Recordings using Artinoise re.corder or Casio DH-100

Untitled Playlist

All the recordings in this playlist include at least one track played on a Korg Volca Keys. 

Other instruments used on some tracks include Stylophone S2, Nord Electro 3, iPad autoharp app, electric upright bass, bass guitar and programmed drums and percussion.

All tracks arranged, programmed, performed and produced by Simon Beck. All material composed by Simon Beck except "Popcorn", composed by Gershon Kingsley.

Recordings using Korg Volca Keys

Tracks using Behringer synths

Collaborative father-and-son jam featuring Artinoise re.corder controlling Sonigen VST modular synth via CME WIDI Master.

Simon Beck: re.corder/synth
Thomas Beck: Synth and drone programming, rhythm programming, bass guitar, production.

Strange Shapes

Analogue synth played from an Artinoise re.corder, backed by analogue drum machine, synth pad and upright bass.

Lead synth: Korg Volca Keys, controlled by Artinoise re.corder
Synth pad: Yamaha Reface CS
Random arpeggiator: Behringer Crave
Drums: Behringer RD-6
Bass: Stagg electric upright

De Profundis

Backing track is a loop played on a Yamaha Reface CS. Lead is a virtual modular synth on an Android tablet, controlled by an Artinoise re.corder wind controller. Recorded live on a Samsung phone.

Solo jam

A gentle serenade featuring nylon-string guitar, oboe, organ and double bass. All noises by Simon Beck.

Guitar: Hohner MC-06
Farfisa organ: Nord Electro 6D
Virtual oboe: Artinoise re.corder
Bass: Stagg electric upright

Autumnal Theme

1960s-style secret agent theme. Organ, Mellotron strings, synth, lead bass guitar, autoharp, double bass, Latin percussion.

Organ and Mellotron strings: Nord Electro 3
Autoharp: iPad app
Double bass: Stagg EDB 3/4
Lead bass guitar: Encore Precision copy
Synth: Korg Volca Keys

One Of Our Agents

An experimental composition using synchronised sequences whose lengths are derived from prime numbers; 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13. The sequences are fragments of a C Major scale, all ending on the same highest note. 

Past My Prime

Another experimental piece based on prime numbers, The notes of a C7 chord (C, E, G, Bb and C') are repeated with spaces forming sequences of 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 beats respectively, weaving a complex pattern that seldom repeats exactly.

Programmed using a Korg Volca Keys synthesisier and recorded on a Fostex MR-8 digital multi-track.

Primal Dance

DAW-less jam, with Behringer RD-6, Behringer Crave, Yamaha Reface CS, and Korg Volca Keys played from an Artinoise re.corder wind controller. recorded via phone mic.

Summer Jam (live recording)

A cover of Gershon Kingsley's iconic instrumental "Popcorn", played using sounds from a Korg Volca Keys synthesiser and a drum track programmed and arranged on a computer.

Popcorn

A blues improvisation... with a couple of Korg Volca Keys synths thrown in! The Wurlitzer piano is from a Nord Electro 3, the bass is a Stagg electric upright and the drums were programmed in HammerHead 1.0.

Volca Shuffle

Korg Volca Keys played from full-size MIDI controller
Bass guitar
Melodica
Treble (alto) recorder
Stylophone Gen X-1 synthesiser

Sunset From The Monorail

Hobo Ken comes from New Jersey, but he hangs out on the Galactic Monorail.

Synths are Korg Volca Keys played from a full-size MIDI keyboard and Stylophone Gen X-1, bass is a customised Squier P-Bass Special, and harmonica is a Thomann chromatic.

Hobo Ken From Hoboken

Stylophone S2 takes the lead, backed by programmed drums, melodica, double bass and ukulele.

Toucan Tango

Spike is our lovely but very lively cat. This tribute (in 5/4) uses drums programmed in Hydrogen, double bass, Pianet and organ (without rotary speaker)

Spike's Theme (Leaps And Bounds)

Percussion loop programmed in Hydrogen, with nylon-string rhythm guitar, electric upright bass, Stylophone Gen X-1 and Mellotron strings.

Spinnaker

The 1923 jazz standard, using the Behringer Neutron analogue synth for the two solo parts, backed by acoustic archtop guitar and double bass.

Tin Roof Blues

Abbreviated version of George Frederick Handel's Hornpipe from his "Water Music", played in real time on synthesisers.
Synthesisers are:
Yamaha Reface CS
Behringer Neutron in Poly mode

Handel

Another Baroque-style improvisation, this time using two Behringer semi-modular synths, a Neutron and a Crave, patched together to create a 3-oscillator, two-filter monophonic system, with the resulting sound fed into the Neutron's analogue delay to provide incidental harmonies.

Gavotte

"Jingle Bells", played using nothing but a Behringer Crave analogue synthesiser and an electric upright bass.

Jingle Bells

A collaboration between myself (Behringer Neutron without external controller) and my elder son Thomas (electric guitar, fretless bass, drum programming). The synth and guitar were recorded in a single take, with the Neutron's LFO synced to the drums within the DAW, and then the bass was overdubbed and the drums edited.

Exploring The Abyss

Another spy-movie theme from the Galactic Lounge, with reverbed bass guitar, Pianet, electronic woodwind and banjo.

Drums: Behringer RD-6
Bass: Squier P-Bass Special
Pianet: Nord Electro 6D
Synth: Behringer Crave played from Casio MIDI horn
Banjo: Ashland 6-string

Rendezvous

I'm a self-taught multi-instrumentalist living in London, England. My main instruments are keyboards, bass guitar and double bass, but I also play electric and acoustic guitars, ukulele, 6-string banjo and chromatic harmonica, and I will have a go at anything else that makes a noise.

My musical roots are in the Blues, but my recordings range in style from country to punk to experimental, with bits of funk, jazz and retro movie soundtrack thrown in. And hopefully a bit of humour...

Summer Jam (live recording)

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