Today I felt very spacious. I wanted to sink down in reverberating echoes and just drown in liquid sounds.
I found this little sample of a Britney Spears’ Me against the music. I put it on repeat and ran it through my Doepfer to really destroy it with LFO-controlled filter and amplification. Then I plugged it into my Electro Harmonix delay and feedbacked it until it was watered down for some modulation.
Then some cyber-hippie improvisation on top of that.
Be careful with the volume on your home stereo. There are some violent feedback peaks in this unmastered heretic mashdown.
Today I made a weird little dystopian noise. I made some use of the self-oscillating filter on the Doepfer Dark Energy. You can really set it to a nice sine wave, then have it follow the silent oscillator frequency. That way, the frequency can be modulated with an LFO to make little siren-sine sounds.
Today I recorded some weird arpeggios according to the same chord progression as in Всё идёт по плану.
I used the Moog LP arpeggiator and added a third oscillator via the line in. Then some bass and drums, lush pads from the Juno 106 and then some bleepy LFO-crunced oscillator frequency modulation.
I found this weird recording on my little pocket recorder the other day. It was made when me, my brother and some friends visited Budapest for parties.
For some reason, I pressed record in the subway. A small conversation can be heard, and some noise of the trains. So, i made a sequencer line over that, added some drums and a siren-sounding oscillator crying from LFO pitch modulation.
The other day my friend monki sent me the link to this fantastic song (embedded above). I used to like guitars, but nowadays this instrument appears obsolete to me.
However, I started to make some experimental beats using my synthesizers. Only draft versions of something that some day may become a remix.
Easter is a strange holiday, but I like it a lot. Good Friday is called Long Friday in Swedish, which led me into recording two really long sequences.
They are quite weird because, as usual, I experiment with lots of filter overload and LFOs detuning oscillators. The only reasonable aspect of these little mixes are probably the drums.
Anyways, the first one is a bit upbeat and the second one is quite sad, even though the chords are in major (I think, I don’t know all the buttons of a piano even).
Both are ten minutes long. Only mp3 and ogg format, the wav files are too large to upload (just e-mail me if you want them). Straight off the mixer, no mastering or mixing involved (so be careful with your loudspeakers and ears).
EQ: Doepfer Dark Time sequencing Moog Little Phatty via CV/Gate and Roland Juno 106 via Midi, while timing a Korg Monotribe and syncing a MFBerlin 522 for drums. Bass drum is patched through the Monotribe using its filter following this hack manual.
EQ: Same as above, but Moog does the bassline and the Juno 106 is midi-synced with a Korg M3 for strings that run through the Monotribe filter. This is also the source of white noise.
Continuing from the previous post, I moved further down memory lane to the Negev desert. This beautiful place is perfect for solitude.
So, with the same setup as in the previous soundscape, I tweaked two out-of-tune oscillators to produce a crazy little melody, and then of course drum and bass on that. Then, one click on the record button and hands moving over to cutoff and frequency for tweaks. Simple desert music:
Note: The embedded player seems to work strangely. Please click on file links if it won’t work for you either.
This morning the spring sunshine blasted through my window with that typical white color. Sharp reflections and contrasted shadows cut through the walls while the cars made low-key noises in the streets. A train passing by, reflected in the windows of the opposite street houses and thundering a bouncing sound filtered by my windows.
Just before I woke up, I was dreaming of a morning ten years ago. Me and my friend were sleeping on a Tel Aviv roof top, waking up early when the sun rose and the sounds of Ben Yehuda Street slowly increased and multiplied.
To celebrate this fine memory, I made instant coffee for breakfast. There is a special sour taste of nescafé that reminds me of a Tel Aviv breakfast in a cheap hostel, packed with traveling souls who work in the black market during the day and go to the black market clubs in the night. Only to wake up on that very roof top again, with the sharp white sun splashing their tanned faces.
Tel-Aviv techno has since then been by my side. I don’t really listen to it. This music was not made for your mp3-player but for the dance floor. You seldom hear it in your averaga Swedish club anymore, probably because it is considered outdated.
When nobody plays the music you urge, you just have to make it yourself. I made a very rough mix that I recorded in one take, straight off the mixer. Here is the result:
Probably the most interesting song ever recorded, Ohm sweet ohm, is every now and then on my mind. I made a little tribute version just for fun. After all, Sunday is Funday.
Details: Drums are from my analog MFB-522. Hi-hat is running through my Moog filter modulated by LFO with some resonance self-oscillation every now and then. White noise sweeps done with the Korg Monotribe through the Moog filter. Then, bass is Moog, and melodies come from my Juno 106, which I also run through the Moog filter for extra modulation.
Oh, the vocoder saying “Ohm Sweet Ohm” is made by my MicroKorg, but modulated in extenso by the Moog filter.
Today I received this cute MFBerlin-522. It’s an analog drum machine that is pretty next level.
I opened the package from Deutsche Post and did a sound check. It sounds quite close to an 808, but with a different punch.
Here is a sample of how it sounds. I added some melody with my Juno 106 and my Moog, just to make this first sample German. U know the melody… please mind the tuning and sloppy playing and listen to them drums instead
