music - tm

"Rotary Connection" [mp3 removed]

The drum and guitar/bass part were previously posted as "Trog 2000." The piano and organ parts changed it considerably so it got a new name. Air quotes around all instrument names in this post.

"Flat Beetles" [mp3 removed]

Motifs written for FM7 and Sidstation samples, respectively, alternating and occasionally layered, with some 808-lite percussion coming in near the end.

"Recuperated Beats (Sample and Hold)" [mp3 removed -- a newer version is available on Bandcamp]

Two Electribe beats of four bars each, recorded and spliced together into new patterns. Each beat is treated with the Mutator and three Reaktor filters and the treated beats are layered (in addition to the splicing).

For a melody, which comes in at :30, I used a Linplug Alpha synth effect preset--random notes caused by sweeps with an LFO set to a "sample and hold" waveform. A really nice sound that occasionally has real synergy with the underlying beats.

"Dark Entertainment" [mp3 removed]

Caution: fairly compressed and loud. Two Sidstation patches, Entertain and Chord Memory, sampled and tricked out with effects: reverb, phaser, limiter, etc. so the sound is very "heavy." The ditty at :24 is Entertain's factory sequence, played by pressing a single note, I guess you call this a scherzo, but depressing because it's slowed down in tempo. The sequence at :45 is mine, played with a step sequencer in the sampler. The other tunes are midi notes triggered in Cubase. I wanted a kind of a cappella, classical feel.

Update: An earlier use of the Entertain patch was the song "Dark Materials" (with Krypt percussion).