New one! Inspired by the "BPB Awards 2022" lists. Featuring the "Best Free Audio Software" of last year:

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2022/12/30/bpb-awards-2022/

Played around with the winner plugins - and ended up with this little entertaining song! After using 8 out of 10 from the effects list, and 4 from the instruments list (had used the other ones before - and wasn't sure how to get Cardinal to work). 

Also the standard EQ from my DAW and a whole bunch of other free plugins from BabyAudio, IgniteAmps, AudioDamage, Apogee, etc. And some REALLY cheap loops/samples from the recent holiday sales ("10-for-25", etc.). So production costs: a few cents! :)

Have fun!


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P.S.: Still finetuning the track... but have to complete another on first. ;)

Image by Mason McCall. Got a rather sexual vibe this one... too sexual? But on the other hand: if you listen to disco and soul music from the 70s, it's ALL about, well... the three letter word, and in such an outright way! 8-O

Voice Control

The Robochoir from VOICE CONTROL is back!

Apart from that it's basically me playing around with the updated "Glitch Arcade Pack" by Soundtrack Loops, part of their new free "2022-23 Sampler" (soundtrackloops.com/shop/free-2022-2023-sampler). 

[There's also other stuff in there, but rather limited. The Arcade pack by far the most comprehensive thus useful. So went for this one.]

Added some peeps, cheeps, whimpers and granular textures from Glitchedtones, some fabulous upright bass and drum breaks by the "British Music Library" (which is NOT the music section of the British Library!) and some decent Oberheim bliss (with the free OB-Xd plugin).

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Image by the Hubble Space Telescope, courtesy of NASA. You can take the free tour here: ;)

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/index.html

Looking At The Stars

What I imagine it would sound like if a terminally depressed robot decided to become a hip hop DJ.

Broadcasted

Hexbot

stream: https://links.v1ris.com/voice-of-reason

the first and only single for the forthcoming album “digital connection”

This is a concept album about navigating a community as a neurodivergent person, explored from the perspective of a robot with emotions.

Specifically, "voice of reason" is about being given poor social advice that works for everyone else except you — being talked at by someone rather than them coming at it from your differing perspective and needs.

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lyrics
‎[Verse 1]
You try to show me how the world works
No matter if I make a plea
It's in one ear, and out the other
Your way of life is foreign to me

So why can't we just start from square one?
Between you and me, I don’t have a clue
Your narrow focus betrays self-interest
Oh, if only you knew

[Chorus 1]
I guess you're just another voice of reason
You beg for me to change until I choke
You'll never listen, even when I'm pleading
Leave me alone

[Verse 2]
I can’t believe the way you see me
You look down on me like it's cliché
I’ll never be enough for you, so
Why do I bother with what I say?

So I'll do it all myself
Even if we never make amends
All of the world's knowledge could never prepare you
For someone who forgot how to make friends

[Chorus 2]
I guess you're just another voice of reason
You beg for me to change until I choke
You'll never listen, even when I'm pleading
Leave me alone

I guess you're just another voice of reason
You beg for me to change until I choke
You'll never listen, even when I'm pleading
Leave me alone

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credits:

art by REVERIEQUE
twitter.com/REVERIEQUE

composed, produced, recorded, and engineered by Anna Iris Hill

viola by Jackson Hill
cello by Christopher Hill

special thanks to Joshua Kwok for several rounds of mixing feedback, and to the rest of my friends for all their support/advice :)

voice of reason

Heavy echoes, broken beats, and subsonic dread—KATHARSYS Industries conjures industrial-dub transmissions from the underground. Where post-punk grit meets cavernous bass, expect a hypnotic dive into sound system sorcery. Tune in, or be tuned out.

https://linktr.ee/wunschm_schine
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https://www.youtube.com/@wunschmaschine
https://wunschmaschine.bandcamp.com

older stuff:
https://audiomack.com/wunschmaschine

social:
https://www.instagram.com/wunschm_schine/
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INFO: Middle aged music maker (and recreational drummer) from the middle of Franconian nowhere arranging music for open minded music lovers who (like me) don't want to listen to the same (kind of) music all/every day - way too boring (or even annoying).

So you'll find all kinds of stuff here, from Space Jazz to Hip Hop, from Synthpop to Triphop, from Folk to Doom, from here to there, from then to now, and many things in between - except for "pure" EDM / Techno / Trance, not my cup of tea. :P 

Many tracks tend towards "alternative pop". Well, if you don't like a song/genre - just skip it! I won't mind...  ;)

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P.S.: Before you ask: I (almost) never start with the vocals, asking myself: what strange things could I make with those?

Instead I start making strange music THEN look for some vocal parts that might fit. You'd be surprised how often you get a "match" the moment you throw those in the mix. Well, sometimes it needs a little tweaking... ;)

New tracks tagged #robopop