This Is Not An Ambient Drone

Recording of the clockwork of Eise Eisinga's Planetarium in Franeker, Friesland, The Netherlands. A legendary marvel of self built mechanics showing the movement of the planets. More info here: https://www.planetarium-friesland.nl/en/

Thanks to the lovely staff at the planetarium for letting me record there. Heavily processed with RX to get rid of the airconditioning....

Eise Eisinga's Planetarium Clockwork

At a wonderful little festival in the north of the Netherlands I played a dub dj set with improvised chords and percussion from my TR-8S. I had a lot of fun playing this set, thanks again to everyone who was chilling out/dancing! 

Cheers, Faestos

Tracklist:
01. International Observer - House Of The Rising Dub (Pitch Black Remix)
02. The Orb - Say Cheese (Gaudi's Dubble Mozzarella Mix)
03. Grouch In Dub & Dub Princess - Inocent
04. Liquid Stranger - His Fully Automatic Wheelbarrow
05. Warp Technique - Wonderland
06. A Sagittariun - Space Dub Dream
07. Ott - Splitting An Atom
08. Groove Armada - Oh Tweak to Me (Gaudi Remix)
09. Grouch In Dub ft Dub Princess - Back to Reality 
10. Gaudi & Grouch - Erutuf Ciler (Grouch Mix)
11. Richard Norris - Birthday Dub
12. Faestos - Second Order Perturbation
13. LLLIT - Alborada
14. Giriu Dvasios - Jauku
15. Taho - Dub Jazz
16. Jah Acid Dub - Funky Dub
17. COSM - Spasmik Cosm Dub 2
18. Psybur - Old MacDubby			
19. Ott - Daisies And Rubies
20. Sudden Reverb/Nahuatl Jaguar - Sound Tlakotli (Deadbeat Remix)
21. Grouch In Dub ft Dub Princess - Directions
22. Mungo's Hi Fi & Eva Lazarus - We Weren't Made for This
23. Sumac Dub - Thunder Shame			
24. Ott - One Day I Wish To Have This Kind Of Time

In Dub At Ankleideraum 23-08-2024

Newly mixed version. Thanks to BS-1 for the comments on the sound.

Shot On The Corner Of 5th Ave (new mix)

A drone with a simple beat. I needed to get this out of my system, to make room for new ideas.
The drone is made with a BassStation 2 through a Mackie SR24.4 mixer with a Lexicon MPX-1 ('space plate') on aux 5/6, recorded with a MOTU UltraLite Hybrid mk3 into a MacBook, running Ableton Live v8.2. The beats are done with a Drumstation with the same signal path but a different effect ('tiled room'). So it's mostly analogue :-)

Cell CL105

This track is based on a recording of the solar wind. The original recording has been manipulated with the iOS app SpaceCraft, a granular synthesier. Other tools used are: Ableton Live v8.2, Elastic Drums, Drum Pro, Ensoniq SQ1+ and then some.

The Solar Wind (A Dok 2 Mai Junk) [Finale 20181208 205149 A]

Syncopating sequences and spacey swirls, as if you're drifting through nebulae.

Synthforum.nl Contest 2018

Nebulas

New track completely made with the big modular system down at the Engine Room. I added a little reverb from the Lexicon PCM91. I accidentally came across a Tardis, hence the song title...  ;-)

Let me know if you enjoy this track and leave a comment!

Timelord's Crossing

Becuase it is October. 

Instruments used:
Modular
Waldorf Blofeld
Waldorf Micro Q
Waldorf MicroWave XT
Access Virus B (Rack)
Korg MS20
Alesis QSR
Emu Planet Phatt
Novation UltraNova
Behringer Neutron

Don´t Fall Asleep - 20191025

Low Earth Orbit

This time I took the start-to -finish forward approach of creating a track. For each track, MIDI was recorded to audio as soon as I thought the part was good, then the MIDI was discarded immediately.

It started with the broad pad chord progressions, then the sound effects, then the bass and the arpeggio. That was followed by the break and then I started with a new idea with the brighter strings, built that up and added the lead. Finally I got back to the pad of the beginning to round off the mood of the track.

A Thin Strand Of Stardust

Composer and long time synthesizer enthousiast Ricardo Verschut shares his more experimental (and modular) music as Tectonia since 2008. 

Listening to these recordings is free of any charge. For the use of music or fragments you are kindly requested to ask for written permission. 

All tracks are copyrighted by the composer under Buma/Stemra legislation.