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Well....here ya go! I was commissioned by http://www.tooths.com.au to put together a 2 hour journey through the weird and wonderful world of Spite Zoo thus far, including alternative or edited versions of previous tracks, along with interesting layering of several track over the top of one another - "mixing", if you will!
Hope you enjoy it.....it is pretty nice to put on in the background whilst pottering around the house...or for drifting off to sleep!

Any feedback welcome!!

The version of the highly-rhythmic "Homo-Erraticism", melded with the deeply ambient "You Were My Blood"/ "Lost To The Trees" is particularly interesting, and takes the end result into almost Autechre territory.

The full feature can be found here: http://www.tooths.com.au/takeaway-009-spite-zoo/#more-7

PLEASE NOTE: THE ORIGINAL, FULL VERSIONS OF THESE TRACKS - PLUS A TON OF OTHER TUNES - ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE SEPARATELY ON THIS SOUNDCLOUD PAGE (DUE TO LIMITED MINUTES SINCE DOWNGRADING MY ACCOUNT). WILL LIKELY BE RE-UPLOADING ELSEWHERE SOON.

TRACKLIST

01 – Memories and Clues (00.00.00)
02 – The Dream Sequencer (00.02.32)
03 – A Rock and a Dig (00.18.06)
04 – Too Much Chatter (00.28.57)
05 – Terrorpad (00.39.24)
06 – Wogglebuggery (00.44.50)
07 – Down in Derker (00.48.03)
08 – Homo-Erraticism/ You Were My Blood/ Lost to the Trees (00.54.07)
09 – The Chiming Coil (01.07.37)
10 – The Cycle of Life (01.18.26)
11 – Machine Elves (01.26.09)
12 – Below Passgate (01.33.31)
13 – Switch It Up (01.41.47)

Spite Zoo - The Story So Far (2 Hour Mix with exclusive tracks)

Lifestream

This track evolved from my recent Doepfer renaissance - which basically involves spending lots of money on modules again...obviously. I wanted to make the a154/a155 sequencing combo do some chaotic, haphazard moves - as opposed to the traditional repeating 8-step bleepy sequence vibe that it's oh-so-easy to get sucked into. The a155 - with the addition of the a154 Sequencer Controller - just begs to be abused in such ways, as you can modulate pretty much everything you can think of. I didn't keep any notes on this one, but I think it's plain to see that the clock was being heavily modulated, along with the mode and probably a ton of other things. The glide can be sequenced on and off, which seems to be happening here at points, and all manner of chaos can ensue pretty quickly. The sound source for the sequenced parts was the Intellijel Rubicon, with all 4 of the recorded tracks ending up in the lovely Craig Lee (CLEE) Quad VC Resonant Gate (Lowpass Gate). Various other processing is used in addition to the CLEE: One track goes into the CLEE, then into the Modcan Dual Delay; another goes into the demented a196 Phase-Locked Loop, then into the CLEE and finally into the Vermona Retroverb Lancet for filtering and Spring Reverb; a third goes into the a196, then into the a115 Audio Divider, on to the CLEE, and then ends up in the Makenoise Echophon; and the final one is simply a fat triangle wave from the RUbicon straight into the CLEE for low bass notes. Clearly a fair amount of modulation - of many parameters - is taking place, but I'm not being commissioned to produce this track so I'm gonna be lazy and leave it at that!

Basically, there's a load of lowpass gates being "pinged" all over the shop, and then being mangled further in a variety of ways..

Today I decided to put some time into mastering the a198 RIbbon Controller, and it was a lot of fun. I set up a patch where Mutable Instruments Braids was set to "CSaw", and fed into the Pittsburgh Filter, then into a VCA, and finally into the Modcan Dual Delay's first input. A second feed was taken from the Lowpass output of the FIlter into the a115 Audio Divider (i know.....a strange idea.....), then into the CLEE Lowpass Gate, and finally into the second input of the Modcan Dual Delay. Various modulation was set up from the  Ribbon Controller so that - when the Pressure was applied - the sound of the two signals would filter sweep in opposing directions (one starting off all bright and buzzy, but then becoming muted when pressure was applied, while the other started off all dull and lowpass filtered, with a nice rounded filter swell - bothe cutoff and resonance increasing with the pressure applied). It worked really well, and allowed a great deal of control over the mood of the sound. The pressure Gate output of the s198 triggered two z4000 ADSRs - one of which controlled the level of one signal path, and the other controlling the second. The Pressure CV output was fed through a lot of Slew Limiting (Makenoise Function) in order to smooth out the rather wiggly voltage that you get from this output. It really is  LOT of fun once you master where the notes are on the ribbon - something that confused me a lot at first, as - being an ex-Cellist - I kept expecting higher notes to be closer together than low ones, but they obviously aren't! 

One single jam was undertaken, and used without edits. Various automation of the different tracks was applied in Logic, and some additional EQ automation/ filtering was employed to further separate the tracks. I tried to get a nice, wide "3-D" soundstage, using some pretty extravagant Mid/Side techniques, along with perhaps the strangest Impulse-Response Reverb on the Bass notes - it's actually taken from the inside of a Toy Drum, and makes things sound really displaced from the rest of the mix...almost as if they are in the next room. Cool beans!

Strung Out On Doepf

Life 1/2 Full

I am not griz (🐐) and do not benefit from this in any way!! 😄

NOT Mamacita GRiZ / Little Sims Fever

Trails - 13

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Just a quick test of my AX8.
ENGL Savage amp

Addictive Drums
Ample sound bass

AX8 Test - ENGL Savage

- Ibanez 2127z in B standard with MM set into AX8 into SPL Crimson via SPDIF
- SSD4 drums
- Ample Sound AMR bass with Mercuriall U530 for grit
- No radical processing. Some compressors, EQs and clippers.

AX8 metal test - Cameron CCV with 808mod

Color Burst

White Windmill

Hundred

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Armada Invites Radio 211 (Incl. illyus & Barrientos Guest Mix)

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Welcome to Armada Music’s very own radio show: ‘Armada Invites Radio’. The all-inclusive format spans a broad spectrum of genres, ranging from deep house to progressive trance - and everything in between! 

Armada Invites Radio Mix
00:43 1 Price & Takis feat. 12AM - Hangover [Armada Music]
03:41 2 GoldFish - No One Has To Know [Armada Music]
06:52 3 Dario Nuñez and Frank Nitty - Asi Lo Grita [Sondos]
09:53 4 Estiva - Quickdraw [Statement!]
13:14 5 Low Steppa - The System [Armada Deep]
16:34 6 Three Drives - Sunset On Ibiza (BLR Remix) [Armada Music]
18:55 7 Leon Lour feat. Victoria Duffield - All In (Maor Levi Remix) [Armada Music]
20:41 8 Andrew Rayel feat. HALIENE - In The Dark [inHarmony]
24:14 9 Vini Vici & Coming Soon!!! - Mad (Blastoyz Remix) [Alteza Records]
28:01 10 Luca Rezza - Watcha Dem [KLASH]

Guest Mix: illyus & Barrientos    
29:30 Sol Brothers feat. Kathy Brown - Turn Me Out (illyus & Barrientos Remix)
34:28 Rene Amesz - Booom Shak
37:32 The Deepshakerz feat, Emma Black - I Can't Sleep
40:44 Italobros - Slance
42:47 ATFC & David Penn - Hipcats
46:07 ANOTR - Help 

Spotlight: Jan Blomqvist - Disconnected Part One
49:34 1 Jan Blomqvist - The Space In Between
52:55 2 Jan Blomqvist - Our Broken Mind Embassy
56:52 3 Jan Blomqvist feat. Kid Simius - The Six Degrees Theory

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