Electro/Synth

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A few years ago I did a remix of a track by Dominik Eulberg called Sansula, which featured an instrument of the same name. After the release a builder of sansula instruments in the Netherlands was kind enough to give me one as a present in case I wanted to use one again in a live recording, which I have finally got around to doing now with this track!

My process consisted of me sitting in my studio (badly) playing the thumb plucked sansula for quite a while, so that I could go back to the recording and pull out some useable loops as a starting point. I wanted a nice warm analogue chord progression to complement, but more in the high bass and low mids than my usual chord progression that's down really low, to fill the mix with the warmth as much as possible.

The track still needed something though, so I turned to some spare recordings of my favourite vocalist - Kathrin deBoer, from some of our previous recording sessions. I didn't want to go for the usual full lyrical approach of a vocal collab track, I just wanted to add some small snippets of human feeling to round off the track properly.

The release is coming out on Fields on the 1st of December along with an intense synth experiment with a Prophet 08, and beautiful remixes from David August and Throwing Snow.

If you're not into buying music there is also a new website I have just launched which will be providing exclusive new free downloads for all in return for signing up to the website - http://www.maxcooper.net/downloads

Origins

From the remix compilation "Compuphonic Mutations" released on World Electric Records.

Compuphonic Intelligence (Remix by Bass Kittens & Single Cell Orchestra)

I had a lot of train journeys recently and I love watching the wires seemingly dance around outside the window. I wondered if we could be getting fooled by a similar process during our usual experience of movement and time, and thought it would be an interesting project for a music video set to the music created during the same journeys.

You can find that project and a longer explanation of the video ideas here: https://vimeo.com/241546182

For the music I wanted to bring ideas of frozen moments of the past into play, and no better excuse to get stuck in with the Prophet 6 on some lush classic analogue synth sounds for the main chord sequence, and plenty of nob noodling for a dance of modulating sounds around the main sequence. I wanted to keep it fairly sparse to let the chord patch be central, and just focus on trying to make every element, including the percussion, warp a little, so you can either listen to the track from a distance and hear the harmonic ideas, or delve in to find all sorts more hiding in there.

You can hear the whole EP here: https://lnk.to/WorldPassingByEP

Whole EP Stream/Buy

Resynthesis [Mesh004]

Bass Kittens / Play It Backwards (Single Cell Orchestra Remix)

Here is my Remix for one of my favorite tracks from Max Coopers 'One Hundred Billion Sparks' Album coming soon on Vinyl & digital.

Max Cooper - Rule 110 (Synkro Remix)

Created by myself, and Single Cell Orchestra (Miguel Fierro)

Slightly different version- posted on Feb-3-2013. Some new / enhanced vocal parts towards the end, and a few musical variations throughout.

Opening track from my new album, Still Transmitting. Available everywhere 12/12/19. Follow me on Bandcamp and Spotify!

https://singlecellorchestra.bandcamp.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3sB5Mx3tceiZCN4RjJc3bW?si=weg8PbkqQ-eiHPPkosCFDg

Electro/Synth

The Mad Catter