This is a varied collection of pretty energetic house and tech house tracks. Most tracks recorded to either reel-to-reel or cassette with a variety of synths and drum machines.

Collected Trax Vol. 1

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Hit The Ground Running

Testing out my new REAPER set up with the studio, got everything hooked up again for doing piano-rolly stuff again.

Of course I got distracted instead and made a short little simple house track with the Poly61. Chord memory is a powerful drug.

Poly61 on chords, 909 cassette samples on drums, Boog on bass.

Distractions

Aquatic Ambience from DKC. This isn't a full one-to-one cover, but it's pretty close. More or less adapted directly from the 8-bit Music Theory transcription.

Equipment:
Dreadbox Erebus
Roland JP-08
Volca Beats
Roland Cloud JX-3P
Maybe my Roland D-05? Idk
Walrus Audio Fathom
Earthquaker Devices Space Spiral

Aquatic Ambience

who cares if you die, who cares? i care if you live, i care.

A cover of the most iconic arcade system from the 90s, the Neo Geo.

Neo Geo Boot

Got my hands on the Artiuria MicroFreak a few weeks ago.  This is the first track I've put out so far.  A return to my breakbeat roots.

"Dirty Basement" by 76

eurodrops

first house jam with the tr-8s
i need more 1/4" cables

TR-8s House Jam

plinkyplonk

alright time for some more fun, I dunno if this sounds any good cause I can't tell anymore lol

Freese

Wanted to make something at the very least tonight, lots of fun!

Luminosity

Oooooh, this one turned out pretty smooth. Quite enjoying the Hypnosis so far, sounding as good as it looks! I've got quite a smoooooth video coming too for this track.

Manther is on bass duties, and also gate/CV's rings in 2-op FM mode. Clock from Manther slaves both Marbles/o_C-Sequins and the Rytm. Sequins sequences Plaits for chord root and chord structure, as well as providing gate to Lil Erebus for the filter envelope. Plaits' ODD output goes through Lil Erebus for the filter, then through the Blue Lantern Stereo Delay for some widening. Then there's a little Clouds muckin around and ba-bam! You got some weirdness.

Oh and of course, Rytm does drums as well as a little synthy line. Pretty good stuff!

Funky

Alright! Now we've got a track going, this is the finished version of what I started yesterday. Big difference is the GS-30 guitar amp simulator from Tascam, which I put on the Manther for that sweet crunch. It's quite the nice little crunchbox, gives some good life to stuff.

Anyways, this features some samples from Mike Huckabee's down under pack on his site. Figured it's probably the best way to remember the guy, do some pretty chill house with those amazing Wave chords he had.

Hucka

I was listening to one of my favorite tracks and realized that I could super easily make a little track out of maybe a sample of it. Bonus points for anyone that can ID the track :D

Anyways, this is Manther on 101-esque bass, Rytm on drums and samples, and Microfreak and Plaits on aux arps and weirdness. Those two go through the Hypnosis and the DBX 900 for sidechained compression, while the Manther goes through the GS-30 again.

This is the digital take, as the damn 246 is doing a dumb again!!! I think I need to clean the heads, apparently I record too much haha.

Hubb

Technically award-winning sound guy and music boy

I'm back bitches!

I post a lot of music here, sometimes slightly under-done stuff. Check back every now and then if you like a track, cause there's a good chance that a day after I put it up I will have already replaced the original file lol.

I moderate the synth discord, if you want to drop in and talk some shop or goof about, go here: https://discord.gg/hCuvGvc

My current equipment list is:
Akai AX80 (analog poly synth)

Behringer Neutron (analog duo synth)
Behringer Model D (analog mono synth)
Behringer Deepmind12D (analog poly synth)
Behringer RD-8 (analog drum synth)
Behringer MS-101 (analog mono synth)

Elektron Analog Rytm Mk1 (hybrid drum synth/sampler)
Elektron Octatrack Mk1 (digital sampler/resampler/looper/sequencer/mixer)

Korg DW-8000 (hybrid poly synth)
Korg Poly800 (analog paraphonic synth)
Korg Volca Beats (analog drum machine)
Korg Volca Keys (analog paraphonic synthesizer)
Korg Volca Drum (digital drum synth)
Korg Volca Modular (mini modular synth)

Hammond L100 (tone-wheel tube organ)

Oberheim Matrix 6 (analog poly synth)

Roland JX-3P (analog poly synth)
Roland JX-10 (analog poly synth)
Roland JV-880 (digital poly synth)
Roland JD-800 (digital poly synth)
Roland MKS-50 (analog poly synth)
Roland REVO-120 (Leslie emulator)
Roland S-550 (digital sampler)
Roland CR-68 (analog rhythm machine)
Roland MV-8000 (studio sequencer/sampler/brain)

Studio Electronics ATC-1 (analog mono synth)

Yamaha TX81Z(digital FM synth)
Yamaha SHS-10 (cheap digital keytar)

Doric 61TT Transistorized Organ (combo organ, like Farfisa)

Eurorack Modular

Tascam 246 (4-track tape recorder)
Tascam 238 Syncassette (8-track tape recorder)

Radio Shack MX-1000 (6 channel mic amp/mixer)
Yamaha EMS-10 mk2 (6 channel PA amp/mixer w/ spring)
Mackie 32-8 (32 channel/8 bus mixer)

BOSS RX-100 (spring reverb)
Roland SDE-2500 (15-bit digital delay)
Roland RE-101 (tape echo)
Yamaha R1000 (digital reverb)
Alesis 3630 (compressor)
ART Pro VLA mk2 (compressor)
Alesis Quadraverb (digital reverb)
Alesis Midiverb II (digital reverb)
Alesis Wedge (digital multi fx)
dbx 166 (compressor)

EQD Avalanche Run (delay/reverb)
TC Echobrain (delay)
EHX Small Stone (phaser)
EHX Big Muff Pi (fuzz)

Cannonball Brute Big Bell Stone Tenor Sax (duh)
Fender Squire P-Bass (bass guitar)
Fender Squire Bulletstrat (electric guitar)

Hucka

Dylan Packard

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