A throwback to classic 80s techno and house vibes, 500 represents several months of experimenting with old school techno!

I came up with the idea after taking a tour of Submerge this past year. Got to around to all the old spots and everything, and got to meet some awesome people from all over the world. Got me hooked on Model 500 and UR and all the like.

Interstate 500

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Hit The Ground Running

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, last day! Since I'm doing global game jam, didn't have a lot of time to record. So this is just a dumb jam with the DR-110 and TD-3. They go pretty darn well! Wish my DR-110 had mutes, should probably get on that and the individual outs.

Trashed

Some more vibes from the TD-3/RD-8 pairing. It's soooo good!

Same set up as before, TD-8 on drums through BOSS RX-100 reverb (except for kick), then TD-3 through Electra EP-100 BBD.

Alright, just something dumb and easy for testing out the Solina SE-IV. What a cool string synth, this thing sounds amazing! Though it weighs an absolute ton holy moly.

Drums are RD-8 through a BOSS RX-100 spring verb, bass is TD-3 through BOSS RCL-10 comp/limiter and Eletra EP-100 BBD, and finally strings are Solina through T-Rex Replicator. Recorded on my Tascam 246!

Eminent Namespace

Here's a sorta smooth track I made to test out the recently fixed up Tascam 238 rackmount 8-track cassette tape recorder! As you can tell, all 8 channels actually work and playback nicely, and no staticy clicks and pops. Now to fix the otari...

Anyways, this is pretty basic. The QX1 sequences everything but drums, and operates in 5/4 time. The RD-8 sends clock and transport to the QX1, and then I play with mutes and un-mutes and parameters till the dogs come home. I do really like making a longish loop on the QX1 and syncing that to a more traditionally timed/phrased drum loop. Great potential there.

Alright, this is getting long enough. I'm working on a video of this right now so sit tight if you want to see a few things more in depth.

Thanks so much for listening!

techroom

Hey! I've been messing around with this track for the past few days in between working from home and cleaning the house. It's not the best I've done recently, but it's still nice and chill and has a decent vibe to it.

This track's got a companion video to it! Go watch that if you like looking at synths haha

Yamaha QX1 - Sequencing
Roland JX-3P - Brass
Roland JD-800 - Solo Thing
Roland MKS-50 - Square Swells
Korg DW-8000 - 5th Stabs
Oberheim Matrix 6 - 5th Plops
Behringer MS-101 - Bass
Akai AX-80 - Main Chord Pad
Roland RE-101 - AX-80 Delay
Boss RV-100 - AX-80 Reverb
Midiverb II - Matrix 6 Reverb
Quadraverb - MKS-50 Reverb
Wedge - JX-3P Reverb

Rechord

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)

Interstate 500

Dylan Packard

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