I particularly love the quotes in this one. The “Invisible Man” one gave me the chills when I first heard it. But then again I do have this unhealthy fascination with Z-movies and such. Enjoy.
My other tracks and videos on my YouTube Channel.
“Studies on Relaxation” Demo EP – Official Launch
24/07/2011 By Leave a Comment
The final track off my demo EP has been up for a little over a week now, but I’ve been holding back on announcing everything ‘officially’ because I considered that there was still some more work to be done. As in the artwork.
My resident artist’s been hard at work at making a cover for the thing and has just finished the wonderful artwork that I’m now proud to publish:
The EP has the following tracklist, which can also be found on the “Music” page:
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Feel free to download and share the music.
It’s a little late, but I’m also going to introduce Munko the Bandersnatch, the Bandesnaci Mascot, also the work of ADNgraphic. He can be seen on the cover, smoking a hookah and as a permanent decoration of this site, frowning on the left. Keep an eye out for more material coming up that features him. He’s an expressive little bugger.
Wob Wob Yayayayayaya
07/07/2011 By Leave a Comment
Just a quick update:
As I happened to mention before, I’ve been experimenting with dubstep lately, and the result is now part of my upcoming demo EP and at the bottom of this post. The new talking bass patch I’ve added fits in perfectly with the drone and the rest of the elements that make up my sound. The hard work I’ve been investing in this thing is starting to pay off and show and I’m very happy about it.
I’ll get back to work now.
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Improvisation
07/05/2011 By Leave a Comment
*Before the actual post, a disclaimer: Below is GEEK TALK. I aimed this post at people with in-depth knowledge on MIDI controllers, Ableton Live sets and controllerism in general. If you’re not an electronic music geek, chances are you won’t understand much. If you do, however, kudos to you.
I have finally finished a set-up that allows me to do similar things to what I’ve been seeing around in videos featuring my favorite Electronica artists: improvise full songs. How can Nosaj Thing do ALL that stuff with just one controller. Or Moldover, for that matter?
In my newbie days, I often wondered how you can improvise in the Electronica genre. There’s no instruments, no actual notes, just samples and tracks and buttons and knobs and sliders. I’ve since discovered looping, sampling and sequencing on the fly, among other things, so the next step for me has been discovering a set-up that allows me to improvise a track without having to wait at least half-an-hour between songs to create (or load) a different Live set.
I’ve finally done that, a few days ago, thanks to discovering that limiting yourself is the actual secret. I don’t want to use ALL the effects, samples, channels and functions on my controllers. As an example, instead of using my Korg nanoKONTROL to control its full capacity of 36 mixer channel volumes and just as many effect parameters ( not counting the buttons) I’m using it to control 8 mixer channels with two sends each. Limiting myself to 8 channels with a MIDI effect and two sends each made me think about how I could fill that small space with something truly versatile and expressive. So I’ve figured it out. Some reverb, some filtered delay and some beat repeaters with modifiable parameters and I couldn’t believe the magic.
It always seems complicated when you look at it, but it’s actually simple. The fact that you don’t know what’s mapped to what from the start is what makes it look complicated and confusing.
I’ll elaborate on my set on a later date, but, until then, here’s my first fully improvised song on youtube:
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