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It All Comes Down to This

The Confederacy

Pre-order

Real Friends - I Don't Love You Anymore

When You Land Here, It's Time to Return (2014 Remix/Remaster)

The Shins

Flake Music - The Shins

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Hash is minced meat, and refers to the minced textures glued together and is a bit of a parody of the 'acid' genre ;)

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Onto the information about how I did it:

First off, the word hash is a reference to the method I used to create the synth sounds. Hash = minced meat. I basically "minced" a lot of different formanty sounds and stuck them together(it's more complicated than this). It's also a play on the 'acid' genre which has similar sounds, but I'm using a very different technique to elicit similar sounds associated with acid, so i've decided to call it 'hash'. I'm clearing this up because I keep getting messages about people talking about their recent fun with 'hash' but i've had enough of that :)

I got to use a modular setup for the first time. Spent many hours on the thing and came back with tons of samples some of which I've microedited and such later in my DAW. I'd say about 70-80% of the sounds are sampled from the synth.

Reason I did this was to separate making sounds and sequencing them as it's easy to get bogged down continuing to make sounds.

 Toward the end I used his disklavier :)) I wrote the midi for a vst initially, but then used it on a real piano, sampled it, then edited it afterward. For some reason on his old one you get a stringy kinda sound that appealed to me when you arppegiate. 

Hope you enjoy!

Modular Hash

Maya Yianni - Vocals, Guitar, Stylophone, Synth, Jamie Coe - Guitar, Idan Brutman - Bass, Ed Burton - Drums, Tom Pickles - Cello.
Produced by John Harries, Engineered by Sean Woodlock.
Written by Yianni, Coe, Brutman, Burton
Recorded at Hackney Road Studios, London

You + I

Flower City After Dusk

Snapping Back

Our brand new single 'Dreamboat Picture'. Also available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and all major platforms.

Produced/Mastered by Tom Peters
Artwork by James Grandi and Suifyaan Salam.

Dreamboat Picture

Paper Man

TURN IT UP

Guitar/electro pop, with a few harmonies and I hope a catchy hook. Watch out for recorder solo.

Gold Shoulder

Table Where

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The epically tuneful indie rock group from Brampton, Canada. New album "Flower City After Dusk" available 03.31.17.

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