Octave bassline acid made with Roland TB-03, Roland TR-09, Korg Volca Bass, and Korg Volca Keys through Danelectro D-1 Fab Distortion pedal.

The drifting almost-triplet sound on the second half is the Volca Keys LFO modulating the filter cutoff. I like it!

Storpotäten

Full on psy/goa trance with Elektron Analog Four, Roland TR-09, and Roland TB-03. 

This is the second arrangement of the track, hence the "II". The first one was with TR-09, TB-03 and Korg Volca Bass, but I was not happy with it, the bass came out really indistinct. I had to redo it, but did not feel like it at all, so I took a break from it and made some other music. When I got the Analog Four I took a stab at it again, and it happened to become my most ambitious project on hardware yet. The timbre of some sounds came out wrong due to LFO mishaps (between 4:00 and 4:26, and the "crescendo" starting at 6:10), but I'm quite happy with the TB-03 action, so maybe I'll leave it at this.

Update 2017-03-28: Applied some eq on the "tinny" parts starting at 6:10. Some channels ("tracks" on the Analog Four) were too loud.

Image credits: http://www.wallpaperup.com/651323/dragons_fantasy_dragon_art_artwork.html

Ancalagon II

Octave bassline acid trance made with Elektron Analog Four, Roland TB-03, and Roland TB-09. I went for octave bassline acid in the beginning, and it evolved into this bouncy trancey thingy.

The name came from me just happened to go by a billboard with the word "Traveller" on it, and I thought "that might be the name of the next track." And it stuck :)

Art courtesy of Grafithjärta!

Traveller

Sequence jam with Analog Four, TB-03 and TR-09. Not sure about the genre/style - again. Some acidish upbeat techno stuff. The name is mostly referring to me not being able to produce anything for three months. And a little bit the sounds.

The only post-processing was adding some midrange phase-inverted reverb pseudo-stereo with sox, since I forgot to give the "lead" any width :p

This time it is not recorded with Audacity on laptop, but with a Tascam DR-05 V2. The laptop recording was slowing me down and made me miss good jams.

Crickets

Back to the Volcas again: Volca Beats, Bass, and Keys. The Bass track through the Danelectro D-1 Fab Distortion pedal. All recorded on Tascam DR-05 v2. 

The pedal is quite noisy, so I tried to apply some noise reduction afterwards. Also added my usual pseudo-stereo, since the Volcas are mono (albeit in two channels), to widen it up.

The Volca Keys is an exemplary little bass machine - in my mind better than Volca Bass. You can get really rumbling bass out of the Keys, which I have a hard time finding in the Bass.

The Volcas are incredible in allowing the creativity to flow. They have basically no setup time, are very simple to program, and the workflow is extremely simple. I've missed that when working with my Elektron and Roland gear. Thanks to the simple workflow, I can land something very quickly. This took about half an hour, in total. For me, it gives me the most to go with the flow, and then not overwork the tracks. When I work too long on a track, I lose interest and the fun is gone. This may be the reason why I haven't been so productive lately. I *want* to use the more expensive gear, but it gets in the way for me. I have to think about this, hard.

Flow

Okay... Sometimes I make *this* kind of music. Elevator music. Or acid elevator blues? Apart from shaking my head ruefully, I cannot help but smile a little.

Korg Volca Keys for the bassline, Korg Volca Bass for everything else except drums, which is Roland TR-09. Volca Bass into Elektron Analog Four, for chorus, reverb, and delay. Recorded on Tascam DR-05 v2.

Elevator

Theme of the day. 

Two Roland TB-03 into the external track of Analog Four, for chorus, delay, and reverb. One ordinary track on the A4. Roland TR-09 for the drums.

Sequence jam with some editing on top. I really love acid trance, and I think this came out really well. The TR-09 is too loud, and I've tried to do some equalization, but it needs more. I don't think I will redo it, since it won't get the same feeling - or at least I will not have the same feeling about it. It suits my mood perfectly that day.

Update 2019-05-17: Mastered track now on Spotify[1], Bandcamp[2], and other streaming services, as part of the "Tipping Point" EP.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/album/0qHtyIXJcfFyezDYgfN8ol
[2] https://telchar.bandcamp.com/album/tipping-point

Tipping Point

Acid trance sequence jam, made with Roland TR-09, TB-03 x 2, JU-06, and Elektron Analog Four. The TB-03's into Analog Four for effects. Recorded with Tascam DR-05 v2. Single take, no postprocessing.

Update 2019-05-17: Mastered track now on Spotify[1], Bandcamp[2], and other streaming services, as part of the "Tipping Point" EP.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/album/0qHtyIXJcfFyezDYgfN8ol
[2] https://telchar.bandcamp.com/album/tipping-point

Home

Sequence jam with Roland TR-09, two Roland TB-03, Roland JU-06, and Analog Four for effects.

Single take,  no post-editing, only a simple bass eq.

I couldn't really find a good name for this one. Initially it was called Glacier, but that was too void of feeling. You're trapped on a vast snow and ice plateau in a blizzard, and the realization sinks in that you will not come back from it.

Update 2019-05-17: Mastered track now on Spotify[1], Bandcamp[2], and other streaming services, as part of the "Tipping Point" EP.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/album/0qHtyIXJcfFyezDYgfN8ol
[2] https://telchar.bandcamp.com/album/tipping-point

Bleak

Chiptunesque trance or something. The Roland JU-06 is - perhaps blasphemously - used for the bassline, using the combined 1+2 chorus. Three Analog Four tracks for the lead, backing, and arpeggio. Roland TR-09 for the drums. Lots of PWM!

2018-03-09: Uploaded a new mix, fixing a few transitions as well as some unintended masking effects.

Phoenix

Acid drone ambient jam made with Analog Four, JU-06, and two TB-03.

Update 2018-12-21: Mastered track now on Spotify[1], Bandcamp[2], and other streaming services, as part of the "Emergence" EP.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/album/3Y8dMs0Xya8sgHOqdbq5YK
[2] https://telchar.bandcamp.com/releases

Singularity

Just a wednesday noodle with the new toy.

Wednesday Noodle

Picking up an old interest that I've never indulged before. Learning to show who I am and letting stuff go. Into all sorts of music, but electronic music has a special place in my heart, especially psytech, tech house, and oldschool acid trance. I love the sounds! My all-time favourite record is Depeche Mode's Violator. I almost never listen to lyrics (the exception is Violator, basically), but very much to chords and harmonics. Fifths are my favourite! Nice harmonies, filter sweeps, and resonances can keep me occupied for a long time :) 

I'm aiming for being able to do consistent complete live jams, but until then... The tracks here are most often created by programming sequences and then jamming them together on the fly. The Volcas have no pattern chaining, so I have to change sequences at exactly the right spot manually. The TB-03 and TR-09 have better sequencers, which let a sequence finish before the next one start, which frees my hands for the synchronizing the Volca pattern changes - although it takes some brainpower to "enqueue" the pattern changes, which means changing patterns before they actually need to change. Sometimes, I have a bunch of patterns that I feel that I just have to use, but have problems making them converge - in some cases it has taken weeks. In those cases I eventually end up writing a kind of "score" laying out the pattern chaining. It is funny, though, the tracks I really like best are the ones that came very easy, and only took a few hours to make.

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