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playlist for last night's anonradio set

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Archived (mp3) version of my guest mix on ffog's anonradio show last night. The mix starts at 04:35.
Here is the set list:

Jerry Goldsmith, Mince and Cook Until Tender (In Like Flint)
Danger Diabolik dialogue
4Hero, May the Wicked Perish in the Fire of Hell
Melen Monk, Phen
London Elektricity, Harlesden
Softcore, Love 2 B Right
Supersister, Confrontation of the Armies
Atomic Rooster, And So to Bed
Danger Diabolik dialogue
John Andrew Medeiros, Hansel and Gretel Dance
Unicorn Hard-on, Mysterious Prism
Clown Staples, Windows Noises
Saucermen, United Worlds (Touchdown)
Bruno Coulais, Dreaming (Coraline)
Ennio Morricone, Charading Chaffeurs in Wait (Danger Diabolik)
4Hero, Mad Dogs (Feeding Propaganda)
Emerson, Lake and Powell, Step Aside
Mark Mothersbaugh, Xp28
Danger Diabolik dialogue

This is kind of like Soundcloud, in a universe without share buttons, stats, autoplaying next tracks, wav file graphics, fact-packed sidebars, and comments pasted on top of the stream.
Thanks again, ffog.

linkjaying - bandcamp

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Have been looking for kindred musical spirits and thought I would check out active audiocassette-releasers. Cassettes played a large role in the ambient/noise scene of the '80s/'90s, which I wasn't participating in as a producer but was certainly aware of via publications such as OP and OPtion. It's amusing to see how cassette "merch" mingles with digital tracks on Bandcamp -- a hint of the "real" in the vapor of streaming audio but also the continuation of a subcultural tradition. My personal taste lies with music that combines piquant, lapidary noise/synthesized timbres with beats, musical structure, and conventional song development, so that's what I'm looking for. Below are tracks (hat tips dpnem and sstage) that have those elements. Most are "electronic" but Washington DC's Talking Points is straight-up jazz, melding a '60s/McCoy Tyner sound with hints of Univers Zero. Lortica's is the most amorphous entry.

demonstration synthesis - simple syrup

nonhealer - the paradox unseen

talking points - garv

lortica - trou de trou

demonstration synthesis - lake sunrise

politesse - natasha

"Clouds 21" (Jules Laplace), "Clouds Remix," "Fog Computing"

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Have been working on some collaborations with Jules Laplace. His original song, "Clouds 21," is below. Taking the mixes in reverse order:

"Fog Computing" [4.2 MB .mp3]
A MIDI file of Laplace's "clouds21" was played in Winamp and a few "general MIDI piano" notes were sampled. "Fog Computing" is made with those samples using the Doepfer A-112 8-bit sampler module and the Octatrack for sequencing. Some of the patterns were re-arranged and remixed in Cubase and imported back into the Octatrack.
It's uber-noisy and dirty. Both the wavetable and sampler functions of the A-112 were used. The really dense static-y sound is the sampler playing the notes very slowly.
Thing I learned: how to reduce an LFO signal to swing between 1 and -1 volts to modulate the wavetable: this adds Hammond-like grit to the sound.

Tom Moody and Jules and Laplace, "Clouds Remix" [4.1 MB .mp3]
Some of the gritty patterns also used in "Fog," but playing in conjunction with the march-like MIDI piano version of Laplace's tune below. This isn't the same Winamp piano as above -- it's a sampled concert grand, but "played" with very little nuance.

Jules Laplace, "clouds21" [6.2 MB .mp3]
I maximized the volume to CD level. A diaphanous, faintly Kirk Degiorgio-esque synth confection, very nice, that can in no way be blamed for what came later.

BIT-ROT effect demo

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Vimeo demo [dead link] of a program for the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP digital effects module (for Eurorack modular synths).

Some intriguing sounds, particularly the beat that comes in at 4:45, where an external trigger pulse sweeps through a number of effects. This might be described as "glitchy" but no actual mistakes were made in the creation of this recording.