Happy Summer Everyone!

“Uplifting Chillout” - Prock 2.0 style. The main guitar-synth tune is played by hands on 4x4 Maschine+ pads in a scale mode, very handy :) Also Ableton Live 11, Arturia, IK One, UAD Oxide Tape, Teletronix LA-2A, FabFilters.

My mancave on the cover. Its also featured in the new The Midlife Synthesist synth jam! Get a listen to his YT channel and get hooked to David Attenborough like talks on music tech and anything of important in life: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c0rGYkQc0k

Ultramarine is mostly made on Maschine+, which is no longer here (but missed device very much, collecting dukats :) (AND NOW '21 it is back home! :). It’s cool but I need more knobs, sliders and LED pads as you can see :) And my music piggy bank was not fat enough, so needed to fund the ultimate to my taste Arturia Polybrute. Roland Versevab DAW-lessy drives beloved Moog Subsequent 37CV and new Polybrute. Prock Studio is finally complete … for now. Can't deny, music technology either soft/hardware is a good inspiration driver and helps to express what plays in your head. Get inspired with any unique music style or instruments you play! TNX!

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

Love

Ultramarine

... any second now. So chilling hard, calm as a clam... 🦪

Polybrute, Arturia MiniMoogV for basses, Buchla Easel 208C on leads. Mastered with FabFilter, UAD Oxide Tape, IK One, but different mixing chains and mastering. Of course you would say, - "all your sht sounds the same to me"! If you do, I'll be pleased taking it as a complement :) Its great to achieve some consistency in any crazy things we all do. May get there one day. Stay creative!

Free download today. As always few track downloadable on my account, thanks for grabbing and letting them to the wild! 

Photo of a happy clam chilling on a boat. Likely bird brought it there. Long Beach, California.

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

Analogue

megaprockram

Awaiting

Only Love

Cast of Characters:

Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino -- Taylor 114ce acoustic guitar, main vocals, harmony vocals, lyrics, composition

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Epiphone Les Paul electric guitar

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums and percussion

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- four string Fender Precision Bass, and Roland organ

TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, mix, mastering, and production

  
This song began when Joe, feeling a bit nostalgic, wrote the lyrics and composed it on his acoustic guitar. He recorded it and sang it with expert harmonies, then decided to share it with Eclectic Collective. We were all very excited to get work on our second song with Joe, as we all admire his songwriting.

  First up was Tez this time, oddly enough. He was able to identify all the fill spots and light up the solo without the rest of us even adding anything yet. Next came Ken, who usually goes first, adding his steady grooving drums and tasty percussion. Once the drums were down, Josh completed the rhythm section by adding his fretted bass. He also worked out an organ part to give the whole sound a bit of thickness. Also adding some thickness and texture, Stephen added a clean electric rhythm part, as well. 

  Once we had it in can we asked Stephen to mix and produce it for us, which he did in his always expert fashion. 

  This, as mentioned, is Eclectic Collective's second song with Joe, and we all enjoyed bringing it to life with him. He's a wonderful collaborator and an all around good dude. Do yourself a favor and go check out his page, which is rich in great songs. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.

Original lyrics by Joe Stroffolino:

If you find yourself in trouble and you think you've lost your way. 
Here's hoping that you find a path to a better day.
I sure hope that you're happy.  I'm wishing you the best.
I hope you find what you're looking for as you continue on your quest.
I hope you find all the answers to all those questions vexing you.
I hope you can find a way not to bite off more than you can chew.
I sure hope that you're happy.  I'm wishing you the best.
I hope you find what you're looking for as you continue on your quest.
You spread your wings and you flew so far away from me.
I hope that you're enjoying your new reality
All those places that you said that you wanted to see.
I hope they're as good as you expected them to be.
I want you to know that you hold a special place in my heart.
I think about you often even though we are apart.
They say that when you love somebody sometimes you gotta be willing to let them go.
You gotta let them spread their wings and fly wherever the wind decides to blow. 
I sure hope that you're happy.  I'm wishing you the best.
I hope you find what you're looking for as you continue on your quest.
I hope that you're happy. I hope that you're doing well.  I sure hope that you're doing swell.You spread your wings and you flew so far away from me.
I hope that you're enjoying your new reality

Hope That You Are Happy - (Eclectic Collective with Joe Stroffolino)

Listen at comfort of YouTube: https://youtu.be/en2-zq2oFTY

Please enjoy and join this Open Collab anytime. Will be honored if you chime in! There is no timeline or deadline to join. No limits to the music style you reimagine it. Full set of Audio WAV stems, MIDI, and Korg Gadget project upon your request:
https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/sam-prock-time-speck-open-collab-invite-stems

Music and lyrics by Sam Prock. Narrated by Hank Beukema (@hankbeukema)

*****
THE JOYS OF WORK

The joys of work rejoice the king 
The time has given up on him
[king: ] - “Stay still, stay here!
… show me the way!
… to catch the moment!”
[time: ] - “Sit and pray …”
*****

Sam Prock, 2016

New Ambient arrangement more suitable for Spoken Word artists or as a backtrack for instrumentalists is here:
soundcloud.com/art-of-nonsense/sam-prock-time-speck-ambient

Grab the WAV stems and/or MIDI files and take the Speck anywhere it brings you. If it gets you moved, send me a link to your post, I will feature it collab playlist and other collections. Please include a link to this collab track in your post. TNX! 

Fantastic takes are coming from the great clouders and friends!

https://soundcloud.com/silent-zen-support/sets/time-speck-fest

soundcloud.com/hotos/sam-prock-hot-os-time-speck-feat-hank-beukema
soundcloud.com/fatalexc3pti0n/timespec-fatalexc3pti0n-remix
soundcloud.com/dacca/time-speck
soundcloud.com/ddojchin-gmail-com/to-catch-the-moment
soundcloud.com/anne-aude-bonnet-anne-aude-b/catch-the-moment-sam-prock-feat-hans-beukemahinkstep-i-awake-mixed-by-anne-aude
soundcloud.com/demelia-denton/time-speck-rejoice-the-king-sam-prockhank-beukema-feat-marco-turrini
soundcloud.com/midipunk/sam-prock-speck
soundcloud.com/fatpockets/sam-prock-x-fat-pockets-prime-suspeck-dub-hank-beukema
soundcloud.com/hearandlikeit/sam-prock-time-speck-by
soundcloud.com/dj_emajor/sam-prock-time-speck-dj-emajor
soundcloud.com/steph-sweet/sam-prock-time-speck-feat-hank-beukema-steph-sweet
soundcloud.com/augenmerk/sam-prock-hot-os-augenmerk-ft-hank-beukema-time-speck
soundcloud.com/jtcmposr/epic-speck-time-speck-sam-prock-open-collaboration
soundcloud.com/earth-connector/sam-prock-time-speck-mp3
soundcloud.com/bobp3/time-speck-sam-prock-and-bob-porri-featuring-hank-beukema-vocal-on-spoken-words
soundcloud.com/juxtamusic/sam-prock-juxta-kings-fools-time-speck-collab
soundcloud.com/officialbravei/sam-prock-time-speck-remix-bravei-1
soundcloud.com/teamanmix/sam-prock-time-speck-madness-tea-man-remix
soundcloud.com/dm-tribute-friends/sam-prock-time-speck-dm-tribute-feel-loved-remix-2017

Cover art is a fragment of one of the amazing Chris Pendergraft's drawings, blended in with Leonardo Da Vinci's perpetuum mobile machine. 

Released by Sam Prock, July 21, 2016.

Time Speck

Free Stems to Join

Time Speck (feat. Hank Beukema) ~ Open Collab Invite ~

Practice Music Daily! See it in making :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7StcZ6cxgA

Quickest track I ever made ... public :) Just an improv with my favorite tools - Artiria ARP 2600, MiniMoog. Ableton Live 9 with on-board 808. Sound recorded in Audacity (for video). Video from iPhone 6S off PC screen (curved).

Have fun and inspiration in what you play!

TGIF! Quick Ableton improv with MiniMoog and ARP2600 (YT link)

If you feel drowned and need some undrowning, remember someone live a happy life on the edge. Just make the waters and colors around you pretty! 

Another Ableton Live improv from my wierdos collection. Also with Moog kick and new in 2018 Wavetable synth in Live version 10. I rarely (never?) play vox samples in my mixes. These ones come from Korg Gadget. Why? I am big fun of one of the best experimental, electronic and chillout band of all times - Art Of Noise. We heard a million TV commercials and bacltrack, without knowing the band name in 80's. This is my Art Of Noise mood :)

This happy Pineapple Turtle lives in sanctuary on Isla Mujeres, near Cancun, Mexico

Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018

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

Prockjets

Undrowning (Pineapple Chilllout)

Having some fun vibing and droning on my Moog Subsequent 37 CV. Do you Choon? All mt Prock and Prockjet tracks are 50% split for playlisting:

https://choon.co/tracks/0cpfr1zgu9s/drone-moog-mode

Here is the full 12 minutes raw analog vibe twisting Moog filters in one shot. Let me know if want lossless file of it. You could grab any chop, tune a piece and mix to you mix (of course free).

https://choon.co/tracks/9mg2aroxsa/b-drone-moog-subsequent-37-cv

Did I say it is one note the whole thing? who needs more! :) 118BPM

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018

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

Drone (Moog Mode)

Continue listening my new Earth dedicated track on Silent Zen: https://soundcloud.com/silent-zen/amber-mosquito-bite

You are invited to submit YOUR own Planet Earth Dedicated music for the community playlist. All genres/styles, new or existing music. Send me a link to @samprock for inclusion. Playlist will be published on Silent Zen @silent-zen.

Our first Planet Earth collection by fabtastic SoundCloud fam artists:
soundcloud.com/silent-zen/sets/climate-change

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

FullTrack~SubmitYours

Amber (Community Playlist Invite)

Another fab collaboration with Daniele Turani.
https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani

Don't fear honesty-let the truth fill your soul-always be patient-when your deep in the throes-I believe it's time for me to leave-I just need room to breathe-
Ten years of finding-all the thing's that went wrong-sooner or later eventually I knew I'd have to be strong-lovin you wasn't easy -for me-I just need room to breathe.

06/July/2019

Room To Breathe/Featuring Daniele Turani

"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.