Rilo

Rilo (Howes Remix)

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Motive Order

Recorded on 7th September 2014.

My first go at making music without a computer. Timing and tuning have gone out the window, and tape hiss has taken over.

Doepfer Dark Time / Juno 106 / OP-1 / Tascam 414 MKII.

Tascam #1

Recorded on November 16th 2014.

Tape hiss taken to the next level, trying to find ways to make the OP-1 sound a bit more warped, and less clean & digital.

OP-1 / Juno 106 / Vermona Retroverb / Tascam 414 MKII.

Tascam #3

Recorded on December 12th 2014.

Just two channels of Juno, with a bunch of delay and spring reverb. Playing without Quantize or MIDI means the timing is a bit off, but I kinda like it.

Juno 106 / Boss DD-6 / Vermona Retroverb / Tascam 414 MKII.

Tascam #4

Recorded on January 11th 2015.

I finally dug out my electric guitar, got it serviced, and started getting blisters on my fingers again. I've been inspired by @mapmap's Dust Breeding recordings recently, and tried my hand at a guitar-loop based track. 

You can't loop for very long with the DD-6, so it's a bit repetitive. Eno said to 'Overtly Resit Change' though, so I did.

Fender Stratocaster / Boss DD-6 / Orange Micro Terror / OP-1 /  Tascam 414 MKII.

Tascam #5

Recorded on January 24th 2015.

My first track with a new Eurorack modular synth that I started putting together last week. I was worried it was going to take a while to get something out of it, but I'm already in love.

My Juno is playing the melody, which adjusts the pitch of the bassline played by the modular, synced to an LFO. The same LFO is triggering the MFB Nanozwerg, which is playing a white-noise hi hat. The tune is played by the OP-1 endless sequencer, but things go a little out of time because the LFO wasn't synced to the OP-1.

OP-1 / Juno 106 / MFB Nanozwerg / Doepfer VCO, VCA, LFO / Boss DD-6 / Vermona Retroverb / Tascam 414 MKII.


Hi!

Tascam #6

Recorded on January 30th 2015.

I tried to build up a bit of a arpeggio type thing. I played the Juno, which then triggered the modular for bass and a detuned and delayed Nanozwerg for the higher notes. Messing with delay time and tape speed is fun.

This is the first go at using a new Doepfer ADSR. It helped clean things up a bit, but the unfiltered VCO feels a bit overwhelming.

Juno 106 / MFB Nanozwerg / Doepfer Eurorack / Boss DD-6 / Tascam 414 MKII.

Tascam #7

Recorded on January 31st 2015.

I got a better feel for using the Doepfer ADSR, and used it to create a kick drum kinda thing. Unfortunately the tape distorted it a bit too much, leaving it sounding more like a weird bassline.

A modulated Nanozwerg was run through delay to create a panning arpeggio thing. Everything triggered from an OP-1 sequence (the same as Tascam #6, just played faster).

OP-1 / MFB Nanozwerg / Doepfer Modular / Boss DD-6 / Vermona Retroverb / Tascam 414 MKII.

Tascam #8

Recorded on February 8th 2015.

My friend @kohwi came over and plugged everything together and made it feedback into itself.

OP-1 playing a four note sequence, played by the Modular (both bass and melody), with the MFB 552 playing drums in sync. White noise from the Nanozwerg, and drums and modular being sent to DD-6 delay and Vermona Retroverb (doing some cool LFO trigger stuff). Everything recorded in one take to Tascam 4-Track cassette recorded.

OP-1 / Eurorack Modular / MFB Nanozwerg / MFB 552 / Boss DD-6 / Vermona Retroverb / Tascam 414 MKII.

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Tascam #9 (w/ Kohwi)

Recorded on February 15th 2015.

Drone lyfe. First time playing around with a Make Noise Phonogene. Guitar looped by the DD-6, and recorded into the  Phonogene, which is playing it back at different speeds and intervals, modulated by LFOs. The Phonogene triggers the Nanozwerg playing white noise hi hats. Plus MFB filtered drones and spring reverb.

Fender Stratocaster / Boss DD-6 / Make Noise Phonogene / Eurorack Modular / Vermona Retroverb / Tascam 414 MKII.


Tascam #10

Here's something I worked on a few weeks ago. I uploaded this sketch to SoundCloud and then my Laptop got stolen, taking the project files with it. Seeing as I can't edit / mix this anymore, I figured I might as well just share it.

It's mostly a live take, with the modular, MFB drum machine, and Juno.

Luft

Live take with the modular and a drum machine, interrupted by interface failing(hence the abrupt stop).

Opening / Closing

I was digging through my archives and realized this never got uploaded to SoundCloud.

It's last track from Tourist/Sleeper, which didn't fit on the vinyl release, and somehow got turned into an iTunes exclusive (which means most people probably haven't heard it).

It's how the album was always intended to end, and was how I opened my shows for quite a while. Be sure to listen to it in context, with the rest of the album https://soundcloud.com/seams/sets/seams-tourist-sleeper

Hope you dig it.

A short loop. Phase from one week to another.

Sunday January 31st

Taken from my new double EP released by Full Time Hobby Records.

Tourist - A summer outside in Berlin 
Sleeper - A summer at home in Hampshire

Both EPs now available on vinyl and download from your store of choice.

Carnival

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Potential

Memory Bank #1

A quick late-night sketch, running my MFB drum machine through a vocoder, onto a very distored Tascam 4 track tape.

Memory Bank #2

The Glow

Taken from my new double EP released by Full Time Hobby Records.

Tourist - A summer outside in Berlin 
Sleeper - A summer at home in Hampshire

Both EPs now available on vinyl and download from your store of choice.

http://bit.ly/ZXbQbP

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