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End song in Sam's 'Dear Vivek' vid :)

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Back to Reality

Beatmonger is the drum machine VST I made using Plugdata/Heavy. It's an 808 soundalike with some changes and I also gave it the quijada sound from the MiniPops. The VST exposes all kinds of parameters to tweak the sound of each drum in a way you can't do with sampled drum sounds. Each drum sits on its own audio output so I can easily apply different processing to each sound in the DAW. Why did I spend every evening one week in December 2024 to make this drum machine VST? Because I wanted something I could reuse again and again, in the spirit of oldskool drum machines, but with my own sonic stamp on it. Beatmonger is not publicly available but there are plenty resources online to DIY your own stuff in Plugdata!

Make some music, it will keep you out of trouble!

This is my first ever finished track with the 8edo tuning. I always found it really tough to make it work. The trick here was not to think harmonically, but pure melody and rhythm.

You'll also hear that I'm using timbres that feature overtones that are aligned to 8edo. This is one way to smooth over the sound when you're using a tuning that doesn't align well with the harmonic series. I actually produced loads of these timbres as loopable wav files that I could easily load into a sampler, for various different edos. Each wav is a pseudo-harmonic series but the partials are aligned to an edo. But 0 of you may ask, how did you make them loopable, as edos are inharmonic and thus the sum of overtones would be aperiodic? I actually approximated those inharmonic overtones using harmonics of a very low fundamental frequency that is tied to the duration of the wav file. In this way, I'm using harmonics that approximate inharmonics that approximate harmonics. It works ok enough. Again, Plugdata was used here, mainly to automate the setup and recording of these loopable wav files for each edo. I spent an evening going from idea to complete sample pack. I'm willing to make these public, but I don't know if anybody really wants to mess with them. They're slightly unpleasant with a "bell organ" kinda quality, so you actually need to incorporate them into a sound design - they're not good standalone sounds.

Crucial plugins used on Reckoner: TAL Sampler, TAL Bassline-101, Dexed, Airwindows ToTape6, TAL Dub-X, Beatmonger v2 etc.

Reckoner

Alright Mate

Medallion

new nmesh single '𝐌𝐑𝐎 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝟓' is out today on most platforms - lucy is pretty psyched about this, mainly because her grumpy 5-year-old visage is on the cover and she can brag to her friends about it - she's less concerned with the third act of the track which features her maniacal robot karaoke shrieking.

enjoy some weird sample-centric house music.

the new album drops 07.18.25 on doom trip records.

🍍: nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/the-molokai-compendium

PRE-ORDER VINYL

Nmesh - MRO Crib Move 5

Remix made in honor of Chip Tanaka, producer of the original ポケモン言えるかな？ 

ポケモン言えるかな？(Agargara Remix)

The Elements

Gotham City

Futures Past

852hz solfeggio 
spiritual clarity and enlightenment

In the Mix

>>> https://hide.bandcamp.com/album/recursion <<<

Sole Massif’s Recursion is an evolutionary, laser-cut expression of digitalism and sonic experience. SM’s monumental approach to experimental and surgical sound design procures visions of cybernetic hubs, militant artificial intelligence protocols—and renegade security forces—drenched in a high-tech dystopian dreamscapes. Recursion threshes the listener into unpredictable and unwavering tenacity from start to finish, with tracks pushing devastatingly heavy wave structures one minute, and expressing enriched mechanical atmospheres the next. With an abstract narrative interwoven with cinematic overtones, Recursion ensures that each listen provides a unique experience.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Sole Massif
Artwork and design by Alex Ortiga (SY/IN)

Return Fire Sector

xenharmonic bass music

Sevish (aka Sean Archibald) is an electronic musician from London, UK. His music is fast and atmospheric. The style mainly gravitates around drum & bass and other electronic dance music varieties, although even ambient and chilled works have been released under this moniker. Sevish sidesteps pop structures and familiar "EDM" tropes, instead trying to capture the essence of something flowing and meandering. It's the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.

Since his album Golden Hour, Sevish's technique has included a dark art known as microtonality/xenharmonics. For short, we can call this xen. Simply put, the xen aesthetic tries to achieve new musical ideas by making things more or less in-tune than normal music. For something that is so easy to describe, you would think that every musician was doing it. Sadly, the technicalities of (ab)using musical tunings to create xen music are too much for most musicians to muster at this point in time. Perhaps 3D printing will change that in the future, allowing new instruments with crazy tunings to be developed quickly and cheaply. Until then, it's the domain of a few tinkerers and madmen scattered across the globe. One of those being Sevish, who blends xen with his own brand of experimental dance music.

The xen movement is still small but growing rapidly. It has a lively facebook group, its own wiki (deeply incomprehensible to all but the initiated), and about as many dedicated record labels as you could count on one hand.

In 2010, Sevish launched his own netlabel to get together the scattered artists composing xen music. Called split-notes, this label is known for its focus on xen-with-a-beat, and most of its releases are free to download with Creative Commons licensing. While the output of the label has slowed down due to other commitments, it's still alive with new releases showing up from time to time.

Sevish's music has been put out by the Dutch label Dubbhism Deluxe. In 2011, Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon released an album called Subversio to online music shops and popular streaming services. This project lies somewhere between being a band album and being a compilation, as each of the 3 artists provided 3 solo tracks each. So it's more of a musical triptych than either of those things. Certainly a form of collaborative album that can (and will) be explored further. Each of the musicians on Subversio combine xen with beats and bass, but their individual styles contrast and compliment. Tony Dubshot excels at trippy electro dub with lots of analog processing. Jacky Ligon's style is often described as oceanic or panoramic, with fluid and rotating beats and deeply moving atmospheres and melodies. And Sevish's style... well, you already know by now.

In 2014 Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon followed with 23, something of a mini-album in the same stylistic ballpark as 2011's Subversio. Numerology, conspiracy and ancient knowledge is something that the trio is attracted to, and 23 is inspired from that.

Alright Mate

Sevish

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