my sound design experiment turned into this rough arrangement.

Beauty Of Simple Things  -  WIP

CHRISSY MURDERBOT feat. MC ZULU - "the vibe is so right (QUADRATIC 2 bad 4 u rmx)"

135 to 161 bpm - unofficial remix

http://quadraticmusic.net

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chris widman + colin harris of QUADRATIC (and chicago's ABSTRACT SCIENCE) turn in a hyped up remix of CHRISSY MURDERBOT + MC ZULU's "vibe is so right", the single off CHRISSY's forthcoming "women's studies" album on planet mu. channeling the sounds uk hardcore + early rephlex records, QUADRATIC turn "the vibe is to right" into a 2 BAD MICE worthy dj tool for 2011. perfect for DJs looking to transition smoothly between dubstep/house/funky/electro and footwork/jungle/glitch hop, the remix starts at 135 bpm and ends at 161 bpm.

CHRISSY MURDERBOT's "women's studies" LP is out 5/9/11 digitally + vinyl/cd 5/31/11
http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ294

CHRISSY MURDERBOT feat. MC ZULU -"vibe is so right-QUADRATIC 2 bad 4 u rmx"

BREAK SALE VOL. 1 ep preview: break sale p1, crusty, worm + soul juke 

QUADRATIC releases 4 new bass oddities covering a range of tempos and styles: break collage, dubstep, glitch hop + footwork/juke.

download here: pay what you like!
http://quadratic.bandcamp.com/album/break-sale-vol-1


QUADRATIC break sale vol.1 - EP preview: break sale p1, crusty, worm + soul juke

This is an old song we've never released.  We used to play this in 2010 when we would open for dubstep artists and play this song to transition to our off-kilter garage tracks.

Big Boots Call and Response

This is an older unreleased song we used to play frequently at our live shows.  It's a sort of transition song when we needed to change from footwork to drum break based tunes.

That's Not Right

This is an older song that we never quite got around to releasing.

Hot Like An Asstronaut

This is an old track from 2009 that we could never quite figure out what to do with.  I don't think Chris has ever let us play this out live, and i'm only posting this because he's not around. 8).  

We created this track back when we opened for a lot of dubstep artists and we needed tracks that sounded dubstep like to transition in and out of more quadratic songs. 

What's interesting to me is how the kick and the bass create the basic footwork rhythm a few years before we learned it existed.  It's some sort of missing link between the dubstep and footwork eras, but with some synth orchestra thrown in.

hope you enjoy

Tintinnabulation - rough mix

Here is some processing of an 808 set from my TR-8.  The plain version is through my mixer with a tiny bit of saturation from overloading the input.  I've run the light and heavy versions through my hand-built hairball audio clone of a Universal Audio 1176 Rev A.  I've disabled the compression so there's only the saturation from the two transformers and the class A discrete amplifiers inside.  Enjoy!

1176 - Process Plain

1176 - Process Light

1176 - Process Hard

ringing in my ears

QUADRATIC crafts dance floor oddities that skirt the boundaries of dubstep, techno and detroit electro. since their first ep release in 2008, the long-simmering collaboration of CHRIS WIDMAN and COLIN HARRIS of abstract science has impressed chicago crowds opening for DAEDELUS, HUDSON MOHAWKE, KODE9, RUSKO, DISTANCE, KING CANNIBAL, ISOLEE, OTT, LORN and BLOCKHEAD. WIDMAN is best known as a dj, promoter and long-time host of the chicago radio program abstract science on WLUW 88.7fm. over the years, he has shared the bill with a diverse cast of underground luminaries -- including AMON TOBIN, CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, MODESELEKTROR, M83, MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, MONOLAKE, PLAID, THE ORB, SKREAM, UNKLE and ULRICH SCHNAUSS-- played every type of event imaginable, from raves to operas. WIDMAN was named a SMARTBAR resident dj in 2010 and continues to co-promote SUBFIX, the city's most prominent dubstep night. colin harris is an agile developer who spent many hours of his youth tweaking lines of code, playing with music trackers (and guitars), and pumping hours of bass-drive out of his computer subwoofer. graduating from a casio sk5 to fruity loops to ableton live, harris has transformed his programming skills to adapt custom devices for live performance. the duo first met in 1998 at widman's club residency in columbia, missouri, where he first encouraged, and eventually, invaded harris' music projects: widman's experience as a dj and drummer complementing harris's sense of melody and technical dexterity. the result is QUADRATIC.

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