Noisy Kick

Kick Pattern 2

Is it Percussion or is it Synth?

Kick Crunch

Kick Groove

Marimba-y Synth

Percussion

Soft Synth 4

Soft Synth 1

Soft Synth 3

This is a story about a Modular synth, a digitakt, a 303 & a Model 1.4 mixer.
Recorded at home with love.

MODULAR LIVE TECHNO FULL SET @ Home

01 !!111!!! 2_4 (24bit48.0kHz)

black hole

Eurorack one take live. 
Songs build around a little piano sample named koan.
Core of the ryhtmic is done with the amazing Jasmine traffic that fit so well with the BIA and the Polaris.

Warp II

Control Voltage

Edit d'une session live machine spéciale 808, 303 séquencée avec mon système droid der mann mit der maschine, samples de 808 de l'octatrack, kick avec le basimilus. Tracké dans ableton, edité et mixé rapidement.

808 session

The Vampyre

Lord of the Rings

Where's the techno?

For me, techno happens in the moment, where the manipulation of tones, timbre, triggers, timing and modulation occurs in real time, using an ever-evolving curated selection of voltage-controlled hardware. (Many of the individual modules were soldered and built myself.)

It is literally impossible for me to play the same music twice. In fact, when I listen back to tracks after a few weeks, I often have little idea of exactly how I made the noises present in the recordings. There are too many variables involved to remember. Which is why it's so interesting and why I never get bored by it.

Everything you hear is a recording of a live performance that I cannot replicate.

For anyone who is into the gear itself, you will find links to the modules used to produce each track in the track description box. You will notice the evolution of my system if you care to compare them.

If you're a DJ who wants to play any of my privately released tracks, please get in touch and I will send over the files. 

And for those who just like listening to techno, thanks for checking my stuff out. All messages, comments and feedback are graciously received. Cheers

Introduced to electronic music at a psychedelic trance party in Montreal in 1999, Steve, known as Joystick, discovered his first musical love.

Listening to the likes of Misstress Barbara, Chris Liebing and Len Faki and influenced by them throughout the next four years, gave him the basis he needed to start mixing minimal and techno in 2003.

In 2006, he co-founded Eresys Productions, a collective of artists that holds a monthly residency at Salon DaomÃ© Lounge Club in Montreal. Assisting with the production and promotion of their different events led him to producing with his partner Kressel, in 2008.

His love for loopy, hypnotic atmospheres was influenced from labels such as Drumcode, Sci+Tec Digital Audio, Exentric, Sleaze and others. His tracks have been supported by Presslaboys, Wehbba, Joseph Capriati, Ricky Montanari, Monika Kruse, Steve Lawler, Luca Ricci, Dyno, M.I.D.I, Steve Parker, D-Unity, just to name a few.

2010 sees the birth of Eresys Recording, a Montreal based minimal, techno, tech-house label.

Twelve years in the techno world have created a machine lover out of Joystick, he loves to tweak multiple parameters to create transitions that set the dancefloor on fire. Life in his fourthies has brought him closer to the real thing and you can feel it in the sounds that echo throughout his work.

Aurélien Valluet (instagram.com/aurel.val/) is a Parisian modular artist.
Lulled by Art of Noise, Pink Floyd, Megadeth or Datasette, haunted by pads, from the boom tchack to bleep blop.
4x104hp addict.

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