Ambionik - Held Down

Quick capture of a patch I'm working on for Rob Papen's B.I.T.2 virtual analogue synthesizer.

BIT 2 TONAL AXiS Sound Design Session

Continents is the third studio album by the band Peru. The band consisted of Rob Papen, Ruud van Es and Peter Kommers. The album Continents was released in 1983. This album contains the (then unknown) hit Africa and the main track Continents. Wich label head VANE decided to merge together.

All drums have been re-recorded, the synths have been replaced by some different sounds, still representing the old-skool vibes of the 80's.

Again this release is unofficial and will be removed if any party holding copyrights will ask us to!

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Continents

Peru - Africa ('Continents Merged' Edit By VANE) [GALAXY]

the original version of this track was from c2000.  I think I'd just upgraded to Cubase VST on a PC, so was now experimenting with samples.  in this case - some Cuban Rumba on vinyl.  

The original was pretty funky - mixing the Cuban record with some TB303 samples from Future Music.  As well as samples from Meat Beat Manifesto (which were clearly samples in the first place).

So in 2020, in lockdown with no job  and reworking old tracks as a project to keep me busy and sane, I came to this one.  I always felt it would work well with spoken lyrics / rap.  who knew that accordian, brass, and extra funk guitar would soon find their way into the track.  

this version is from August 2024, where I've tidied up the production.  

some of the rap music comes from a musician from Cambodia that we filmed for a piece of branded content, that unfortunately never went live.  He's on the cover art too.  Please get in touch so I can give proper credit where it's due!

MC Gamble

Another track from Half A World Away in 2019 remade in 2023, remastered in 2024 for SoundCloud. 

It’s probably from the early 90s with the Orb (and that Justin Robertson mix tape mentioned elsewhere here. Plus the on u sound remixes of PWEI) … but dub & reggae always makes a return to my music. (Along with trumpets it seems).  I did go to Jamaica to explore the sounds c2001, so I did do my homework - getting into king tubby and Lee Scratch Perry. 

Well this one brings in some Jamaican vocals and some off beat chords, but certainly isn’t really reggae or dub.  Shout out to Audio Damage, who's dub station and pan station plugins are my go-tos.  UVI's relay for Delay as well.

The title refers to my consistent M.O. of being incapable of getting going until it’s the last minute.  Painful for me. Probably more painful for everyone else relying on me. But over the years, I’ve learnt to work with it rather than get stressed by it.  Get it in!

Last Minute Get It In

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Progressive/Melodic/Trance, House, Synthwave, Synthesizer, Ambient



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30+ years of writing music.  now back to lots of hardware to complement the soft synths.  And of course, the compulsion to add the kitchen sink, fridge and oven is still there!

Kit:
Logic 
Cubase
Ableton Live
Reason
Expose
Loopcloud
Arturia V collection, Pigments
Arturia microfreak, minifreak, matrixbrute, minibrute, Spark 
Roland boutique Juno, Jupiter, JP3, 808 and 909
Arturia Audiofuse
Focusrite Scarlett
Roland Jupiter Xm, JD-Xi, Gaia SH-01 MDC-1 Dance Module
Korg Modwave, microKorg, MicroKorg XL, korg ER-1, korg 05RW, kaoss pad
Novation ultranova, mininova, a-station, Circuit Tracks
Access Virus-b
Beringher Deep Mind 12, UB-Xa, TD-3, Crave, MS-1
Nord Stage EX
Sequential Prophet 2000
Waldorf Pulse
M-audio Venom
Native instruments kontakt, massive, reaktor, FM8, battery, guitar rig, traktor, maschine, absynth, and the rest of the ultimate collection 
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Spitfire Albion 
Aria orchestra 
Softube Parallels
Waves Gold and a lot of their plug ins. Abbey Road TG, brauer motion, butch vig vocals, ovox, flow motion
Isotope ozone
Sugar Bytes effectrix, looperator, turnado, factory, cyclop, obscurium 
Audio damage dubstation, panstation
AAS lounge lizard, strum, chromophone
UVI relay 
Fender Stratocaster 
Schecfer Diamond Electric 
Line6 Pod Guitar Mukti Effects 
Boss guitar multi effects and various other pedals 
Peavey Bass 
Yamaha DTX electronic drum kit 
Alesia drum pads 
Stanton turntables

Grew up around Chicago, been in the Charlotte area since 1997.

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