two new [d] tracks: "except europa" / "sunridge"

"except europa"

"sunridge"

I will be updating glitched.org this or next week with these two tracks. I really want to do a redesign and move everything to bandcamp.mu (which seems to be the best free solution to get your music out there). Also, it's time to renew glitched.org again, so there may be a couple site hiccups.

Anyway, "except europa" is inspired by the movie, 2010: The Odyssey Continues. I guess this movie is what I'm all about (or what my music is all about): the future, fear of apocalypse, space, the good ol' USSR, and malfunctioning sentient computers. I don't know why, but monoliths compel me to make the eeriest ambient music. All Virus TI Snow, played live.

"Sunridge" is a "found song," in that I had forgotten about it and came back to it, a year after recording. One day I was rummaging around the myriad temporary folders on my harddrive, when I came across a simple, two-track Ableton Live file. Surprisingly, all it needed was a little EQing and editing, and it was done. My friend says it sounds vaguely "Orbitalish", which is never a bad thing; they were among my first influences. I think he says that because the Monomachine's FM machine (dynamic type, I think) is used liberally and is reminiscent of early Orbital tracks. All Monomachine and Machinedrum.

short melodic pieces

I haven't updated this site for a little while because I post most of my happenings on twitter now (twitter.com/d01).

I will continue to post important updates here, so subscribe to the RSS feed.

Anyway, here are a couple recent tracks:

[d] - computers dream
[d] - computers don't dream

Both tracks were made exclusively with the TI Snow. Both tracks were recorded live, without sequencing. No beats in these because I'm still in the "honeymoon period" with the Snow. As you will hear, it's a very powerful instrument with complex synthesis capabilities.

UPDATE:
I have uploaded the one of the patches that I used in "computers dream". (Ok, it's not the exact patch because I didn't save it, but it's a reasonable facsimile.)

Here you go:

airtram2.syx Virus TI Snow single patch.

site down for a while

glitched.org may be down for a couple days while I perform some hosting and domain maintenance. In the meantime, why not listen to this collection of tracks strung together by phaelam?

Listen/download:
phaelem - athroughgat120-mp3

site update

A couple songs have been added to http://www.glitched.org/ : "impossible geometry" and "lt out 7". These songs have previously been released here, but now they're on the main page, making them "official."

new tracks: multiple

I haven't updated this blog in a while because Twitter offers a lot more in terms of immediacy and ergonomics. I feel like "macro-blogging" (blogspot) is a chore, in comparison. Still, with a 140 character limit on Twitter updates, you can't expound upon anything; I guess that's why I'll continue to do this archaic form of communication.

Anyway, there have been a few recent tracks uploaded to the box.

beautifulViolence - Impossible Geometry [Machinedrum/Monomachine]
[d] - g2gone [Clavia G2]
poppyseed (reprise - remix by [d]) [Original by Boards of Canada]
[d] - big ol t*tties [Machinedrum/Monomachine -- It's a little annoying]

some new (old) phaelam tracks uploaded

If you look in the box, you'll see that I've uploaded some more recent (and not so recent) tracks by Phaelam. His tracks usually begin with dates. I'm especially partial to 070519 The Vatican (his alter ego) - Section A.

Also, if you need to contact him, he has a en email address on glitched: phaelam a|t glitched |dot| org.

On another note, if you want to follow me on Twitter, you can do so here: http://twitter.com/d01 .

new [d] track: lt out 7

Check it out, here. Alternatively, listen to it on the "square" over there -->>

Machinedrum and a super secret softsynth were used.

Hey, ya know what? I've also uploaded the audio, midi, and MD .syx files on this drop.io site: http://drop.io/glitched .

The password is: awesome .

Let me know if you come up with something.

glitched.org offers lossless FLAC audio for $1.00 USD (cheap!)

Glitched.org now offers lossless FLAC audio downloads for only 1.00 USD.
I have never done anything like this before, so only a few songs are available for purchase. Consider it a trial run.

Eventually, we will have a full "album," including tracks by [d], phaelam, BeautifulViolence, and TReD Grp.! (This is in lieu of the physical release, in vinyl form, coming soon?)

Read more on the main page.

new phaelam track - banc rast

Banc rast is a new one from Phaelam. Listen or download it, here:

http://www.box.net/shared/qumiyeokcw

new TReD Grp. track: 5limp

UPDATE: This track was removed. It will be back, in the form of a vinly disc, soon!

...or "Slimp," as it was originally called.
Check the new track in the box, over there--->>>>>

Phaelam sent me this great little (1:30) loop that I thought I could extend. I did a lot more than extend it; it's a fully-fleged TReD Grp track now. (The original track has been uploaded, too. Check the box for "010108 slimp.")

The main beat was chucked into the MDUW and f*cked with. I added some extra "bouncy" MD flavor, too. The rest of the the constituent tracks were slowed-down and re-arranged in live.

AE - Stud Rmx

I made a "remix" or "cover" of AE's classic "Stud" from Tri Repetate.
This track was done almost entirely with Elektron machines. The main synth and background stuff is the Monomachine (SID+DPRO BBOX). The main drum pattern is the MDUW. (Interestingly, I had a hard time mixing the drums and re-recorded them several times. I actually put the MDUW through my G2, using a "spectrum tilt" filter, which did away with the harshness.)

The only non-Elektron part is the mellow, delayed, pwm-type synth track.

http://www.box.net/shared/2p2d6zgxij

new track - nice and easy

New track: "nice and easy". Click on the link to listen to it or find it in the box on the right. (glitched.org will be updated soon.)

Notes:

For this track, I used the Monomachine, G2, and a vst synth, the SQ80L. The dominating synth sound came from the G2. It's a pretty standard subtractive synth sound--it uses 3 oscs, slightly detuned, and a filter. The filter had a little extra "analogness" thanks to some funky trick that I
found on some other g2 patch (sorry, I can't find the patch that I used). There's an LFO controlling the PWM and filter freq, I think.

The G2 synth patch was sequenced by the Monomachine. The arppegiator was employed (random mode, so not every note is repeated in the same order). I used the joystick to control the filter freq and the LFO speed, if I remember correctly. The Mono has a cool "key/scale quantizer" that puts all notes entered into a specific key or scale. I played with that a little bit.

The more traditional-sounding drums also come from the Monomachine.
There's another track, in which some more percussive hits are heavily processed by the g2. The whole thing was recorded live on three tracks, with some editing and fixing done.
Oh, and then there's the soft synth that you hear throughout the tune; that came from this great vst synth, the SQ80L. It's really great but the UI sucks, so it's difficult to make a good sound in a flash.

There you go. More than you ever wanted to know about this song.

new track - they're here to help us

Glitched.org was updated with the new one from beautiful violence: they're here to help us.

new track - point within a circle (and other stuff)

The new track is called "point within a circle". It's characterized by it's thumping and chirping beat (MDUW) and slightly disharmonious "chimes" or vibes. The main G2 patch is pictured and you can download it, if you wish, by accessing the box, down there.

That's a new "feature" of this site. I'll upload lots of song-related junk and you can do what you will with it. (Still copyright-protected. I'll work on getting a Creative Commons license though.)

new track - a painful death is what i wish (for you)

Listen, here.

another new TReD grp. track - doefield

Here's another (new) one: http://www.glitched.org/files/tred group - doefield.mp3
Phaelam sent me this really thick beat that he made on his Elektribe...ahem, I mean Electribe (which shouldn't be confused with anything Elektron, although it's still a very capable machine), and I chucked it into the MDUW.
The MDUW is great for on-the-fly tweaking of samples, and that's what I did to the beat. Reverse here, stutter there...oh, and the filter and compression!
Anyway, so all the percussion-type sounds come from the MDUW, while the synth sounds were contributed by the DSI Evolver.
I consider it a TReD tune, but it's really about 80% [d], 10% phaelam, this time. Still, without that original beat, there would be no song. Thanks [p]!

new tred grp tracks

It has been a while since I worked on any tred grp. material, so I've decided to upload a couple new short ones. TRED Grp. is the research nd developmt grp., of course; the joint venture between me, [d], and phaelam.

foundloop
i found shades [Edit: I don't like this one anymore, so I'm taking it down.]

These two tracks are really just remnants of some older material I was going to use for a remix, but never got to finishing...until now. Since they sample two of my favorite phaelam songs, "shades3" and "kuul", they are considered TRED tracks. After all, without those emotive keys, I'd have nothing to build upon.

While we're at it, let's share a few more phaelam classics:
Boodanka Dank
Syn Koto
Micah3-5
The Cubicle

new track - believe264P

New track: "believe264P". Phaelam says it's one of my best and I agree. It started off with just the main synth line from the monomachine, but after creating the beat on the machinedrum, it became a "real" track. The monomachine track is one Superwave-ENS machine routed through a Dynamix track. I filtered both in realtime and modulated the delay at the end. The sequence is simple, but I changed the pitch of a couple of the oscillators as it played. There's also another ENS machine that startes later in the track.
The beat is all machinedrum UW.
There's more to tell...just ask if you're interested.

updated track: september

I updated the track, "september". It's tighter and has another layer of drums.

new track - 1 kelvin

Get it, HERE.
The story: made for the December Elektron-users.com Monomachine contest. The rules seem somewhat limiting: use only the "Superwave - Ensemble" machine. The SWAVE>ENS, which makes up one of the five synthesis types available on the Monomachine, is a four osc synth with adjustable pulsewidth, waveform, and even chorus width and level. Three of the oscs can be changed in relation to the root key, +/- 12 semitones. And then you have the Mono's extensive modulation possibilities...it's a very flexible machine.

For this tune, I started with a "boom-bap" sort of pattern as a base and crafted the sound until it felt nasty. The filters are just sick on this thing. In fact, they do downright weird things to the sound. For instance, the main sound has a high HP Q level setting that causes strange aliasing artifacts in the upper-most octave. When you add the SRR (sample rate reduction) effect and modulate the HP filter BASE, it sounds like Tron screaming for his life or something.

Anyway, there's another deep, modulating texture going on as well as a digital "hi-hat" thing. The onboard arp in "SID" mode was employed on every track with different settings.

Recorded, arranged, and mastered in Live.