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

Smoke'em If You Got'em

November 6, 2021. SBDC was Todd, Mike, Dan and Tom. They played this dope shit online, remotely, using Jamtaba. It's free. Click those timestamp links below so you don't have to poke around. Thanks for listening.

10:45 Moving to montage https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=10:45
29:00 Right dimension All-come https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=29:00
35:45 A sort of jig-saw puzzle https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=35:45
53:42 Fall back home https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=53:42
1:05:49 Beau Squat https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:05:49
1:18:48 Nose powder segue https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:18:48 
1:36:52 But, uh... spooky bass https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:36:52
1:46:05 Don't cry, baby (interlude) https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:46:05
1:57:04 Dark bazaar https://soundcloud.com/uncoolcentral/20211106-tom-dan-mike-todd?in=uncoolcentral/sets/synth-band-dot-com#t=1:57:04

20211106 - Tom - Dan - Mike - Todd

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

Tony and Dan were making some noise. Andy stopped by randomly. Recorded direct to stereo on the Jamhub. I.e. no mixing/producing. It is what it is.

Andy on drums first, then Tony, then Dan.
We also took turns on the two noise stations and the Hydrasynth.
Good times. Weird noises.

20230805 - Andy - Tony - Dan

Two-person session.
excerpts:
#1: 0:00 Wailing Whistles @ War
#2: 0:50 The Space-Bomb Arrives
#3: 2:05 Dirge for the Ashes
#4: 3:36 Smooth Jazz Sugar Pop
#5: 5:01 The Cutting Room in your Ears
#6: 6:15 Melodic Stumble
#7: 7:17 Interlude w/ Drone
#8: 7:49 Long noise
#9: 14:01 They're all dead anyhow.

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The last excerpt’s name was unexpectedly foreshadowing. Zachary passed away in 2024. RIP buddy.

20230929 - Zachary - Dan - Nine Excerpts

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

Paul, Tony and Dan got together April 3 2024 and made some noise.

20240403 - Dan - Tony - Paul

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

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

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.

20230929 - Zachary - Dan - Nine Excerpts

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