Made 2016-2020 under Ultra Sound Moms pseudonym
Made in Audacity besides Phrygian Swing (Gband)

Pretty Tascam Woohoo

Proceeding with the daily practice sessions, I (think I) finally figured out how to properly use my (older) Volca Sample and the (newer) Model:Samples together. This is the first track in the series which uses both at the same time. This setup allows me to have both more complicated drum tracks and some polyphonic melodies, and I think finally I have a good idea about the strength and weaknesses of both machines.

BTW, shoutout to Seamoon who put together a track which is always the first thing which comes to my mind when I hear Crystal: https://soundcloud.com/seamoon/02-seamoon-purple-flame-mixdown-ma-110516 (the EP was called Crystal Language).

Photo by Jason Deines: https://www.pexels.com/hu-hu/foto/makrofotozas-levendula-ametiszt-lila-ko-6400515/

[2023-03-26]

Sketches: Crystal

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/o8DFcKLfc8E

After recovered from a bad flu i decided to take my Korg Volca Sample for a   Drumfunk jam. The Drumfunk it's a sub genre of jungle music focused on hard edited and intricate drums, the samples i used are the same of my last jungle jams and are a few really famous old school funk drum breaks with a couple of descending basses made with basic waveforms (square and supersaw) and the pitch envelopes from the units. For the sequences i used the song mode that exclude other features like mute / step jump etc... soi made a long sequence using all the 16 steps and create variations simply switching to single loops. At the moment the Volca sample is my favourite jungle machine :D enjoy!

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JUNGLE DRUMFUNK JAM With KORG VOLCA SAMPLE

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/INNmfJdqT0U

After the unofficial Korg Electribe 2s "Hacktribe" firmware i decided to try another time this kind of machine upgrade. This is the turn of the Korg Volca Sample "Pajen" firmware that adds some interesting funtionalities like Bar Filters (permits to play a single pattern on a longer cycle, for example every 2 or 4 bars) that allow to make longer sequences or the "Probability" (you can add to every step a value from 0 to 100 that represent the probability of a note to be played) that permits to create variations and a semi-generative approach to the sequences. This last function is the one i used the most in this 2Step / Uk Garage jam, expecially on drums. All the sounds are loaded by me , all the basses and some drums are synthetized from scratch using basic waveforms, the pads or melodic sounds are made with basic waves and single note flutes / winds / voices samples. Enjoy!

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DEEP GENERATIVE 2STEP UKGARAGE JAM with KORG VOLCA SAMPLE PAJEN Firmware

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Another jam with Pajen Firmware on Korg Volca Sample. This upgrade mades the Samples really fun and i find the probability based sequencer really interesting. I loaded a bounch of chopped old school jungle breaks and Taiko Drums in order to get a Photek style touch, the Kaossilator add movement on some raw jungle beats. Enjoy!

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JUNGLE JAM with KORG VOLCA SAMPLE (Pajen Firmware) and KORG KAOSSILATOR

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Another outdoor jam, this time i used my Korg Volca Sample (with Pajen Firmware) and Volca Drum. For both devices sequences i used a lot the probability in order to create moving and evolving sequences, enriched by drums variations and glitches made with the Step Jump. I recorded in multi track using two different recorders: a Zoom H1on and a quite vintage Sony Minidisk, i captured the different sources witout sync then sinced on Ableton Live. Enjoy!

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AMBIENT GLITCH JAM with KORG VOLCA SAMPLE and VOLCA DRUM

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/feVxSSEGzr8

Another outdoor jam in this hot italian summer! Also this time the perfect pair of machines is the solid couple of battery powered volcas: the Drum wich is perfect for this kind of intricated beats and totally unedit sounds, the Sample with the unofficial Pajen Firmware that cover all the melodic sounds. I'm using on both sequences the probability, a function (relatively new for me) that permit to give a lot of variatons to the beats and the harmonic part. Another function i'm using a lot is the "Step Jump" mode on Volca Drum, unfortunately the first Sample had a bad (to me) version of this mode that permits to jump though the single steps of the sequences then return to the original beat. It's always a pleasure make music in the nature, enjoy!

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OUTDOOR ABSTRACT ELECTRONICS with KORG VOLCA DRUM and VOLCA SAMPLE Pajen Firmware

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New jam with Korg Volca Sample and the unofficial Pajen Firmware. I used the same sound set of the last jungle jams i created, but this time i separed audio out (using panning) making two groups: one with drums and basse, and another with pads, speech and fx. The two mono signal are running through the Zoom B1on (for drums an bass) and G1on (for other sounds) with two different custom chains with compression, EQ, chorus and reverb. All this setup it's really cheap and digital but i think that Volcas are perfect to be squeezed with these entry level multi FX that enrich the sound with deepness, presence, dinamics and stereo image. Enjoy!

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JUNGLE DRUMFUNK JAM with KORG VOLCA SAMPLE (Pajen Firmware) and ZOOM G1on / B1on

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/iurh035CTnI

As a first 2024 video i wanted to make something different mixing dawless music with AI generated videos. For the audio i used the Korg Volca Drum (for drums and basses) plugged into the digital multi FX Zoom B1on (with a custom FX chain) and the Korg Volca Sample - Pajen Firmware - for ambience and pads, also this one pluggedinto a digital multi FX the Zoom G1on. For the visuali generated some videos from prompt on Pika Labs, trying to create the sequence of an urban exploration from an abandoned house to a underground river. I mixed the AI generated images with a real life recordings so this is the result... enjoy!

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DARK AMBIENT JAM with KORG VOLCA DRUM SAMPLE (Pajen Firmware)

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New summer jam with my Korg Volca Sample - Pajen Firmware. In this jam i tried to make granular synth basses and FX using a really small portion of looped samples in order to create new sounds from kicks and other standard samples. Using the motion recordings (step by step) i made some extra movement with the "loop start" searching for different harmonics. The result is a wide range of gritty and rich bass sounds perfect to fit halftime drum and bass music. I processed the Volca Sample with the Zoom G1on multi-FX processor using compression, overdrive, EQ and some spatial FX. Enjoy!

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KORG VOLCA SAMPLE as a GRANULAR GROOVEBOX (processed with ZOOM B1on)  HALFTIME JAM

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/1Rn8gZN1Sog

New UKG / 2Step jam with my hacked Korg Volca Sample with Pajen Firmware.
The "Pajen" firmware adds some interesting funtionalities like Bar Filters (permits to play a single pattern on a longer cycle, for example every 2 or 4 bars) that allow to make longer sequences or the "Probability" (you can add to every step a value from 0 to 100 that represent the probability of a note to be played) that permits to create variations and a semi-generative approach to the sequences. This last function is the one i used the most in this 2Step / Uk Garage jam, expecially on drums. All the sounds are loaded by me , all the basses and some drums are synthetized from scratch using basic waveforms, the pads or melodic sounds are made with basic waves and single note flutes / winds / voices samples. Enjoy!

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2Step / UKG JAM with KORG VOLCA SAMPLE (Pajen Firmware)

Heilen 2

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New Hard Tekno Jam with Korg Volca Samples processed through Zoom B1on. Enjoy!

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TEKKA

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/M3waxYWQw88

Some Jump Up DnB vibes with my Korg Volca Drum (used for basslines and drum foundations) and Volca Sample (for old school one-shot drum layering). I'm recently using Volcas at half the normal speed to get longer sequences without using pattern chaining (which is a bit annoying and a waste of space/patterns), and the results are really great! I used the Volca Drum for heavy distorted basses, using an LFO at high speed for FM modulation, perfect for Jump Up sonorities, and processed through the Zoom B1on with a custom FX chain (compressor + distortion + stereo spread/chorus + plate reverb). Enjoy!

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Jumpin J.

As you can notice, i like rumble kicks

#UK HARDCORE
#INDUSTRIAL
#TERROR
#HARDCORE
#DATABASS RECORDS
#GABBER

Crashout 25' (preview)

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Another cheap 90s keyboard, another tune!
Some time ago I found, for 10 €, an old Casio CT-670 (1990) — an entry-level keyboard with nice sounds and an interesting tone editor. I edited a couple of timbres and arranged a deep, minimal DnB tune inspired by the Autonomic sound (Darkestral, dBridge...) of the early 2010s.
I also used a Korg Volca Sample for old-school drum breaks, running through a Studio Projects VTB1 tube preamp with a bit of saturation. For the second drum layer, I used the Korg Volca Drum with parallel distortion via a Boss Hyper Metal. The bass came from the Korg Volca Keys.
Recently, I rediscovered the gritty pleasure of tape loops, so I added a continuous pad filtered through the Korg Monotron. I recorded the performance live, then re-synced some parts to achieve a better overall sound. Enjoy!

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Deep Minimal DnB Jam with Tape Loops, a bounch of Korg Volcas and a Casio CT-670 (1990)

Sem V.
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20 y/o Hardcore techno producer hailing from Cromtown, Nederland.
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Databass Records
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Next-gen early (energycore)
UK hardcore
(Early) terror
Bochka
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Producing more extreme music as 'Cromtown Terrorists' & Ambient Energycore as 'Krishna's Wrath'
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Inquiries: sem [ @ ] databass-records.com

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