my favorite sounds in a playlist...no special order..newest additions at the end.
a new volume every 101 titles. this is the volume 8.

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cloud.selector vol.08

No Regular Play - Smiling Faces (Soul Clap Remix)

Oh, lost boy what did you see?
Did those visions of Johanna set you free?
Or did you pawn your time?
Out there on the borderline

Oh, lost boy didn't you know?
Grace doesn't fly on the wings of a crow
And your soothsayer cannot divine
Your future on the borderline

Oh, lost boy why did you roam?
Away from your heart, your home
You lost redemption at twenty-nine 
Out there on the borderline

Lost Boy (original - with lyrics)

Tokyo Jungle

ARTIST: POSTHUMAN
T’ITLE: DECOMPRESSION’ EP
LABEL: BODY WORK
FORMAT: 4 track 12” and 5 track Digital EP
RELEASED: June 2nd, 2014

It feels strange to say that an act who have been around for over a decade releasing more than half a dozen albums should be ‘Ones To Watch’ in 2014, but cousins Josh Doherty and Rich Bevan aka Posthuman’s career has never exactly followed the rules.

Originally part of the, then, thriving UK Electronica scene at the start of the new millennium Posthuman instantly made an impression with a series of releases on their own Seed Records imprint, Manchester’s Skam and legendary UK techno label B12 Records, with their debut album picking up plaudits from Pitchfork as "one of the best IDM-oriented albums of 2001" Over the course of the ‘00s the cousins would go on to release several albums experimenting with everything from pure ambience and techno to post-rock, ‘The People’s Republic’ being hailed by DJ Mag as "joining the dots between early Autechre and Mogwai”, and 'Syn Emergence' being hailed by LFO as "one of the best techno albums ever".

All the time though Posthuman still kept at least one foot on the dancefloor throwing the now-near legendary parties such as the series of raves in Aldwych’s disused tube station that featured everyone from Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert to Goldfrapp and S’Express’ Mark Moore - and since 2007 both promoting and holding down a monthly residency at I Love Acid (Corsica Studios).

The past 18 months though has seen Doherty and Bevan fully turn their attention back to the dancefloor releasing a series of 12”s on labels such as Tusk Wax, Balkan Vinyl, and RSI that have caught the attention of DJs like Daniel Avery, Ben Sims, and Disco Bloodbath’s Damon Martin, combining grinding Detroit inspired Techno and bubbling Acid House basslines with icy precision.

Which brings us to the ‘Decompression’ EP - the soundtrack to a corrupted AI system’s final moments, corroded circuits firing and misfiring to produce 4 new tracks of hypnotically dark acid plus a remix from Houndstooth artist House of Black Lanterns. From the abyssal ‘Decompression’ through to the percussive ‘So Cruel’, ‘Back to Acid’s snake like bleeps and onto HOBL’s elegiac remix, this is an EP sure to dominate dance floors from underground bunkers to warehouse raves alike.

The first of two new 12”s to be released on the Bruxelles-via-London imprint Body Work (Waze & Odyssey, LPZ, CVNT and more), the ‘Decompression’ EP arrives hot on the heels on the heels of their remix of Bohemian Groove for New York’s Throne of Blood, and ahead of their upcoming "30 years of Acid" Solid Steel show in April marks another important milestone of this act’s ever evolving career.

"Full support, will definitely play these. Excellent acid tracks, my favourite being the HOBL remix, I love his work."
Maelstrom, ZONE Records, Paris

"A downtempo acid funk-fest. A great EP, albeit slightly demented by nature."
Mixmag, Worldwide

"Played ‘So Cruel’ in Paris last night - sounded great, went down a treat!"
Ewan Pearson

"Well good, really strong acid, just like black microdots back in the day...will be playing for sure! 10/10"
Keith Tenniswood, Radioactive Man

"These are PURE FIRE!!! So Cruel is the one!"
Kiwi, Need/Want

"Another proper acid belter from Posthuman - loving acid before it becomes cool (again)"
Mark Archer, Altern 8

"LOVE Decompression. Great work!"
Damon Martin, Disco Bloodbath

"Super duper dope as usual"
Hrdvision, Rinse / Wagon Repair

"This is wicked, serious production - proper club business!"
YoungTee, Joy Boys / Southern Fried

"Step back is great..."
Severino, Horse Meat Disco

www.posthumanmusic.com
www.bodyworkmusic.com

Posthuman - Back To Acid

You Saw It Coming

Praah - Thank You Satan (M.RUX REMIX)

this is the op-1 being looped into a phonogene and the output split off into both an intellijel dr. octature II filter and a piston honda being used as a wave shaper for the noise and dirty part of the sound. i've never used the piston in this way before and will now probably be doing it all the time.

subtle modulations give it some warble and the whole thing sounds like a beautiful tape loop.

at the end i bring the dr. octature into barely self-oscillation and start playing the filter manually, the new, lower melody that shows up at the end is produced from this, a beautiful accident.

July 17, 2014 ((not)a tape loop)

was testing computer-modular integration last night (via Expert Sleepers), stopped the sequence for a moment and thought that the drone by itself sounded good, so just played with that for a while

wavetable oscillators + reverbs = <3

basically, Piston Honda and ShapeShifter wavetable oscillators going through Springray spring reverb and ZDSP running Valhalla reverb card

hyperthreading

this modular patch i've made is working so well i practically feel like putting it into a case of its own. this is the exact same setup as yesterday, an OP1 being processed by my "tape loop" setup in the modular. this time i'm simply playing the OP1 live and processing as it goes. the sound goes through a few interesting variations throughout it's nearly 7-minute length.

i love how distressed and worn the processing chain sounds... and now i've got some ideas to further expand on it. maybe tomorrow.

July 18, 2014 (further modular "tape" explorations)

It's a been a while and I've been mute on Soundcloud.  Frankly the response to my last piece blew me away and honestly I put so much into that Elégie it was very hard to do something else.  

In the end I stopped trying to force music and sat down and just played and this came out.  

I just finished getting my studio out of boxes and I've been gigging very heavily at the moment.  My hands are in poor condition as a result, hence the title.  This is the sound of my Guitarviol on it's own.  Some of you asked to hear it solo so here it is.  

This was improvised with in two takes (I took a short break as I'm in agony, sympathies please!).   

I recorded it with two new microphones - a wide diaphragm condenser and a ribbon microphone.  The mix has been astounding in terms of the sound. 


Picture - This was hanging up in Erfurt Cathedral.  Colours are quite vivid in real life considering it's older than most countries.

Broken Hands Improvisation

anjou 'sighting'

Norway

today's sound started as an experiment in using the make noise wogglebug as a sample rate reducer... a trick of the module, which generally isn't known for doing that... where you can sample an incoming single based on the rate of a 2nd signal going in.

in this case i plugged the qubit nebulae into the wogglebug and sampled it with a waveform from the e350 oscillator. the pitch of the oscillator effectively becomes the same rate of the incoming sound, in this case, the nebulae.

the nebulae is in freeze mode and the make noise rene sequencer is sequencing the start/scan point of the frozen sample.

the whole thing goes into an intellijel korgasmatron filter to filter out some, but not all, of the harsher sample-rate-reduction effect. the signal is also being fed into a serge resonant EQ and a make noise erbe verb.

i play a bit with the pitch of the e350 to make those sweeping and bending sounds, which is basically turning the sample rate of the nebulae sample down and up.

the patch started as a simple experiment to try this use of the wogglebug out but i ended up being able to work out a nice looping sound by the end.

thank you to the excellent tutorial on this process by collin russell music on youtube, which is where i learned to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pws9rY9kUhw

July 22, 2014 (deep travel (wogglebug as sample reducer)

a sketch for music box and eurorack modular.

July 23, 2014 (a scarcity of objects)

a ufo #2001

googaloo #2001

remix Technogod did of the track Adure' by Mau Mau in 1996

adure'#rmx#1996

remix of fox buddy
original • https://soundcloud.com/smoking-fox/summer-breeze-let-it-out-1



smoking fox - summer breeze / let it out (johnny_ripper remix)

Song for Bono to Sing

V.A - Davulun Sesi Vol.2
www.tektosag.com

cloud.selector vol.08

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