Noble Circuit Selects: Modular Synthesizer Explorations

This episode of Syntop Audio is presented by @smokey_cph. She recorded a mix of heavy baselines and fresh breaks - deep but empowering! The Copenhagen-based artist describes her mindbending mix with the words:

"So here’s a dark and swampy, extra weighty selection of tracks that hits a bit below my usual lively and uplifting picks. 
It fits with how I’ve been feeling lately, not really a huge party vibe, but a serious, head bopping, bass face trip"

Syntop Audio 52 – Smokey

THE ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL - MUSIC WAS HIS FIRST L.U.V.
DAFT PUNK - TEACHERS (EXTENDED)
SMASH TV - NOBODY
MOUSE ON MARS - EVOKE AN OBJECT (NOBODY EDIT)
DIALOGUE FROM THE HBO SERIES 'TRUE DETECTIVE'
VALENTINO KANZYIANI - BOBBY ON DRUMS
FLECK ESC - FUNCTION 1
SMASH TV - SEX, DRUGS & MIAMI
BEN KLOCK - THIRTEEN ROUNDS
SISY EY - AIN'T GOT NOBODY (ACAPELLA)
POWELL - 09 (KARL O' CONNOR REMIX)
SILICON SCALLY - PARALLEL ARRAY
JEAN- PAUL BONDY - L.A. IS BURNING
JAMES YUILL - CRYING FOR HOLLYWOOD (BRASSICA REMIX)
MUNGOLIAN JET SET - 2010 A SPACE WOODYSEY
THE HUMAN BEINZ - NOBODY BUT ME


 


NOBODY // MIX FOUR

Soft Touch

Bandcamp: https://wavefiler.bandcamp.com/album/farads

Streaming Links: https://lnk.dmsmusic.co/wavefiler_farads

“Farads” (feh·ruhdz) is a meditative reflection on how energy is stored and released in the realms of electronic components and beyond.

Synthesizers were recorded live to a Teac-3440 1/4” 4-track tape machine except for Steady Stateful, recorded to Fostex R8 1/4" 8-track tape machine. A pseudo-Frippertronics tape loop system was used on Lithospheric. Write for more equipment details.

All tracks composed, recorded and mixed by Wavefiler, 2022-2023, IG: @wavefiler

Mastered by Keith Milgaten @ Formed by Glaciers, IG: @formed_by_glaciers

Album cover art by Adrian Johnson, Chicago, IL, IG: @art4.lif

Thank you Mystery Circles, Formed by Glaciers and everyone for your encouragement & support.

Wavefiler - Farads

A 74 LP mix recorded on four turntables and three mixers with favourites like Neil Young, Company Flow and Afrika Bambaataa. “Lektion # 1” was awarded “Best Danish Hip Hop album of 2005” by the leading Hip Hop magazine in Denmark

DEN SORTE SKOLE - LEKTION #1 (2005)

Melo

Representing London-based party and radio show Melting Point, hosts Caligari and DR-O take to the airwaves for a tour of the bass-heavy underground

Melting Point with Caligari and DR-O - 22/12/24 - Voices Radio

QV-41, Q.V. 050325a

Having recently stretched and squashed our wildest electronic imaginations on the Sort\Lave album for Timesig, Richard Devine reshapes a world of synthesis that to our ears sounds like what we imagine his studio would sound like if it were melting. By far the most wildly outer-reaching submission in the Bleep Mix series, Richard Devine creates an incredible soundworld that once you are pulled into, is increasingly hard to shake loose.

For @richarddevine's latest album 'Sort/Lave' click here: https://link.bleep.com/Richard-Devine-Mix

Bleep Mix #49 - Richard Devine

Blot & Bod - Ravne

From 'Datach'i - Bones' (out on Timesig on July 26th)
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/129760-datachi-bones

Having broken a decade's silence with 2016's 'System', LA-based electronic musician Joseph Fraioli, a.k.a. Datach’i, returns this summer with his eighth album 'Bones'. Released on Venetian Snares' Timesig imprint, 'Bones' features 12 tracks of mind expanding electronica, once again recorded on his custom-built Eurorack modular system.
	
Much like its predecessor, 'Bones' manages to make the most of the possibilities modular systems offer, whilst avoiding their many pitfalls that can often turn such music into little more than a dry academic exercise. Indeed 'Bones' is a remarkably intimate album, written and recorded in the time following his father's death, and reflects this intense period of personal change in Joseph's life. "Creating this music was a therapy of sorts," Joseph recalls. "It was almost like a close friend being there for me, and it's something that I hope others can perhaps utilize in the same way."

The connection to his father is something that is reflected not just in the emotional intensity of 'Bones', but in the actual production itself. "My father and I were very close," he explains. "Whilst he was sick with cancer I bought him a guitar as he wanted to learn how to play, just to have something to do while he was getting treated. After he passed away my mother gave me the guitar to have as a sort of memory of him. I had the idea to record some sounds and music on the guitar and load it onto granular sample players on the modular synth so I could make new music from those sounds as a sort of tribute to my dad. You can hear some of those sounds on a few of the tracks here like 'Arrivals', 'Motion in the Living Room' and 'Undimension'." 

The resulting album grapples with the intensity of these emotions. But for all their weight, tracks like 'Saugerties Road', ‘Rockledge 3A’ and ‘Antumalal’ transform that heaviness into something warm and comforting whilst the aforementioned 'Arrivals' or ‘Wand’ ultimately achieve some kind of escape velocity and soar.

Even though 'Bones' is about endings and finding closure, it also looks forward to new beginnings. "It was something very much on my mind throughout recording this album," he relates, "ends being beginnings and beginnings being the end. Cycles of time and how time works, it's all reflected throughout the album right down to how the tracks are ordered."

Ranging from blissful ambience and guileless, starry eyed melodies, to intricate claustrophobic rhythms that forever sound close to collapsing in on themselves before expanding into bold new patterns, 'Bones' is the work of a producer who, twenty years on from his debut, continues to push the boundaries of electronic music.

Bones

Datach'i - Rockledge 3A

I´m king shit on this throne of loneliness. I´m the saddest piece of garbage in the entire cosmos

RDG - Diagnoze (Rune Bagge Remix)

Recorded in Malmö during the winter and early fall in 2019

Guitar and Piano 3

Solstice III

A series of music centered around events in nature.

The Winter Solstice
The longest night of the year, an ending and a beginning.
A moment celebrated by mankind to help us understand our place in the universe. A time to reflect on our connection with nature.

Find a moment for these musical passages.
Listen, let go and be.

These passages were composed by chance, performed in the moment and captured on tape.
credits
released December 21, 2019

Written, Recorded, Mixed and Performed by Abe Seiferth

Harmonium

B2 42DIMENSIT10

Simon Littauer is an electronic musician, producer, and composer, based in Copenhagen. His artistry revolves around electronic music performance, whether it be live concerts on modular synthesizers, interactive sound installations, and the development of new hard- and software instruments for these purposes.

Simon Littauer’s approach to music is both very melodic and almost scientific at the same time. His natural curiosity for digging deep and exploring everything about a specific musical element shines through his work. He balances the controlled with the improvised and randomized, which beautifully unfolds through his longtime work with modular synthesizers and a broad scope of rhythmical genres.

Melo

Simon Littauer

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