This is a kinda chill weird synthwavey, lofi hip hoppy, housey mess of a track. Recorded to tape at slower speed with DBX on, then played back with DBX off. Quite a lot of fun!


In this one, the Rytm handles well, rhythm mostly. Though it does also do some nice brassy melodic lines towards the end. An interesting note here is that I started the whole thing because I found a whole host of weird drum loops with various genre names on em, all rated at 75 bpm. But, these all sounded like fairlight raw samples, pitched up a full octave. But, they're 75 bpm fast, so at roughly normal drum sounds it's like 50 bpm hahaha. I messed with things a lot to get that weird shuffling feel going quite well. Almost makes the true meter of the song kinda hidden!


Then, the Manther handles the bass on this one as well as providing CV to plaits for the weird chords. Manther is run through my Tascam GS-30 guitar amp simulator for EQ and saturation. I'm quite proud of the high pass sweep I get somewhere in the later half of the song on the bass, that's one of my favorite things to do heh.


Finally, we have the Microfreak and Model D. The Microfreak is running an arpeggio and sending MIDI to the Model D, and both are fed into the eurorack. Model D gets mixed with the Plaits chord signal, then run through antiphon and lil erebus for stereo filtering. That all goes through Clouds, then through the Dreadbox Hypnosis for chorus, delay, and reverb. Finally, the Hypnosis sends out to my DBX 900 rack for side-chained compression from the kick using two Aphex Expressor modules.


Everything mixed and mastered in REAPER with Trash 2,  Ozone, Supercharger, and some stock REAPER plugins (REAEQ). This one was a lot of fun!!!

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Technically award-winning sound guy and music boy

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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.

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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)

Heclysma was a Manchester-based music project. Fascinated by retro and electronic music, Heclysma blended different music genres with the final aim of recreating chilled atmospheres and nostalgic memories. Heclysma appeared in several fortunate collaborations with other artists and was also involved in the music scoring of a retro indie game. The project ceased in 2022. Thus, no more songs are released or produced under this name.

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Dylan Packard