music - tm

"Bandito-Olay" [mp3 removed]

A flanged Absynth bassline runs throughout. More granularized scratch samples in loops slightly throwing off the rhythm. Other beats are live software synthesis kits on the RMIV. Controller curves for some long filter sweeps on the hats. This is a "blowing off steam" piece after working on "Spunky Cluster" for a long time.

A funny line from Robert Rodriguez's movie "Once Upon a Time in Mexico":

Agent Sands (Johnny Depp): Are you a Mexi-CAN or a Mexi-CAN'T?
Cucuy: I'm a Mexi-CAN.
Agent Sands: Good. Then do as I say.

"Spunky Cluster" [mp3 removed]

Named after a server that went down while I was working on this a few days ago. More fun with granularized scratch samples, this time with tunes (kind of deep housy and pretty, I think). The beats are samples I made a while back from the Vermona analog drum machine and incorporated into a virtual kit. Was finished several days ago but forgot to write a bass line (again) and had to add one.

"Spunky Cluster (Beats)" [mp3 removed]

"Scratch Demon" [mp3 removed]

Not as demonic as the title makes it sound. It's some commercial scratch samples granularized into (rather magnetic) unrecognizability, with underlying heavily delayed (simple) beats. Laptop speakers are OK as a medium.

"Solo for Synthesized Strings (Beats)" [mp3 removed]

Added some new motifs and counterpoint, simple beats, and fattened it up with some reverb and phasing.