this blog is closed: go to http://glitched.org/up/

This blog is now closed; it now serves as an archive.

The current blog for [d]/glitched.org updates is: http://glitched.org/up/ or updates.glitched.org (same thing).

site updates

So, this glitched.org renovation is taking a lot longer than expected because of a number of factors, but it will be available, soon. I'm also re-styling this blog and converting to Wordpress. I'm almost done, trust me.

Also, I should mention that Phaelam wanted his tracks taken off of glitched.org and my box.net directory, so I obliged. Hopefully, he'll allow me to put some back up there, one day.

Anyway, follow me on twitter for updates, in the mean time.

moving to bandcamp.mu?

I'm really thinking of moving my music to bandcamp.mu. beautifulViolence already has a spot over there, so why not [d] and the rest of glitched.org?

Anyway, this is more of a test post so that I can see what their embedded player looks like on my site.

Here it goes:

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.

TReD Grp. on Elektron 10 Year Anniversary Compilation

I can't remember if I posted this, but a while ago, Elektron was nice enough to send me a compilation disc that they gave away at their 10th anniversary party, back in November 2008.

Here are pics of that special gift:

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 redesign soon

Glitched.org will be going through a site update soon. New fancy logos and annoying javascript everywhere. It should make it easier to listen, download, tag, share, and buy our music.

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 .

Some links may be missing.

Due to some malfunction with box.net, some files that linked to my shared box may not be working. That's ok; the files can still be found in the "_square_" over there-->>>

new [d] track: carbon caress

This date marks the release of a new song by [d]: carbon caress.
Go to glitched.org to download it.

If you want to buy the lossless .flac version for just 1$ USD, just hit this link:
http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=465035
(It will take you to a secure paypal system.)

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.

TReD Grp. Appears on 45 Tribute with Autechre

http://www.45tribute.com

The Research nd Developmt Grp. (TReD Grp.) is featured on a compilation with Autechre!

About the compilation:
+ Go here: Http://www.45tribute.com
+ It's 30 tracks of varying electronic styles
+ It's only $5.00
+ Proceeds go to the World Wildlife Fund
+ Download only -- it's about 350M.

For the official press release, read below.

After the tragic passing of Elektron co-founder Daniel Hansson, a
compilation of music featuring the instruments he helped creating has
seen the light of day.

"45 - A tribute to Daniel Hansson" features unreleased tracks from
30 artists, some of them very well known to the public. The compilation
is an initiative coming completely from the Elektron-users web community
and we at Elektron are very moved by this. We really have the best user
base one can imagine.

When buying a copy of the compilation there is also an opportunity to
win a quite special prize. What it consists of we won't tell you here,
but we can assure you that it belongs to the once-in-a-life-time category.

All the proceeds from the compilation will go directly to the World
Wildlife Fund as environmental causes were close to Daniel's heart.

A big thanks goes out to all the artists who submitted tracks - but maybe
most of all to Ryan Faubion. He is the one who made the compilation
possible. Thank you!

Visit: http://www.45tribute.com/


The Elektron Team

autechre show: philadelphia, 4/16

Philadelphia show last night, 4/16:

Best. AE. Show. Ever.

+Parking was never so easy: Transit Nightclub is right by a bank and there happened to be one spot left in the bank parking lot. Total walking distance in 45 degree whether: 10 paces. By the way, can you get any more security than parking behind a bank?!

+At 8:45 or 9:00, they still had not let us in, when who brushes by me, trying to get into the venue? Rob and Sean. I had to point out, amid shouts of, "Hey, this is the line, buddy," that the "assholes" cutting in line were actually the feature f*king act! Only in electronic music would the 2nd (behind AFX?) most well known act be able to go unrecognized.

+They let us in to the club (yes, just a one-room club) and Rob Hall began his set. Ya know, I like that guy. Yeah, most DJ's don't really put much effort into their mixes, but his was creative; it was classic IDM, but he managed to remix and extend tracks, which made it interesting.

+Ghram Massey gets up on stage and throws down a lazy, jazzy hi-hat beat and proceeds to blow into his clarinet thingie. I really loved his beats, but the atonal saxophone stuff just doesn't work for me. I keep thinking he's going to launch into "Pacific 101". I give the guy massive props though--he's 808 fricken' state!

+So the stage is set up at the front of the rectangle shaped room and the bar runs parallel to it. I stayed mainly near the end of the bar where it's easy to see what gear everybody is using. Unbeknownst to me at the time, there's only one way out/in to the stage and that's where I was for most of the show.

+Massey gets off the stage where I was and he is immediately accosted by a mid-30's, preppy looking dude. As far as I could tell, it seemed like Massey was being talked to rather than spoken with. Poor guy was trapped the entire night.

+So, Rob Hall gets back on for a few minutes, when Rob and Sean get up on stage. Sean comes balk down, stands right next to me, and lights a smoke. Nobody really has any idea, it seems.
Some super-fanboy starts drooling and not making any sense. Sean is nice about it though and simply says, "thanks."

Being the humorous type, I lean over to Sean and ask, "Hey, who's this guy getting up on stage? Why's he fooling with their equipment."

Hah, Sean got this look on his face like his balls got chopped off and starts to respond, "Oh, he's one half of the band, Autechre..." I stop him mid-sentence and let him know I'm joking.
Hah. He chuckled and responded, "I was going to say...I was trying to be nice." (When he got on stage after our chat, he said something to Rob and pointed over to me. They both chuckled again.)

I didn't want to smother the guy, but I know he likes to talk gear, so I asked him about, what else? The Monomachine. I asked, "So, you have an MK2, right?" "Yeah," he responded.
"What do you think of it compared to the Classic?"
"It's a totally different instrument. It sounds totally different. There's no noise."
"Oh, you mean the noise floor?"
"Yeah, it's much higher quality."
The conversation trailed off after that, as he had to get up on stage again.
This is the second time I've had a conversation with the guy and I can say, for being such a lauded figure in electronica, he's nice and he seemed engaged. Good dude.

+AE's set was the most interesting of the "new AE" type of stuff that I have heard. More "concrete" and structured, as the previous tour, but more than that: it was non-stop and you didn't want to miss one second of it.

+So, obviously, there's a Monomachine, Machinedrum, but what else? Rob was haunched over a controller type thingie all night. It seemed to have some tactile something (I guess a mod wheel or something). I had a good amount of knobs and was quite small. I did not notice the G2 this time. What could that thing be? Just a controller or a synth?

+Before I left, I thought I'd shake Mr. Massey's hand and give him a complement. I mean, he did the album, "Gorgeous," for god's sakes.

+In summary, go to Philadelphia if you want to see any electronic show because you will personally meet your biggest inspirations.

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.

Leave a message for d

Hey, now you can leave me a voice message if you so desire!

Call this number: 646-495-9204. When prompted, enter this extension: 13701 . Record a message. There you go.

Your message will appear on the glitched.org drop.io site: http://drop.io/glitcheddotorg .

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

my autechre adventure

A funny little story: I've seen AE three times here in the states and they're great, live. The second time I saw them was, hands-down, the best (although, their most recent concert was great, too--the "Elektron" concert, I call it). This event was June 2000 or 2001, when they were still very heavily into their Nord Lead phase ("LP5").

I looked on the WARP website and the only thing that was mentioned about the venue was that it was at Princeton (university), in Princeton, New Jersey. It was about 2.5 hours away from where I live, near Philadelphia, but I thought it would be worth it. I mean, it was the summer and I never mind exploring new places.

So, I drive a couple hours and eventually I find the school. I ask around about where AE is supposed to play, but of course nobody knows who AE is in America. After driving around for a few more minutes, I happen upon a row of what looks like frat houses. (AE? Frat houses?) I park and walk around asking about AE, again. Of course, nobody is of any help, but I found one "goth" kid at the corner of one of these houses--when in doubt, always follow the goth kid. (Misdirected as they are in their belief that Autechre is "dark" music, goth kids have amazing sense of direction.) So, this kid leads me to this unassuming frat-house with a large garden and a small stage. I guess this is where they'll play.

Yep. Unbelievably, this frat is hosting AE. Now, I don't know if you know anything about American fraternities, but they aren't exactly into "Intelligent Dance Music" (or anything intelligent, for that matter). So, it was pretty weird, but there is a huge upside to having the concert in such an incongruous place: very few people.

By the time Rob Hall (the Gescom DJ) went off the stage and AE began their set, maybe 30 people had arrived. 30 people! I'll type that again: 30 people! Holy sh*t, man. This was AE at their pinnacle and I was there, virtually by myself.

Oh, man, I almost skipped over the most important part!
So, Rob Hall is doing his nonsense, playing with his jacked MiniDisc, and who is watching the whole thing from the crowd? Sean Booth. The dude, himself. A couple people are coming up to him with some bullshit, but I stand back. (One very out-of-his-element, way too old to be wearing all-black, guy asked him to listen to his tape [yes, tape] of his tracks in which he used "drum triggers" to trigger keyboard sounds! Drum triggers!) As I watched "Old Man Omen" hand Sean the tape, I remembered that I had brought a FutureMusic magazine in case I wanted to get an autograph or something, so I thought, this is my chance. I might as well ask him.

So I come up to him (mistakenly calling him Rob, at first--that must've pissed him off) and page through the magazine, looking for the article. He grabs the mag and starts paging through it himself. "What the fuck is this shit? Why don't you get a real mag with proper gear reviews? We haven't talked to these guys for years," he informs me in a thick, Manchester accent, while glossing over the one-paragraph WARP profiles. "I'm not fuckin' signin' it, mate."
"Hey, I'm a big fan."
"Fine, but this mag is shit."

So, that's what he wrote, along with his signature: "This mag is shit."
HAH!

Yeah, so the concert was great, but that was one of the most entertaining days of my life--not because I was a fanboy--but because of the almost perfect circumstances surrounding it. Can you think of any better environment to be in to watch your (then) favorite artists?

Anyway, see the attached .jpg.

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.

beautifulViolence - they're here to help us

beautifulViolence, which is really just another one of my monikers, has a new track: "they're here to help us (we think)".
drums: machinedrum
synths: sq8L plugin, x0xb0x
background: some loop I made in FL
I hope you like it.

x.glitched.org

I've started a new site: the x0xb0x repository @ http://x.glitched.org . It will contain stuff relating to the x0xb0x, focusing on firmware hacks and mods.

new gear: x0xb0x

I just purchased an x0xb0x from this guy on the elektron-users.com forum. It's amazing! Do you want to hear a couple quick examples? Ok. I've uploaded them the box on the right side. "bad request" is like slow pimpin'. "resource not available" is more bouncy. Don't be afraid: "beautiful violence" is another one of my monikers. I have secured the domain name and intend to put some content up soon.
By the way, I've also uploaded various firmware files for the x0x from across the net, for your convenience. Please contact me if you do not wish to have your file up here.

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 phaelam track - phoenixrising

It's another hot one from [p].

Download, here.

He assures me that a "full-length" version will be coming soon.

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

Listen, here.

bookmarks

If you're interested in what I've been looking at on the internet or want to know more about me, check out the bookmarks link on the sidebar, over there--->

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 design for glitched

Check the main site to see the redesign. This site will soon follow suit.

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.

new track - windscreen

UPDATE: I will be re-mixing this song. The bass is all wrong. Needs more boom.

Download it here: /files/d_windscreen.mp3 .
No external instruments used. Arranged in Live 6.

new track - unaufhörliche Nacht

UPDATE: I fixed the ending. Sounds better.

Download it here: [d]_unaufhorliche Nacht
UPDATE: This song has been deleted; I don't like it anymore.

This one is about 80% G2, 20% MDUW. I used two home-made patches in the G2, mainly. The first one is a swirly, panning, modulated pad with heavy compression; the other, a multi-osc bass using the 18db "Classic" filter.

The drums are all MDUW. The first beat is based on the TRX machines and the second utilizes the ROM machines. For more details, just ask.

new track - september

Another new one: [d] - september
This one uses the MDUW as the basis for the track, again, but this time it's all about the EFM machines. I also used the CTRL-all machine to change the parameters of all the machines at the same time. The synth part that starts at ~1:08 is a patch I made with the G2.

It looks like this:

new track - truckin' mx

Get it here: [d] - truckin mx

Equipment used: Elektron MDUW (loops and drums), Dave Smith Evolver Desktop (synths and atmosphere), Live Software (for arrangement).

new track: indclub

Here's a new one: "indclub". All Elektron Machine Drum UW, multitracked. Yes, I feel guilty for sampling, but hopefully it's not too obvious.

updates.glitched.org

http://updates.glitched.org is the official URL for this webpage. A bit easier than typing glitcheddotorg.blogspot.com.

phaelam tracks

I finally got around to uploading some of my favorite Phaelam loops/mini-tracks. Some of these are really, really good--I just wish they were longer. "[d] looped..." and "noun_verb test" are TReD Grp. tracks (which means phaelam did a track and I added to it or vice-versa). Download em:
060109lawm
050601ideagoofin
[d] looped phaelam goofin
050226lomg
TreD Grp.-noun_verb test
060821
analoop
060129 test mix

/studio /stuff

Don't forget about these links:
studio/ (pics)
stuff/ (tips, mods)
They'll go on that side---> eventually.

recent

Here are some recent tracks and loops that weren't "good enough" for glitched.org:
faerce
DSIEVO
MDUWbeat4

/upd

I'll be using this glitcheddotorg.blogspot.com as the page for dissemination of information relating to [d] / phaelam / TReD Grp.. Http://www.glitched.org/upd is gone.