An uplifting track loaded with melody and infectious rhythm. I feel better just for listening.

Future 80's rule! One synth only in its purity. New Synthwave track made with Arturia's rendition for Buchla Easel. I think its the most processor greedy soft synth I ever played. Worth it, rich in sound and possibilities. A single, sequenced synthline, quite automated, plus Ableton on-board 707 drum track. But lots going on inside the tool. Internal sequence is driven by a midi track as well. Only some FabFilter reverb applied, in places. And UAD Tube 610B, UAD 1176 for more analogue atmos. Mastered in Ableton Live with IK Multimedia and FabFilter tools. Had lotsa fun playing it. Hope you enjoy Synth-Meditative journey. TNX! 

P.S. This kind of flow, playing one (or two) hardware or software synths, tweaking and vibing, is the most fun for me lately. Because of the busy times - yes, but can do this for hours, days, years. Hope you find opportunities to connect with your creative side. Stay inspired!

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Funtronica

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Patrol (Single Soft Synth - Buchla Easel)

The summer is still in its Solstice. Have a warm day!

Fantasy is played on Maschine Mikro MK3 with pads and knobs. Only stock drum/bass, synth and the new polysynth. When Maschine software chocked on tracks and FX, rendered tracks into Ableton for tweaking, mixing and to play more embellishments with Polysynth as VST. Mastered with UAD, IK, and FabFilters. Fantasy will go to Uplifting Chillout album titled Love, some day, maybe. TNX!

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Love

Fantasy

This is what I do to recharge after week-long workday :) One hour session with Moog Subsequent 37 CV and Polybrute. Minimal improv analogue sequence. Each synthline is one-shots interactive recording into Live 11. FabFilters, UAD, IK mastering. TNX!

Bassline: Moog Subsequent 37 CV with filter sweep over two minutes take
Synthline: Polybrute tweaking filter, ARP gate, on-board Reverb 
FX: Polybrute tweaking VCF env, on-board BBD Delay, etc with Morphee
Drums: Push 2 with Kick 2 + Ableton Live 11 Perc

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Charging...

Riding 80's clunker car down the memory lane. Fat analogue Electronica with rustic vintage mood. Celebrating 4 million of your awesome SoundCloud plays - THANK YOU! https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/4-million-thank-you

Played in Ableton Live 11 with Push2 and some of the fave Arturia synths -  MoogMini (vocalizing), ARP2600, Buchla, ANA2, plus few synthlines played on the Polybrute. Mastered with UAD Oxide, IK and Fabfilters. TNX!

The cover art is the reel on my real life 80's Reel-To-Reel tape machine :)

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

4 Mln Plays - TNX!

Rewind

The main synthline across the track is played interactively on Buchla Easel Command 208c. One thing about it - it is not a synth in normal/usual way expected from a machine making sound by moving electrons. It is rather an instrument trully. Here is my first track with this beaut synth, exploring Buchla-sweet analogue twangs and tones. Just like Auroras, you expect the colors, but they are always different somehow. 

All 5 mins played in one shot interactively, moving Buchla sliders placed in main panel in one row. Brilliant design to be able to see what's going on with wires and sliders position. Being able to move many sliders as you go just does not let you setup a preset and play it thru. You want to change things always, naturally. It is a synth technically, but feels more like playing a jaw harp or guitar. When you twang a string while playing. Here you have 22 sliders handy aligned for that. 

Lower and higher notes are the sound of two oscillators playing the same incoming midi pattern. While envelope, wave-folding timbers, opening gate and voltage controlled amp are tweaked interactively. Also sequencer(strangely 3-5 steps max, not 4 or 8), is not only for arping notes,instead for voltage control other oscillators and combo filter/amp. 

I still do love Moog and East-coast "traditional" subtractive concept, but now dig the West-coast concept as much. Its a privilege to own and play this 1974 designed, slightly improved with usb-midi for modern times analogue gear. I fell in love with Buchla tones/concept when played newly released Arturia VST few years back. (check one synthline track: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/patrol?in=samprock/sets/4-million-thank-you).  Same idea in this track - explore one synths sound. Real synth sound, plus few sounds made by VST in the middle section. Tried to limit other instruments: two Arturia MoogMini basslines, Pigments FX-ing, OB-xa pads, Kick2. 

Buchla (monosynth) line is split to left/right with one phrase apart for more stereo movement. Jun-6 Chorus, Live 11 Echo, FafFilter Pro-C2, Timeless 3, Pro-R in different amount/locations across the song. Mastered with UAD OxideTape, IK One, and FabFilters Pro-MB compressor and Pro-L2 final limiter.

The cover art is auroras-bleeding Buchla Easel Command 208c.

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Analogue

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Auroras

Office friendly. Lab Rat meditative. Chill hard and shine, fellow Lab Rats! 🐀

Played with Roland Verselab and midi driven, directly recorded Moog Subsequent 37CV.  Free download today. Lab Rats only :) 

Lab Rat cover art is made on iPhone with PhotoLeap app. Relaxing way to sign off from the works of a day and mess with pictures/layers/colors. Office picture copyright belongs to whatever-furniture-company, and the rats photo belongs to the rats..... or does it?

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Lab Rat

Berlin By Night

Korg Gadget tune made with summery vibe and iPhoneX, while traveling thru Italy ☮

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen Records, 29 November, 2018
https://ditto.fm/prockjets-singles-collection

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Prockjets (Singles Collection)

La Mer (Roma Edit)

“There is no island for your soul, there is only journey to it …“

Beat and synth played with Native Instruments iMashine2 4-track iPad app by taping on iPad surface. Plus my Yamaha bass and Fender Stratocaster for lead and licks. Recorded directly with Maschine MK3. The guitar effect if reversing guitar samples directly in Ableton, though I like jamn with reverse delay (like one can be found in Korg Gadget on iPad). The rest of prod and mastering is done in Ableton Live 10. Thanks for your support!   

The cover art is the portrait of a Big Green turtle who was chilling on a Island of Maui (Canon Rebel T4i, f/8, 1/400sec, ISO-100, 124mm. Lens Canon EF-S 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS USM).

Oh, yes... You probably noticed I am having much fun sharing improvisation, raw and work-in-progress jams on my @prockjet account lately. More will come. The base for this track was one of the Prockjets. That's the version of the track when it was just conceived on iPad iMaschine app:  

https://soundcloud.com/prockjet/island-maschine-sanctuary-edit

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Flower Power Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2019 ☮

SmartLink: https://ditto.fm/flower-power-sam-prock
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/flower-power/1489977054
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7i43flgf1eaacjnbMonTjp
Bandcamp: http://samprock.bandcamp.com/album/flower-power
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08286NQJ1
JunoDownload: https://www.junodownload.com/products/sam-prock-flower-power/4368313-02/
Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/sam-prock/flower-power/AL67tvgJlZl7zVP
Google: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Btopk4vd6vz4p7gbb7jzdvyu7zy
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/flower-power
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/samprock

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Flower Power

iTunes or Anywhere

Island

Stay safe. Stay engaged!

When I released this track with Flower Power album November last year, never knew that would post it to the purpose. Now in Spring 2020, last year news were a picnic! We were about Xmas, end-of-year bonus was coming, we were talking about Trump impeachment... good times indeed.

Never posted it though, always thinking maybe today is just enough sht on the news already anyways. Also did not want to post on any specific event. Hoping maybe tomorrow we'll get a relief with something more positive than today. You know that feeling - disturbed, confused, concerned...

When I was a kid always watched that World News TV programs. One from '70s had some special catchy vibe on the opening soundtrack (sorry, I pay attention to any music in any occasion which soundtracks our life, and it stuck in you). Something like that always keeps spinning in my head since. This track, as many, made from scratch on the iPad surface with the Korg Gadget app. Something in between TV news opening jingle and one of my fav songs ever Vicarious by Tool. 

And this photo. I took a shot of this storytelling red brick wall, eaten by salt waters and sun, photo in Venice. The wall on Fondamenta delle Zattere, location of Ospedale degli Incurabili. 

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2019
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SmartLink: https://ditto.fm/flower-power-sam-prock
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/flower-power/1489977054
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7i43flgf1eaacjnbMonTjp
Bandcamp: http://samprock.bandcamp.com/album/flower-power
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08286NQJ1
JunoDownload: https://www.junodownload.com/products/sam-prock-flower-power/4368313-02/
Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/sam-prock/flower-power/AL67tvgJlZl7zVP
Google: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Btopk4vd6vz4p7gbb7jzdvyu7zy
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/flower-power
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/samprock
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Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~

~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

iTunes or Free DL

On The News Today

Youth. You're running your bike downhill while carelessly keep pushing the pedals. Good feeling to keep! 

Or, remember you first "band" with camp/classmate or two. Boxes for drums and a random guitar. Which is your sister's in fact. She only has it in case good boy come for a party. You've been asking for it for a year, and finally its yours to rock! 

Careless improv with DAW and guitar. Funtronica style. Ableton Live 11 beta, Arturia Jun-6, Rhodes-73, MiniMoog with Moog Filter UAD, Kick-2. My blue Fender Strat with Fender 55 Tweed Deluxe UAD. Mixed and mastered with IK, UAD and FabFilters.

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein.

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Youth

"If music be the food of love, play on ... and on" - William Shakespeare (Sam PROCK Remix)

SoundCloud Premier Partner. Published at Silent Zen label with Ditto. Making art with the sound is what I'm after. Curving genre boundaries is a must.

"It is something between discovering and witnessing" - Robert Moog

Hardware: Moog Subsequent 37CV, MiniMoog Model D '22, Buchla Easel 208C, APR 2600m, Córdoba Koa edition nylon guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha Bass, Teenage Engineering OP-Z, UAD Apollo Twin X, Presonus 1824C, Line6 PodXT, B-52 LS100 & B-52 4x12, Arturia Keystep, XKeys Air, iPad Pro 12.9-inch, iPhone. 

Software: Ableton Live 11, Moog, Arturia, UAD, FabFilter, IK, NI, Omnisphere. Mobile music fan: Korg Gadget, Cubasis, ZenBeats, Arturia, Moog, FabFilters.

"Depeche Mode is the soundtrack of my life" - rephrasing Dave Gahan said alike of David Bowie. 

Influences: Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Art Of Noise, Daft Punk, Telex, Trans-X, Yello, a-ha, Arcade Fire, Panic! At the Disco, She Wants Revenge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, The Offspring, Madness, Che Sudaka, Ultravox, Sex Pistols, Rancid, Strangles, Elastica, PJ Harvey, The Cars, Foreigner, Therapy?, Muse, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, Telex, Zodiak, INXS, Hey Rosetta!, Cause and Effect, And One, Banco De Gaia, B-Tribe, Air, S.P.O.C.K.

Personas: Ottmar Liebert, Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore, Jean-Michel Jarre, Georgio Moroder, SuperMax, Boris Blank, Leonard Cohen, Curt Cobain, John Frusciante, Flea, Tim Artstrong, Johny Lydon, Dexter Holland, Falco, Midge Ure, M. Harket, Regina Spektor, D. Marouani, Nick Cave, V. Clarke, A. Wilder, Robert Moog,  Don Buchla, Moby, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vysotsky, G. Nannini, R. Fogli, Hank Marvin, Aeoliah, A. Vollenweider, M. Knopfler, A. Parsons.

"I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations." - "Daniil Kharms.

Styles: Funtronica (invented), Electronic, Deep, Alternative, Disco, Deep House, New Wave, Synthpop, Synthwave, Ska, Punk, Reggae, Cumbia, Indie, New Age, Chillout, GOA, Downtempo, Instrumental, Ethnic, Neo Classic, Psytrance, Psybient.

My mobile uploads account is @prockjet. More remixes @art-of-nonsense. Silent Zen is a support group I conduct @silent-zen.

Fantasy

Sam Prock

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