Name: To Tee by Tommy Mandel
Duration: 1 min 36 s
Description: Some Synths got together in a LinnSequencer ('86 vintage) and bounced on over to Digital Performer on a 2009 MacPro (CheeseGrater) invited some of their younger friends (Montage, Jupiter 80, OB-6, P-X, Sledge) and some old folks crashed the Party (XV-88, TS-10, s70xs, JD-800...)

April In August

日本語はこちらです:
http://www.morgan-fisher.com/discogpages_j/jsatie.html 

INSIDE SATIE is one of the first albums I recorded in Japan shortly after moving here in 1985. In three days I improvised on several of my favourite Satie themes. Mostly I played piano as well as the rich, analog-sounding Yamaha GS-1 (precursor of the DX-7), and sometimes used long tape delays to build layers of sound. All the pieces were recorded in single takes - no overdubs (no time!). Three original pieces were added as bonus tracks on the 1998 CD reissue.
More information here: http://www.morgan-fisher.com/discogpages_e/satie.html

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Gymnopedie #1 (Variation 1)

Wrist

This is a 4:22 edit of the 12:08 track from the 1984 album with the same title.

My brother and I visited Klaus Schulze, staying at his home studio in Germany, in the wizard's workshop in the woods in winter. The walls were lined with patch-cabled analog synths. It was kind of magical trying to draw out from him our favorite kinds of Klaus spaces.  

Back in NYC (where we were both living at the time) I wrote the TSB parts over a long spacey track called "Communiqué". I was kind of shocked that it had those parts in it, waiting to be found! Then in a NYC studio Mike and Will Lee locked in the groove, Hiram Bullock added a smooth chord part, and I played all the guitar melodies and overlaid the Wurly piano and some synth counter-melodies.

I'll always remember sitting right next to Will Lee while he laid down that groove with Mike, and the intensity of their concentration. It was deep, like a force field!

A while later, back in San Francisco at Stephen Hill's Hearts of Space studio, we rearranged TSB, cutting up the tape and moving the sections around. (no ProTools then!) Mike recently created this edit. 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/transfer-station-blue/id194910880

Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue (edit)

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Music For EV Charging Stations

Describing music is like trying to explain what a rose is, to a horse with a cold. Art by Douglas G. Peters.

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Daughter - Youth

Some Synths got together in a LinnSequencer ('86 vintage) and bounced on over to Digital Performer on a 2009 MacPro (CheeseGrater) invited some of their younger friends (Montage, Jupiter 80, OB-6, P-X, Sledge) and some old folks crashed the Party (XV-88, TS-10, s70xs, JD-800...)

To Tee

OK This is a long one, but is quite dynamic.  It starts with a self generating ambient sound from Arturia's Pigments 2.  It then goes into a chill kind of jam with Taurus Pedals providing the low bass drone, the Korg Kronos providing the the electric piano sound and I played the Novation Summit for the lead.  This lead was improvised in one take.  It then goes back to full ambient where it fades from the Pigments self generating patch into a different self generating patch on the Hydrasynth.  It then kicks it up a notch with a nice long synth solo on the Moog Subsequent 37.  It ends with the Hydrasynth fading back into the Pigments patch.

Huge credit goes to Red Means Recording whose tutorial for creating self generating patches inspired this tune.  The Hydrasynth patch is based on his tutorial.

Evolvers

Kafilah M is a DJ, collector, creator, and lover of all things sound and color. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and currently resides there.  She performs under the alias Kfeelz and is an active member of the women and non-binary poc dj collective Miss/Chief.

Kafilah would like all donations to be directed to the Fortune Society. A New York City-based non-profit organization that provides essential support to the formerly incarcerated.

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Coloring Lessons Mix Series 026: Kfeelz

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To Tee

Tommy Mandel

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