"'I Fell in Love' is a lush and emotive tune, one whose airy melodies and icy structure mirrors the group's "Scandinavian surroundings of native forests and snow," from which Gidge is said to gather much of its inspiration. Spanning over six minutes, the track moves at a patient pace, gradually adding melodies and new layers of miniature percussion to the song's somber bounce as it builds towards its climax."
- Glenn Jackson, XLR8R

Order our debut album 'Autumn Bells' here:
https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-bells

Download 'I Fell In Love' for free over at XLR8R:
http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/05/i-fell-love

Autumn Bells

I Fell In Love

Gidge - I Fell In Love

Bike Thief

Lick it up

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/MCKindred
A few years ago I did a remix of a track by Dominik Eulberg called Sansula, which featured an instrument of the same name. After the release a builder of sansula instruments in the Netherlands was kind enough to give me one as a present in case I wanted to use one again in a live recording, which I have finally got around to doing now with this track!

My process consisted of me sitting in my studio (badly) playing the thumb plucked sansula for quite a while, so that I could go back to the recording and pull out some useable loops as a starting point. I wanted a nice warm analogue chord progression to complement, but more in the high bass and low mids than my usual chord progression that's down really low, to fill the mix with the warmth as much as possible.

The track still needed something though, so I turned to some spare recordings of my favourite vocalist - Kathrin deBoer, from some of our previous recording sessions. I didn't want to go for the usual full lyrical approach of a vocal collab track, I just wanted to add some small snippets of human feeling to round off the track properly.

The release is coming out on Fields on the 1st of December along with an intense synth experiment with a Prophet 08, and beautiful remixes from David August and Throwing Snow.

If you're not into buying music there is also a new website I have just launched which will be providing exclusive new free downloads for all in return for signing up to the website - http://www.maxcooper.net/downloads

Origins

Innerbloom comes from our 2nd album titled, Bloom. 
Worldwide release of Bloom on Jan 22. 
Pre-order the album to download Innerbloom today: https://sweatitout.lnk.to/bloom
Artwork by James Hunt and Jack Vanzet.

Innerbloom

Another Ableton low end exercise (for headphones ;-) The track is based on two templates from Abletunes and from Oovation. I used these to learn about arrangement and Sylenth1 sound design. I also practiced the mix down with iZotope Neutron on this. The goal was then to produce stems/clips for an Ableton live set, performed with the Push2.

SOLTRA 20: ECG

After being exposed to several hours of hip hop during a car ride, I wanted to learn the beat pattern ... and the bass :-) The start and end are to morph in and out of this track from my other 124 BPM four to the floor tracks. Otherwise I used bits and pieces from here and there (all legally purchased)and played with different elements for the breaks (140 & 80 BPM).

EVRYVERVE

EVRYVERVE (C#m)

Lemn Sissay is a poet from Manchester in the UK, where I lived for ten years. Going to work, I passed every day by a pub with one of his poems on the wall. Lemn Sissay is now the chancellor of the University in Manchester and his most recent book is "Gold from the stone", which I enjoy reading right now. I got inspired by his poem "Inspire and be inspired", which he wrote for the University, and turned it into this track. The extract cannot do justice to his art, so check him out. This maybe for you scientists out there but his poetry is otherwise material from "The University of Life".

Inspire(d)

Inspire(d) by Lemn Sissay

RAWTATION

RAWTATION (G#m)

This is my first ever computer-free synth jam. The goal for my hardware-only setup was to jam, getting lost in making music, enjoying the process not only of making music but also getting everything working together, figuring out how the machines work, how to create things I enjoyed in other peoples music. After about one year, I got all machines working together, pattern and sounds designed, me pushing faders, turning knobs to create something like a conventional track. My free Soundcloud storage is eaten up now, so no worries that I post more of this.

For the music nerds, only one sample is used (a recording of a synth, reversed and put through a reverb), everything else is created by the machines. A Squarp Pyramid is the master clock and MIDI pattern provider for longer and melodic elements. The Hypersynth Xenophone is sequenced from the Octatrack, which does nothing else here. Elektron Analog Rytm for drums and percussion, Analog Four MKI for deep bass, Moog Subsequent 37 and Analog Four MKII for lead bassline, Waldorf Blofeld and Access Virus TI2 for atmospheric elements, pads, string sounds and higher pitched lead support. Everything feeds into an Allen & Heath QuPac for grouping and recording. The groups are fed into a XONE:PX5 and a Pioneer RMX 1000, before going through and Elektron Analog Heat. The four parts on the TI, three parts on the Blofeld and the four voices of the A4s are regulated via Faderfox MX12. The large number of sounds and parameters ensures that I myself cannot remember everything and therefore have my jam experience with prepared pattern and sounds.

Olaf

Cape Point STIAS

STIAS 124 BPM Gmin (Live Synth Jam)

Stiff Little Spinners. Volume 3

Back once again we serve the incredible, embracing the world of electronic dance clubs and open air raves with heartfelt warmth, organic basslines and a whole lotta love as the people out there simply deserve that.

What does that mean at all? For the third time you're entering the musical realms ruled by the Stiff Little Spinners collective which is represening a unique but shared musical vision on limited 12“ vinyl and as digital download.

Stiff Little Spinners Vol. 3

Kalipo - Fractal

Electronic music from house to techno. I produce my music in Ableton Live, using Push 2, and AAA's UA2, Arturia Mini V and Sylenth1 for synthesis. My hardware setup is centred around Elektron gear, including Analog Rytm, Octatrack, Analog Four, Digitone, Waldorf Blofeld, Virus TI2, Moog Subsequent 37, Hypersynth Xenophone and the A&H QuPac. For DJing, I use NI's Traktor, an NI F1, two D2s, Pioneer RMX-1000 and the A&H Xone:PX5 mixer.
Email: owolkenhauer@googlemail.com . My DJ Sets can be found here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Wolkenhauer/

STIAS 124 BPM Gmin (Live Synth Jam)

Wolkenhauer

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