Synth Band Dot Com (synthband.com) is an improvisational multi-instrumentalist sound collective. We either meet in-person and hastily record direct to stereo on a JamHub or sometimes go remote virtualtime using Jamtaba and NINJAM.  Fun stuff. 

Synth Band Dot Com’s improvisational sounds are predicated upon these premises: We don’t discuss sounds we’re about to make. Performers switch instruments between most tracks/sessions. Sometimes even in the middle of the session. (More recent uploads combine all sessions from an evening, omitting interstitial silence.)

A Synth Band Dot Com track from the 20180816 sessions was featured in SOV anthology film: Zombarella's House of Whorrors.


Enjoy.

Synth Band Dot Com

An excerpt from the synthband.com jam known as 20211212. I’m attempting to mix this section better for eventual use on a friend’s biking YT channel - but I'm a halfass producer. Let me know if you have any mix feedback. Bass too high? Bass to low? I’m near clueless.

mixing genres apr 8 mix

Tugyfudo 1&2

Riffing on some vocal melodies and lyrics for Paul’s excellent instrumental song. ￼…wherein our novice producer vaguely learns compression. Sorta.

I’d like to finish this someday. Alas, it’s not mine. I heard Whiler play this live and was inspired. 

Hear the full instrumental track here:

https://on.soundcloud.com/FcMNX97YMEXuN3ss8


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Working lyrics:

Faded all away
What is all of this covfefe? 
I was a schmaltzy sonovabitch
Into the coasting heart again
If I wasn’t so vain we’d go starts to finish
Universe of idiots
Nothing so on the nose
Nothing so obvious, anyway
Involuntary prisoners of architecture
A posh assemblage from anybody’s eye
Everybody’s guilty of something
Dilettante, whatchyoo want?
Feeling artsy fartsy
So much crap I don’t want to see
Their algorithm doesn’t understand me
Pish and likewise tush
Where for the backwards man?
Looking at me. Looking at me.
This ruffian. Dystopian. Dystopian. 
[insert obtuse lyrics here]
Not just a dream
A time capsule of regret and ignorance

Whiler - Coasting - vox demo excerpt

Tony and Dan played at two stations. Sounds like: guitar, bass, microfreak, drumbrute impact, tapeworm, stylophone beat, jmt nde-1, and a bunch of pedals.

Recorded live to stereo.

20240409 - Tony - Dan - 19 excerpts

Tony, Dan, and Paul played: drums, bass, guitar, hydrasynth, microfreak, drumbrute impact, tapeworm, and a bunch of fx pedals live to two-track.

20240604 - Tony - Dan - Paul

18:53 - Hiveswarm forming
31:53 - Sad clown goes to terror school
41:02 - The organism awakes
103:05 - Kill the spyhunter
112:12 - Epilogue

Two stations. Two people. Making noise on things like stylophone beat, cracklebox, hydrasynth, microfreak, guitar, etc.

20240612 - Tony - Dan

Zack K's first time over for intro to noise. He played kalimba and 3-oscillator drone. Tony played bass and guitar. Dan played drums, guitar, bass. Alas, as happens, the mix is shitty and you can't really hear much of the guitar. Oh well. We had fun.

20241207 - ZackK - Tony - Dan

Aaron, Paul, Tony, and Dan each took turns on four stations:
1. drums + various noise toys into a Polymoon
2. Hydrasynth + bass into pedals
3. various noise toys into pedals
4. guitar into pedals

Didn't start trying to live-mix the recording a bit until a way's in, but It still sounds fun at the beginning when you can't hear any drums/bass. ;)

20241221 - Dan - Tony - Paul - Aaron

Four movements. Dan, Aaron, Tony, Paul each spent time of each of four stations:
1. noise  (teleblender + tapeworm + fx)
2. guitar + fx
3. drums
4 hydrasynth + bass + fx

20250208 - Paul - Tony - Aaron - Dan

Recorded direct to stereo (no mixing - which is obvs) Pablo, Paul, and Dan made noise at three stations: guitar, drums, bass/synth, and "noise". 

20250315-pablo-paul-dan

Dan, Tony, Paul and Pablo played a bunch of noisemakers and had fun.

20250405-pablo-paul-tony-dan

Dan Tony Paul Pablo made noise on lots of toys and recorded it direct to stereo - no mixing later - other than chopping out silence etc. Enjoy!

20250419-dan-tony-paul-pablo

Tony, Paul, Dan made noise on 4 noise-stations, probably? It's been a while since this session. Finally getting around to uploading. Enjoy.

20241022-dan-tony-paul

Amy, Tony, and Dan played at four stations:

1. Roland V Drums & Moffenzeef MSG II
2. Haken Continuum & Bass (into EAE beholder, Wampler Mini Ego, Fairfield Randy's Revenge, Strymon Deco, Iridium)
3. Mic (into Breiter Widowspeak, Copilot Anchorman/OBNE ramper, Breiter Re-animator, CBA Onward) & Electro-Faustus Drone Thing (into TCE HoF2, Pill Pedal/kick drum, Erica Synths Zen Delay)
4. Guitar (into a bunch of fx https://imgur.com/a/kg1kZQ6 )

Enjoy!

20250906-amy-tony-dan

A song about the birds and the bees. Bass and drums recorded live to stereo in 2005. The rest recorded in various living rooms and bedrooms in 2009 on a little 8-track recorder. 
Players: 
Roman Warmke - Bass
Chris Aubell - Drums
Ethan McCarty - Guitar lead - bridge
Rob Powell - Guitar solo - end
Dan Dreifort - vocals, guitars, keys
"Produced" by Dan with reluctant help from Josh Antonuccio

Snorky and Henry (are stoopid)

This time we were:
Tom, Matt, Joel, Amy, Brock, Dan.

Gear was:
drums, bass, guitar, vocoder synth, poly synth, mono synth, synth guitar, 6-oscilator synth toy, violin, noise-guitar, harmonica, vox.

Synth Band Dot Com is 100% improv. Everybody plays multiple instruments during each jam. Usually, but not always one at a time. Fun. This, like all of our noise before it, is an unmixed dump to stereo for posterity. We'll start recording individual tracks some day. (We have the technology but not the drive.) Enjoy.

Who did what? Yeah. Good question. Here's a best guess, in no particular order:
Drums: Matt, Joel, Amy, Brock, Dan
Vox/vocoder: Amy, Tom, Dan
Bass: Everybody!
Yeah, pretty much everybody played everything else, maybe. Well, close to it.

20190309 - Tom - Matt - Joel - Amy - Brock - Dan

Cactus Pears quickly recorded this usually rocking Xenos breakup song more low-key and released it to the horribly-named CP fan club. (Not going to repeat that crappy name here.) 
Tony Xenos - Vox, acoustic
Dan Dreifort - electric, harmony
Bryan Gibson -  perc
Keys - probably Tony and or Dan
Bass - um... yeah. Trying to keep track of all the members of Cactus Pears is akin to knowing all of the members of Menudo. (look it up)

My Revolution

Courier Text Reply - Cactus Pears

Cat Shit - (Toner Cartridge, Kurt Shit, Amy Poo, and some guy named Dan) dropped this turd in 2018 a couple months after breaking up.

Make America Shit Again

Berries n Gib

Almondrocca

City Fallout

I am the Walrus

Snazzy

John is a Ho

Remote Jamtaba/NINJAM jam, mostly Tom and Dan, both on synths, vox, drums, guit, Tom on bass, too. Intermittently joined by Todd for ~30min, and almost double that of Mike, both were having technical probs maintaining a connection. Tom and Dan both give their rigs digital Viagra before every session.
7:00 Almost coming together, but not really https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=7:00
9:20 Dan's first stumbly foray into MicroFreak vocoder (first of many) https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=9:20
20:00 Finally, a rhythm section appears w/ *slightly* evolved vocoder user https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=20:00
20:50 With some smooth Tom vocals https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=20:50
23:45 Dan realizes he can harmonize with vocoder* https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=23:45
27:40 What to do when one of your buds plays in the wrong key and you're jamming online? https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=27:40
29:30 Turn the weird up to eleven https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=29:30
35:00 Drinky drinky pudding please https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=35:00
37:54 Interlude with anachronism https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=37:54
40:50 Myopic side-scroller https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=40:50
45:30 Bruford and Wakeman, ladies and gentlemen (no) https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=45:30
1:00:00 Alice Cooper meets token resistance https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:00:00
1:02:15 Let's implode together, a duet https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:02:15
1:08:03 That's how much I like cheese, a poem. https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:08:03
1:09:54 'The fuck note is that? https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:09:54
1:11:25 Can I do it? (more vocoder w/ singing) https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:11:25
1:17:15 Dan realizes he can do guitar and vocals through vocoder simultaneously https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:17:15
1:19:28 Or maybe this is that * https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:19:28
1:24:42 I am using this vocoder w/ disjointed goat drums https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:24:42
01:36:42 LFO dreams https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=01:36:42
1:45:20 Interlude with ulterior motives https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:45:20
1:47:00 Resolve to condemn obsession https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:47:00
1:58:00 It's ending, we swear. https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20200829-dan-tom-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:58:00

20200829 - Dan - Tom - Mike - Todd

Dan Dreifort's current bands: Synth Band Dot Com and Indelible Beancurd run the gamut from golden crap to things slightly crappier than crap. He uploads noises here for his bandmates to hear. Or not. You? You can hear too. Thanks for listening. Check the links for older, even crappier music from Dan.

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