (Maceo Plex Remix) [Hippie Dance]
Jeromy Nail - Dontcha Care (Hanssen Remix) [Innerflight Music]
Coy West - Gerd (Jimmy Luna Remix) [Denied]
Will Konitzer - Rotate (Pablo del Monte Remix) [Denied]
Jeffrey Tice - Once Again, My Friend (PointBender Remix) [Harmonious Discord]
De’Antonio and Dorian - Walking Blind [Dub Research]
CHKLTE - Baby Mama [Beatamin]
Djuma Soundsystem - Duende [Get Physical]
Sebjak - Fellas [Bibliotheque Records]
H.O.S.H - Better and Sweet [KNM]
Litex - Vessel [Harmonious Discord]
Maceo Plex - Keplers Journey [Lone Romantic]

Guest Mix for Proton Radio [04.05.2018]

From our first EP in 2001 distributed by Guidance US (www.33prm.com).  Produced by Sean Anderson (PointBender) and Eric Reeves under the Grey moniker.

Grey - Lumina [Guidance 2001]

A remix I put together to celebrate the release of The Suffers second album "Everything Here".

Please support the band: http://www.thesuffers.com/

What You Said (PointBender Remix)

The Suffers - What You Said (PointBender Remix)

Out now on major outlets.

*Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/track/roughshine-original-mix/11727091
*Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7H1MIePcZPLUQKkTgl5wDO
*iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/roughshine-single/1455444759
* Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/pointbender-roughshine/4075023-02/

Roughshine

Digital Dreaming

Luv And Gutts

Recorded live @ Sweet Chive March 14th 2019

Live @ SXSW 2019

PointBender @ Harmonious Discord and Denied 2019 SXSW Showcase

Everything But the Girl - Lullabye for Clubland (PointBender's Streetside Dub)

Excited to introduce this special mix for the Vibe Vessel Vibecast. My goal was to feature sonic selections from regional artists and across seas friends. Tribal and percussively driven introductions from artists like Cody Inner, Michael Clies, and Roman march into headier waters with diverse shades from MA and Mr. Sosa. Tension and musicality mount when Gaelle’s “Rain” provides a welcome vocal reprieve. In this mix is featured a preview of my upcoming collaboration EP with KiloWatts with a remix from Finley and also an upcoming vinyl release on my label Harmonious Discord by Jay Tripwire. Rounding out the hour senses shift into drifting techno with contributions from Matthias Springer and Patrick Zigon. Navigating these shifting moods aims to give a perfect mixture or flavors for your fall season.

CHVRCHES - Leave a Trace (Four Tet Remix) [Every Open Eye]
Web Web - Maroc Blues (Michael Cleis Remix) [Compost]
Cody - Inner (Mihai Popoviciu Remix) [Selectro]
Roman - Yi Yi Mama [Coya]
Cody - Lost in Peru (Sakdat & Balaur Remix) [Selectro]
M.A. - Renegade [Enough!]
KiloWatts and PointBender - Lawless (Finley Remix) [Upcoming Denied]
Mr. Sosa - Tropic Daze [Clippart]
Gazel - Rain is Coming (Pangea Remix) [Are You Hearing This?]
SageThaCat - Dizzy [Moonlight Records]
Jay Tripwire - IKA [Harmonious Discord]
Marabou State - Turnmills (Mano le Tough Remix) [Counter Records]
Matthias Springer - Restrained Pressure [Hypnotic Room]
Patrick Zigon - The French Paradox [Traumraum]
Joris Vorn - Ryo [BMG]

Recorded on Serato with vinyl control @ Black Lodge Studios

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VIBECAST VOLUME 13: POINTBENDER

Morgan Page featuring Tegan and Sara - Body Work (PointBender Remix)

Unofficial Remix - Acapella provided by Morgan Page.  Instrumentation and Construction by PointBender

Mastering by Brad Dale @ Dallas Audio Post

01.10.2013 Re-uploaded with final mixdown and mastering

Original by Morgan Page http://www.beatport.com/track/body-work-feat-tegan-and-sara-club-mix/3093217

Morgan Page featuring Tegan and Sara - Body Work (PointBender Remix)

PointBender @ The Oven ATX

PointBender- Pillow

Harmonious Discord 034 KiloWatts - Windsong Remixes  **OUT APRIL 15TH**

3. KiloWatts - End of Year (PointBender Remix)

Mastered by Brad Dale

Jamie Watts aka KiloWatts has a long tenure and impressive body of work contributed to the Harmonious Discord imprint.  He has been an integral component to the shaping of our sound over the years and we have in turn watched him become a household name for deep, mind-altering compositions.  KiloWatts first appeared on the HD label with a glitched out breaky contribution to our 5th release in early 2004.  Since then he has been featured in 3 artist ep’s, 2 remixes, and 1 sampler contribution.

It was to our extreme delight when we heard in early 2012 that KiloWatts was planning on releasing a year long project album focused on a return to his roots as a piano virtuoso.  The project first appeared in Kickstarter campaign with a teaser video (see below) and was titled “Acceptitude”.  The fans amassed and not only helped Jamie reach his goal but shatter his projections.  It is this type of organic fan connection that makes us love artists like KiloWatts.

To celebrate our love for the album we chose one of our favorite tracks.  “Windsong” is a hypnotic dream sequence blown away by brisk winds of change.  It mixes precise sonic definition with happy accidents in time and space.  We enlisted a couple of great artists to present their spin on this selection.  Ill76, Vital, and label boss PointBender all bring their unique style to the remix project and with the inclusion of an exclusive new KiloWatts tune this release is guaranteed to bring a fresh breathe to the tech landscape.

Harmonious Discord 034 KiloWatts – Windsong Remixes

1. Windsong

2. Windsong (Vital Remix)

3. Windsong (Ill76 Remix)

4. End of Year (PointBender Remix)

5. Three’s Threes

The original over-arching theme to the “Acceptitude” album was to use a live piano to create musical compositions and marry them with electronic synthesis, effects, and technology manipulation.  This created a colliding of analog and digital worlds to create a mosaic of emotions that can only be conveyed by partnering the unpredictability and warmth of analog instruments and the precision and control of a digital environment.  These themes dance in and out of the album and regardless of what bpm or genre of music that you are currently on KiloWatts stays true to the methodology throughout.  Nestled in the middle of the album is a track with gobs of organic dissonance while keeping a structure that is dance-floor friendly.  Windsong mixes romantic piano melodies with middle eastern sounding digital synth manipulations.  All are swept into a flurry of delay and reverb washes that increase in intensity and complexity.  Our label resident half-step czar, Vital returns to the label with a deep 4/4 rendition of the original.  Vital takes the original into late night jazz territory.  The calm atmospheres and melodic stabs seem to have a hazey quality as they dance between slowly building percussive elements.  This late night excursion intensifies with open hats and introductions of the original piano melody.  Following the success of his recent contribution the yearly Discordian Dreaming Sampler, Ill76 is back to showcase a dubbed out warehouse techno tune.  He takes a minimal approach keeping the late night attitude in focus with giant sounding dub sweeps and swung percussion that sounds like a mess of fall leaves being shuffled.  The introduction of a sharp analog bass-line staples this pieces place in the deep underground.  Label front-man PointBender in his infinite defiance decides to pick another hot selection from the “Acceptitude” album and provides a huge space techno revision of the song “End of Year”.  PointBender’s take uses the melodic elements but in a techno friendly cadence with real club presence.  Short mirrored glitches and big FM bass make this remix stand out among the house standards.  We close this project with a very special exclusive contribution from KiloWatts in the form of a breaky/melodic song that you would be hard pressed to identify with any genre.  This is what Jamie does best, bend the rules of historic genre classification, and this is why we look forward to many collaborations with him.

KiloWatts-End of Year (PointBender's Remix)

Lawless

Pointbender & KiloWatts - Lawless

Pointbender & KiloWatts - Let's Not Go Crazy

Pointbender & KiloWatts - Without A Tres

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