"Uhbeanan" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
A rare vocal sample (for me), some kind of scat singing I guess, that I shortened.
I took a couple of folders of the Reaktor Limelite "raw" samples (including that one) and moved them into the Octatrack as source material. This was written fairly quickly and but it was one of those "aha" moments.
"Limelite Coin Op Remix" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
On the triphop tip, baby. (Whatever that means.) Limelite is a Reaktor virtual groovebox and most of this is straight-up from one of the presets, called "Coin Op." There are two keyboard riffs here (or rather, modulated and effected samples of keyboard sounds) - I wrote the first one and the second is by __________ (Native Instruments contractor - a genius). I also added the bass line and some percussion. I can justify making "music by kit" as, well, it's my ear and my final say, and this is giving me something I enjoy listening to, certainly more than if I just recorded twelve bars or so of Limelite playing. More of these are coming, I think.
"Soul Fusion Disassembly" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
This sort of resembles "Fusion Disassembly" -- some of the same instruments and ideas were used -- but this has wah-wah guitar sounds made with the modular synth running throughout.
I had done the thing on the Octatrack groovebox but thought it needed a fuller sound so I retrofit the bass and e-piano around the existing 2.5 minute file. This got tricky at the end with the piano "call and response" parts so I kind of made a joke out of it with some bad (overdramatic) comping in the chords.
"Terrible Scales" [mp3 removed]
The synth pad, drums, and bass notes are fixed around a "bed" of percussion happenings involving sampler modules, filters, and delay that are synced with the main groove through a single start note at the beginning of each measure. This speeds up about halfway through (the elements of the "bed" are resampled and shortened) and a sort of non-Western-slash-banging-on-the-keyboard-slash-arpeggio-like thing comes in.
"Nine Inch Bells (Hardware Version)" [mp3 removed]
Mostly the same looped beats as "Nine Inch Bells (2013 Mix)" but re-ordered and played in the Octatrack groovebox with one slightly "funkier" beat added. 49 seconds - basically an audio GIF.
