Secrets

Virus TI (bass), Nord Lead 3 (arp, wind, vocoder carrier), Nord Drum going through TC Electronic Triple C (modded), Novation K-Station (high-register pads), Lexicon PCM80 & MPX1, Boss SE70 (vocoder). Samples & sequence MPC2000XL. In a strange twist of events, not a single "real" analog synth or drum machine on this one! Recorded through Mackie Onyx 1620i & 1220 mixers via firewire into Logic Pro X. Subtle tweaking in the box. 今回はマジでアナログシンセやらドラムマシーンを一切使わずに出来てしまいました。なんていうことでしょう。

The Moon Be Still As Bright

Spaceport

A bit of a change of pace with this one... 

Standstill

Amnesic Species

Destroyer of Worlds

Businessdrone
Old man reek
Psychotonic X
Hate your life
Newspaper open
Manspread scowl
Barcode hair
Hate your life
Cookie Cutter Culture

Studentdrone
Uniform
In the way
Study for nothing
Vacant look
Talk too loud
Fit the mold
Study for nothing
Cookie Cutter Culture


Freaked out frequencies.
Ill atmospherics.
Distorted loud sound.
Turned around trash can beats
jackhammer your head,
drill through the cortex,
synaptic rearrangement,
antithesis of silence.

SIlentLayers

The light of the golden hour sets the mountains aglow.
The fields of rice are flooded.
We cross the river, sides overgrown with vine.
And where are you? Where are you?

Gentle rocking of the car.
Commuters nodding off, or staring at their phones.
But here I stand, fighting hard to stay awake.
And where are you? Where are you?

The daylight slowly fades, one last wink of the sun.
True darkness never comes.
Neon lights, steal my dark slice of the night.
And where are you? Where are you?

Where

Cynicism?



This is a bit different from my normal sonic skullduggery. 

Sinocism

Entirely done with NanoStudio on an iPhone4. Well, OK I added some minor finishing touches and the fade-out in LogicPro 9 but still... 

Extra Large Thanks to DVS NME for clueing me in to this amazing app. All I can say is Holy Shit.

Photo by JanneM (thanks, Flickr)

Full Moon Over Osaka

MyMachines

the story of my life...

thanks for the memories, epyx!

I AM THE OUTSIDER

Live, one shot recording. (EDIT: upped the volume & did some EQing in Logic)

All hardware. Drum sounds all from the DR110 I modded the shit out of. Bassline from Microwave II XT. Drifty phased pad from Juno-6 thru Electro Harmonix Smallstone (black Russian version). Second pad from JX3P, no effects. Sequenced on MPC2000XL.

Adrift on a sea of stars...



Adrift

Rainy Sundays are as good a time as any for an excursion into the underground.

All hardware again.

A bit longer than I would like. I'll edit it up later :)

Angura

2199

I did this track way back in April 2012, right after seeing the first set of episodes of Yamato 2199 in the theatre. Found the track hiding on an old hard drive... Need to get my shit in gear again and do more of this stuff.

SelectOldStuff

Cosmoship

ByYourCommand

Recorded during a full blown thunderstorm on a day I took off from work thanks to a kick-me-to-sleep migraine.

Noctilucent Clouds

Playing around with the iPolysix app and this was the result. Considering I have an actual Polysix, and even the KMX-8 mixer they sort of model in the app, I'm pretty impressed with this app. There are some differences to be sure, but Korg did their homework. $15 well spent.

Henz2

Never underestimate a droid.

Last track of 2019. First track with the Elektron Model:Samples. Also fired up the VT-4 for this one. Live, one-take, fingers tied in knots, spot the mistakes session.

See ya next year.

映倫 47581

ST10

pad: jv-2080
drums: acidlab dramatix
acid: tb-3
arp: virus ti
fx: alesis wedge, korg am8000r, roland dep-5, sony hr-mp5, tc electronics d-two, triple-c, zoom 9050

Fieldside Progress

From May 18th. I was in a mood.

Time to go, folks.

Bye.

Time To Go

From May 19th.

Yes, they watch. And wait. Once humanity has been thoroughly decimated thanks to inept, impotent "leaders," their hunger will finally be abated, and they will erase what's left with a mere brush of their finger (or whatever similar appendage they have).

And They Watch The Earth With Hungry Eyes

From May 20th.

A happy ending. Happy sounding anyway.

Farewell!

There is such a thing as below 120bpm electro after all... hehe.

Sample lifted from The Oxford Murders.

Probably fool around with this a bit more later...

Truth

10 11

10 12

1127

1310

1207

The Outsider was one of a scant number of electro acts based in Japan, active between 2010 and 2020. 

Darkness. Hardware. Synthesizers. Effects Processors & Pedals. Tape Loops. Handmade Electronic Noisemaking Machines. Misanthropy. Nihilism. An outsider is defined as one who doesn't belong to a particular group, one not accepted by or isolated from society, or a competitor thought to have little chance of success. Sounds about right. Originally from Florida. Living in Japan since '99.

[The Outsider]

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