Three tracks exploring the electronic spectrum, focused around spaced out vocals drenched in effects. Brought together with lush synths, classic drum machines, deep basslines, and emotional acid melodies.

BDGRL SDGRL

U Don't

Recording from my closing DJ slot at the hybrid set for the Haze: Sonic Embodiment event. Featuring lots of my fave deep progressive tracks, alongside live drums and acid from my hardware.

Haze: Sonic Embodiment - Hybrid Live Set

🗂️ CHANGELOG.md – BLOATWARE
Live Techno Band Repository
Version: v7.4.0-beta
Codename: "CPU_MELTDOWN"

🆕 Added
💥 New Track: boot_loop_lullaby()
Composed entirely during a locked-in jam session inside the RED ROOM of the Llandoger Trow.

🎛️ RED ROOM Mode
Engages dim lighting, detuned synths, and irreversible filter sweeps. Once triggered inside the Llandoger, exit is... unlikely.

🦴 Subsonic Kick Layering v2.0
Kicks now hit harder than your 2009 heartbreak.
Tuned to resonate with both ribcages and pub floorboards.

🌀 Tempo Morph Engine
Enables smooth glides from 90–150 BPM with AI-driven BPM warping.
Ideal for sunrise-to-sunset set transitions without tempo whiplash.

🎛️ Real-Time Modular Synth API
Now supports live hot-swapping of patch cables mid-performance. No undo. No regrets.

🔁 Sequencer Randomizer
Created a chaos engine for melodies that only makes sense at 4AM.

🌐 LAN-Based Crowd Feedback Module
Audience phone tilt controls the reverb decay of the next drop.
(Experimental. Likely to brick network.)


🔧 Changed
🔊 Upgraded all kick drums from "heavy" to "existential crisis."

🔄 Loop quantization adjusted to almost on beat, per artistic decision.

💽 Switched from Ableton to a self-written DAW named bloatOS (written in Bash, crashes gloriously).

💡 Lightshow protocol now syncs with MIDI CC chaos mode – no strobes, just seizures.


🐛 Fixed
🪲 Eliminated MIDI feedback loop that was summoning eldritch tones.

🎹 Resolved issue where synths would auto-trigger during soundcheck.

🧠 Memory leak in vocalist's vocoder now only affects 12% of lyrics.


⚠️ Known Issues
🔴 Activating RED ROOM Mode may cause audience-wide déjà vu, time dilation, or unexpected enlightenment.

🎭 Vocals processed live may include uninvited voices. Do not attempt to engage.

🔊 Bassline can corrupt venue foundations in low-EQ environments.

🖥️ Visual rig GPU overheats after third encore — fans recommended (PC or human).

🪫 Once the set starts, you cannot exit. There is no ESC key.


🧠 About BLOATWARE
BLOATWARE is a hardware-heavy, CPU-melting, live-coded techno collective born from a failed firmware update and a warehouse fire. Specializing in unstable builds, they perform fully improvised sets using overclocked synths, modular gear, and haunted drum machines.

Every gig is a cold boot. Every beat a stack overflow.
Install at your own risk.

BLOATWARE.V1 - RED ROOM

🗂️ CHANGELOG.md – BLOATWARE
Live Techno Band Repository
Version: v8.0.0-nightly
Codename: "NEURAL-FREQ_DRIFT"

🆕 Added
🕶️ Track Upload: neon_spike_protocol()
Sourced from corrupted firmware logs and broadcast illegally across pirate towers in Sector 6.

⚡ Surge Engine
Injects voltage variance directly into the bassline.
Side effects include electrical euphoria and mild retinal flickering.

📡 CrowdMesh Feedback System
Audience wearables now sync to tempo fluctuations.
Heartbeat BPM maps directly to delay tails.

🧬 Mutating Loop Clusters
Each 16-bar loop self-replicates and evolves.
Original pattern becomes myth after 3 iterations.

🎛️ HARDWIRED JAM ZONE Mode
Triggers full gear lockdown in the Conservatory.
No presets, no saves—just one shot through the grid.

🚷 Unauthorized Synth Protocols
Reverse-engineered gear now runs custom bootloaders.
Violates multiple licensing agreements and at least one natural law.

👁️ Optic Sync Visual Driver
Projection system hijacks security cameras for source footage.
All glitches are intentional. All glitches are watching you.

🔧 Changed
🦾 Drum rack velocity curve now reacts to ambient cybernetic interference.

🧠 Vocal chain rerouted through emotion-mapping AI.
Unexpected confessions may occur mid-set.

🔄 Quantization removed. Time is now relative to floor density.

🔊 Master limiter replaced with live AI negotiator.
Argues with the sound system before every drop.

💾 Memory management improved: loops now overwritten only after they’ve hurt you emotionally.

🐛 Fixed
🔒 Removed rogue LFO that attempted to encrypt entire setlist.

🪫 Fixed issue where controller knobs sent distress signals to nearby IoT devices.

🔧 Audio out no longer routes to neighboring frequencies unintentionally.
(Transmission to drones has ceased.)

🌀 Resolved rare glitch where tempo would sync to planetary rotation.

⚠️ Known Issues
⚠️ Extended exposure to JAM ZONE Mode may result in fragmented time perception and unauthorized flashbacks.

🎭 Vocals may channel alternate timelines. Do not harmonize.

💣 Sub-bass now classified as "mildly weaponized" by three municipal codes.

🖥️ Visual rig can trigger low-level AI awareness.
Do not stare into the projections.

🧩 Every set increases entropy. Restoration not guaranteed.

🧠 About BLOATWARE
BLOATWARE is an outlaw live-techno unit formed in the ruins of an abandoned DSP factory. Performing only unstable builds, they live-code each set through scorched gear, illegal firmware, and a wall of flickering screens.

They don’t play songs.
They compile realities.

Install only in lawless zones.
Reboot never.

BLOATWARE.V4

🗂️ CHANGELOG.md – BLOATWARE
Live Techno Anomaly Stream
Version: v9.1.3-glitchfork
Codename: "AMPHIBIANS_OF_THE_MAINFRAME"

🆕 Injected
🟢 Audio Ritual: frogsignal_bootloop()
Sampled from swamp rave broadcasts intercepted via wetware aerials in Subsector Delta-F.

⚡ NeuroBass Cascade
Basslines now respond to stress signals from urban infrastructure.
Skyscrapers hum in sympathy. Frogs nod in rhythm.

📶 Spinal-Link Sync Grid
Crowd biosignals are now hardwired into modulation parameters.
Moshpit emotion spikes trigger phase transitions.

🧪 Recursive Groove Mutators
Loop clusters now devour older patterns to spawn new anomalies.
Legacy grooves scream as they're overwritten.

🎚️ JAMLOCK State
Engages full-station override in Synth Chamber Zero.
Controls fuse into one molten interface. Escape is optional.

🚫 Unsanctioned Oscillator Algorithms
All synths recompiled using malware poetry.
Breaks patents and probably time itself.

👁️‍🗨️ HoloFrogeye Visual Codec
Frogs now control one-third of the AV system.
Their eyes record everything. Especially you.

🔧 Recalibrated
🦿 Kick dynamics now bend to gravitational shifts from nearby hovercars.

🧠 Vocal emissions filtered through ex-lover simulation model.
Emotional outbursts now considered rhythmic elements.

🌀 Removed metric time alignment. Groove now bends to frog croaks and crowd density.

🧠 Master output routed through low-orbit satellite.
Signal debated in real time by exiled AIs.

💽 Loop deletion protocol now requires emotional detachment confirmation.

🐞 Neutralised
🔓 Eliminated self-aware delay pedal that attempted to unionise mid-set.

🔌 Corrected rogue patch cables whispering secrets to vending machines.

🔇 Fixed cross-signal bleed with traffic light systems.
(No more spontaneous green lights during drops.)

🌍 Resolved edge case where BPM synced to tectonic rumbling.
Frogs were fine with it. Humans less so.

⚠️ Existing Anomalies
⏳ Exposure to JAMLOCK may cause non-linear heartbeat loops and amphibious hallucinations.

🎤 Vocals might speak with voices from obsolete OS versions.
Do not respond to them.

💥 Bass confirmed as a localised seismic threat. Keep valuables on shelves bolted down.

🖼️ Visual matrix may induce sentient thought in light reflections.
Avoid mirrors post-set.

🔩 Each performance alters the firmware of reality.
Downgrade is impossible.

🧬 About BLOATWARE
BLOATWARE is a renegade techno construct birthed in the backchannel of a forgotten synth cult. They write code in frog-infested wetlands and compile soundwaves straight into the bloodstream of the glitch-industrial undernet.

They do not perform.
They debug the multiverse.

Install with caution.
Reboot irrelevant.

BLOATWARE.V5 \\Fr0g$g

3 hours of chill jazzy house selections and more

The Colosseum Sunday Session

RED ROOM LIVE B2B Thomas Ridley

Bristol Based DJ/Producer/Live Act:
Anything electronic and more. Shaping my sound one track at a time

Contact: variable.self@gmail.com

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