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A carefully mixed blend of bleak analog synth drones and noise with spacious field recordings. Rapturous and melancholic.

Existential Solitude

Mix aired on Mikie Lixx's radio show Friday Feb 28 - on Portland's 91.1 FM 

Included boogie tracks from 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s!

Slave - Just Freak (Cotillion) [1978]
Black Nylon Corporation - My Sexy Robot (Bewitching) [2013]
Antoine Rocky-Horror - (Cosmic Chronic) [2012]
XL Middleton + Eddy Funkster ft Zackey Force Funk - Press Play (MOFUNK) [2013]
The Pendletons ft K Maxx - Let Me Turn You On (Slept On Records) [2013]
Edmund Daniels - All Falls Down (Society Hill) [1992]
Richard Jon Smith - She's the Master (Jive) [1983]
The Glue - Q (Glueuntz) [2013]
Magnetic Soul - Mood 2 Groove (Dabhand) [2013]
TZ - Do Me Like (Tugboat Edits) [2014]
Megadon Betamax - He Can't Love You (VoyeurRhythm) [2009]
Spectrum - Takin it to the Top (Spectrum Records) [1981]
Patchworks Ginger Xpress - Brothers on the Slide (Favorite Records) [2012]
Magoo - Funktime (Boogie Times Records) [2010]
Patrick Adams - Flying High (Heavenly Star Records) [1984]
Young & Company - Waiting On Your Love (Brunswick) [1981]
Sun Sect ft Pam - She's Hot - Mr Peabody Edit (BBE) [2011]
Sound Troupe - Can You Really See Me? (SAM Records) [1982]



5 Decades of Boogie - TZ Vinyl Mix on Portland's KXRY 91.1 FM + tracklist

Tracklist: http://www.factmag.com/2014/06/23/fact-mix-447-forest-swords/

FACT mix 447 - Forest Swords (Jun '14)

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Hey guys, this is my new single "Firestone". Super excited to finally share some original music with you! Hope you like it <3

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Firestone

Tiptop Audio is proud to introduce a new project for 2015: Tiptop Audio Records.
In the recent years musical productions have seen a remarkable return to the use of hardware through analog synthesizers and digital control interfaces. This trend has proven so strong that it prompted a rebirth of modular synths in a new format (eurorack).  Tiptop Audio has made a name producing sophisticated but easy to use modules, designed to form a complete system that is especially effective for dance-oriented productions and live sets.

Tiptop Audio Records selected for its first issue some of the most groundbreaking artists using such systems, to present a range of artists who, through their tracks, explore the landscape of dance music in a very fresh perspective.  These are the artists who inspire the Tiptop team to make more innovative devices, which in turn make new music (a nice feedback loop).

ANGLE, BLAWAN, CHRISTIAN BURKHARDT JOAO CESER, JOHN TEJADA, JOSEPH FRAIOLI, MOE ESPINOSA (DRUMCELL), KINK, RICHARD DEVINE and SURGEON each contribute a track stamped with their own style and vision.  Tracks range from Surgeon’s trademark hard minimal beat, to Kink’s gauzy dreamscape, while Richard Devine and Joseph Fraioli explore the outer reaches of beat based music.  The Phase VI team (John Tejada and Moe Espinosa AKA Drumcell) produces an endlessly shifting set of percolating rhythms, Christian Burkhardt and Joao Ceser put some 21st century twists on classic dance floor patterns, ANGLE lay down effortless, sophisticated Continental style and Blawan adds some industrial toned menace.

The release will initially come as a double vinyl edition, with a cover painted by the artist Matteo Giampaglia, and a digital download version will follow.
An original video teaser will introduce the compilation, then other videoclips of the individual tracks will be realized by exciting new visual artists.

9 RICHARD DEVINE - CR HEX MUTANT

Voltage Coupling

From Required Wreckers volume six - Nick Forté - 'Primordial Forms'
Released by: Amish Records/Required Wreckers
Release/catalogue number: AMI-037R/W

Nick Forté’s 'Primordial Forms' LP (AMI-037R/W) on is the seventh installment in its Required Wreckers series. 

'Primordial Forms' is Forté’s most demanding and conceptual work to date. Forte has always been intrigued by the visual representation of sound on the computer screen. Editing software depicts sound as “waveforms” which can look like jagged landscapes or abstract geometric forms. For the five pieces that comprise the record, Forté created five one-second sounds on his computer based purely on the visual appeal of the waveform.  He made these waveforms with the speakers off. These visually appealing forms became the seeds for the pieces on the record. 

With the speakers turned back on, Forté then turned these discrete sound units into long form music through a slow and deliberate process of looping, editing, and manipulation. The entire record was made in a pirated version of Sound Forge from the late 90s.  No sequencers or multi-track programs were used and no real time playing occurred on these tracks. Forte’s compositional process can be likened to cartoon animation, or Muybridge’s photographic innovations capturing movement and motion.

Though these pieces began in the eye, they end in the gut.  Short sequences of tones and bursts of sound are embedded in rhythm and form. Throughout the album representational sound is confused with the non-representational and the end result, a combination of the computer-based and the organic, is a work of subtle power and dynamism

Amish Records: http://hyperurl.co/1ksekt


NICK FORTÉ  - Imperfect Birth

Hariah I - We Listen To The Witch-Doctor is the third song for "Diéh Buá"; Head of the Elephant's new album which will be released in 2015.

Diéh-Buà - Hariah I

We Listen to the Witch-Doctor

Hariah I - We Listen To The Witch-Doctor

Just released today my remix of bossFYTE on DETROIT UNDERGROUND
Lil' Dog Toes / Think About It ( Richard Devine Remix)
DETROIT UNDERGROUND 7-inch by bossFYTE.
Order Here:
https://bossfyte.bandcamp.com/track/think-about-it-devine-remix-2

BossFYTE - Think About It ( Richard Devine Remix)

Link to the video of the patch, recorded in one take here: https://vimeo.com/136165676

download to the .wav file :-)

Patch Notes:

Harmonic patch using the new MakeNoise tELHARMONIC is a Multi-Voice, Multi-Algorithm synthesizer, and 4ms Spectral Multiband Resonator. The master clock is the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms. Clock output running into the Modcan Touch Sequencer. Channel output one running into one intellijel Dixie (V1) for the bassline. Dixie output running into a Mutable instruments Ripples filter (LP4), triangle waveform. Second channel output sequencing quantized 8 note sequence to the telharmonic oscillator, creating the first lead sequence in the patch (major scale set). One Mult output taken and sent to the Strymon BigSky reverb pedal to create the delicate swarm pads that rise in and out at the builds. Amplitude control of the slow rises via the intellijel HexVCA, slow rate control from one Modcan Quad LFO. The other output is then taken and sent to the Qu-bit RT-60 reverb. Third output from the Modcan TS sending quantized CV to the MakeNoise STO oscillator variable SHAPE output then sent through lower section of the MakeNoise Optomix. The forth output from the Modcan TS is sending a 4 chord pattern (min9) to the intellijel shapeshifter module in chord mode. This output is then sent to another Qu-Bit RT-60 reverb algorithm. MakeNoise Mysteron plucking guitar like effect being triggered by a 4ms RCD, 5th trigger out. The Mysterson then is running out into a Strymon BlueSky pedal, reverb.

Drum sequencing from TipTop CR, channel one kick drum going to the Nord Drum 2. Second channel number 2 triggering a custom snare drum made on the Nord Drum 2. Channel 6 from the CR triggering a low bass drum, in the key of "C". Clock output from CR into the 4ms SCM being rotated by a intellijel dixie sine wave output running at a slow rate shifting the 16th's hi hat pattern. Noise source for hi-hats are the SSF quantum rainbow 2, purple output running into the MakeNoise Optomix. The high end snare clap sound is by the Synthrotek's DS-M drum module, then being lightly processed by the Synthrotek DLY, slowly CV controlled by a Modcan Quad LFO in random mode creating more glitchy effects. This is then being sequenced by channel number 2 from the tiptop CR. The first lower left side 4ms Spectral Multi-band Resonator processing 72 custom DSP samples, which are being played by one addac wave player. The output is then being sent to a intellijel uVCF filter (hi pass), for the light subtle glitch textures. The second 4ms Spectral Multi-band Resonator, processing another set of 32 samples (noise washes/slow rises/falls) via channel number 4 from the CR tiptop. From here the output is being processed by a Mutable Instruments Clouds (granular mode), being controlled by the Pittsburgh Modular Game System running "Meteor Shower" mode in which the explosion based gates and random control voltages are then being sent to 3rd Dixie, controlling the CV rate time then from there its sent to the "Freeze" input on clouds, processing small bits of audio coming from the second addac waveplayer, The second output coming from the gamesystem is going into the "position" input on Clouds, which is doing some additional glitching to the signal.Main output from a intellijel Mutagen mixer then ran through the Eventide space pedal for extra spatial atmosphere. :-)

Harmonic Symmetry - Modular Patch

Link to the video of the patch, recorded in one take here: https://vimeo.com/139872178

download the free wave file :-)

Patch experiment using the Noise Engineering Variatic Erumption x 2, and Minigorille CV graphic modules x 2. Clock output from the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms into the CV Graphic input 1, left side (purple). Then another output from the TipTop CR taken to the right side (siliver) CV Graphic module. Output 4 from the Tiptop CR sent to the left side Variatic Erumption (ext gate to the hit jack input) which would send very slow burst of random gates. The CV Graphic CV output (PONG sequencer mode 2) A and B would output bouncing ball like CV voltages to the Variatic Erumption CV Pattern, and Time/Division input. This created some very organic scattered sequencing taking one output that was triggering a Snazzy Fx Ardcore running custom frac drums patch.

The other output was running into a trigger input on the Mutable instruments clouds, which is causing the light granular scattering in between the beats. Another output from the V.E. running into the Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas, for the FM pluck like percussion sound. Next output from VE running into a 4ms RCD, random triggering spaced out burst to the clock input. From here, the output was taken (4)out to the MakeNoise Optomix set slightly open, which was running a ALM's new "Akemie's Castle" dual voltage controlled oscillator, running out the chord output (OSC A). From the Akemie's Castle the output is going into a Tiptop Z-DSP processed with the The Halls of Valhalla card running program 7 (Asgard). Mult output also taken to the Strymon Big Sky pedal running in "Chorale" mode mix completely wet for delicate melodic swells. Making the rich choral timbres. Another gate output from the Noise Engineering V.E. running into the Mutable Instruments (mystery) module. Output from here sent to the Qu-Bit RT-60 effect module, which is also being triggered (for effects program change) via by the 5 division output from the 4ms Rotating Clock Divider.

Kick drum created using the MakeNoise telHarmonic module, running into a Optomix. Snare and hi-hat sounds courtesy of two Ladik D-333 Rom players. One running the Snares card, and another running hi-hats. Both outputs being summed into the Synthrotek DLY module. The delay input being modulated by a modcan QuadLFO output 1 slow S&H. First sequenced notes via the Mutable instruments Braids running the new "HARM" additive harmonics mode. The quantization was set to "Oinian". Second Braids for other harmony running the "OPSK" smooth sine like melody, VCA mode set to on, with short decay for pluck like quality. Signal for both braids are being sent to another Qu-Bit RT-60 running program number 1-Reverb. Quantization set to "Oinian". Bassline sound created with a Intellijel Shapeshifter output 1, then being run into intellijel uVCF filter in LPF input, then the signal goes out a Qu-Bit RT-60 in program 1 Reverb. 

Ascension - Modular Patch

Recorded and mixed live, 1 take, no loops, no effects.
Added an intro track for complicated reasons.
Created for personal listening and to share amongst others - not meant to be an exhaustive compilation, just a selection of my personal favorites.
For a complete taste of Kraftwerk, please visit the entire Kraftwerk Discography.
Tracks:
1. Autobahn (TZ Intro Edit)
2. Vitamin
3. The Man-Machine
4. Numbers
5. Computer World 2
6. Aero Dynamik
7. Prologue
8. Trans-Europe Express
9. Metal on Metal
10. Boing Boom Tschak
11. Techno Pop
12. Neon Lights
13. Musique Non Stop
14. Moregenspaziergang
15. Kometenmelodie 2
16. Tour De France
17. Pocket Calculator
18. Tour De France (Etape 3)
19. Regeneration
20. The Hall of Mirrors
21. Home Computer
22. It's More Fun To Compute
23. House Phone
24. Sex Object
25. Uranium
26. Antenna
27. Spacelab
28. Radioactivity
29. The Model
30. Showroom Dummies
31. Computer Love
32. The Robots
33. Europe Endless
34. Endless Endless
35. News
36. The Voice of Energy



KRAFTWERKED - A Mix by Tim Zawada (Kraftwerk Tribute Mega Mix)

Link to the video captured here in real-time: https://vimeo.com/150015591

Patch Notes:

This was a patch experiment using the new Mutable Instruments Rings/Clouds Modules, and trying to create strumming/plucking guitar like sounds within a patch. The inspiration came from playing around with the Clouds Parasites 1.3 alternate firmware running in the Resonator mode highlighting the "scatter" (or strum) function. The master clock was the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms module, taking the first 4 outputs into my Nord Drum 2 for the Kick, snare, closed and open hi-hats. From there the clock output from the CR was multiplied and then sent to the Modcan Touch Sequencer. First row output from the TS was sent to the intellijel Shapeshifter creating a two note baseline sequence that comes in at 1:58. The second sequence Row2 output from the TS was sent to the "ALM Akemie's Castle" module OSC A output using the chord function, that comes in at 25 seconds. The gates from the modcan where set to a 16th's pulse sequence. Modulation from the synthesis technology E102 Quad Temporal Shifter output 1 modulating the Multiplier input on Operator 1. The 2, 3 and 4 outputs from the E102 where also modulating the Operator 2, 3, and 4 inputs on the Akemie's Castle. This was creating the harmonic timbre changing as the sequence was playing.

The slowly evolving sweeping noise textures that come in at 1:09 is from the Music Thing Radio Music module. The sample was a white noise sampled lightly filtered and then sent to the intellijel HexVCA with the amplitude CV control via a Intellijel Dixie modulating from slow to high rates (free running). The Make Noise Rene was being externally clocked from the Circadian Rhythm, and was sending out a quantized output to the Mutable Instruments Clouds pitch input creating the chord guitar sequence. The strum sounds on Clouds was played by the 4ms QCD running in 32th division output into the Trigger input. The freeze input was also triggered by a Ladik R-110 Random clock module. The combination of the two created the trill chord like strums.

The bass guitar tone sound that comes in at 1:24 are from the MakeNoise Mysteron, that is being sequenced by the Modcan Touch Sequencer, Row Output 3 was programmed in the same key but a lower octave. The "Rings" module was creating slow attack soft high pitched chords in reverb that come around 2:50. There was additional processing of the Clouds output that was sent into the Tiptop ZDSP module running the "Halls of Vahalla" card program 8 "Ginnungagap" creating the high pitch octave deep reverb shimmer effects. The harmonic slow swells that come in at 3:30 where created using another intellijel Dixie oscillator sine output running into an Strymon "Big Sky" pedal being harmonically controlled by an intellijel µScale V1. The output was being played slowly then processed using the "Choral" mode, creating the slow shimmer swells. The entire mix was sent into the Eventide Space pedal using the "Corridors" patch.

Mutable Instruments Rings : mutable-instruments.net/modules/rings
Clouds Parasites firmware: mqtthiqs.github.io/parasites/clouds.html

Strum - Modular Patch

More dusties - all 45s, unkempt, uncleaned, dirty, dusty, crackly, glorious...

Warning: Not meant for shitty headphones or laptop speakers. Meant to be blasted. 



Tracklist:
intro (for SC copyright purposes) - Three Days Ahead - Rolling Love pt 2
1. The Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte
2. The JB's - The Rabbit Got the Gun
3. The Pack - Next to Your Fire
4. Doug Clark & The Nuts - Baby Let Me Bang Your Box
5. Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling
6. Miss Chuckle Cherry - My Pussycat
7. Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Count Me In
8. Teddy Randazzo - Be My Kitten Little Chicken
9. Ral Donner - She's Everything
10. Ace Kennedy & The Candies - You Promise
11. The Kingsmen - Bent Scepter
12. Fireballs - Torquay
13. Cannibal & The Headhunters - Land of 1000 Dances
14. The Standells - Riot on Sunset Strip
15. Johnny & The Hurricanes - Reveille Rock
16. The Nite Liters - Nervous
17. The Royal Teens - Planet Rock
18. Joanne Campell - Wait a Minute
19. Wanda Jackson - This Gun Don't Care
20. Guy Mitchell - Hoot Owl
21. Kay Starr - Riders in the Sky
21. The Coasters - Three Cool Cats
22. The Staples - Mystery Train
23. Kay Starr - Night Train
24. Johnny Rivers - Maybelline 
25. Larry Williams - Bony Maronie 
26. Bobby Comstock & The Counts - The Wayward Wind
27. Bruce Culver - Square Record

Tim Zawada - GEMS! Vol 6 (45s -Oldies/Rockabilly/RnB/Boppers/Rockers/Tittyshakers)

The Prodigy - Breathe (Zeds Dead Remix)
Congorock ft. Sean Paul - Bless di Nation (Torro Torro Remix)
Killsonik - Je Te Veux
Tritonal, Cristina Soto - Still With Me (Seven Lions Remix)
Zeds Dead - Rave
Bingo Players - Rattle (Candyland Remix)
Zeds Dead - Rumble in the Jungle (Sleepy Tom Edit)
Farkas - Keepin It
Skrillex - Scary Bolly Dub
12th Planet - MMXII
Zeds Dead - Oh No
Zeds Dead - Trouble
Sandro Silva - Epic (Luminox Remix)
Nero - Won't You Be There (Club Cheval Remix)
Dillon Francis - Burnin Up (The Rebirth)
Damn Kids - Kavoda
Zeds Dead - Coffee Break
Interface and Minus - Hardwork
Actrazor - Kill Switch
Loadstar - Bomber
Zeds Dead and Omar LinX - Cowboy (DC Breaks Remix)
Calyx and Teebee - Elevate This Sound
Enei - The Moment ft. DRS
Maverick Sabre - Used To Have it All (Delta Heavy Remix)
Outkast - Bombs Over Baghdad
Zeds Dead - Ratchet
Action Bronsen and Riff Raff - Bird on a Wire

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Zeds Dead - Snowstorm Mix

Live improv using Digitech BP200, Electroharmonix VoiceBox and handmade "Buzzbomb" six-voice oscilator through handmade active 3X3 matrix mixer.


Miscreant Opus 1

Zonal Taste Wand/ZX-9 split - preview

Kevolych - Abstract Frame preview

Crodar - Movie preview

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