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Forget the club; enter the ceremony. Fértil Discos beckons you through a new portal, “Fértil Club,” a new series curated by DJ Nim through which the heartbeat of ancient South America meets the pulse of the future. The inaugural transmission arrives from Pawkarmayta, a solo project of Peruvian artist Anthony Paucarmayta. His album, “Aramu” (Serpent of the Andes), is a nine-track ceremonial voyage composed in C minor, a rich and expressive key known for creating music with a strong emotional impact, which can influence a listener's mood and state of mind. Crafted during the pandemic's silence, the work draws from Paucarmayta’s dedication to sound healing and his vast archive of Peru's auditory landscapes – forest winds, flowing water, and avian conversations collected over decades. Rooted in his classical training from Cusco, the music weaves ceremonial tradition with electronic minimalism, transforming field recordings into a potent medicine for the mind and a vessel for escape.

Premiered here, AWKA unfolds as a deep, percussive meditation anthem. A low, steady BPM anchors the atmosphere, over which soft, resonant vocal hooks emerge, enveloped by an ethereal, phantasmagoric layer of airy vocals that float like a spectral choir through the mix. The result is a profoundly hypnotic soundscape – a slow-burning fusion of rhythm and aura that feels both ancient and transcendent, embodying the album's ceremonial purpose through its serpentine, undulating flow.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://fertildiscos.bandcamp.com/

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Passing Clouds - Reflections

Trying to detail a patch is like trying to recall the details of a dream - even with my notes, which always seem insufficient  - but I'll give this a try:

The heart of the piece is an open fifth from E370 oscillators 1 & 2 with an octave interval, osc 4, coming in every 4 steps via WMD Sequential Switch. All oscillators share/respond to param X1, and so parallel morph together thru Robert Rich's well selected harmonic waves driven by the 4ms Peg running a slo /8 cycle. 

MELODY also uses Peg to lightly scan the wavetable of 2 oscs. Pitches are activated via Pressure Points to the Quantimator set to a 6th interval. An SSM switch triggers a Maths which alters the Quant cv, changing the 6th to a 1st then second inversion (without the middle note) at the near end of the overall volume envelope.  

WAH-WAH - same open triad from the E370- a PEG varies Batumi LFO freq, applied to Optomix to give that wobbling feel.

FALL/RISE motif: Also using the chord mode, stepping quickly thru three chords (C triad/oct, C9sus7, F9) while a falling (or rising) CV ramp from Maths drives the 1v inputs creating a drifting arpeggio effect. I custom loaded these chords via micro SSD card( perhaps the most exciting functionality of the E370)  

2 tones Eno sound - this is just maths sampling cycling the Y parameter of a single osc back and forth. Like the other patches this uses Rom-A

BUGS & BEES - some frizzing around with exp FM and wave foldering at high frequencies

Hope the description is helpful!

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Equipment:Teenage Engineering OP-1,Cooper Fx Outward V2,Chase Bliss Audio MOOD,Chase Bliss Audio Blooper,Cooper Fx Arcades(Generation Loss),BOSS RV-5

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