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Synths: Elektron Analog Keys
Bass: Fender Jazz Bass
Drums: EZ Drummer 2.0
Sequenced with Logic with minimum effects.

This is our musical laboratory, a place to cook new compositions, where we experiment with our music toys. Some of them will end in our albums, some not. Time will tell...

Tentacles Lab 0001 (Elektron Analog Keys + Fender Jazz Bass + EZ Drummer)

José Luis Amores Sardá: synth and sampler 
Javier García Sanchez: electric bass 
Alejandro Dominguez Gonzalez: drums on 1, 3 and 4 
Lucas Castaño Sanchez: drums on 2 and 5 
Sara JL Howard: voice on 1 
Juan José Alcántara Bandera: voice on 2 
Brian Fletcher Quince: voice on 3 
NASA sounds from historic spaceflights on 4 


Composed and produced by Tentacles 
Mixed and mastered by Gonzalo Presa 
Recorded in Kraken Sound, October 2014 & March 2016 
Artwork: Salvador Salva 


If you want the version that includes STEMS (separate instrument tracks useful for remixes, mashups, etc.) you can get the album titled "Arcade Stems" here:

Orion

Level One

Lab 0007 is made with 2 voices from an Eurorack modular synth + 1 voice from the Analog Keys + drums and samples from the Octatrack.

Gear used:
-Arp: Doepfer A110 + A106-5 + Mutable Instruments Peaks
-Bass: Ladik VCO1 + RYO Aperture + ALM Pip Slope
-Repetitive melody: Elektron Analog Keys
-Drums: Elektron Octatrack

Eurorack: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/448054

Befaco Midi Thing is used to sequence the modular.
Everything is sequenced and mixed in Octatrack. Mastered in Logic with minimum effects.

Moto movies from "The Crew" videogame PS4.
Filmed in Mini-DV with a Sony Handycam DCR PC9E PAL

Youtube video of Lab0007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ2Odgmkwcw

This is our musical laboratory, a place to cook new compositions, where we experiment with our music toys. Some of them will end in our albums, some not. Time will tell...

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Tentacles Lab 0007 (Eurorack +Octatrack + AK + The Crew PS4)

You can read in detail how this was composed here:
http://tentaclesband.com/lab/new-ambient-piece-hhhhiiiigggghhhh-lllliiiiffffeeee/

Gear used:
-Sampler player: ES Disting MK3
-Arp: Doepfer A110 + A106-5 + MI Peaks
-Bass: Ladik VCO1 + RYO Aperture + ALM Pip Slope
-High Voice: MI Warps
-Befaco Midi Thing is used to clock the modular.
-Mixed in Octatrack. Mastered in Logic with minimum effects.
-Filmed in Mini-DV with a Sony Handycam DCR PC9E PAL

Eurorack Patch: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/patches/view/29428

Tentacles Lab 0008 Ambient HHHHiiiigggghhhh LLLLiiiiffffeeee

Lab 0009 is made entirely with our Eurorack modular synth, sequenced by the DIY Ornament & Crime and Pamela's New Workout and mixed live with the Elektron Octatrack. It's a generative ambient piece (also called algorithmic music).

4 voices are used. In order of appearance:
-Mid melody: Ladik VCO1 + RYO Aperture
-Bass: Doepfer A110 + A106-5 + MI Peaks
-Pluck sound: MI Warps + MI Peaks
-High melody: ES Disting MK3 + ALM Pip Slope

All rhythms are sequenced using different Euclidean rhythms from the Pamela's New Workout.
All pitches come from the Ornament & Crime using the Quatermain app. Mid Melody and Bass are created by 2 Turing machines. The Pluck sound uses an Integer Sequence Dsum4 (0->{0,1,2,3}, 1->{1,2,3,4}, 2->{2,3,4,5}, etc...) The High Melody follows the first 128 digits of Pi.

Eurorack screenshot: https://cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/modulargrid_493099.jpg

Mixed in Octatrack (a little delay applied on some voices). Mastered in Logic.

Tentacles Lab 0009 (Generative Ambient)

Lab0010 is a videogame-inspired little theme, sequenced with the Elektron Octatrack. A Casio VL-1 is used to play the melody, Octatrack plays drums and the rest of synth sounds are from  3 voices from the Eurorack modular.

-Melody: Casio VL-Tone VL-1
-Bass:  Ladik VCO1 + ALM Pip Slope + WMD MMF + HP 3xVCA
-Countermelody: Disting MK4 in wavetable mode + Doepfer A160-5 SEM + MI Peaks + Doepfer A132-3
-Synced Riff: MI Warps + RYO Aperture + 3xVCA + AD Chronoblob. Sequenced by the ALM Pamela New Workout.
-Drums: Octatrack using trigger conditions for a little randomness in the patterns.

Eurorack voices sequenced using a Befaco MIDI Thing. ALM PMW modulating a few parameters.


Eurorack screenshot: https://cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/modulargrid_473995.jpg

Mixed in Octatrack (a little delay applied on some voices). Mastered in Ableton Live.
Filmed with Lumix TZ-80

Tentacles Lab 0010 Videogame-inspired Casio VL1 + Octatrack + Eurorack

Rainy Day (Lab0011) is an ambient generative track, with live piano playing, white noise from a FM radio, and a Microsoft Surface with Ableton Live 10 randomly sequencing sounds from a modular eurorack synth and Ableton Live 10.

-FM Radio: Scott + SSF MultimodeFilter
-Mid-Bass:  Ladik VCO1 + RYO Aperture + ALM Pip Slope + WMD MMF + HP 3xVCA
-Bass: Doepfer A110-1 + Doepfer A160-5 SEM + MI Peaks + Doepfer A132-3
-Plucksound1: Tension
-Plucksound2: Tension
-Piano: Kawai CX-9

Eurorack voices sequenced using a Befaco MIDI Thing. ALM PMW modulating a few parameters.

Thanks to Steve Angstrom for his great tutorial on making generative music with Live:
http://angstromnoises.com/tutorial-generative-music-ableton-live/


Eurorack screenshot: https://cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/modulargrid_473995.jpg

Mixed with M-Audio NRV10
Mastered in Logic 9

Tentacles Lab 0011 Piano + FM Radio + Eurorack

Lab0012 is the first track I made with the Synthstrom Deluge. This is a fantastic all-in-one machine. All the synths, samples, and FX are from the Deluge itself. It's battery powered, so it makes also a great combo with the Zoom H1 for recording outdoor or any place in the studio.

Lab 0012 Synthstrom Deluge

Last winter in a rainy night, our friend José Wela filmed a few images that inspired us to make this new theme.
Lab0013 is made entirely with the Synthstrom Deluge. All the synths, samples, and FX are from the Deluge itself.

Lab0013 Wela's Dreams

In 1995, Brian Eno used and coined the term "Generative Music" to describe any music that is ever-different and changing, created by a system.

Cyborg (Lab0014) is a semi-generative theme sequenced with the Synthstrom Deluge. The Eurorack modular plays 4 tracks and the Deluge plays another 4 tracks, including drums and synths.

In order of appearance:

Eurorack:
-Track 4 Riff: Mutable Instruments Plaits (Filtered Noise mode) + WMD MultiModeFilter + HP 3xVCA + AD Chronoblob
-Track 3 Arp: Ladik VCO1 + RYO Aperture + HP 3xVCA + AD Chronoblob
-Track 2 Melody: MI Warps internal oscillator (Parasite 1.01 firmware) + Doepfer A132-3 + Disting MK4 (clockable SD delay mode). Generative melody created using probability and different lengths with the Deluge, so everytime the melody changes.
-Track 1 Bass: Doepfer A100-1 Standard VCO +  Doepfer A160-5 SEM + Doepfer A132-3 + Disting MK4 (clockable SD delay mode). Again some probability used to get variations of the bass line.
Envelopes by Xaoc Devices Zadar (4 channels). Modulation by the ALM Pamela New Workout. MIDI to CV by Befaco MIDI Thing.

Deluge:
-Track 5 Drums: Deluge kit with samples from the Korg DDD-1 vintage drum machine. Probability used for a little randomness in the patterns.
-Track 7 Countermelody: Deluge internal substractive synth.
-Track 8 Chords: Deluge internal substractive synth.
-Track 6 FX: Deluge internal substractive synth.

Lab 0014 Cyborg

Lab0015 is a relaxing/ambient piece done entirely with the Synthstrom Deluge. It has been recorded in a park in Estepona (Spain) near the Mediterranean Sea, in a beautiful winter day.

I am constantly controlling the Filter Cutoff with a knob to add a bit of expression to the lead melody played with the pads. Also, in the middle of the song, I added a bit more delay to the melody. All the synths, samples and FX are from the Deluge itself.


Recorded directly to the Deluge's SD Card. Mastered with Logic X

Lab 0015 Mediterranean afternoon in the park

Circles is an ambient piece inspired by the works of Brian Eno. With a piano improvisation played over a semigenerative drone (system) created with the Synthstrom Deluge.

We used several tracks (tapes), each one with different length, and lot of aleatory trigs to create automatic melodies that doesn't repeat the same way in every loop. All the synths, samples and FX are from the Deluge itself.

If you want to know more about this techniques, this is a great article talking about Brian Eno's Music for Airports album:
https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-music-for-airports

Deluge recorded directly to its own SD Card. Piano recorded with a pair of MXL603s mics in ORTF stereo config and a RME FF400 soundcard. Valhalla DSP Vintageverb reverb applied to the piano sound. Mastered with Logic X

Lab 0016 Circles

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