Concept: Create a 140BPM hardcore, hard pounding, destructive industrial techno work. 

Best on high quality noise cancelling and studio headphones.

Mastered on June 26, 2025 using Bandlab mastering, mastering preset is Tape, intensity is 50 per cent, input gain is -4.5 dB.

Gear and signal path use:  Moffenzeef Modular Sound Generator connected to a Sonuus G2M MIDI Guitar Universal Converter (pitch to MIDI conversion, set to B5) to a Meeblip Geode Monophonic Synthesizer out to Line-in of a USB Audio Adpater connected to a Chromebook. I used the Bandlab DAW to record and add effects. 

Bandlab Effects:  Guitar input (tho no guitar used), feedback killer, gain, Classic Brit Guitar Amp (drive, bass, mid, treble, presence, volume), dimension B chorus modulation and stereo spread - selected 01, univerb - selected Innovation Hall, EQ3-M. 

File format:  WAV 16-bit 44.1kHz
Recorded at 140BPM, 4/4 timing

Photo:  "boy is dancing" by Foerder Zone, Pexels License.  

This work is copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email for permission to use. 
Created in Oct 2023.

Deep Scrap

Concept: Create an edgeplay techno work that's hard pounding, squelchy, growling. 

Mastered on June 27, 2025 using Bandlab mastering, mastering type is Tape, intensity is 50 percent, input gain is -4.5 dB. Prior to mastering I had to change the mix effects and add some new effects to deal with a gain issue.

Instruments:  Rucci 8-bit Power Synthesizer, Korg NTS-1
Signal Path:  Rucci synth to Korg NTS-1 audio in and out to Bastl Dude Mixer to USB Audio Adapter, to Chromebook, to Bandlab DAW for recording and effects. 

Percussion provided by Rucci Synth drum loop mode. 

Bandlab effects: (Used audio input) Effects:  Feedback Killer set at 3.2, Gain set at -1.7 dB, Stereowise (with Spread set at 3.6, Low at 72%, High at 83%), 7-band EQ (100Hz at +2.3 dB, 200Hz at -1.0 dB, 400Hz at -2.8 dB, 800 at +0.2 dB, 1.6kHz at +2.0 dB, 3.2kHz at +5.5 dB, 6.4kHz at +4.4 dB), EQ3-M 3-band EQ with Mid-Sweep (Low at -1.5 dB, Mid at +2.9 dB, Mid-Sweep at 1495Hz, High at +1.2 dB), Teclab BA-2A Compressor (Gain at +52, Squeeze at +36), Univerb type Atrium and Mix at 34%, Dimension B Chorus (Preset is 04). Changes were primarily made to resolve a gain issue that was originally set at about -18 dB... the goal was to get it -2.0 dB which was achieved. This was done by adding a compressor, Univerb, and a Chorus, and by tweaking the other effects. The effort also improved the dynamics and overall balance of ranges. 

File format:  WAV 16-bit, 44.1kHz

Photo: Woman with Blade by Ivan Babydov, Pexels License. 

"Edgeplay" is copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email for permission to use.

Edgeplay

June 2025 - Not posting new songs for a bit as I am applying mastering to the current songs here. I am also redoing some of the effects for certain mixes so mastering comes out better. I'll announce when that is complete and return to creating new songs to add. 

I listen to tons of techno, trance and EDM. I grew up tho with 60s and 70s rock and jazz fusion. I took piano for five years. My dad played piano, accordian, xylophone, bongos and little bit of guitar. Mom was an oil and acrylic artist. In college I practiced piano in the listening rooms and hung out in the music degree buildings and went to bunches of concerts in the SF Bay Area. 

In 2018 I landed a writing gig with DJD UK Global Music and wrote 74 listener reviews of songs for their artists. The label owner later retired after a long career in music production and marketing and closed his label.

I released my debut digital album on the DJD UK Global Music label in March 2019 called "Off Grid Analog", 13 tracks, 48:05 minutes of experimental/electronic/noise original music available for just a year on all major online outlets.  It was fun working with a label and to create an album. 

In the past I've created music on a Korg Poly-61, Korg X-50 and an Alesis Micron and mixed on a Mackie 1402-VLZ3 14-channel mixer. Today I've been creating electronic, experimental and noise music with a Teenage Engineering PO-28 Robot Pocket Operator, Stylophone Gen X-1 Analog Synthesizer, Bastl Kastle 1.5 Synth,  Meeblip Geode Synth, Alesis Q25 Controller, Kieth McMillen QuNexus USB MIDI CV Gate Controller, Alesis Micron Synth, Rucci 8-bit Power Synth, Rucci Maximal Drone, Rucci 16-step CV Sequencer,  Moffenzeef Modular MSG II Black, Stylophone Gen R8 Synth, Bastl Dude Mixer, Korg Volca FM Synth, Make Noise O-Coast Synth, Korg Monotron Delay Synth, Korg NTS-1 Synth Benidub Filtro, Arturia Keystep Controller, etc. I got away from melodic pieces to explore music and to dabble in electronic, experimental, noise, drone and experimental techno, ambient, trance styles.

My home studio includes m-Audio BX5 powered monitors and use of Beyerdynamic studio headphones, Sony and Beats phones. I use a Chromebook and the cloud-based in-browser Bandlab DAW and I do my own mastering. I use both a Baslt Dude Mixer and the Behringer Xenyx 1002B 10-chnl mixer. I use Mogami cables, Roland Gold MIDI cable, CV cables, iConnectivity MIDI to USB cable. I use a Boomstick Psychoacoustic DAC for added richness of dynamics. Final signal path output goes through the USB audio adapter into my Chromebook.  I rarely do multitrack preferring a straight signal path from one device to the next till final put goes through a mixer to the audio adapter into the Chromebook. 

I'm active on synth and music groups on Facebook under my name:
John Koudela III.  My music name tho is jtechno on Soundcloud. 

I'm located north of Seattle, WA. Contact me at:  jtechnoelectronicmusic@yahoo.com
All music I create and post are copyright by jtechno electronic music. Email me for permission to use my tracks.

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