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Weekly Beats 38 (Long Pig)

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Week 38 (Long Pig)

On Long Pig I Started with a simple step sequence that I ran through my modular. Several hours later I’d dragged the modular screaming and wailing into some rather dark territory. The base of this track is made from a section of the modular recording during my evening with it.

To build on the base of the modular I decided to stick to focusing on pure analogue Instrumentation that didn’t fit within tempos or pitch. To do this without going back to the modular again I decided to use an old mixer as a no-input mixer to create a collection of accompanying hums bloops and crackles to make a bleak track suitable for a horror film.

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Album: Spring

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It’s taken too long to release this album, but it’s finally up on Bandcamp for all to hear. You can listen to it on the site or pay what you like to download it.

This album comes from tracks made each week between March and June of this year and marks the halfway point of the music produced for the entire year.

Give it a listen and let me know what you guys think in the comments section:

 

 

TOTW: System of a down_ Toxicity

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I’d like to start with the caveat on this one that metal isn’t really a genre of music I enjoy on the most part. When I boil down my issue with most of the genre and all of it’s sub-genre I would say that although It contains allot of talent It usually feels a bit empty to me. By definition its sound is Harsh and angry and yet allot of the time the lyrics and vocals don’t seem to put across this anger and hate.

In Toxicity System of a Down don’t have this issue. The whole album seems to come from a place of overt anger and hatred conveyed perfectly in its title track below:

TOTW: Kutiman_ Give it up

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Kutiman is creating some fresh and exiting music that quite simply couldn’t exist five years ago.

This whole track is made from chopping up other artists on youtube creating a college of samples which then become a fully featured track, a great one at that.

This music exists because of the evolution in technology over the past few years. We can now get “usable” audio quality from our mobile phones and then upload it straight to online for other people’s consumption and even use. Something Kutiman exploits brilliantly:

 

Weekly Beats 36 (Atlas)

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Week 36 (Atlas)

This week I had more time in front of my computer, which enabled this week’s track to be more Ableton Live focused. Apart for the vocal sample which was done entirely with the OP1. I would like to thank someone who doesn’t want to be named for allowing me to use her voice in the track.

TOTW: Aphex Twin_ minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]

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It’s been a long time since Richard D. James released music under his most famous alias Aphex Twin, 14 years to be exact.

Now the time has come for the release of Syro later this month and to build up anticipation minipops 67 has been released to tease it.

It may have been 14 years but this track manages to show that he has been keeping up to date with the latest musical innovations interweaving them with the unique sound Aphex Twin is known for to create an evolution of his work that is still true to its roots.

I look forward to hearing more: