A track of mine, "Bass Twelve," recently remixed in fabulous mono for YouTube, can be heard on Ballroom Warriors, a Glasspopcorn-dj'd tumblr specializing in vintage and current house, trance, bass and other "four on the floor" subgenres. The overall drift is toward vogue or "bitch house," but we do most of our bitching here and on twitter, the better to concentrate on going-for-broke, deep tech house grooves.
music - tm
"Nano Crunchy"
"Nano Crunchy" [mp3 removed -- some of this got incorporated into New Shortcut Medley, on Bandcamp]
This starts with a sad, chromatic-ish nursery tune and goes all Black Dog about halfway through.
I avoided the urge to add drums or percussion -- that might happen later.
The scratchy, nano crunchy sounds at the middle and end are supposed to be a feature, not a bug.
#fm #wavetable
"Kick Echoes 2"
"Kick Echoes 2" [mp3 removed]
The Doepfer A-112 sampler module has a delay effect and it's literally that. An incoming sound is sampled, put in a ROM slot and played...once. How soon after the original sound comes in can be set by a knob. To get feedback (where the delay is mixed with the original sound and/or multiple repetitions of the sound) you have to use a separate mixer. In any case, once the feedback starts you can mess with it until it becomes staccato white noise with very little resemblance to the original sound. For this track I set the repeats for infinite, let it run, and came back three times to capture what the output was doing. The pitch and timbre were both slowly changing but the change is more noticeable when you leave for awhile and check back in. Each captured increment here differs from its predecessor.
The other thing I was doing was adding pitch and filtering steps to the repeats in real time via MIDI-triggered control voltage changes. So the staccato white noise can be made to play simple tunes. Some additional percussion is added via multi-tracking.
Musically this is kind of "no wave."
"Kick Echoes"
"Kick Echoes" [mp3 removed]
Electronic kick drum tuned to exotic settings with hardware-sampled delay, reverse-delay and pitch shift. Multi-tracked; a few notes from another synth come in at the end; some reverb added.
"Salsa Science 2"
"Salsa Science 2" [mp3 removed]
Rhythm: Doepfer A-112 live-sampling a drumbox with mixer-assisted feedback inserting delayed, reverse-delayed and pitch-shifted beats.
Digital (sampler) e-piano and "choir"; digital (FM) bass